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This is how I routed the binding channel on my carved top guitar. I used the StewMac binding cutter and their overhead binding kit.

Eazy Peazey These are mandolin necks I`m preparing.

Kammo1, You can buy a 1" radius cutter from www.wealden.com postage free. The cutter below cost me £46.80. This price included a flush bearing addition. I`ve just seen a jig like this on the YouTube web site that displayed video of a jazz archtop guitar being made. The only diffrence being that the neck was routed in a jig on it`s side. I rather like this idea, as it allows more of the neck to be routed without the peghead or neck heel restricting the amount of neck I can rout as they hit the base of my over head router setup.

No trouble with mine either. The best thing to do is like you said, bear your fingerboard to one side and clamp down as something like in my photo. There should`nt be that much play anyway. If there is I`d get on to StewMac and get it sorted. Anyone got the new stainless steel templates ? I`ve upgraded all my plastic ones to these, no chance of them wearing loose.

Hello biliousfrog, I don`t live too far from you, just down the road in Gorleston. I have two bandsaws in my workshop pictured below. My small one is an Elektra Beckum 250 with 4" depth of cut. My big one is a Record BS350 with 9 3/8" depth of cut. I find both machines to be very good. I recently completed the long case clock in American Cherry which was resawn on the large bandsaw. I had some timber left over from this project to build a coffee table. The cabriole legs were cut on the small bandsaw as you can see in the photo, so this bandsaw would do just nicely if you were just building electrics. It cut through the cherry ( 2 5/8" square )like the preverbial hot knife through butter. I`m back to instrument making in the new year. I shall be making two steel string acoustics using some georgous quilted maple for the backs and sides. Here`s photos of the finished clock and table.

Here`s a another good use for a lathe. A mini thickness sander. It can thickness wood binding, guitar sides etc., make machine head veneers. My little Carbatec lathe here has variable speed control which is useful for this kind of application. Here I`m turning a mandolin endpin. My very first F5 mandolin.

Hello jammy, Can`t help with the drum sander, but you certainly have a good bandsaw there. I got mine about three months ago and I`m well pleased with it. I need to source a company that sells better quality blades than the Record ones though. The resaw blade that came with the saw is poor quality and did`nt retain it`s edge very long. You should be able to get the Delta sander in the UK easily enough. Just shop around on the net.