I’ve only used oil-based wipe-on poly for small projects but I found it to be much more user-friendly than water-based in just about every way except clean-up.
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What's On Your Workbench?
- Thread starter HaMMerHeD
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Well I thought the deal on these Delano’s was good (ended up about 30% of new), I just scored this lot of gold parts for cheap.
This 5 string pickup came with a bunch of parts and has made in Japan on it. Can anyone speculate on manufacturer? It’s new and unused.
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Wasn't me. Momma didn't raise no quitter.
I built this as a present for my woodworker father …. I inlaid a 1938 Mercury Dime as a tribute to his birthday.
Woods are wenge, lacewood, flame maple, and a walnut dowel.
Woods are wenge, lacewood, flame maple, and a walnut dowel.
I really need to build a good jointer's mallet. That's a beauty!
I did turn a nice French rolling pin, if that matters -
I mean, who doesn't love pizza?
I did turn a nice French rolling pin, if that matters -
I mean, who doesn't love pizza?
Aren’t you supposed to use an Italian rolling pin for pizza?I really need to build a good jointer's mallet. That's a beauty!
I did turn a nice French rolling pin, if that matters -
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I mean, who doesn't love pizza?
I really need to build a good jointer's mallet. That's a beauty!
I did turn a nice French rolling pin, if that matters -
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I mean, who doesn't love pizza?
Thanks !!!
I’ll tell you what …. I’ll build you a joiners mallet and trade it to you for a rolling pin !
Let me know if you want to do that … could be a fun swap.
Andy
My sister is doing some sort of project challenge with her local woodworking club and wants to experiment with bending poplar.
Her bandsaw is out of commission at the moment so she asked me to resaw several thin pieces for her to try bending so I obliged:
After machining they’ll range in thickness from just under 1/8” to just under 1/4”. I’m not sure what nefarious plans she has.
I’m also gluing up a tiny router sled so I can get them nice and flat and remove the saw marks for her:
Her bandsaw is out of commission at the moment so she asked me to resaw several thin pieces for her to try bending so I obliged:
After machining they’ll range in thickness from just under 1/8” to just under 1/4”. I’m not sure what nefarious plans she has.
I’m also gluing up a tiny router sled so I can get them nice and flat and remove the saw marks for her:
The makeshift flattening jig worked great. It’s not very attractive (being made from shop scraps) but I might hold onto it for little jobs like this.
Love the router base. I have a couple of MDF and plywood ones myself. It doesn’t have to be purty as long as it works.
I've had an ongoing project that gets pulled out and tinkered with every couple of months. My girls have affectionately labeled it "Trashbaby" as almost everything on it came out of the garbage. The body is a chunk of wood we found at an old, abandoned mine, the neck, tuners, pickups, and electrics came off of a garbage-bound Oscar Schmidt plywood 335 copy, and the aged cream 3 ply pick guard material came off a broken, Indonesian P-bass copy.
Today's project was making a couple pickup mounting rings out of some black pickguard material left over from another project.
Now I've just got to remember where I put the mounting screw and springs ...
Today's project was making a couple pickup mounting rings out of some black pickguard material left over from another project.
Now I've just got to remember where I put the mounting screw and springs ...
Pretty quiet right now. Working on a neck reset on this Kay mandolin for my brother.
I just got this Kramer body for cheap and got pretty excited about the paint job.. so I’m currently working on finding parts and coming up with a build vision
NTD
just received a new fret slotting template. I had it made with 880 mm scale for my bass and 660 mm for guitars for myself. Pretty good deal even with shipping from Australia. Check it out at guitartemplates.com.au.
just received a new fret slotting template. I had it made with 880 mm scale for my bass and 660 mm for guitars for myself. Pretty good deal even with shipping from Australia. Check it out at guitartemplates.com.au.
I finally got around to printing a new router fretboard radius jig. -
The files were from John over at "The Next Project". He has this in both the "glide" version like this and a version that uses roller bearings on the router caddy. I went the cheap route, but honestly it slides without any issues at all, and even John isn't using the roller bearing one.
It has interchangeable side rails in various radii. This one currently has the 12" radius side rails on it, but my 20" radius rails are laying behind it, already printed and ready to go. I'll print some 9-1/2" radius and maybe a few others along the way. It uses heat-set inserts and then bolts together. John has all the files on his Dropbox, you can check them out by visiting his YouTube channel - the Next Project
Now I just need to modify my base to work with this sled. When it works, 3D printers are fun.
The files were from John over at "The Next Project". He has this in both the "glide" version like this and a version that uses roller bearings on the router caddy. I went the cheap route, but honestly it slides without any issues at all, and even John isn't using the roller bearing one.
It has interchangeable side rails in various radii. This one currently has the 12" radius side rails on it, but my 20" radius rails are laying behind it, already printed and ready to go. I'll print some 9-1/2" radius and maybe a few others along the way. It uses heat-set inserts and then bolts together. John has all the files on his Dropbox, you can check them out by visiting his YouTube channel - the Next Project
Now I just need to modify my base to work with this sled. When it works, 3D printers are fun.
In between rounds of shoveling snow I got back to work on the P-bass.
I was a little sick for about a week so I lost a lot of shop time.
I started by level sanding the six coats of poly on the fingerboard and then moving through the grits of Micro Mesh to get just shy of a high gloss. Then I started putting in frets.
Halfway through fretting it was time to do some more shoveling and clear off the car. The plan was to finish fretting the neck afterwards but the second round of shoveling was harder than the first (almost twice the snow buildup) so I decided I’d rather spend the rest of the afternoon in front of the fireplace rather than in the workshop. The rest of the frets can wait.
I was a little sick for about a week so I lost a lot of shop time.
I started by level sanding the six coats of poly on the fingerboard and then moving through the grits of Micro Mesh to get just shy of a high gloss. Then I started putting in frets.
Halfway through fretting it was time to do some more shoveling and clear off the car. The plan was to finish fretting the neck afterwards but the second round of shoveling was harder than the first (almost twice the snow buildup) so I decided I’d rather spend the rest of the afternoon in front of the fireplace rather than in the workshop. The rest of the frets can wait.
Hey, when I said I used shop scraps, I wasn’t kidding!
