🤣@tv101. I'm waiting for their wee belt/disc sander to go on sale. 🫰 🙏🎸🎶🙂

Maybe tomorrow’s deal will be something that you’ve not got 😉

Got that too @tv101. Great deal. Cheers 🙂🎶🙏🎸

Today’s deal

Cheers @tv101. I bought one on the same deal last year. It's a great little drill for most jobs but the depth from the post to the drill isn't enough for drilling the holes for fitting bridges...... g...

£70 off. Rutlands aren’t usually the cheapest, but at near half-price, if anyone is looking for a smaller pillar drill, thought this might be of interest? The pillar drill was yesterday, bobbin san...

@tv101 You are correct I think. I did a new fretboard for a professional jazz player two years ago and this is what he said.

@tv101 the thing that gets me is a compound radius, they're often 12 to 16 but there's so little in it it seems a bit pointless. I think between a 7.5 or 9 and a 16 you'd notice it more but those thre...

@robin a tighter radius is meant to be more comfortable for chords but if bending a string doing solos the string can choke out because you're pushing up hill so to speak. With a flatter radius you ca...

Apparently all the young "Shredders" like a flatter radius so they can play fast @robin. 🤣 🙂🎸🎶🙏

(Allegedly), it's easier to play and bend single notes vs easier to play chords. But I can never remember which is supposedly easier to do on which sort of radius! Acoustics tend to be flatter, so I ...

I've never really understood why some guitarists are so insistent that they can "only" play a guitar with X, Y, or Z radius, or a scale length of this, that or the other, or only 21, 22 or 27.5 frets ...

What's the an advantage to having a flatter fretboard, I'm not a player, still learning?

My curiosity got the better of me so I rigged up a crude jig and drew a 12, 14 and 16 inch radius to see the difference, needless to say it's not a lot! Looks like you could use a 12 ich bridge with a...

Sharpening and planing. Skills on my “to acquire someday” list.

@swepri oh god yeh, I know exactly what you mean! Lol I find my big stanley no 7 really haleps with that, I find that difficult with smaller planes unless it's a big flat board. Like a guitar top, I...

@nsj I actually can sharpen the blades alright, but my planing technique is so bad I can't make the wood flat... 🤨 Practice makes perfect, I suppose.

@swepri I bought a fairly cheap set of diamond stones off amazon, now I can plane highly figured wood and all sorts with no tear out. I seem to be able to get them really sharp which makes a big diffe...

I have a drum sander to tackle the thickness (and flatness) of fretboards. It takes a few passes but there is no risk for tearout. Then I cut the fret slots. I make the radius using a router bit, usua...

It should not chip if the blade is sharp enough, but yes, it is always possible and a good solution to mitigate the possibility of tear out 👍 So ideal order: plane to thickness, radius with ...