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A Week in the Shop

4 Jun 2023 - finishing, hästen, makefest, neck, staining, vertstaden, yellow

More progress, setbacks, and progress this week as I push on with the neck I'm building, and I make the most wonderful yellow guitar top.

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A guitar body sits on the workbench. It has a maple cap, and is stained a deep yellow colour.

A Week in the Shop

27 May 2023 - andy powers, grain filler, hästen, joe cocker, mistakes, neck, verkstaden

A long write-up this week, as I make progress, make a significant mistake, make a recovery from my mistake, and make more progress.

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A work-in-progress guitar neck sits on the workbench, surrounded by sawdust on the floor.

A Week in the Shop

5 May 2023 - delfinen, emily hopkins, harp, hästen, jigs, routing, templates, verkstaden

A quick review of all the in-progress guitar builds, a bunch of progress on the offset build, putting an excessively complicated jig to use, and finally some fun facts about harps.

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Three work in progress guitars sit on a workbench, each a body with a neck beside it. All are raw wood and unfinished. The left body has pickup cavities and a neck pocket cut, and the neck is just roughly shaped with a template on top. The middle one is the most complete, with the neck fretted and all the body holes cut. The right body has only a neck pocket but no other holes init, but the neck is fretted and otherwise complete.

A Week in the Shop

12 Mar 2023 - älgen, amp, dalarna, design, fusion 360, hästen, website

A busy week, with lots of progress: älgen guitar finally becomes an instrument, I design a new guitar, and I do some work to upgrade my old amp.

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An unusual looking guitar sat on a workbench. The guitar consists of a wooden central core that consists of the neck extends that profile through the body, and then the sides of the body are made from a 3D printed lattice. The guitar has no headstock, instead having tuners at the bridge.

A week in the shop

9 Sep 2019 -

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A busy week in the shop

27 Aug 2019 - wuthering bytes

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A week in the shop

13 Aug 2019 - band-saw, mac timber, spindle-sander

Putting the new workshop band-saw to immediate use on both a guitar neck and a guitar body, and I take a visit to a local timber yard.

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Three early stage guitar bodies, all just cut out as profiles from blocks of wood, sit on the workbench in a row.

A week in the shop

29 Jul 2019 - hästen

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