What's On Your Workbench?

[boxerrider]

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.

Thanks! It really wasn't very tricky, although it does take some time.
I cut the wide staves on the table saw with the blade at 22.5 degrees. The narrow staves don't need any angle. Dry fit the staves together one-by-one and used wide blue painter's tape to hold them all together. Put glue on everything, rolled it up, and clamped each end with a hose clamp.
Segments for the top and bottom were cut on the miter saw - one cut, flip the board, cut again, repeat un until you have enough pieces. The worst for me was smoothing the inside - I need practice at that.
You've made trickier things than this!

 

[boxerrider]

But I did build a pretty cool nesting chair -

Yep, I'm going to have to copy me some of those.

 

[Flamingo21]

My first stave and segmented turning.

I've been wondering what this thing actually is. Does it have a practical purpose, or is it just a pretty thing?

(Not trying to imply there's anything wrong with pretty things.)

 

[boxerrider]

I've been wondering what this thing actually is. Does it have a practical purpose, or is it just a pretty thing?

(Not trying to imply there's anything wrong with pretty things.)

It was something new for me to try, and it is something pretty for my wife. If she finds a practical purpose for it, then that will be great, but it isn't a requirement.
I honestly don't know how best to classify it. Lidded vessel, box, urn???

 

[boxerrider]

#TerribleTim68
I should admit, the miters on my segments were not just right. I glued four together at a time, sanded the "straight" edge straight, and then glued those halves together. If it had stayed complete, then you would see that the points didn't all meet at exactly the same place. Since the center was drilled out, nobody will ever know!

 

[TerribleTim68]

If it has a lid, then yeah, just call it a box. As for what gets stored in said box, that's up to the person who receives it.
I dig it!

And yeah, totally with you on the "glue half of them and sand the edges of each half" method.
I think my big hang-up is just trying to figure out how best to cut the segments, I need some sort of sled or something.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Glueing up my brother in law’s broken Squier acoustic guitar. He paid $12 for it! Somehow, around his grandkids, the neck got cracked…hmmm.
I hope it works for him…

 

[Flamingo21]

Twenty-five newly made spool clamps.

My haste got the better of me during the first batch, so some of those clamps ended up looking like this:

I kept them, thinking I may still be able to use them.

The second batch I left square, so perhaps they are not spool clamps but dice clamps:

 

[ctmullins]

Awwww. They're so cute!!

 

[Lo-E]

…some of those clamps ended up looking like this:
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Pac-Man clamps!

 

[tubedude]

Speaker experiment.

Eighth inch ply ported speaker cab.
This will be inserted into another eighth inch shell 4 inches larger filled with liquid foam. Should be a lightweight shop speaker at a minimum. And it will let me measure the resonances pre- bracing, post bracing, and after loaded into the larger shell with my recently built vibration analyzer.
Inner shell complete:

 

[Beej]

Speaker experiment.
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Eighth inch ply ported speaker cab.
This will be inserted into another eighth inch shell 4 inches larger filled with liquid foam. Should be a lightweight shop speaker at a minimum. And it will let me measure the resonances pre- bracing, post bracing, and after loaded into the larger shell with my recently built vibration analyzer.

Nice job, nerd.




And actually, yes, really nice job and interesting concept.

 

[tubedude]

Nice job, nerd.




And actually, yes, really nice job and interesting concept.

Thanx, but it's not done yet. Plenty of opportunities for a suboptimal outcome.

 

[ctmullins]

Plenty of opportunities for a suboptimal outcome.

And boom, that's my new epitaph.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Glueing up my brother in law’s broken Squier acoustic guitar. He paid $12 for it! Somehow, around his grandkids, the neck got cracked…hmmm.
I hope it works for him…
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I could have gone farther finish wise...but good enough for a $12 garage guitar.
Waiting on strings...that I thought I had...
Also cleaned, polished, oiled.

 

[polygon]

Last week I am shielding a rewiring MIM jazz bass. It was old five in-line tuners. Sweet bass with nice jazz bass growl. In my opinion it sounds better than new america in shop.

Next one is try to repair bad fretless conversion.

And in mean time I rewiring pots in this Spector. Horrible work. Some idiot put wrong pot value for tonepump, wrong pot value for passive pickups and the best of is wrongly soldered cables from pickup.

 

[polygon]

Finally complete. Horrible work. Better make this in new guitar, than repair in old one.

 

[Gary_M]

I'm trying to get a Summer Build Off build on my bench, really I am. I went out to the garage tonight to get really serious about starting very late and found this mess all over my drum sander.

It came from the cupboard directly above... There was a can of Zinsser dewaxed shellac on that shelf (It's now in the trash). Apparently, it decided to fail and drip shellac all over the cabinet, out the front and all over the drum sander.

It has sealed the lid shut and pooled on the feed belt.

So, instead of getting started on a build, I'm removing sticky shellac goo... soaking paper towels in acetone, letting them sit to loosen, then soak up the mess seems to be working, but the nice decal on the dust hood will never be the same, dangit.

Oh, and I guess the last time I used it, the head was set very low for thin stock, because it also glued down the infeed pressure roller to the feed belt. UGH!

Not to mention that it glued the lid shut.

On a positive note, I should in the SBO 2022 thread soon!

In other news, I'll be switching back to shellac flakes and storing any extra in glass jars... or just throwing out the leftovers. Zinsser can kiss my sweet patooty.

 

[Crawforde]

It might be easier to clean with alcohol.

 

[Gary_M]

It might be easier to clean with alcohol.

I'm out of DNA at the moment. Acetone is an effective solvent for shellac and it's working quickly to remove it.