New Tools Day: Now With Pics

blendermassacre · #1 05-23-2010, 08:29 PM

So my father is an avid woodworker. He has a 30x40 woodworking shop, complete with full on tool mayhem. He and I, together have built all of the furniture in my parents house that isn't upholstered, including: Dining room table, china cabinet, entertainment center, coffee tables, end tables, built in pantry, bedroom furniture, etc.

I now live 4 hours away, so access to the wood shop is obviously a little stretched. Having had access to these tools over the years, getting my own was not really a priority.

A couple weeks ago I asked my dad to borrow a router to put a new pickup in the bass project I'm working on.

Fast forward to this weekend. I show up to my parents house for a visit, and my dad has a bunch of tools that he isn't using that he's giving to me.

I got a ryobi 18 v circular saw, jig saw, and drill. a hitachi drill and flashlight. Ryobi Chop saw, Ryobi Plunge router, a flexible shaft rotary tool, a grizzly bandsaw a bunch of smaller clamps, routerbits, etc. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities available to me now that I have the tools to be able to work on more advanced projects.

right now, I'm planning on doing quite a bit to my austin MM copy: reshaping headstock, putting in a P Pup in the neck, painting the mm cover white, and refinishing to seafoam ( I think) with matching headstock

Rocky McD · #2 05-23-2010, 09:30 PM

Do you have an area to set up the tools and have a work area? Sounds like you have a great start with a deep knowledge of woodworking and not the tools to accomplish it.
Congratulations.

blendermassacre · #3 05-23-2010, 09:39 PM

My basement is half practice space half working space. I'm pretty lucky in that I learned how to do a bunch of stuff woodworking wise throughout my teenage years. I think after I get this project done, I'm going to try to make a singlecut 5 body, that I can put a warmoth neck on (making a neck terrifies me. Square stuff is hard enough). We shall see where this leads.

__HM__ · #4 05-23-2010, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by blendermassacre

(making a neck terrifies me. Square stuff is hard enough).

THIS.

vbasscustom · #5 05-24-2010, 06:21 AM

its not actually that difficult. you just need to take your time, and do everything accuratly.

mikeyswood · #6 05-24-2010, 06:58 AM

First: I love the title for this thread! I hope that more of us start these.

Second: Pics or it didn't happen.

Rickett Customs · #7 05-24-2010, 07:04 AM

Yeah, we all love new tools here

blendermassacre · #8 05-24-2010, 08:02 AM

Pics today.

Imo new tool days are almost more exciting than new bass days, because of the endless possibilities

mikeyswood · #9 05-24-2010, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by blendermassacre

New tool days are more exciting than new bass days, because of the endless possibilities

Fixed for this forum.

blendermassacre · #10 05-24-2010, 02:15 PM

here we see: bandsaw, chopsaw, circular saw, routerbits, etc

here some of the above plus drill, flashlight, router, and flex shaft rotary tool

two buckets that the stuff came in plus a bit more odds and ends

blendermassacre · #11 05-24-2010, 02:43 PM

pics fixed.

Rocky McD · #12 05-24-2010, 03:20 PM

Having a small, low production bass building business has forced me to compromise. I see great tools that I would love to have but can't justify/afford and then set about to make my own. I know others are doing this because they have shared their creations with us. Tools, tools, Aaaaagarahhh !

dave-chaulk · #13 05-24-2010, 05:24 PM

Excellent haul!

I would just like to be the first to point out that making a neck really isn't that hard, if you have a rasp. hell, I don't even have a bandsaw and there's no worries about it.

fretting, that's a whole other boat, but building a fretless neck for me only takes just over an hour, because - as with all things - I go by FEEL!

beelzelboss · #14 05-24-2010, 05:53 PM

Wow that's pretty neat, the most I could get my dad to give me was a drill, which I never had any use for anyway because I would always use his lithium drill.

blendermassacre · #15 05-24-2010, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by beelzelboss

Wow that's pretty neat, the most I could get my dad to give me was a drill, which I never had any use for anyway because I would always use his lithium drill.

well my dad really doesn't half ass anything. His woodworking obsession started when my grandmother gave him a contractor saw for christmas, maybe 10 years ago. now it's this: here's the link to pics. Considering he's never built one piece of anything for anyone else besides his church, it's a pretty massively well equipped shop, so this would do better to explain why he had so much extra.

John Ruiz · #16 05-24-2010, 07:05 PM

Wow, that's an amazing shop!

UncleFluffy · #17 05-24-2010, 07:23 PM

I have a small shop at home, mainly electrical/electronic but with a small mill and lathe. Enough for small jobs and precision work. For the big stuff I'm lucky enough to live close to here. It's like the ultimate toy shop for tinkering and building.

blendermassacre · #18 05-24-2010, 07:32 PM

my god, that shop is crazy. $125/mo is a bit steep, but for what you get, it's crazy.

vbasscustom · #19 05-24-2010, 07:34 PM

that would be so sweet. my friends shop that i work in is larger, and haas about the same amount of gear, but it seems very packed. i like how that is very open.

UncleFluffy · #20 05-24-2010, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by blendermassacre

my god, that shop is crazy. $125/mo is a bit steep, but for what you get, it's crazy.

I got in on a $99/mo special and arrange the numbers to take it as a tax deduction, so it's more realistically $70/mo or so.

Given that the CNC router I use at least twice a month is $12,000+ worth of gear, it's a bargain.