Jonathan Hodgson
@jonhodgson
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Joined: Aug 26, 2020
Last seen: Jun 27, 2025
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RE: What is an oily rag and where can you get one?

There's no fish oil in it, that's an urban myth that's actually mentioned on their website "Myths and Fun Facts" page.The exact formula is a secret, b...

4 years ago
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RE: What is an oily rag and where can you get one?

@boo considering how much money people will pay for a reliced guitar maybe there's a business opportunity here for a whole new class of buggered finis...

4 years ago
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RE: Any recommendations on places to get a body finished

@boo Thanks, I've pointed him in the direction of your instagram and made positive comments about what I've seen of your work. I think he's considerin...

4 years ago
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RE: What is an oily rag and where can you get one?

Don't use a WD40 rag when you should be using an oily rag, the pros will know you're an amateur because you're confusing WD40 with oil and either snee...

4 years ago
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RE: Any recommendations on places to get a body finished

@rocknroller912 I doubt very much he'd go for an oil finish.He just commented he might want to go for the same colour as his AC Cobra replica, w...

4 years ago
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RE: Natural - Satin finish

@ndakota there's a video where Chris from Highline Guitars talks about how he handles oil soaked rags (or, more precisely, "handled" as he now uses al...

4 years ago
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RE: Installing frets

@tejI suspect it's a combination of1) fretboards are usually a tight grained wood 2) He wipes it off straight away Obviously try it for yourself o...

4 years ago
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RE: Installing frets

Wood glue is much easier to cleanup than superglue, so long as you do it as you're going along, a damp rag will do it. That's why Ben Crowe has aban...

4 years ago
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RE: Natural - Satin finish

One warning with oil finishes is to be careful with your application cloth/paper disposal. The curing is pretty exothermal and apparently, it's not un...

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RE: Source for quality plywood

Thanks guys. @darrenking I'll be in touch about that soon, need to chat with a couple of the other hackspace woodworkers about what we need. I'm also ...

4 years ago
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RE: **PINK FLAKE STRAT**

@koendbI can see that working too. I just find that the black knobs and pickups on the black scratchplate lose all definition, which might be cool if ...

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RE: **PINK FLAKE STRAT**

For me the all black doesn't work. Black hardware and white scratchplate might, but otherwise the white and chrome plate.

4 years ago
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RE: **PINK FLAKE STRAT**

@boo Is every tool in your garage now tinted pink?

4 years ago
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RE: Water based 2K

@poco7I shared this mostly because the type of finish (water based 2K) seems to be a new thing and is potentially interesting because normal 2K produc...

4 years ago
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RE: Sharpening sled. Worth £60?

@tv1, the nice thing about picking up a vintage one is that if you don't get on with it you can probably sell it on for much what you bought it for.An...

4 years ago
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RE: Sharpening sled. Worth £60?

@tv101 - you're dragging a hardened steel edge over the stone, I doubt you need to worry about the extra wear from a wheel. Those sub £10 guides are...

4 years ago
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RE: Sharpening sled. Worth £60?

@rocknroller912 I'm not suggesting there's a magic bullet, I don't even know if this jig is an effective bullet, my point is that with a job that we s...

4 years ago
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RE: Sharpening sled. Worth £60?

I think the only important question is, does it work?Sharpening is something we should be doing regularly, "getting quite blunt" should be synonymous ...

4 years ago
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