darrenking
darrenking
@darrenking
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Joined: Dec 31, 2018
Last seen: Feb 5, 2025
Topics: 61 / Replies: 891
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RE: WHAT's THIS ? SOME SURPRISE WORKSHOP NEWS !

Happy new year to You both, Mark and Carol, and I hope that 2025 is your best year for quite some time. Hope to hear from you soon Darren

1 month ago
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RE: Veneer issues

@rathius Hi Rathius and happy new year to you. You really shouldn't be seeing this kind of failure if the veneers are bonded properly in the first...

1 month ago
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RE: Maccaferri Bass

Good afternoon, Here's a question that I am sure must also come up with 6 string pick ups. The bridge that I have ordered has 19mm string spacing ...

1 year ago
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RE: Maccaferri Bass

I guess it also allows for a greater distance between the pick ups and I think with a longer neck it would make sense to go for a heavier body materia...

1 year ago
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RE: Maccaferri Bass

Now THAT is commitment! 🤣 🤣

1 year ago
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RE: Robin's build #004

I'd have taken this up with the supplier as it sounds like there was a pre-existing weakness in the soundboard. Before you glue it onto the body have ...

1 year ago
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RE: Making routing guides with a laser engraver

You could always cut layers of 1.5mm ply or 2mm MDF and laminate them together using laser cut dowel holes for alignment. Darren

1 year ago
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RE: Looking for a fret spacing ruler

@nsj for any fret template that is printed be it on laser printer, plotter or anything else I would always want some kind of reference measurement to ...

1 year ago
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Answer to: Looking for a fret spacing ruler

To my mind, given that the accuracy of the fret positions are absolutely key to the sound and quality of the finished instrument, it seems a false eco...

1 year ago
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RE: Router suggestions

Wealden Tool Co. cutters are significantly cheaper than Trend and, IMHO, are of a higher quality. I use them with manual routing and their solid TC sp...

1 year ago
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RE: Fret Jig

Good morning, I'm a bit late to the party but yes, there should be an offset for the nut position slot. I allow for this on the templates that I make ...

2 years ago
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RE: My first laminated semi-hollowbody

All of my larger presses (4m3 per hour and upwards) have a built-in vacuum adjustment knob so the pressure can be slowly increased. This is a techniqu...

2 years ago
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RE: My first laminated semi-hollowbody

You mean this stuff: Diethylene glycol monoethethyl ether. I bought a coupl of 2.5l bottles of it from a lab supplies company 15 years ago and I;ve st...

2 years ago
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RE: Fanny Walked the Earth/The Right to Rock

Hi @tv101Yes, they played the OGWT in the early seventies and their set is available on YouTube. Speaking of OGWT, I went to see Ron Sexsmith at the U...

2 years ago
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RE: Hi from Edinburgh

I second that. Anyone playing around 'under the bonnet' so to speak, should definitely have this book by their side.

2 years ago
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RE: Hi from High Wycombe

Hi @stephen-hayes, Welcome to the best guitar making resource in the world! And don't worry, in the field of guitar making related woodworking quest...

2 years ago
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RE: Making patterns

@tv101 mine is bigger than yours!šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

2 years ago
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