Best Wishes Mark thinking of you

@boo I feel your pain with the bowed body blank, I’ve been there a few times in the early days. I always check now by putting one half in a vice with the glue edge facing up. Sit the second…   Read more»

@mattbeels
Great looking space make sure you get the coffee machine sorted first can’t do serious work without it

@johhodgson
Thanks for the video. Wish I still lived in London, my town doesn’t have any shared facilities and local joiners hardly do wood work any more due to upvc doors and windows. It’s all house building from plywood kits.

Great demonstration today of how hard it is to prepare wood using hand tools. I’d love a drum sander but don’t have the space, so if your limited like me or don’t even have power this is what I use….   Read more»

@mattbeels
Looks like you are getting some stick, think this means they like you.
Things must be slipping in Germany I thought it was verboten to be untidy and leave a mess for someone else to clear up.

@jonhodgson I tried the acrylic sealer and top coat first but found it peeled off too easily, then moved to cellulose. I still have some of that left in the tin which I use for non instrument wood projects as…   Read more»

@boo
Yes they love to have token English people just to try and put on an acceptable face. The secret is they are mostly anti English racists, trust me I’ve lived here a long time.

@boo 
I think you will be very much at home politically in Scotland 

@jamesalexandermcmillan If you are getting excessive paint runs it’s likely that the paint in the can hasn’t mixed properly and there’s too much solvent, not enough solids. A clue is if the propellant runs out and there is still paint…   Read more»

@jamesalexandermcmillan I’ve finished solid wood with a drying oil only and no lacquer or varnish. It’s very forgiving as it doesn’t crack or chip if knocked and any minor dents can just be rubbed down and oiled again.  With rattle…   Read more»

@jonhodgson
You’re not kidding about the neighbours there is a rumour that Sawney Bean the well known west coast cannibal is still alive and looking for victims.

@blake
Good looking job I like the way you have shown the steps of construction

@mattbeels Those guys were insane they had a blind singer and were in costume all weekend it was like being on a film set. I lost my wallet with everything in it and one of them handed it in to…   Read more»

@tv101 @mattbeels Way back in the early 90s I was playing in a Ceilidh band competition on the Isle of Bute off the W coast of Scotland. Some of the extras from the Braveheart film belonging to the Wallace clan…   Read more»