renablistic Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Also: post your top 3 here. Me: i prefer 1) my hands 2) my dremel 3) Aerosol Cans (sooo easy to use) oh, and if you picked CNC, i have one thing to say: come on!!!! Aren't YOU supposed to build the guitar, not some damn MACHINE?!?!?!?! (excuse my french) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 If I had CNC, I'd say that, but I don't... I frickin' love those things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeB Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 routers are very useful but scary. i vote hands! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpa Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Nuthin' like a good handjobbed guitar. My favorite part of the building process is handsanding the body with a foam pad. I'd even consider doing a time-lapsed photog series while sanding mahogany. You can actually see the wood grain move around over time. Now that is art at its finest. The smell of freshly sanded wood and that rasping sound. I could spend hours doing that on my backyard tool bench on a nice summer day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluespresence Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 I gotta go with the hands. Like Southpa said about sanding and watching the grain "move". I like the wetsanding the best though. Getting the finish smooooooth and rubbing the paws across it and feeling the smoothness does something good in my brain. I never said I was normal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renablistic Posted December 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 yes i love my hands. i love sanding by hand, and blowing away the dust, and just watching the old finish fade away slowly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryeisnotcool2 Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 boy thats what i hate the most! who wants me to ship them my guitars? you can do all the sanding you'll ever need! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Luthier Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 I voted OTHER. I LOVE my 4X36 bench top belt sander. I shape necks on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 While I never vote, always hit "null vote" I'd have to say my brain since it's the creative tool, the rest just follow what it wants......... Sometimes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pour bleeding me Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 im the man with the bandsaw..if i only had to pick one tool to use i could probably get by with just using a bandsaw...routers are my second choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlexVDL Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 I have ONE important tool... you don't get to see it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluespresence Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 I have ONE important tool... you don't get to see it But then wouldn't you have to vote "hands" since they get to "work" the tool and thanks for keeping it to yourself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 I have ONE important tool... you don't get to see it too small to see? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renablistic Posted December 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 without a doubt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Bell Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Router! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DividedByJames Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Yeah Maynard is great vocalist and Adam Jones is an underated guitarist. Danny Carey is a great drummer too. Tool is just a great band. haha...back to the real topic...well being that I only have used my hands, a bandsaw, drill press, mill, and my dremel-esque RTX, I'd have to say the mill was rather cool to use because you could move precise distances. I am a bit of a clutz and super impatient, so doing things by hand (or RTX) usually got f'd up. But I have more fun with electronics so maybe my soldering gun...or my screwdrivers cuz I always liked piecing it together at the end to make the finished product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renablistic Posted December 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 we have a vote for cnc, Mr. Paul Reed Smith, when did you join the site?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyderek Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 took me a while to decide but i ended up going with hand, although inacurate and tedious, they're more "oops proof" and rewarding.... router was a close second, cause you can level, shape, straighten, deepen, clean up, and cut very nicely if you know what you want to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whisky182 Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 my top 3 1 spoke shave! 2 router 3 Hands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveMan Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 1) Hands, and hand tools (Planes, scrapers, knives, files, sanding blocks, etc) 2) Bandsaw. 3) Router I tend to spend a lot of time with planes and cabinet scrapers too. I like the finish better than just sanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 (edited) Of course , it would have to be ' neck-jig'. I'm currently working on a problem neck ( slooooowly working on a problem neck, because it needs a fret-wire size I don't have, and the fret-wire supplier is taking their good old time-- don't tell me just go to stew-mac, I'm trying to surpass that fret-wire). Anyway, I was trying to determine where to set the t-rod and find out how much it controls the neck, and at what point does the t-rod stop being useful to the neck adjusting, even still having tension on it. Ok, this is all nice and boring and will help you get a good nights sleep (while sitting upright in front of the computer right now), but anyway, it's just cool to watch a dial indicator show me what the truss-rod adjustment is doing to the neck. Edited November 29, 2004 by soapbarstrat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGM Guitars Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Well, without your hands you can't operate ANY tool, so I guess hands are the #1, and without skilled hands you can't operate any tool well, so I guess that makes them that much more important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Well, without your hands you can't operate ANY tool, so I guess hands are the #1, and without skilled hands you can't operate any tool well, so I guess that makes them that much more important. I would have thought you'd pick aerosol cans. Just kidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarfrenzy Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Router won my vote.. but I'm with Soapbar on the neck jig.. very nice device to have, but it's like anything else, you still have to know how to use it to get the most out of it. I'd have to say router though because I use it more than anything and it also was used to build my neck jig also.. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlGeeEater Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 I said air gun sprayer. Im asking for a compressor and air gun for christmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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