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Matter of convenience. 

I just wish Walmart would get the freaking batteries for them back in stock.

4 hours ago, Bizman62 said:

Nice shelf!

What's the story behind the coloured one(s)? 

Red one was a garage sale find. It came with a Dremel scroll saw. $30 for both. I actually have the knob somewhere. Someone was stupid with a can of red spray paint

The Dremel scroll saw ran horribly because there was no blade, so got him to come down on price. At home with a blade, ran fine, plus discovered extra blades in a not so obvious storage location on the saw itself

two blue shelves, curbside trash find  they are steel.

I’ve gotten way too many at Estate sales. This isn’t even all of them

I think mostly what you’re paying for with the StewMac blade is the dual thicknesses . I would think with added blade stabilizers, a blade wouldn’t need the added thickness.

Not hard to come across much cheaper blades with a thickness around .022”, but the outer diameter is too small to poke out of the top of the table saw enough. Maybe wrong tooth grind/set too, ‘cause I think these blades I’m talking about are meant for cutting metal.

3 hours ago, Crusader said:

and in my lounge room I have guitar wood stacked in front of the TV LOL

Do you sit and watch the wood? (Plenty of TV shows are more boring than that)

Haven’t used my main large bench since I don’t know when. I have so many tools and parts, I can’t even grasp the entire reality of it. I routinely come across stuff I don’t remember seeing before

I guess a bar, if he/she’s looking to hook up 

Minimal pressure while scoring. And I assume you know, scoring does not mean going all the way through.

Some good stuff in those videos. Thanks for telling about it

Does not look like original factory frets

You don’t have the old frets that were already in the neck?

Sintoms might make barbless fretwire. I think I would prefer barbless if I built new necks. Hell, I’ve often shaved down the barbs for refrets. 

45 minutes ago, spindlebox said:

The only thing I can think of is the one they built isn't very good.

There was actually a member here who said something like that many years ago. He said he didn’t trust the guitars he built. I couldn’t help but imagining his guitars suddenly blowing up in his face or something

He could have a brand called Timebomb Guitars.

I’ve seen a lot of people build their own guitar, but still prefer to play factory made guitars. After building one myself, I don’t understand those people. I feel way more connected to the one I built, and became more distant to my factory made guitars.

34 minutes ago, ScottR said:

What do those chunks of iron weigh? 

Not sure. I would guess about 35 pounds each 

On 4/2/2021 at 1:49 AM, Andyjr1515 said:

 'FOR GOODNESS SAKE, BEN, GET ON WITH IT!!!!!!!!'.

Maybe a British thing. I can’t watch their TV shows for similar reasons.

21 hours ago, ScottR said:

Not common, but even better than I thought! I thought it was a 4x4 and a flange, using bar clamps and the table for the squeeze.

SR

Thanks . The frame glue up was a bit more clumsy

36 minutes ago, henrim said:

 

I like your guitar as you built it with all the tin can stuff and mismatched hardware. I have seen a lot of reclaimed wood guitar builds lately, and not all of them achieve the balanced mismatch look as well.

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Thanks

12 hours ago, iommichild said:

Love it!

Thanks

18 hours ago, ScottR said:

That thing does sound great!

BTW, I love the big middle clamp on you body glue up. I love to see ingenuity using common objects like that.

SR

Thanks
I’m not sure I’d consider it common. It’s a section of one of those gymnastic things that they walk on. Someone cut it up into three sections and put it out for the trash. Probably was several hundred dollars new. So, that middle section has a big height adjustable foot that can really put the squeeze on things

I don’t know why the one photo is upside down here

13 hours ago, woodfab said:

That's pretty wild.

Thanks

3 hours ago, Crusader said:

Wow that's very rustic!

Yeah, had to keep it minimalistic ‘cause it was uncharted territory for me

2 hours ago, Bizman62 said:

It's also very inspiring.

And based on the video the sound is airy in a good way.

Thanks . My solid bodies just can’t get the old bluesy tone like this thing can