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Worst Build Day Ever!!

#21
Musiclogic said:
Au contrere mon Ami......I have to differ with this statement. I have a Ryobi RE-600 router I have had for 14 years, and still works perfectly. I also have a 8 hole disc R/O sander that is 12 years old, and also works wonderfully. I have a Corner cat that is about 4 yrs old, and is just as good as new. I also have bosch, mikita, Porter cable, hitachi and Milwaukee hand power tools, that treat me just as well as my ryobi stuff.

I think you have to know the limitations of the tools you use. No R/O sander is going to take hard sanding for long. most times when motors go, it's because of the sander being used under too much pressure for too great a time. A lot of people do not understand that you don't need to put much pressure on a sander, but to let the orbits do the work, with the paper making the cut. this is how motors blow.

I learned this from my own experience with a Milwaukee r/o sander. it was an expensive lesson for me 20 yrs ago.
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OK glad you said it. There are many many very fine and capable Ryobi tools out there. One may have some sky-high expectations of some of the cheaper tools, but that's not uncommon for any area of interest.
That said, there are some of the routers out there that are outstanding machines and hold their own with their more expensive counterparts - that 600 is one of the best out there.
 
#22
Worshiper said:
I was off from work today and I decided to do a little work on a guitar build I'm working on for a friend.

So I walk downstairs only to find the guitar body warped, with the back bowed...significantly too...about 1/8th of an inch in the middle.

I said a few choice words that I'mnot proud of in my frustration, but then I relaxed and figured a way to compensate for it...I was just going to round over the top so that both the top and back were bowed. Kinda' like a gibson. I also had to resand the sides to make them perpendicular to the table/floor/ whatever the body is lyingn on...

SO I start sanding the sides with my ryobi oscilating sander and 10 minutes into it, is gives off this really bad smell and then lets off this huge cloud of black smoke...I blew the motor. Warrenty is up.

I'm really angry at this because now I gotta buy a new one and I was saving up for a table saw. :(

More choice words...

Decide to work on the neck so that i feel like the day is not a total waste. I set up the ol' dremmel to route the truss rod channel...it jumps on me...

Came upstairs and took a shower...talkbass...

(:( :rollno: :crying: :bawl: ) = My progression for today...
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What would Homer say?
No, no, son....it's the worst build day ever, so far!
:)
 
#23
anechoic said:
Grizzly perhaps? I have one of their table saws, which I quite like.

At the very least, check out www.grizzly.com and at request a catalog. Their president is apparently a luthier on the side himself, and there's a lot of guitar/bass related suff in there.
The website kind of sucks in that you usually have to use the search function to find certain items. If you don't know they carry it, you may not find it navigating normally. The catalog is the size of an average town's phone book.

It's the only place I can think of where you can buy a 20 hp industrial band saw, a meat grinder, and a guitar amp (Grizzly brand, in the same distinctive green as their power tools).
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Request their Luthier's catalog. It's a great read.
 

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