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What's On Your Workbench?
- Thread starter HaMMerHeD
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I have a bandsaw here right now, almost exactly like it, which is going to be heading to the scrap yard soon. One of the guys here found it lying along the shoulder of the 405 freeway! I'm not kidding. So he hauled it here to my shop, thinking I would want to restore it or use it for parts. But enough parts were missing that it would be impractical to save. We think it probably fell off the back of a truck heading to the scrap yard.
But, if you need some small shippable parts, just ask. It's a 14" import saw, Bulldog brand, same green color as yours.
In my long experience with MDF, it's very stable over time. You caused those pieces to bend by introducing the moisture of the glue to one side, which caused the one side to swell make the boards curve. But now the glue is dry. There isn't much internal stress within the MDF. If you could somehow get the glue joint apart, the boards probably wouldn't snap back to flat. The soaked in glue has permanently shifted the particles.
You could try gluing a third piece of MDF on the stack, and clamping it tightly on something rigid and flat.
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Thanks for the thoughts gentlemen. I'm hoping it will stay put in this current arrangement without wanting to curve back or resisting over time. I think I'll try planing this whole glued up stack flat and true and monitor it over time.
Make it glow....It'll be fine....Thanks for the thoughts gentlemen. I'm hoping it will stay put in this current arrangement without wanting to curve back or resisting over time. I think I'll try planing this whole glued up stack flat and true and monitor it over time.
Too late! I planed it flat in a larger router sled and then used it to plane a couple of other boards flat. I'll keep checking it with a straightedge each time before using it.
Reminds me of this:
Merry Christmas! My self gift this year is this coil winder from Schatten
. I bought the kit and assembled myself. Hoping to use it soon
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Got everything mounted on the guitar body yesterday, and took it to my guitar tech to wire it and set it up. Should have it back in a couple of weeks. Merry Christmas everyone!
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That set up like the Brian May Red Special? I have the GFS pickups with the Strat pickguard for that. It’s an interesting thing. I think the out of phase sounds probably have more use on guitar then bass.
Merry Christmas! My self gift this year is this coil winder from Schatten
Fancy! Mine is just an eBay special coil winder (basically a hunk of iron with some shafts stuck in it and a turn counter) and a sewing machine motor. It has very loose tolerances, so the winds aren't really dead even, but it works fine. All I've done so far is guitar pickups, I'm hoping to try some bass humbuckers soon. I'd love to find some no-hole covers for standard bass soapbar sizes but they seem pretty elusive...
Passinwind
I know nothing.
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Way cool, looking forward to seeing your conversion results.
I'm finally getting really close to wrapping up my lockdown 100 watt tube amp build:
A luthier friend is working up a laser etched fascia panel for me, here are a few testers done with scrap wood:
I've been busy learning the laser software and refining various things to try when I get over to my friend's shop in the next week or two with a few slabs of curly and quilted maple. I've tested the power amp section quite extensively and I have a pretty well vetted preamp design ready to install now, just have another two dozen or so holes to machine in the 1/8" aluminum top panel.
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Christoph Dolph at Bassculture has soapbar size covers. I’ve bought EMG35, EMG40, Bartolini BC and Bartolini P2 soapbar covers from him.
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Can't recall if I already introduced my latest projects in an earlier post - one was completed and the other is 'in progress'.
Japanese Hollowbody Longhorn bass project and Harmony H-19 guitar resurrection
Japanese Hollowbody Longhorn bass project and Harmony H-19 guitar resurrection
I'm still with this guitar, because it's so fun to play, but I want to finish it up- thinking of a face plate to mount the pickups, and the possibility of getting creative with a pickguard to do the same thing. A face plate like an SG, an oddball shape like some retro thing, or other..? Single coil at neck, HB at the bridge.
Here's a quick basic plate shape, from thin cardboard. -
but definitely open to suggestions. Anyone?
There's enough space under the fretboard overhang to fit a single ply pickguard thickness.
Here's a quick basic plate shape, from thin cardboard. -
but definitely open to suggestions. Anyone?
There's enough space under the fretboard overhang to fit a single ply pickguard thickness.
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