darrenking
darrenking
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Joined: Dec 31, 2018
Last seen: Mar 13, 2025
Topics: 62 / Replies: 893
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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...

4 years ago
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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 ...

4 years ago
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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 ...

4 years ago
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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 ...

4 years ago
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RE: Metal Flake (Large Silver Flake)

Yes, much better Marc Bolan than Gary Glitter!!!

4 years ago
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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! ...

4 years ago
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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 stri...

4 years ago
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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 m...

4 years ago
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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 try...

4 years ago
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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 ...

4 years ago
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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 recomme...

4 years ago
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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 ...

4 years ago
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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 shar...

4 years ago
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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. ...

4 years ago
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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 ...

4 years ago
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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 orde...

4 years ago
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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 ...

4 years ago
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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 t...

4 years ago
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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

4 years ago
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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 posi...

4 years ago
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