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Down the rabbit hole again - Project 4350

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I hope you have better luck with that shear-cut Yonico bit than I did. I used that exact bit on a couple basses to pattern cut bodies, and it was great (albeit terrifying to watch) for a couple projects. Now it seems to have developed a vibration that worries me, and it leaves a slightly "wavy" cut, presumably due to the vibration. What speed are huge bits like that supposed to run at? Is it possible I trashed it running it too fast? I've gone back to my trusty Robosander, which is slow, but guarenteed tearout-free.
 
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Gilmourisgod said:
I hope you have better luck with that shear-cut Yonico bit than I did. I used that exact bit on a couple basses to pattern cut bodies, and it was great (albeit terrifying to watch) for a couple projects. Now it seems to have developed a vibration that worries me, and it leaves a slightly "wavy" cut, presumably due to the vibration. What speed are huge bits like that supposed to run at? Is it possible I trashed it running it too fast? I've gone back to my trusty Robosander, which is slow, but guarenteed tearout-free.
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You should be good for 24,000 rippums. I dial back a little. Check the collet and cutter shank for damage, and check the carbides for uneven wear. You also really don't want to remove more than 1/8" in a single pass. Rough cut as close as you can.
 

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Great writeup, Chick, thanks a bunch. I’m off to do some research of my own now, using your review as a springboard.

Do you have any stripper names that convey a sense of detached sophistication, with perhaps a wisp of existential melancholy? That’s what I need right about now….
 
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ctmullins said:
Great writeup, Chick, thanks a bunch. I’m off to do some research of my own now, using your review as a springboard.

Do you have any stripper names that convey a sense of detached sophistication, with perhaps a wisp of existential melancholy? That’s what I need right about now….
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Ok, you are henceforth known as Wistful Peaks.
 
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Flying B said:
We've got a couple of the corded katsu routers and apart from the cord being about six inches long they seem pretty good (well, very good for the money)
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I do have the corded 1/4" model and I found it was too prone to stalling out unless you took tiny bites. Great build quality, even the plastics are glass loaded nylon (i.e, the good stuff) but lousy control electronics. The cordless is a definite upgrade in my own experience.

Edited to add: To be fair on this class of router, they are really direct descendents of the Elu laminate trimmer, which had one job and one job only. As pro carpentry has become more automated, these very handy routers have become multi role machines, and some of the roles just don't suit them. I don't like to push them much harder than edge rounding, hinge mortising, lock face mortising, and light trimming.
 
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Gilmourisgod said:
I wouldn’t mind having a little “Colt” router. Something between a Dremel and full size router. I dont need the big gun all the time. The one I keep seeing on job sites is the Bosch.
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The Blue bosch is a good one. All blue Bosch is good equipment. But really, try the Katsu from Amazon. If you don't like it, you have 28 days to painlessly return it. I like it enough in a pro work setting to buy a second one. It might last two years in that environment. I've burned through Festool TS55 track saws in a year. Pro use is unforgiving, and has no respect for a badge.
 
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ChickWithaRic said:
Hoegaarden is a good white beer. At least, I like it. Leffe is another good one but any more than one of those and I'm gonna be found the next morning topless in a ditch with a lampshade on my head. It's made by monks. MONKS. They can't be trusted.

I did find that I like Hereforshire cider in the UK, but again, you know, that lampshade thing.
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My weaponized alcoholic drink is a "Ground Zero". Two ounces of 100 proof rum (London Dock if you can get it) in a beer glass. Add half Heineken and half McEwans Scotch Ale. Last two who tried it ended up incoherently rolling in a mud pile out in the wilderness. One drink is all it takes to stop mere mortals. Oh and I think my profile name can double as a stripper name?
 
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Slidlow said:
My weaponized alcoholic drink is a "Ground Zero". Two ounces of 100 proof rum (London Dock if you can get it) in a beer glass. Add half Heineken and half McEwans Scotch Ale. Last two who tried it ended up incoherently rolling in a mud pile out in the wilderness. One drink is all it takes to stop mere mortals.
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I can't remember who it was - maybe Louis Theroux, I wish I could remember - who went to interview Lemmy in his tiny and infamously untidy LA apartment. Lemmy, ever the generous host, headed straight for the fridge and pulled out a half of Jack Daniels, cracked the top and asked, "Would you like a drink?".

The journalist accepted, so Lemmy reached back into the fridge for another bottle and handed it over.
 
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el murdoque said:
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to say that this here is, by quite a stretch, the most entertaining bass build thread ever created.
Most definitely in the history of TB, and very likely in the history of the internet.

No offense to all the talented (and sometimes fast working) builders here that have good threads running. Keep up the good work and I enjoy looking at the pictures of a pile of wood becoming a bass -- but none of you have, to my knowledge, handed out stripper names to your regulars.
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You are more than welcome to a stripper name, should you want one. Just ask.
 
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el murdoque said:
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to say that this here is, by quite a stretch, the most entertaining bass build thread ever created.
Most definitely in the history of TB, and very likely in the history of the internet.

No offense to all the talented (and sometimes fast working) builders here that have good threads running. Keep up the good work and I enjoy looking at the pictures of a pile of wood becoming a bass -- but none of you have, to my knowledge, handed out stripper names to your regulars.
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It's supposed to be fun. I'm sure we don't do it for the money. I remember in my teens, on usenet, being on alt.guitar.bass, which had a lively luthiers' sub culture, there was a running joke.

"what do you call a luthier who broke up with their boy/ girlfriend?"
"homeless".

Aaah, agb, you magnificent and much missed collection of weirdness, I often wonder where people like John Shaughnessy and Bud LeCompte and Purple Linny are these days, and why we no longer use the word "fongerboad".
 
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