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My plans are to kick back, grill steak, and watch the grass grow.
I am still in the costly process of installing my CVMax cyclone so shop time has been
halted until I am up and running. One of the problems of having a basement shop.

What are you doing this weekend?

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Going to finish sanding, locating and masking bridge foot print, shellac wash coat on top, seal bindings, pore filling and spraying vinyl sealer on my boy's OM.
Grilling burgers and sausages on labor day.

Hopefully will start painting and finishing off my wife's pottery studio. Just need to sand the drywall and finish up the installation of a glass block window then paint and add molding. Then we can move all her stuff from the garage to her studio in which case I can move all my stuff out of my shop into the garage and finish hanging the drywall in the shop, mud and tape the walls, add bead board in places, sand and refinish the hard wood floors and finish off with crown molding.

Yeah this isn't going to happen just over this weekend

But geesh I need to get this done, going on a year now without building. Cool think is though that in the last year I've been buying up supplies.

Well since I delivered my last project a couple weeks ago I haven't done much of anything. Kind of re-arranged my shop to get more working space. Wife says maybe we'll take in a movie. Probably just stick around the house mostly.


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I'll be working. Somebody has to keep the world economy going.

What I plan is to get my Golf Cart " street legal" What will probably happen is a page and a half of " Honey Do's "

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The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
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Hopefully close up the box on this guy. Have the whole week off thanks to having to use up vacation at work by the end of the the month.

Labour.

Closing the boxes on #6 and #7. Hopefully by Labor Day I will be binding them.

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I just ordered some micro mesh kits 1,500 grit to 12,000. One for the Orbital sander and one for hand work. Hopefully I'll have this build strung up by Tuesday. The last thing I have to do is rebuild the bridge because the previous one was too short. Or maybe I'll laminate the original?

Finger style1978 I've never used micro mesh before. Could you give a short synapse of your method please?


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Work.

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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.

I haven't tried this yet but it looks pretty low tech and relatively quick. The product has great reviews and I'll be sure to let you all know what I think about it when it arrives tomorrow (I hope). I purchased both the orbital sander set and the small hand sanding kit. I'm going to try it with true oil over Shellack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8wmr-Np4s

Wow you have the fastest hands I've ever seen. Thanks for that. Very cool


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Hahaha, oh yeah that's not me that is Mr.s Stansell who developed that method with micro mesh and Shellack.

I know just putting you on. I've never used micro mesh before so I was wondering.


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I'm hoping that it will work well with tru oil. Since the grits are so fine and the tru oil is so thin, it should be a good combination.

Yes me too. I use Tru oil


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I have seven going at once right now. My previous high was 5. Better half is in Italy so I get to work on guitars all weekend. YES!!!!!!

Tim

I haven't done much in the past year or so, but I've working on the design of a new one and feeling really excited about it. It's taken a while for the creative process to unfold, but it's always enjoyable.

Gonna try to cut some MOP for a truss rod cover inlay.
Other than that, sleep -lots and lots of sleep.

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Would LOVE to hear him explaining all his steps , but I doubt I could listen that Fast !!

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Put a coat paint on the garage doors, went for ice cream, getting the brushes out for 2nd coat.
After that, spraying stain on homemade lattice for a privacy screen, then bbq and cold ones on the deck!

Alex

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Not perfect, but not too bad for a beginner.

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I like the astro motif. Dan
Into town for dinner this evening. ( An hour drive both ways ) Put away the wood stash I picked up from allied this weekend.
Tomorrow will BBQ something ,.