Home Made Tools
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Re: Home Made Tools
Another tool I made yesterday. I am sure you can guess what its purpose is...
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Re: Home Made Tools
The photo below should provide the answer...
Btw, this is bloody lethal work as you can't really use the blade guard.
Btw, this is bloody lethal work as you can't really use the blade guard.
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Indeed. Can you guess the neck/headstock angle?codedog wrote:Is that for scarf joints?
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17 deg? Plus/minus 10 degjvpp wrote:Indeed. Can you guess the neck/headstock angle?codedog wrote:Is that for scarf joints?
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Re: Home Made Tools
11 degrees only no silly Gibson angles
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Re: Home Made Tools
Truss rod 'tool'...
Why bother if you can buy one for $20?
5mm threaded rod, 4mm drill bit, 5mm coupling nut, bit of soft steel, 5mm tapper, blue shrink wrap...
Makes a $5 truss rod (discounting sourcing materials and labour)
Why bother if you can buy one for $20?
5mm threaded rod, 4mm drill bit, 5mm coupling nut, bit of soft steel, 5mm tapper, blue shrink wrap...
Makes a $5 truss rod (discounting sourcing materials and labour)
When faced with quality, I recognise it every time.
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Re: Home Made Tools
nice one, I'm all for cheapness
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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Re: Home Made Tools
and you just reminded me that, when I have cash, I must get a table saw. Having just spent stupid amounts of time making a window frame using a router and hand saw after my rusty black and decker circular saw broke would have been so much quicker....
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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I have an old sixties Tanner that I did up. Make sure you get one with a true straight edge/arm running along blade so you can use it as a poor man's thicknesserBg wrote:and you just reminded me that, when I have cash, I must get a table saw. Having just spent stupid amounts of time making a window frame using a router and hand saw after my rusty black and decker circular saw broke would have been so much quicker....
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Re: Home Made Tools
Again, why buy from Stewmac if you can make it yourself?
Made another 'quick and dirty' tool today. Works really well.
Guess what I can make with this?
(Hint - the bit with the crossbar shown in the bottom left corner slides in and out so to speak; Crossbar superglued for now, needs proper fixing with screws)
Made another 'quick and dirty' tool today. Works really well.
Guess what I can make with this?
(Hint - the bit with the crossbar shown in the bottom left corner slides in and out so to speak; Crossbar superglued for now, needs proper fixing with screws)
When faced with quality, I recognise it every time.
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Re: Home Made Tools
Is it a valve tester?
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