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What's On Your Workbench?
- Thread starter HaMMerHeD
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Yep, 2 Strats. Used it with a Ziriote drop top body and also with a 2 color burst body. I bought I huge 8/4 piece of cherry that was large enough to get 1 piece bodies. These are both finished with nitro lacquer.
Cherry is one of my favorite woods. You guys are probably sick of seeing photos of instruments I've built with cherry. 
Nope. Cherry is nice. Basses are nice. What is there to get sick of?
These Telecasters have finally left my workbench. 
Build thread is in my signature if you want to see all the details.
Build thread is in my signature if you want to see all the details.
This was a class project . . . so it has moved off of our shared workbench.
The district expectation is that students will turn in their cell phones during class. I thought it would be fun to have a phone storage box that looked like an old phone booth (you youngsters may have to do your google on "phone booth"
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38" high and 14" wide to provide some idea of the size.
Enjoy!
Jeff
The district expectation is that students will turn in their cell phones during class. I thought it would be fun to have a phone storage box that looked like an old phone booth (you youngsters may have to do your google on "phone booth"
)38" high and 14" wide to provide some idea of the size.
Enjoy!
Jeff
Nice! A real old fashioned phone booth that makes you pay with nickels. The bottom spaces are for tablets?
I'm moving up in the world, from a foldable workbench in the back yard to this room.
3.6x3.8 metre (about 12'x12'8") of blissful emptiness, boarded floor, painted walls, central heating. This will become my workshop.
Now I need to get some cabinets for my tools. Or something on the wall to hang them all from. I don't know yet what it's going to be. This may be a slow process, as I'm very busy on other fronts.
3.6x3.8 metre (about 12'x12'8") of blissful emptiness, boarded floor, painted walls, central heating. This will become my workshop.
Now I need to get some cabinets for my tools. Or something on the wall to hang them all from. I don't know yet what it's going to be. This may be a slow process, as I'm very busy on other fronts.
In this case, you get a phone charge on the taxpayer's nickel. The bottom will hold tablets if necessary, we don't see many of those on my campus. I may use them as "In/Out" boxes.
Nice space. Those of us in Texas are thinking, "Wow - climate control!"
Planning (and evolving) a workspace can end up turning into a hobby in and of itself!
Will you be doing anything to protect the floor? Between spills, dropped tools and general cutting/shavings (any metal work?) I'd be worried about messing up that nice floor. Looks like a great space though.
The photo may be flattering, but that floor is rather worn in places, and not in a pretty way. And it wasn't expensive to begin with.
What I like about this floor is simply that it's there, meaning one thing less to do to make this a workshop.
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Sort of workbench adjacent until I move some things around. Someone locally who apparently built and repaired instruments that I was unaware of (I don’t get out much) is moving, possibly back, I didn’t ask, to France. He had an ad on the local version of Craigslist with pics that showed the bench, vice and neck jig. I debated but finally messaged him and asked if he’d sell without the bench as I already had a couple. He said sure and named a price. I headed over this afternoon and he had those items but kept piling stuff up for me. “Take this, oh and this” kind of thing. I ended up with the above, a StewMac acoustic neck removal jig and modified cappuccino steamer for it, StewMac fret files (gonna have to learn how to use those), several spoke shaves and draw knives, a bunch of miscellaneous stuff and a crazy fanned fret project guitar for $250. Oh, and a bunch of random wood, some of which he said was curly maple and redwood. I haven’t even had a chance to examine that yet.
Well, he was an hour south so not exactly “neighborhood” but, yeah, I’m still a little surprised.
He must have been happy that someone will actually be using all that stuff.
More progress on the V's. I glued the fretboards on this morning after taking this photo. Just need to cut the cavities, do the edge carve, and finish the neck carves and the woodworking part is complete.
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