I keep a piece of carpet on the bench most of the time to protect whatever I'm working on.
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Who was that masked man? |
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Here's where the bulk of the work gets done. This 2x4 and pine bench has been pieced together from scraps.
It's not much to look at, but it does the job. I'd love to have a rock solid maple workbench, but I seem to spend all my time working
on projects instead of making shop furniture. Someday...
I keep a piece of carpet on the bench most of the time to protect whatever I'm working on. |
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Because I work on a relatively small number of instruments at any given time (3-4 at most), I don't need any sophisticated system of storing work in progress. I just take out my trust roll of masking tape and label my work shelf. There's room for 4 complete sets of instrument materials. As well as client work, I always have one labeled "Me". After all, I love guitars too and I've got to experiment on somebody. |
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Here's a side bending jig I've been trying to perfect for a while. It's still not quite right and I end up doing the final shaping of the sides over the hot pipe. The top section is removable so that different shaped side molds can be used. There are two 500 Watt heat lamps inside. |
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Here's a little something that I just made to help with the routing of the 2-step ledge for the binding around the body of the guitar. I have used it on the BD so far and it worked very well. |
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I finally broke down and bought a buffing arbor from StewMac. Lot of money, but man does it put a shine on a guitar. |
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I work on a very limited budget so I decided to make my own thickness sander. The whole thing cost me about $150 and works well. A retail model would have cost 10 times that much new. |
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I use this Dremel tool and a circle cutter to cut the channels for the soundhole rosette. |