@robin I know, I’m only kidding. I’ll probably beat the hell out of it over time. 😂 I will treat the top with several coats of poly though, to protect it from too much staining.

My truss rod arrived today, so slot routed and fillet made. My routing jig slipped by about 1mm when I clamped it, so new centreline drawn. I can visualise all my good clamps hanging in my caravan she...

@robin 😂 Brilliant! I bet your wife loves that. It must seem like everyone apart from her, to her.

@boo Hi Boo, I think it's a trait that I inherited from my dad, and I've got my daughter thinking the same way too. She sends me photos of stuff she finds washed up asking if i want it.

@robin Hahaha….. Nice one Robin, that’s really cool. I love the fact that your wife saw rubbish and you saw a bending iron. I’m exactly the same, I never want to throw out the stuff I find.

I had always imagined my biggest stumbling block would was going to be bending the sides. I've made made my bending heater this morning it consists of a hobby hot air gun and an aluminium tube. The al...

@boo it’s going to be encased in a glass cabinet I was very careful and looked after my bench when I built it. Now it has various patches of coloured stain, holes drilled through it and solder burn...

@swepri 😂 Nope, it’s going to be encased in a glass cabinet. Oh, just realised I need to build a glass cabinet. 😂

@boo Nice! Built with love and care. Do you dare to actually use that fine bench when finished? 😀

Used a small router to hog out the majority to the waste, then fine cut the rest out with chisels. Glued one in and left it overnight. I’ll plane it down today and sand it flush. Attachment : IMG...

Made my butterflies in inlay along the joint. Attachment : IMG_20231119_142651_resized_20231120_103550803.jpeg Attachment : IMG_20231118_155506_resized_20231120_103551820.jpeg Attach...

Used a straight edge and my circular saw to cut a groove for the Cherry strip. Attachment : IMG_20231116_144236_resized_20231120_103422232.jpeg Attachment : IMG_20231116_144224_resized_202...

After glueing together the the two main pieces for the top, there were a couple of places where there hadn’t been a full coming together of the two faces. I could see that over time this could become ...

@nickkuk I’ve been considering this for some time now and I thought I would wait until I knew where in the room I was going to put the bench. If I was putting it against a wall, I would put some diago...

Are you going to diagonally strut or put sides on to prevent movement?

The neck blank is cut and squared now, and headstock angle routed. Waiting for my trussrod to be delivered so haven't routed the slot yet. I've ordered a Hosco two way trussrod, 360mm. I had intended ...

My favouritw song today is from the Dutch band Supersister. Over here they were big in the seventies. This clip is from a reunion concert in 2000. Shortly after this reunion the flute player passed aw...

I always seem to get through using the contact us form on the shop, I think it's Carol that usually replies.

@markbailey @cazdaz thank you both for the replies and for sorting the issue, it's much appreciated. Hopefully I will be able to resubscribe in the future 🙂

Hi @nortski - am responding here just in case - I cannot find any mails or contact forms (will get the web guys to look into this) but I can see that you did pause your membership but somehow it has...