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Currently my fav tool is my lathe. understandably not the most necessary luthierin' tool but top of my list all the same.

Here are some shots making some 30's retro bridge pins (on my 30's lathe!)



Also allowed me to modify a set of Waverlies to embed (and make the buttons):


and then, of course, cover.

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Burton
http://www.legeytinstruments.com
Brookline, MA.

This one right here!!! Bada-BING!!

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http://www.CostaGuitars.com
PMoMC

Oh, so you have a pencil too.

No lead, and the eraser is worn out.

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"Indecision is the key to flexibility" .... Bumper sticker

Go ahead and mark yourself down for 5 points for that one.

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

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

I have a few of these and love em. I use them for carving braces mostly. I recommend!

I've been looking for a tiny plane for that purpose.

Just ordered one!

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Old growth, shmold growth!

+1

Thanks Waddy. I was looking for a curved one to go with my flat one a while ago and read that he wasn’t making them anymore. Sooooo back on the list.

My favorite tool lately is this little guy. I'm finding all kinds of things that i didn’t even know needed measuring since I started using it.

I was about to buy a set, but noticed Stephen is no longer making them. I made these instead and think I found another hobby... plane making

Well, his website proccessed my order, I really hope he's making them....

Maybe he no longer sells them through luthier suppliers, but here's the link that says he no longer makes them
http://www.luthiersuppliers.com/products/p13.html

Well he just shipped a new pair to me, and he has an ad in the latest American Lutherie Mag., so I assume he's making them. I lost mine that I've had since he started making them. It'll probably turn up, but I can't live without a Boone on my bench.

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

It was my bandsaw, but there is no 220 in my current shop so that's out of commission.

My old tiny little maple workbench got destroyed on the trip to Alaska, along with a lot of other stuff. So I milled it and turned it into parts for a new workbench. Went to the local sawmill and came across some decent pieces of maple and honduran mahogany on the cheap (2.00 BF & 4.50 BF respectively) and turned it into the bench below. I set it up temporarily. Still needs some bells and whistles, clamps, bench dogs, etc. but it works for the time being.

That's my new OM pattern on top. I just built a nice tall mold for it and some turnbuckles are in the works so that I can get better results on my sides this go round.

Dang, dang, triple dang!

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Expectation is the source of all misery; comparison the thief of joy.
http://redrivercanoe.ca/

if only he shipped out of the US...

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member of the guild of professional dilettantes

Waddy,

You are making me blush.

I had considered not making them any more but quite a few people encouraged me to carry on so I got my second wind so to speak. I am still working hard and filling orders.


There are many nice looking tools featured here.

My current favorite might just be the Lie-Nielson #51 chute plane. Awesome.

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http://www.booneguitars.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stephen-Boone-guitar-builder/488208541257210

No blusing allowed! By the way I found my original today. It was in the bottom of my Go-Bar tube. Don't know how it got there, but when I was gluing the back on #14 I had all the rods out and looked in the bottom and there it was. Last time I saw it I was shaving braces on the top. Probably knocked it off the bench into the tube when I had the go-bars by the bench for gluing braces. Still glad to be getting a couple more of them though.

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Knowledge.
All the fine tools in the world would be useless without knowing what to do with them.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

There seems to be a special fondness for small planes in this thread. Here’s a little shoulder plane that, among other things, is handy for smoothing the nut end of the head plate.






Joe