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  1. ask your local technical school, they often did small projects like this for me too before I got my own CNC. OR you could make a flexible caul... from some kind of hard rubber or polyurethane or something... the material needs to have just enough 'give' to conform to the right radius of the fretboard but stiff enough to do the actual 'pressing' If you make it 6 inch radius, it presses the ends in first and then the outer ends of the caul 'bend' upwards to a flatter radius until the frets are seated nicely over the entire fretboard width. extremely handy for fretting a compound radius or refretting fretboards with a 3D complex radius :-) I will post pictures of mine within a few weeks when we have moved in the new workshop and everything is setup again. good luck ! Henny Guitargear.be Belgium
  2. I usa a Jessem MAST-R-LIFT EXCELâ„¢ router table. This was the best quality I could find and has a very nice height adjustment http://www.jessem.com/mast_r_lift_excel.htm Henny Guitargear.be
  3. Expensive paint booths use heated air inlets, some way of re-using the extracted air to avoid wasted heat, etc... But I just could not afford such a high tech spray booth for my guitar repair business. So I just bought the biggest explosion proof exhaust fan I could find :-) It's 3phase 380V and draws something like 15A when running. I made a big filter screen in front of it (filters are replaceable) and added side walls, ceiling and a door. (You can also buy complete extraction units under the name "extraction walls" in my country. They come as +/- 2mx3m walls with filters mounted and 1 or more fans.) I use filtered air inlets. By closing or opening some of the inlets allows me to regulate the airflow. This is very handy sometimes. For heating the paint booth I use an explosion proof "infrared heater" when the exhaust fan is running. Instead of heating up the air, it warms up the objects in the spraybooth (that's me) so even in cold winters it's always nice and warm for me to spray guitars. Don't point these infrared heaters directly at guitars, especially acoustics, use them only during spraying and try to hang the guitars away from the heaters direct field when drying/curing. It can cause air bubbles in freshly painted guitars and cracks in acoustics if you keep it pointed at a guitar for too long. After spraying I switch the big fan off and switch on a small exhaust fan that keeps running the whole day to extract the fumes from the paint curing. I also switch of the infrared heater as soon as possible after spraying and use a normal radiator that runs whole day long to keep the paintbooth at a comfortable temperature in between spraying when the painth is curing. PS: always keep an eye on the humidity gauge when heating a room during the dry winter :-) Hope this helps... Henny Guitargear.be
  4. Hello Mattia, I also use a lot of routers and jigs from the USA. Because I run a fulltime guitar repair business, I cannot afford any downtime because of a broken screw or something. So I have almost every type and size of USA screws in stock. Because I needed to order them in large amounts, I have more screws than I will ever use myself. My shop is located in Belgium, if you could send me an email (it's on my website) I will try to help you with the screws you need. groetjes vanuit het zonnige zuiden, Henny www.guitargear.be
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