What's On Your Workbench?

[Videojunkie]

Question for those that use a corded handheld router: you need to keep the cord from getting in the way, and I suppose most of us would attach it to the ceiling or some other overhead thing. (I used a clothes line at one point.) So here's my question: do you attach it flexibly, so that as you move the router around the cord stays more or less taut? If so, how?

I throw it over my shoulder, keeps it out of the way, and allows me to keep track of it.

 

[Dark Horse]

 

[StereoPlayer]

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Very nice!

 

[BishopJP]

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[Videojunkie]

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What's the plan for pickups/ electronics? Looks fantastic! I really like the F holes, and that top is stunning!

 

[Dark Horse]

What's the plan for pickups/ electronics? Looks fantastic! I really like the F holes, and that top is stunning!

Thank you !

I have an EMG S-7 (made for seven string guitar, extremes range and a bar magnet for string spacing) that km going to use and make a cover for (or use the one in the pic). That, coupled with an EMG BQC Control (V-T-B-Variable mids) should be a cool setup I think.

I’ll probably make a cover from the pau ferro I’m using for the fingerboard

 

[Lo-E]

Wow!

 

[Flamingo21]

Have you used a router with the cord hanging? I'd be interested to know how that worked.

My router has a three metre cord. When I started bass building, I worked in the garden under the clothes line, and I attached the cord to that line, making sure that it was just shy of taut when the router was at its furthest point.
Does this answer your question?

 

[Max Bogosity]

I throw it over my shoulder, keeps it out of the way, and allows me to keep track of it.

I do this too. It’s visible and moves with you so it neither binds nor goes slack and gets in the way.

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Dang, that is schweet! I'm a sucker for F-Holes.

 

[Dark Horse]

Dang, that is schweet! I'm a sucker for F-Holes.

Thanks ! It took me a while to finalize the design. Obviously I was using the Ampeg Scroll bass as a design cue, but I wanted to “make it my own”….

 

[boxerrider]

Router cord usually gets draped over one shoulder or the other.

 

[StereoPlayer]

I had to change out the handle screws to thru bolts. The tech used screws…they pulled mount pretty fast.
And I received the custom cover just in time.
Custom Orders - Custom Amp Covers, they do nice stuff! And fairly fast production.

 

[Dark Horse]

On Last nights insomnia workbench was the Snakehead Esquire relic I’m building for my brother as a Christmas present

still got a ways to go, but inching closer to the finish line

 

[tubedude]

Just finished a Strat build to match my Tele from last year.

 

[Manton Customs]

Currently finishing off this 1976 CT tribute build featuring some rare Flamed Mahogany.
https://i.imgur.com/Ox7LTn1.jpg

 

[Rôckhewer]

It's a cloudy day ... on my workbench

 

[Videojunkie]

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Pretty!

 

[Gilmourisgod]

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Please tell me you didn't have to cut those out by hand with a jeweler's saw! I just got done inlaying a bunch of MOP stars for my Lemmy build, hand made in Vietnam, so each one was unique, and therefore a PITA. Came out pretty good by amateur standards, but I know a Pro would cringe a little. How about the recesses, CNC or hand cut with a Dremel Router? I'm always fascinated by how Pros do this stuff, it's usually a forehead slapper for me as I see the most efficient process demonstrated, rather than me winging it based on YT tutorials.

 

[Rôckhewer]

Please tell me you didn't have to cut those out by hand with a jeweler's saw! I just got done inlaying a bunch of MOP stars for my Lemmy build, hand made in Vietnam, so each one was unique, and therefore a PITA. Came out pretty good by amateur standards, but I know a Pro would cringe a little. How about the recesses, CNC or hand cut with a Dremel Router? I'm always fascinated by how Pros do this stuff, it's usually a forehead slapper for me as I see the most efficient process demonstrated, rather than me winging it based on YT tutorials.

Naw... all of our mop is precut ....outsourced from an Indonesian sweat shop.
I just cut the pockets with yer typical Dremel & stumak base.