The best way to do sanding is to find somebody who enjoys it and give the job to them.This helps not only you and them but probably keeps society safer. Who knows what that sort of psychopath might get up…   Read more»

I’ve accidentally sanded one side of the fretboard too much.

Don’t you mean you’ve carefully crafted an ergonomic radius offset?

Being a tool junkie I bought a very nice carbide scraper burnisher from Workshop Heaven, but it seems you can use pretty much anything that’s hard enough.https://paulsellers.com/2015/02/scraper-burnishers-that-work/

It might just be a trick of the light (the difference is subtle either way) but to me the wood in the cutaway looks like more of a match to the body wood than the neck wood, hance my thinking…   Read more»

@rockpile99 Anything can be used for jazz, you just have to declare yourself “experimental” and/or “free”.It takes commitment though, you have to repeat the motif (no matter how painful) until somebody in the audience (ideally wearing a poloneck) nods knowingly.

@tej

@poco7 That looks rather nice.The partial cutaway Darren posted looks like a solid piece carved to shape, but that one looks in the picture like it’s the same material as the sides that has been curved to shape, is that…   Read more»

No-More-Sloppy-Neck-Pocket-O-Matic

I think that should be the official name laser etched on the jig

@tej It’s neat isn’t it?That guy builds a lot of very cool things, including most of his workshop, and always to a really high level of precision.

So the dowel cutters I have are utterly useless

@tej, I saw this video just recently.

@russ, I noticed the relative price thing too. He said the Rider No 4 was about 100 quid, it’s now 75. I think Axminster may have dropped their prices because they couldn’t compete on quality.Personally, I’d either for out the…   Read more»

@russ, I suspect that for the money you may not find better new planes than the River, to lower the cost they have to make savings somewhere, and it seems one area is in the flattening of the plane.So you…   Read more»

@russNo personal experience, but having watched this I won’t be buying one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5sNfOElpv0

@tejWorkshop heaven sell 10mm float glass for the scary sharp method. I’m happy to recommend them, everything they sell seems to be quality (they’ve taken quite a bit of my money).But saying that, I recently discovered a local glass supplier…   Read more»

@tej, Ben Crowe has a couple of live Q&As a week (one is live right now), you could ask him what his suggestion is for flattening a block plane on a budget.

@tej there are quite a few plane restoration videos on youtube, basically you want the flattest surface possible and some sandpaper.I think vintagetoolshop probably flatten any planes that need it before selling themhttps://youtu.be/jkTsN926LTg?t=1795A fairly common approach seems to be the…   Read more»

Incidentally, vintagetoolshop.com currently has a 10% off sale and a variety of block planes in stock. If you’re not sure if it will be suitable, just ask them, if the staff doesn’t know their boss will.You WILL need to know…   Read more»

Why are people even bothering with the fillet? It’s not necessary with a modern truss rod.