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Large B saw to resaw all the stacked wood in the bsmt.

I don't have a belt/ disk sander, or a spindle sander, or a jointer, or a band saw, or a decent set of planes, or expensive chisels (all of mine came from HD) or a large thickness sander, I have a 10-20, or a table saw, or any other large power tools. I think I am doing OK though I would like some of those things.

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I don't have any "real" chisels or hand planes. The nice thing about cheap chineese steel is how easy it is to sharpen (twice daily). I can't really justify spending a lot of money on this hobby. Some day, I may actually sell an instrument or two and plug that money into shop upgrades. Until then, I will just have to slowly add better tools as good deals present themselves.

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

Interesting...I've always wanted a shop that is located in an outbuilding behind my house with an underground tunnel between them. Would love to hide the entrances somehow sort of like a hidden secret door sort of thing in both basements. I guess it's because of my childhood love of old mystery novels, or just for the cool factor. Not sure which...maybe it's both. That, or have the shop be in a completely underground bunker sort of thing. Nah, no natural light like that.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

I need a router with an "undo" button!

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A man hears what he wants to hear, and disreguards the rest. Paul Simon

One day I will have a secret room in my house that is hidden behind a book shelf. You will need to know which book to pull in order to activate the door/ book shelf. I will keep my most prized possessions in that room. i.e. all of my goat pics and wood. It will have total sound proofing so in theory, I could do anything I want and nobody will hear it. Like play guitar loudly and sing in my awful voice.

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I don't have one of those...but I can make one with my cnc machine.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

This indicates you may be 1/32 ground rodent...which would otherwise qualify you to run for Congress.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

Out of billet aluminum? That would be pretty killer.

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I don't see how you can make an awful voice with a CNC machine, or why you'd want to.

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A man hears what he wants to hear, and disreguards the rest. Paul Simon

Plenty of tools I have that I wish were something else now that I am into lutherie, full mortise lock jig from Porter Cable, floor model guillotine picture frame chopper, 12" woodmaster wishing it was an 18 now, 5hp 3ph dust collector is way too big now.
I have a power feed for a shaper, I plan on turning the articulating arm into a vacuum clamp guitar holder, don't know what to do with the feed part though, then there is a large 5hp shaper with another power feed that I would like to use for something in lutherie. This stuff is hard to sell and get the value I want for it, and I hate selling tools, too hard to get them the first time.

For an outrageous dream shop though, I am thinking a giant figure 8, the snack room and storage are in the middle, and the whole thing is a hallway with benches lined up in succession of the processes. Every day I start with in the middle and spend a few minutes at each bench, by lunch I am halfway through a guitar, by the time the day is done a guitar is done, so I would have about 150 stations with 150 guitars in process.

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Last winter, my kitchen plumbing blew up and I had to basically gut the kitchen and the basement room below. My wife was nice enough to allow me to build a new workshop in the basement room that was damaged. The room had no door just an entrance opening behind the stairs. It was located such that most people never even noticed there was a room there. I came very close to building a hidden bookcase door for the new shop. Budget constraints and the urge to get back to instrument making made me settle for a folding door from the BORG. Naturally, the release mechanism would have been C and N.

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

Would love a tool for cleaning the shop - I think the broom is a bit outdated and I suffer from LBS (Lazy Bugger Syndrome)

I could also do with a couple of Tony's goat pics - only tasteful ones and no posing from the large goat with the horns

Dave

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Magic wand that works (could probably make one, but don't think it would work).

Fairy dust- I've heard it's not the same as my sawdust.

Ability to blink an eye and have it all done- still consulting with the optometrist on this one.

I've been searching for these tools for many years now. I can't find anyone that sells them, although I have had many offer to let me borrow them.

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Always have plenty of sandpaper; it's rough out there!

Making a magic wand is not all that hard, sourcing the unicorn hair is the hard part!

Fairy dust does exist, it is the main ingredient in SuperSoft II!

I'd skip the eye doctor, getting it done is more than half the fun.

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

Tasty goat pics? My pleasure!!




Now I'm hungry.

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Hey, Tony and Don,
I've got a friend who actually DOES have a secret passage behind a book case, leading to a hidden room in his house. I don't believe you need to know which book to pull out, but you've definitely got to know how to release the catch and pivot one section out. It's one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time--much cooler than a normal door and completely hidden when closed. I ask him to show it to me almost every time I'm at his house. And, yes, he says he wanted it ever since he read his first Hardy Boys novel as a kid. When he moved his audio/video production studio home, he needed a place to store archived stuff, so he indulged himself in the secret passage to the storage room. It's up a short flight of steps to an overhead space.

But back on the subject of tools, I'd like to get one of those shop cleaning things, too.....
Patrick

A general 24" dual overhead drum sander - next on the list - a bit extreme for luthierie but I have some home improvements in which it will come in handy with over the next few years as well.
Cheers
Charliewood

Now that's quite tasteful Tony now which one is Gerty and which ones Gerry?

I was going to tell my kids that they could feed them but I'm not sure which end

Dave

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Hmmm... I needed a dust collector for my CNC router until I used the machine to fabricate one the other day. I would like a pickup winder, and have a few spare stepper motors left over from upgrading said router... So I'm planning to use one to control winding patterns. It might be fun to use the CNC to make some nice hand tools. Also need to figure out what to do with a huge pile of plexiglass that just came in.

A bank note type counter would be nice to keep up with the tonewood.

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Regards from RangeView, Bill

i don't have a plasma cutter nor welder, but i have always wanted to make a strat body out of sheet metal....and yes, i am aware it has been done before

I'd pine away for a Star Trek replicator but these cnc machines challenge my character enough as it is.

"Earl grey tea...hot"

"Stuart Keith Elise...Peruvian Walnut body...figured Myrtlewood facings"

"Deep fried Twinkie...chocolate covered"
"Deep fried Twinkie...chocolate covered"
"Deep fried Twinkie...chocolate covered"
"Deep fried Twinkie...chocolate covered"

"Insulin injector"

See?

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

Yep. That would be worth getting.



(engraving done by John Greven - body from the MN company that made the.metal bodies for Fender - sounds/play great).

That could be a problem. Filippo isn't looking for a Todd Bobblehead.

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