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It's been a while since we have done a "show us your shop" thread and we have lots of new members too so here is what I am up to in my shop.

Let's see your shops and what you are working on too.



I started #16 a Cuban/German Ohm a few days ago and one side is in the bender after just being baked for the second time.



About a week ago I baked the top for this one so here it sits, stickered and weighted, until I am ready to join it.



Here is the other side of this beautiful Cuban Mahogany from Uncle Bob at RC Tonewoods about to be Festooled into submission....



This spindle sander is a new addition in my shop and I am finding more and more ways to use it.  Some of them correctly....  Here I used it to true up my Ohm mold which I found was not completely symmetrical or square.  But it is now!



Here is my messy storage closet.



And of course we all love to see a good pile of zoot...



Let's see your shops?

Hesh, Very nice--I thought you upgraded from you Perofrmax 10-20?
What spindle sander did you buy? Is it a Rigid?

Wel, Although I'm not building, I do have a shop and there are guitars in it!

Reorganizing the shop, long overdue. I will have one 'clean' for building, primarily with hand tools, routers and such, and one 'dusty' room where all the heavy machinery will be.

I painted the walls in the new machine room white and just built this new lumber rack for larger planks and some odds and ends. The semi processed guitar wood, as well as works in progress goes on other racks.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Just about ready for the final sanding and finish prep on # 90.............

oooooooooops.......

Well, the lack of ANY sawdust, broken tools, cobwebs, etc. obviously means you have done NOTHING since the last time this subject was a thread!
Show us your "humanity" Hesh. Just leave a "little" pile a shavings somewhere. Heck, if they were cedar the whole shop would smell lovely!

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Hank Mauel

Here in the messy part of my shop, I’m working on a Mandolin neck.

On the new side of my shop, I’m bending Black Limba sides for a new SJ design. This clean side of my shop is a shrine to Heshtone as I am attempting to keep it clean and organized.

Hesh, where can I get one of those alien posters?

BTW, Hesh, I particularly like the addition of the pencil sharpener with its crankable rubber suction base. An elegant touch to any Luthiers shop.

Way to go guys!

Wade

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Wade
Nashua, NH
http://www.wadefx.com

Well, I'm finishing up the voicing on my L-00 top today.
I'll be closing the box on this one soon.

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

........here are some marquetry glue ups I just did today....

Hesh, if you think I'm posting pix of MY shop after seeing yours, you're nuts! (Actually, we just drove by the lot and the house is framed and mostly sheathed! So it won't be long now...

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http://www.presnallguitars.com

Sorry for the poor image quality......

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It's not the miles ahead, it's the stone in your shoe


In Markham,Virginia

A koa tenor ukulele.  Sorry Hesh, this is the cleanest you'll ever see my shop.

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A higher purpose for wood.
Rich Smith
Issaquah, WA

Cool looking uke Rich and great looking shop too.
Next time you post pictures, if you don't mind, just
hit 'enter' inbetween each image and you won't have
them one ofter another like that.

I just posted pictures of my shop here so I won't post
it again.

I actually got in the shop today and built a cross cut
sled for cutting fretboards. It was really fun to build
something again.

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"There's really no wrong way, as long as the results are what's desired." Charles Fox

"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

Rich that Uke looks fantastic!!!

Great looking guitars Jon and your shop looks pretty cool too!

Larry buddy I AM nuts.....  Congrats on the new digs!!!

David that guitar is going to be stunning in all respects!

Dave my friend your L-OO looks great and the top looks very nicely braced - should be a cannon.  You are doing some great work for a slob JUST KIDDING!

Wade buddy you have license to be messy because you are always coming up with very original and very cool designs.  And this one looks like it will be your best to date too!

Hank buddy my shop is trashed.  There is mahogany dust on the silicon pad on my bench that Joe White and JJ gave me for Christmas and the benches are filled with clutter........  I need a Valium....

Arnt my friend your wood stash looks killer!!!

Joe what is that blotchy looking stuff on the back of my guitar  I would imagine that you have deloused your shop since JJ and I visited you on Tuesday?  JJ is known to deposit pocket lint where ever he goes so be warned.....

Scott buddy yep I bought a Rigid spindle sander from the borg and I like it a great deal.  Once I plugged up the unnecessary holes as Todd suggested the dust collection is fine.

No upgrade on the drum sander and I see no need to do so.  The 10-20 works great for me and my level of usage.

Let's see some more shops people?

Hey Hesh

My Missus is a nurse and she reckons
your shop looks like an operating theatre
and that Dave and I should be ashamed of ourselves
for working in such unsterile conditions.

We've just given the shed it's yearly enema and took a skip
worth of crap to the dump so I feel slightly less embarrassed
to show some pics.





The new addition







Bob

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Bob Connor
Geelong, Australia

Finally,starting to get back to guitarmaking...

Yesterday I shaped a head and inlaid my logo:




Here's daughter #3 (that's what happens when you have 6 kids-you just give them #'s)her name is Rose,watching dad at work:






And here's the almost finished product:




Hesh,notice that there are no pictures of the shop....

ok, here is the slightly re-arranged shop and some of my current guitars:

First, a couple of pics of the shop

Ok a couple of pics of my current builds. First is a cutaway EIR/Englemann guitar that is going to go to a client in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

Next is a Pao Ferro guitar that is one of the Newport-Miami show guitars. Havent put he back on this one yet and she just got in the mold.

 

This back is going to be another guitar for the show. I cant make up my mind if it is going to be a cutaway or not... Box Elder

And lastly is my new Blues Creek binding machine.

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Reguards,

Ken H

I've never gotten around to posting in one of these topics, mostly because of all these wonderful spotless workshops.

At the moment this part of Australia looks to be finally breaking from the drought; we've been hit with about a month of non-stop rain up until this weekend. What this means for me without a humidity controlled workshop is there's not a whole lot I can do most of the time so I end up basically just bending more and more sides.

Custom designed hollowneck lap steel with Tasmanian Myrtle back and sides with WRC top. Its body is a full-sized deadnought and it features a very wide neck.

Two sets of Weissenborn-style sides (Tas Blackwood).

Two Tasmanian Blackwood models waiting for final sanding and polishing.

Another Tassie Blackwood model. Awaiting sanding which should happen this week. This one will feature maple binding. Just to the left of it is a naked (topless/bottomless) Queensland Maple model (local unrelated species with a Mahogany-like tone) which will also feature a Bunya top and a yet-undecided dark binding.

With the high humidity the go-bar deck has found itself slightly cluttered.

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Richard
http://www.guitarmaker.com

Weissies, wow, love that Tazzie, looks so much like Koa I had to look at the text again! You build 'em purty!

Arnt's friend really plays these well.

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http://www.dickeyguitars.com

Oh, my shop is cluttered with huge billets of Claro Walnut and pieces of a new Dust Cyclone collection system. B-O-R-I-N-G! Couple of Alembic Basses awaiting replacement MOP side dots, the brass markers turned green. Like this:   

My ClearVue 1800 left Pickens, SC but is now hung up at the UPS terminal in Knoxville, TN over the weekend. Also have a Martin coming in for a K and K pickup, gotta love 'em.

And, I'm selling off a few coins on Ebay.

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Great thread!!

I just built a new bench which will double as a go bar deck. Incidentally, I
now have a blues creek go bar deck that is in need of a new home.

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ok...... why did my pic not post?