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What's On Your Workbench?
- Thread starter HaMMerHeD
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I see you subscribe to the same philosophy I do, in terms of avoiding the hassle of losing your glasses.
I’m working on what I can. Most of my “projects” need some parts and I’m not sure what or how much is coming in for money so it doesn’t seem like a good time to buy stuff. It’s all good though.
I'm still trying to figure out what they are.....
Haha woops I’ll edit it, but they’re a pair of [soon to be] floating bedside tables
Just finished this little guy. It is a phone/tablet stand for my wife. I had this small bit of walnut crotch I was originally going to use for something else that sounded really cool when I pulled it out of a offcut bin a couple years ago, that I have subsequently forgotten about.
Nothing fancy; just a 30 degree slot and a run across a chamfer bit. I had some little silicone feet that I attached to the bottom. The finish is a quick n' dirty 3 coats of shellac sanded with 400 in between, and 2 coats of spray laquer sanded with 800 in between. Ain't got time for no pore-fill!
Nothing fancy; just a 30 degree slot and a run across a chamfer bit. I had some little silicone feet that I attached to the bottom. The finish is a quick n' dirty 3 coats of shellac sanded with 400 in between, and 2 coats of spray laquer sanded with 800 in between. Ain't got time for no pore-fill!
So do you tell her "Set your phone in my crotch"?
So do you tell her "Set your phone in my crotch"?
Nah man, she'd just roll her eyes at me. That level of humor is best left to woodworkers since we 'get it'.
On my bench right now Uke project that my son painted:
Replaced strat tuners & setup for a local customer (chrome - black locking machines)
And lastly, trying to be motivated to finish up a spare for the high school's guitar program. Motivation is LOW being that I've had it for 2 years (pretty much thought of as a basket case due to extensive damage on the back) and the school is completely locked down due to C-19. I really need to post the damage pictures, but I think I lost them when that phone died.
Replaced strat tuners & setup for a local customer (chrome - black locking machines)
And lastly, trying to be motivated to finish up a spare for the high school's guitar program. Motivation is LOW being that I've had it for 2 years (pretty much thought of as a basket case due to extensive damage on the back) and the school is completely locked down due to C-19. I really need to post the damage pictures, but I think I lost them when that phone died.
Nah man, she'd just roll her eyes at me. That level of humor is best left to woodworkers since we 'get it'.
All this reminded me of Mike Rotch:
The uke looks good. Pass on a “well done” or whatever the kids say these days to your son.
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This came up on my Ebay search. Couldn't pass it up, bad 'relic' job and all.
Slapped a Schector neck I've had for a while on it, ditto correct Gotoh tuners. Pickups are ThunderBucker 66s. Fully loaded body cost less than the pickups list price.
I'm keeping this one, need to bring the bridge/tailpiece up to current spec. This is a circa 2012 or bass, #0021
Bass on the left is my original FenderBird, built in 1983, shown in its final 2010 incarnation. Lower horn started off about 2 inches longer.
Slapped a Schector neck I've had for a while on it, ditto correct Gotoh tuners. Pickups are ThunderBucker 66s. Fully loaded body cost less than the pickups list price.
I'm keeping this one, need to bring the bridge/tailpiece up to current spec. This is a circa 2012 or bass, #0021
Bass on the left is my original FenderBird, built in 1983, shown in its final 2010 incarnation. Lower horn started off about 2 inches longer.
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Ummm, did you re-purchase something you made 8 years ago? That's oddly, well, something metaphysically cyclic.....
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I did that once before, went through/set up the bass and quickly resold it for a slight profit...Certified Used Cataldo?
It's slightly mercenary, keeps the resale value up plus makes sure the bass is up to snuff.
I'm keeping this one. The reason I started building Entwistle/Peter Cook replicas was because I wanted one for myself. But I never kept one.
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The thing on my workbench right now is lots of water.
I opened the shutoff valve for the hose bib that's on the outside of our house right next to my shop to do some spring cleaning, and didn't realize for a good 30 minutes that it was spraying water all over my shop because the sillcock had frozen and burst over the winter. Water got on my work bench, my stack of hardwood, and one of my tool shelves with my sanders and routers on it. Probably a good 40 or 50 gallons, it was up over my flipflops.
I got it all dried out as best I could with towels and a shop vac. I think the tools and most of the wood will be OK but I'm waiting for a few days to try the tools. Some of the thin hardwood stock is pretty warped, fingers crossed it flattens back out when it dries. Got some fans and a dehumidifier running in there now, I think I'm going to take a break for a few days while it dries out.
I opened the shutoff valve for the hose bib that's on the outside of our house right next to my shop to do some spring cleaning, and didn't realize for a good 30 minutes that it was spraying water all over my shop because the sillcock had frozen and burst over the winter. Water got on my work bench, my stack of hardwood, and one of my tool shelves with my sanders and routers on it. Probably a good 40 or 50 gallons, it was up over my flipflops.
I got it all dried out as best I could with towels and a shop vac. I think the tools and most of the wood will be OK but I'm waiting for a few days to try the tools. Some of the thin hardwood stock is pretty warped, fingers crossed it flattens back out when it dries. Got some fans and a dehumidifier running in there now, I think I'm going to take a break for a few days while it dries out.
I only liked it for the very last line... 
Turns out that four box fans and a dehumidifier will dry a small room pretty quick. The floor and other surfaces are all dry, the wood is dry (Many of the thin pieces are warped, but such is life). I'm going to leave the tools until this afternoon before trying them, but I'm feeling much better this morning than I was last night.
The scariest part of this - my buildoff bass was sitting on the workbench. It was less than a foot from the main "spray" of water. It got a few random drops of water on it, but it would have gotten blasted if it had been a few inches closer. In the grand scheme, I don't mind having to replace a router or throwing out some ruined hardwood stock, but I'm already in love with this bass and I would have been upset if it had been ruined.
The floor and other surfaces are all dry, the wood is dry (Many of the thin pieces are warped, but such is life). I'm going to leave the tools until this afternoon before trying them, but I'm feeling much better this morning than I was last night.The scariest part of this - my buildoff bass was sitting on the workbench. It was less than a foot from the main "spray" of water. It got a few random drops of water on it, but it would have gotten blasted if it had been a few inches closer. In the grand scheme, I don't mind having to replace a router or throwing out some ruined hardwood stock, but I'm already in love with this bass and I would have been upset if it had been ruined.
