

Last seen: Mar 16, 2025
@mattbeels I always wonder why electric players even bother with volume controls they always go full blast - after the sound check and setting the l...
@boo Nothing complicated inside it’s just a carbon track connected to the rotating centre terminal. Either of the outside lugs can be connected to g...
@boo Ive got some pots lying around from when I used to be interested in electronics. Was going to have a clear out one day so if you know the valu...
@mattbeels @boo Electronics buffs in the UK use the term “ground” it’s recognised fairly world wide. Professional stage sound equipment has a gr...
@boo Thanks for the tips on Aquacoat. I bought some but haven’t tried it yet, so I’ve got a clue about how to work with it now. If you bought it fro...
@jonhodgson Good research i didn’t know there are so many different types of classical bracing
@deej Sounds like you were sitting on the sea front in Ayr, ok in the summer but it’s a bleak place in the winter. I’m thinking of trying to get a p...
@robin My theory on bracing is that the standard X pattern and bracing sizes have been developed over a number of year by big manufacturers to give ...
@jonhodgson Fair point about the use of the word “thesis” and in a sense the term is academic (pun intended). Obviously if someone has made 1000 gui...
@jonhodgson Yes I think the video you mentioned is the one. It was about a year ago.
@jonhodgson Thanks for making the point, always thought of a thesis as something presented for formal qualifications although I didn’t check the dic...
@russ I was thinking the same as you that other posts are getting lost because of it but didn’t want to appear negative. After years of trawling thr...
@jonhodgson Interesting article and I can’t disagree with any of the theories, in particular the point that more arching of the top leads to a decre...
@tv101 I feel your pain with big country houses. Lived in a big three storey house for years, it took 26 rolls of wall paper to decorate the stairwa...
@koendb Top marks for changing a Mosfet
Best Wishes Mark thinking of you
@boo I feel your pain with the bowed body blank, I’ve been there a few times in the early days. I always check now by putting one half in a vice wit...
@mattbeels Great looking space make sure you get the coffee machine sorted first can’t do serious work without it
@johhodgson Thanks for the video. Wish I still lived in London, my town doesn’t have any shared facilities and local joiners hardly do wood work any...
Great demonstration today of how hard it is to prepare wood using hand tools. I’d love a drum sander but don’t have the space, so if your limited like...