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What's On Your Workbench?
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On the bench this morning was burnt fingers and curse words! Tried and true ones, obscure ones, new ones, nice ones, scary ones - all the curse words!
Yesterday went as planned - routed out the jag body for a switch, hit it with some shielding paint, cut the pickguard. I couldn't find anything around the house appropriate to use as a routing template, so used it as practice for freehanding it. Was fine. Pretty fugly, but it's covered with a pickguard. When I add a second pickup I'll make a little template and clean it up.
This morning did all the wiring that I didn't do yesterday. Extend some of the wires from the pickup, heat shrinking, wiring the rest, reusing pots originally on the bass. Last time I rewired the bass I lost tone control. Was hoping redoing it all today would fix it, but it didn't - no idea whats going on there. Then also had an intermittent problem with losing the signal. Couldn't narrow it down to any one wire so I redid everything and it was still there.
The control cavity for this bass is too skinny for regular sized pots, but fortunately when I had it all apart yesterday I shaved a little bit off in there for the future, so I took out original pot, replaced it with a new one and yay! Everything works as it should! I think these stock pots are probably just crap, so I'll pop a new tone pot in later. I don't have any more on hand right now and I want to use the bass at a my gig tonight, so no more messing about.
Yesterday went as planned - routed out the jag body for a switch, hit it with some shielding paint, cut the pickguard. I couldn't find anything around the house appropriate to use as a routing template, so used it as practice for freehanding it. Was fine. Pretty fugly, but it's covered with a pickguard. When I add a second pickup I'll make a little template and clean it up.
This morning did all the wiring that I didn't do yesterday. Extend some of the wires from the pickup, heat shrinking, wiring the rest, reusing pots originally on the bass. Last time I rewired the bass I lost tone control. Was hoping redoing it all today would fix it, but it didn't - no idea whats going on there. Then also had an intermittent problem with losing the signal. Couldn't narrow it down to any one wire so I redid everything and it was still there.
The control cavity for this bass is too skinny for regular sized pots, but fortunately when I had it all apart yesterday I shaved a little bit off in there for the future, so I took out original pot, replaced it with a new one and yay! Everything works as it should! I think these stock pots are probably just crap, so I'll pop a new tone pot in later. I don't have any more on hand right now and I want to use the bass at a my gig tonight, so no more messing about.
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Isn’t that a Lucinda Williams song?
Well, I didn't get ANY luthier work done this holiday weekend. But I did build a pretty cool nesting chair -
Took all dang day, because I was filming it for the YouTubes. This is just some poplar I got from the Home Depot. With current lumber prices the poplar was the cheapest option here, at $8 a board foot.
I really wanted to use the Oak because it was way prettier, but it was $11 a board foot. Those were literally the only two options Home Depot had for hardwood in stock. I wasn't able to make it to my favorite hardwood lumber yard. So this one chair is probably $150 worth of materials, so it's not exactly "cheap". I am, however, super happy with the final result. And my wife loves it, even tho the cost was hard to swallow. I also made enough parts for one more matching chair, but I have not assembled that one yet. We still need to sand and stain this one too.
But, at least the luthier stuff I can do at home. I just need to get off my rump and get back to work on it. I've just been way too busy with everything else lately between my racing, my niece's racing (I am her spotter), trying to maintain a marriage, Getting racing videos posted to the YT channel and all the other crap that I put myself in. One of these days I'll pick one thing and stick to that.
Took all dang day, because I was filming it for the YouTubes. This is just some poplar I got from the Home Depot. With current lumber prices the poplar was the cheapest option here, at $8 a board foot.
I really wanted to use the Oak because it was way prettier, but it was $11 a board foot. Those were literally the only two options Home Depot had for hardwood in stock. I wasn't able to make it to my favorite hardwood lumber yard. So this one chair is probably $150 worth of materials, so it's not exactly "cheap". I am, however, super happy with the final result. And my wife loves it, even tho the cost was hard to swallow. I also made enough parts for one more matching chair, but I have not assembled that one yet. We still need to sand and stain this one too.
But, at least the luthier stuff I can do at home. I just need to get off my rump and get back to work on it. I've just been way too busy with everything else lately between my racing, my niece's racing (I am her spotter), trying to maintain a marriage, Getting racing videos posted to the YT channel and all the other crap that I put myself in. One of these days I'll pick one thing and stick to that.
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If it helps, Tim, I think that the saddest people are the ones without any real interests or passions. At least you’ll never suffer from that!
I might have to go check out that chair on the YouTubes. Can you make it easy on me and link to it here?
I might have to go check out that chair on the YouTubes. Can you make it easy on me and link to it here?
Cool.
Does that fold up, or is it 2 separate pieces that lock together?
Does that fold up, or is it 2 separate pieces that lock together?
Hmm... with a few tweaks, that design would make a skookum amp stand.Well, I didn't get ANY luthier work done this holiday weekend. But I did build a pretty cool nesting chair -
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Took all dang day, because I was filming it for the YouTubes. This is just some poplar I got from the Home Depot. With current lumber prices the poplar was the cheapest option here, at $8 a board foot.
I really wanted to use the Oak because it was way prettier, but it was $11 a board foot. Those were literally the only two options Home Depot had for hardwood in stock. I wasn't able to make it to my favorite hardwood lumber yard. So this one chair is probably $150 worth of materials, so it's not exactly "cheap". I am, however, super happy with the final result. And my wife loves it, even tho the cost was hard to swallow. I also made enough parts for one more matching chair, but I have not assembled that one yet. We still need to sand and stain this one too.
But, at least the luthier stuff I can do at home. I just need to get off my rump and get back to work on it. I've just been way too busy with everything else lately between my racing, my niece's racing (I am her spotter), trying to maintain a marriage, Getting racing videos posted to the YT channel and all the other crap that I put myself in. One of these days I'll pick one thing and stick to that.
I needed a jig to cut stuff at a 27.5 degree angle.
I may add other angles later.
I certainly will, once I get my video edited and posted. Right now it's still about 5 hours of random video files on my hard drive.
But if you wanna see the video from the guy that I got the plans from, check here -
Two separate pieces that "nest".
That was the draw for the wife. This way we can have some pretty snazzy chairs that can live in the RV and not take up too much space while packed for travel.
Oh jeez, technically I guess I lied. I DID do some luthier work this weekend! I almost forgot that I went ahead and broke out the old #7 and planed off this neck blank that I glued up back on the Memorial Day weekend -
This was the neck blank that I made from the offcuts of the Tele build, and I chose to glue this one up "opposite" that one with the maple strips inside the purpleheart, and the black dyed veneer making it a 9-piece laminate neck blank. Still no clue what I'll do with it, but I have it when I'm ready!
I think my next bass is gonna be the Ironbird build, which will most likely be painted, so there's probably no need to use this neck blank on that build. But I'm also still debating building some crazy cool fancy wood natural finish Ironbird, because my Mockingbird is a natural quilted maple top and my Warlock is a transparent blue burst finish. So a natural finished Ironbird wouldn't be out of place next to them. I can't decide!
This was the neck blank that I made from the offcuts of the Tele build, and I chose to glue this one up "opposite" that one with the maple strips inside the purpleheart, and the black dyed veneer making it a 9-piece laminate neck blank. Still no clue what I'll do with it, but I have it when I'm ready!
I think my next bass is gonna be the Ironbird build, which will most likely be painted, so there's probably no need to use this neck blank on that build. But I'm also still debating building some crazy cool fancy wood natural finish Ironbird, because my Mockingbird is a natural quilted maple top and my Warlock is a transparent blue burst finish. So a natural finished Ironbird wouldn't be out of place next to them. I can't decide!
Gah! You're killing me with the hand tools, Tim! I've been looking for a No. 7 (or 8) for longer than I care to report.
Ah, well. I and the No. 5s will just keep on keeping on. And for anyone unfamiliar with hand planes, Tim has his tuning and setup figured out, and on the money; the "crumples" in his shavings are telling.
Gorgeous neck blank as well, brother.
Best regards,
John
Ah, well. I and the No. 5s will just keep on keeping on. And for anyone unfamiliar with hand planes, Tim has his tuning and setup figured out, and on the money; the "crumples" in his shavings are telling.
Gorgeous neck blank as well, brother.
Best regards,
John
Appreciate the comments. I have two 4s, a 5, a 6 and a 7 as well as a couple shoulder planes and a router plane. I love the 7, it's such a beast. All of my hand planes are stuff I got that was slightly rusted up, not in great shape and I "semi-restored" to what I'd call a decent user grade. Most of it is just making sure you sharpen it correctly, get the chip breaker working correctly and then adjust your blade in the plane correctly. The lateral adjust can make or break a good plane, just understanding it all has taken some time, but I think I'm figuring it out. I just really enjoy using them, even for things that you could probably use a machine for.
As for my collection, I know a guy. He deals in vintage planes and generally has whatever I'm looking for.
Altho I think my collection is good as it stands and there isn't anything else I want for now.
The plane shavings from multi lam stuff always look so cool. It almost feels wrong that they get tossed.
I wonder if you could mush them all together with some epoxy and then turn something out of it.
I saved them!
My wife wanted them to use as gift packaging. So most likely they will end up being used to package my wood turned Christmas ornaments that I've been making each year.
The hand tool crowd uses shavings as packing material pretty often. It’s also great to keep as kindling.
Got up at 6:00 AM to work on this, as it reaches 100+ degrees in the shop as the day wears on. Was able to get a couple of hours worth of work done on it today.
My first stave and segmented turning. The body came from my recently-felled pecan tree - alternating staves of spalted sap wood and darker heartwood. The base and lid are mesquite.
Love it!
I want to get into segmented turning, but the part where you have to cut all those segments seems so daunting. I don't have a jig or anything either.
