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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

24 Jun 2019 - cigar box, corvette, health and safety, woodwork

A week in which we mostly get the cigar box guitar ready in the push towards Liverpool Makefest, and I make a start on the neck for a new guitar.

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The side profile of a guitar neck being built, with some shavings on it from being planed. The shavings are two coloured, as both the dark wood of the fretboard and the light wood of the neck have been shaved.

A week in the shop

7 May 2019 - 3D printing, fettling, fuzz, maintenance, pedals, the corvette, workshop

A mixed week as I make some dust in someone else's workshop, fettle an old handplane back to perfect condition, 3D-print a new tool, share some knowledge, and ship out a set of fuzz pedals into the world.

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A row of four guitar effects pedals sits on the workbench. Each one has a laser-etched wooden face with a beard logo, each pedal having the beard stained a different colour.