Congrtaulations to you both and best of luck for you Adam in your future endeavours, and for you Tim, with running Pitbull :)
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Congrtaulations to you both and best of luck for you Adam in your future endeavours, and for you Tim, with running Pitbull :)
OOOO I like the look of that knotty pine one! if you get bored with it Ig0r has some ideas....
Likely they're justifiably afraid he'll show them all up. A Man of great craft and finesse is our DarkMark.
Fair Call Lads. Even from the Antipodes, it's looking scary.
Hope you are all surviving okay.
Is this a statement on the debacle that is the current UK government?
Sick! I love everything about these. Great work SM!
Nice, I have the standard GT version of this. It’s a versatile little axe, though I find the neck a bit chunky.
Welcome aboard Mathew! Look forward to seeing your progress!
Looks great DJP! You’ll be looking forward to get the neck on it and get strung up yeah?
This is the way.
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I identify with this so very much….👍🏾😜
Don’t be. Mine is a bombsite at the moment. I keep telling Ig0r not to mix volatiles in the lab but does he listen?
Giving it multiple burls Rabbit😉
So I decided that the headstock face needed to reflect the burl.
So with some judicious bandsaw, ryoba saw and thickness planer work we ended up with a 2mm slice of red gum burl for that.
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Nice pickup there Mr. Barden. Tasty bit of kit.
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Yes, on the plus side it did highlight a couple of areas of concern I’d not noted before. More things to fix!
A faulty sump pump in the basement, created a small flooding issue through the lab
Hi Doc, I can have a hunt through my small scraps box (when I find it, a lot of stuff is still displaced from water ingress to the lab).
I’m pretty sure I’ve got something suitable
I will likely weigh it rough to get an idea. Just have to find where Igor hid the scales….
The intention is to use epoxy, though I’m not sure if I want to go with just a clear, or a black/dark coloured version.
many other tasks to address before I get there though.
I’ve thinned down an...
Thanks JH, I’ve a couple of 10mm book matched slices left over for something else. Probably be an RGish something or other
Red river gum DM
I don't see the issue? Admittedly, I need to expand may timber rack, my guitar rack, and make room for the additional tooling and bench space I need but I don't see that a problem?
Spot on Mr B. With the initial build, for some reason I don't now recall, I had not coated the face of the board, so it needed a quick go over anyway. As you say the join was as close as I could get...
So in the spirit of trying to get as many things done as possible in the stolen moments I have, there was some hurly Burly happening in the lab this afternoon....