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  1. woodfab
    Years ago I read an article about a piece of carbide going into someones neck. And now sometimes if I have a free hand while using certain cutters like a fly cutter I'll put one hand over my neck.
  2. woodfab
    My wife thinks that since I'm getting up there in age that I should get a Saw Stop. I haven had a crazy shop accident in quite. a while and thought that "don't put your hand near the blade and you won't get cut". I won't tell her what happened this morning. Not that a Saw Stop would help in a router accident. I made two mistakes, 1. I only put the router bit in about 1/2" into the collet. 2. I didn't pay enough attention to the hold down bolts on my jig. Well, Bang, I hit the bolt with the router bit, the router bit pulled out of the router and hit me pretty hard below the belt. Lucky it was cold outside and I had enough layers on which saved me from getting cut.
  3. woodfab
    Black Cherry Based on a design my brother came up with 40 years ago.
  4. woodfab
    Maybe you can make it look intentional. Change the shape of it or add more circles. I tried several times to repair the veneer on a piano and it always looked like a repair. So I cut it out a shape and fit in a decorate piece of veneer.
  5. woodfab
    I guess I'll save the body halves, since I put a bit of time in them.
  6. woodfab
    Well I made a BooBoo and ruff-cut the back of the neck to thin. I tried removing the finger board with a hot iron but failed. So I have decided to throw in the towel on this one.
  7. woodfab
    This is my 1st. attempt using the Neck-Router with the new 5/8" rails. the router cut as good as I hoped, pretty smooth. It's set up to cut 1-11/16" to 2-1/4" Next attempt will be on one of the guitars I'm making. https://youtu.be/C-hYp2sJDiw
  8. woodfab
    That's pretty crazy! My wife hates Barbie.
  9. woodfab
    Looking Good.
  10. woodfab
    Well I haven't tried it yet. I would have tried it outside but it's been so cold. I've been working on a dust collection hood. I'm waiting for the surround brush.
  11. woodfab
    Do you feel the new pickups sounded better? So far on my last three guitars I am putting it the (Epiphone Classic Pro Alnico Classic) pickups $50 for the pair.. They are from China so they might be fakes. I can always change them later if I hate them.
  12. woodfab
    That neck router jig looks pretty good. I 'm attempting to make my jig so it can be used even if the body is on the guitar. I dug through my junk and found some heavier rails and bearings. I'm ready for the 1st. test on a piece of mahogany. I don't want to spend to much time on dust collection until I know it will do the job.
  13. woodfab
    OK, I hate rounding necks. So after thinking about for a while I came up with this router jig. Well it failed big time. The router is mounted on two 8mm rails which I had kicking around, which seamed OK. Once I started cutting the router jumped all over the surface, under cutting and over cutting. ARRRRRRRRRR! Well tonight I'm ordering some heaver rails and bearings, maybe 5/8" rails.
  14. woodfab
    Well I almost cut to deep on the neck taper, and was thinking of trashing the whole project The neck has ended up thiner by a 1/16" but I guess I can live with it.
  15. woodfab
    I've been doing woodworking since I was 10. Got married and have had a wood shop for the last 40 years. Now the wife is saying she can't take the sawdust any more. My shop is in the basement and I have dust collection but she says it's not good enough. It seems the dust doesn't bother me but she's not going to put up with it. I'm enjoying making guitars so I've been routing and sanding out side but now the winter is coming. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! what's a boy to do?
  16. woodfab
    Looks good, I bought a 6" Delta last year but I haven't even plugged it in yet
  17. woodfab
    That's a-lot of cutting, Looking Good!
  18. woodfab
    Just glued on the fingerboard.
  19. woodfab
    So far no Boo Boos.
  20. woodfab
    That is some nice looking wood!
  21. woodfab
    On it's way to being a guitar.
  22. woodfab
    Gluing, gluing, gluing!
  23. woodfab
    I found that making guitars is FUN. I get most of my inspirations while falling asleep. Last night I thought, Baltic Plywood so I cut all the wood and I'm ready to glue. Should be a fun project!
  24. woodfab
    I always feel, design your own shape.
  25. woodfab
    Looking Good.
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