Progress! Neck fitted and carved, all by hand of course. next is mounting some hardware...
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Progress! Neck fitted and carved, all by hand of course. next is mounting some hardware...
http://i.imgur.com/LbifO5o.jpg?1
Ron, I would love to find the base, I have been drooling over images of them for the past month. Hopefully one will appear into my possession at some point and I will be able to restore it to match...
Thanks Roger, I hope it serves many generations more!
Here is the fence I have started designing. It will be mill out of a chunk of 6061 I have laying around. I am unsure if I like the idea of...
SO I purchased me this wonderful piece of vintage iron. It is a Walker-Turner 16" band saw serial #22-659 which, from the limited information available on these WWII era band saws, I am able to...
Personally, being someone who cleans his files A LOT at his day job, I have found a quality brass wire brush to be my preferred method. A brand such as torrington is one I recommend and will last a...
It resembles a sort of floating base as seen more so in the below image....
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I am definately not worthy but here is a box I made.....
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Updates....Slow going but I do have a job :)
Body done except for binding
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Resawing Purpleheart fingerboard
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As I await parts....okay just me being lazy actually, I decided to start another build....
The wood, Black Walnut body and neck, A beautiful spalted and curly Maple top, a piece of ambrosia Maple...
If you want a reliable repair, the best course of action would be to drill it and use a time-sert. You will have to find the correct thread pitch and measure the bore depth to obtain the proper...
I do not own a scrub plane but think this may now be the time. My main issue is after spending 40 mins resawing a 6x10x1.25, I am left with a reasonable surface (approx 1/16 to 3/32 MAX difference...
Soooooo....I have a dilemma. I recently have begun experimenting with some exotic woods and have run into a brick wall. Purple heart: nice and easy to plane, and resaw without too much effort;...
WOW! thanks for all your help guys. I really appreciate you guys taking the time to help me understand.
Stanley, Interesting how you spoke of the skinny ryouba saw for fitting shouji and...
So I have been using these three saws for a little while now and am wondering if anyone has ANY info at all on these saws. I was given little information on the saws but here are some photos:...
Yes it does splinter, a lot. I have used it many a times to build semi hollow body guitar tops and found that razor sharp tooling with constant honing (I keep my stone on the bench when working...
Those were some excellent thoughts Mike, I appreciate the time you took to post. Brought me some great incite into how some of these collections come to be. Here is a photo of my my very modest...
About time to bring out the purple heart back piece....
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That is it so far. Any Advice greatly appreciated. Never really used...
On to cutting the neck pocket and f-hole...
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Just needs some final sanding......
I have no idea what I'm doing. Not only am I ill-equipped, inexperienced and not a very good guitar player to boot; this should be interesting. And I will only use hand tools :)
Maple top pieces...
I believe the knife is called a "masuda" I own one without the handle or sheath, but do remember seeing handled ones.
If you are so inclined to remove the stud use a stud puller, like this:...
I have used a #6 for all operations.....Even though i have planes of all shapes and sizes, I still prefer my 6 to all others. It works for me, and to change what I know would take years of refining....
Its not always force that warrant the desire for use of a steel or brass mallet. I personally am on the brass side of the fence as I prefer the "solid" resonance acquired from a brass mallet. I use...
I would use brake clean, it will remove the T-9 and leave a light residue. Use a high quality one such as Wurth as they use a detergent similar to what is used in industrial laundry mats. just wipe...