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Thanks, Serge!

Hesh,

Thanks. Can't wait to get out there and get back on task.

I got the Jet DC1100A dust collector and added a 1-micron cartridge filter from Wynn Environmental, with the poly lower bags. The air filter is also Jet, AFS-1000B. The dust collector has two 4" inlets on a Y going into a 6". I might try the 6" on the table saw to get just the last of the dust, 'cause right now, there's a bit of dust getting thrown out the guard. These two items make a huge difference. No more layer of dust all over everything. For the first time, I can imagine moving the shop down to the spare basement room, though my wife has not yet heard of this new "development."

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I finally finished my drum sander this morning.

I started out using the ShopNotes magazine article about building a drum sander (that issue's still on the newsstands now), but ended up changing a few things. I'v got manual feed (with plastic laminate on the bed to keep the friction down) and it works just fine. I didn't have a long enough piece of sanding roll, but taping on a short piece works for now.

That's a pair of sapele sides - the first pieces I ran through it. They came out pretty good - just need a minute of scraping to smooth out the 80 grit surface.


Only another dozen machines and jigs to go....







Phil

Phil!!!!!!!is this a home made bandsaw i see at the back there? Did you build it?!!!!!am i dreaming?

Nice, very nice drum sander sir! what kind of motor you got on there?

Serge

[QUOTE=Serge Poirier] Phil!!!!!!!is this a home made bandsaw i see at the back there? Did you build it?!!!!!am i dreaming?

Nice, very nice drum sander sir! what kind of motor you got on there?

Serge[/QUOTE]

Yup. I make it about 15 years ago.

The bandsaw's got 18 inch wheels and 12 inch resaw capability. I used it to resaw those sapele sides out of a nice piece of 4/4 sapele from my local Woodcraft - I sliced it into four pieces. I'm going to cut the next piece into 6.

I've also made an oscillating spindle sander and a 6x48 belt sander ( all basically wood.)


The drum sander is mounted on my router table and I mounted the motor for it into the side of the router table cabinet near the bottom. I just have to take off the belt, and a couple of hold-down screws and lift it off, to use the router table

It's a 1/2 HP motor from an old 7 inch table saw. It seems to have enough power for now, but I haven't tried sanding anything wider than the sides yet.


Phil

Phil, I wish i would have known you earlier, you probably would have saved me a bundle of money! I tried building me a homemade bandsaw in January but gave up due to not having any plans. Did you follow a plan for yours ? Or did you try to replicate from what you saw on another existing one? And please share pics of it if you can! Serge Poirier38830.7236458333

Today I have been resawing a very large and fine piece of spruce that Mr. McCray of Alaska Tonewoods sent. Have been going thruogh a few Cherry Billets I am drying.

Rite now headed back to the shop to clean up a little and may shape the neck on a dobro I'm working on. It just depends on what time the LOML gets through fixin supper. Fried Chicken, squash, green beans, biscuits and gravy.

There is a very good possibility I will be piled up on the couch after while.

Bon appetit D.L. ! Believe it or not, i'm havin' steak again tonight but no BBQ sauce with it this time!

Cheers

Colin - Nice rose!

I can't remember what I did in my shop the daythis post actually started, but I did just waste my only day off doing another V-joint instead of surfing. But at least I've got a head start on the week!

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What did I do in my shop today? SWEATED! Man, I just went out to get a drill to hang a picture for the wife...and it's like 100,000 degrees in there! I gotta break down and air condition the place this summer!

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I worked on couple of my friend's Strat clones. This guy goes through more guitars than most. A wheeler dealer so to say. One day it's his favorite and he'll never sell it, then the next day it's a goner . Being a pro player for 40 years, he doesn't have much trouble selling them (close to 5 or 6 hundred). Although his mechanical skills are moot, he has put some nice ones together & knows how to make them look & sound decent.

Back about 12 or so years ago I was taken some guitar lessons from him and he got me interested in putting Strats & Teles together from electric kits, mostly Warmoth. This is where I first got bit by guitar building bug. Through him is where I got to a level now, that I work on his guitars regularly, and put one together for him almost weekly.

Today was easy: mount a neck on one, and tuner changes on another. A good Bluesman whose played w/ quite a few of them...
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Joshua, here it is nearly finished. Just got to work it down with finer grit sandpaper rolls (my new best friend) then sand the paper off of the back side and refine the back edges.

Colin

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Colin - thats incredible! Please keep the lute updates coming!

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Colin

That is just awesome, the detail is incredible, you are a Luthier of the highest order.

Joshua, did I tell you I've been asked if I'll do some rapairs to an original 1760s Brunner Archlute. It needs to have the braces reglued, the rose repaired and some other little bits of TLC. So I should get some nice measurements and plans. It's nice to think that I'll be the first person to look inside it for 250 years. It belongs to one of the teachers at the RAM, that I sometimes play with, and he's heard I'm cheap! Let's face it I'm not a professional so you can't get much cheaper than free.

Should be fun, it'll either end up as a nice playable lute or a pile of matchwood!

Thanks everyone for your kind comments, especially from people I admire so much.

ColinColin S38831.509525463

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Well, you got me fascinated there Colin, that must be an incredible honor to be called to give special care to such an instrument!

Congratulations sir!

Serge

Colin, thats great! You should do a phto essay of your work on the archlute and post it here. I for one would really like to see it!

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Ditto, Colin.

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A public holiday in Aussie today. Good for getting back to first guitar.

Built a new mould and happily tossed the Kinkead one I had been
building.
Cleanup up a copper pipe to serve as my bending iron. Heated it up with
a
heat gun and it seemed to be getting hot enough according to the "water
droplets bouncing off" yardstick.

Got the thicknessed sides out and started marking them up for trimming
prior to the big bending session (scary !).

First effort at posing pics below.

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William