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Answer to: Plane recommendation Hi John, Looking at these tools they appear to be absolutely beautiful! You may ‘decide’ to upgrade at some stage in the future (can’t see why other than as a birthday/lottery win treat TBH) but you w... |
In forum Build Your Own Electric Guitar |
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RE: Metal Flake (Large Silver Flake) Cheers Boo, I really appreciate you taking the time to do this little video and it was very informative. I'm very much looking forward to seeing it with its top coat and a bit of elbow grease applied!... |
In forum Finishing |
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RE: Fret Scales Hi Bill, I don't blame you. I think big disks are so dear because of the amount of waste form the main abrasive rolls that they are cut from, which I think come in at about 1300mm wide. Even staggerin... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: Metal Flake (Large Silver Flake) Cheers Boo. What you really need next is some kind of single headed, adustable speed, servo motor driven polishing machine! If only there were such a thing! Cheers |
In forum Finishing |
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RE: Metal Flake (Large Silver Flake) Thanks man, just call me Marc Bolan Yes, much better Marc Bolan than Gary Glitter!!! |
In forum Finishing |
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RE: Metal Flake (Large Silver Flake) Awesome paint job Boo! Talk about making it shiny!! Are the flakes applied with static attraction? I'm just trying to work out how you spray a solid! Darren |
In forum Finishing |
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RE: Fret Scales Hi Rocknroller, I'll check the price but I think the 760mm diameter P80 self adhesive disks come in at around £30 each. You could just stick on strips if you prefer, you get quite a lot of sandpaper o... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: Fret Scales Hi Rocknroller, I have been thinking about the best way to machine this dish for you and from a cost point of view the most economical would be to make it 600mm square but for the dish machining to be... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: Ring or bubble marker dots Hi Swifty, Or you could use a Dremel with a guide bush on the base and some templates with the correct sized holes cut in them. I would say that trying to to keep the small core pieces is going to be ... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
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RE: Plane recommendation That are just amazing pieces of engineering but isn’t it sad that it is being described as never having been used or honed as a means of boosting its perceived value. These things should be covered in... |
In forum Build Your Own Electric Guitar |
4 years ago |
RE: Polishing Compound (Using a hand drill pad! - what could possibly go wrong!)... HiRoland, Have a look at the products available at www.the polishing shop.co.uk They supply just about everything we could ever need. They recommend Glosswax 16 followed by P175, both on soft mops, fo... |
In forum Finishing |
4 years ago |
RE: Hello from North Carolina! Hi Brad, welcome to the most amazing guitar making community on Earth! It’s great that you have found the livestreams a relief from the stresses of the past year, as have many of us, and you will have... |
In forum New Members |
4 years ago |
Answer to: Plane recommendation You can spend £1500 on a plane but if you cant sharpen it there’s no point. A £35 or £40 Stanley plane will be fine, spend any spare cash on your sharpening system. I would recommend a reasonably cour... |
In forum Build Your Own Electric Guitar |
4 years ago |
RE: Fret Scales Hi, ok, no problem. Let me check with M&C how they want to deal with the radius dish order as we haven’t discussed pricing for this product yet. My standard size would be 650mm diameter circular ... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: Hi Everyone Hi, I use Vectric VCarve Pro to generate my toolpath files. The software has a large number of post processors but you would need to check that there is one that matches your machines controller. One ... |
In forum New Members |
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RE: Fret Scales Hi Rocknroller, Yes, 75mm wide and yes, I can send a drilling template to help you position the holes in your jig if this would be useful. Just order the template(s) you want from Mark and Carol and I... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
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RE: Finally gotten started with my first bandsman! Laminated necks just look great and, so long as you can get them glued up properly, are actually a great way of building very strong and stable necks from smaller sections of timber. What a fantastic ... |
In forum Electric |
4 years ago |
RE: Centre joining strip on laminated arched back? Hi James, no problem. If you have a Pantone reference you’re trying to match to I’ll take it with me next time I go veneer shopping 😂😂😂😂 Seriously though, I’m afraid th... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
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RE: Fret Scales I might even have a section of prototype or reject template that I can send you to use to align the holes. I’ll have a look tomorrow. Darren |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
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RE: Fret Scales Hi Rocknroller, the template is 75mm wide (same as Stewmac templates) but it would need you drill holes in your existing jig to correspond to the position of rows of holes in my templates. Are you abl... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |