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RE: New build

@tv101 yeh alumium tubing off ebay, 6mm with 4mm internal diameter. I also got smaller stuff for the side dots, had to sand a 2.5mm drill bit down to ...

3 years ago
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RE: Next project - a rebuild

@tv101 oh yeh, pesky neck, who put that there? Didn't think that in the small hours lying in the dark lol

3 years ago
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RE: New build

Trying out something different for fret markers and side dots, although I'll need a 3/32 dril bit for the side dots as they're imperial. Just used a 2...

3 years ago
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RE: Thickness sander?

@swepri oh god yeh, I know exactly what you mean! Lol I find my big stanley no 7 really haleps with that, I find that difficult with smaller pla...

3 years ago
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RE: Thickness sander?

@swepri I bought a fairly cheap set of diamond stones off amazon, now I can plane highly figured wood and all sorts with no tear out. I seem to be abl...

3 years ago
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RE: Next project - a rebuild

@tv101 had an idea last night, you could do a shallow carve so there's like 1mm of top around the egde then add binding, that would hide the fact the ...

3 years ago
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RE: Thickness sander?

@koendb I must admit, with the new long beam I bought it's a lot quicker and I get really nice results, I think ideally I would plane first then use t...

3 years ago
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RE: Thickness sander?

@koendb I mean for the inital flattening, getting the board nice, level and straight. I've never tried planing the radius in yet but do fancy trying i...

3 years ago
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RE: Next project - a rebuild

@tv101 6mm carve? Or, 5mm carve and leave a little edge all the way round lol

3 years ago
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RE: Thickness sander?

@tv101 I put mine through the planer thicknesser but obviously sanding is even smoother. But yeh, lots of people use that set up on various sma...

3 years ago
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RE: Fretboard radius

@tv101 the thing that gets me is a compound radius, they're often 12 to 16 but there's so little in it it seems a bit pointless. I think between a 7.5...

3 years ago
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RE: Fretboard radius

@robin a tighter radius is meant to be more comfortable for chords but if bending a string doing solos the string can choke out because you're pushing...

3 years ago
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RE: Rutlands Bobbin Sander £100

@tv101 Using it or a router table your fingers are going to get reasonably close, you have to use a bit of common sense so if the wood catches your fi...

3 years ago
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RE: Rutlands Bobbin Sander £100

@tv101 I've got a bosch, some makita clone and a ferrex from aldi, the ferrex thing is a sweet tool. so smooth and fairly quiet. Bosch is great with t...

3 years ago
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RE: Rutlands Bobbin Sander £100

@tv101 That looks like a cracker of a tool, if I didn't have 3 already I'd consider it but I'm routered out my nut lol

3 years ago
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RE: Next project - a rebuild

@tv101 here's a free les paul template, very easy to print off. Just select the body then you can check it against yours for size. I thin...

3 years ago
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RE: Neck warped

@tv101 all the bits were in bags in a box but at some point I'd taken the trem out to check alignment with the new neck and that's when it must've fal...

3 years ago
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RE: Neck warped

@koendb ordered last night as soon as I knew it was lost! Still curious as to where exactly the missing one is lol

3 years ago
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