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Thanks again to everyone who was able to join today's roundtable meeting. We had a few new members to join, so welcome Steve Smith, Andy Birko, Jay DeRocher & Darrel Frieson! Their intros are at the beginning of the recording and then we dove into jigs! I have to say I saw some really cool ideas that I'll certainly incorporate in my shop. The recording and attendance report is below.

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Highlights:

Intros:
Steve Smith - 1:30
Andy Birko - 4:25
Jay DeRocher - 9:15
Darrel Friesen - 18:10

Jigs:
Bob Gramann - 25:50 - Putting a radius on the bridge bottom using a belt sander
Steve Smith - 30:45 - Jigs for sanding purfling, nuts, saddles, etc... using a belt sander & headstock shaping using a belt sander
Don Parker - 34:25 - Scarf joint sled & scarf gluing jig
James Lindley & Ryan - 41:10 - Joining plates with a table saw and glue line rip blade
Andy Birko - 49:10 - Work holding using painters tape and CA glue
Jay DeRocher - 58:40 - Dremel fret tang cutter
Dave Rickard - 1:06:20 - Pipe clamp work holding
Steve Sollod - 1:07:55 - Bridge drilling, neck centerline jig, radius block holder
Darrel Friesen - 1:13:00 - Archtop Demo (what a cool hang out space!)
Brad Combs - 1:17:05 - Brace joint and alignment jig

Overtime!!
James Lindley - 1:26:50 - Adjustable go-bars
Darrel Friesen - 1:32:30 - Jim Byrnes mini table-saw

Recording:



Attendance report:

Bob Gramann
Steve Smith
Don Parker
James “Wud” Lindley
Andy Birko
Jay DeRocher
Dave Rickard
Steve Sollod
Darrel Friesen
Brad Combs

Thanks to everyone who attended. Watch for the invite for next month.

Thanks all!
Brad

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I can't wait to dig in. So bummed not to make it today! Trish was in a ceramics workshop all day, and I was watching both of our little ones.

Great meeting you guys. I see that my surface pro, walk around camera skills are lacking, ha! Looking forward to the next one and will be more prepared hopefully. I learned a few things for sure as always.

Thanks again for hosting, Brad! Sorry I had to run off. I’ll watch the recording to catch up on the overtime content. I appreciate everyone sharing; I learned some useful things.

Brad--

The recording link is not showing. I checked on both an iPad and a Windows laptop. Could you put another link in a post, like last time? Thanks!

Lots of interesting ideas. Thanks to everyone for sharing and Brad for hosting.
I need to apologize for logging in to the roundtable and not muting my mic while I was still watching the KSU TCU football game.
Ya might say I was little excited about both.

lets see if this link works.

https://youtu.be/uvLJjLvudjU

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I enjoyed talking to all of you and thanks for some good ideas! And, Brad, thank you for taking the time to put this together!

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Dave’s link works. Thanks!

Don, did the link that Dave shared work?

Here is a direct link to the video - https://youtu.be/uvLJjLvudjU


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Ok, I see Dave’s link worked so I’ll start adding both a direct link and an embedded link in the posting.


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Brad, A big thank you for putting these together. It's really good to put a face (and a shop) to so many of you.
I especially want to thank you for archiving these for those of us without the tech chops to attend.

Watched it last night. thanks again for getting this together.

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Thanks very much for coordinating these Brad!

As usual I got some great new ideas from it.

Thanks to Andy Birko for the CA & Masking tape demo. Like others commented in the video, I thought I understood the concept but I had totally missed out on the burnishing step!

Great jigs and great shops!

Just watched this , so many thanks to Brad and everyone who contributed. All very interesting and a few things learned, but it was especially reassuring to know that I'm not the only one who drops things on the floor and prefers them to stay there. I also invested in one of those grabber stick gizmos. My stool is an important part of my shop now.
Thanks again guys , I'm looking forward to the next one.