Re: What's on your workbench right now?
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:46 pm
Damn Empyrean, those are gorgeous! That first one especially for me!!
Talk about the Fender Jazzmaster, Jaguar, and any other offset waist guitars with us!
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https://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=38562
Nice stuff Empryean! I'm really digging that black one too. I see the Emtech 6000 in that photo. How do you like it as a finish? I'm doing more and more waterbased stuff lately too. I've been trying a lot of different brands to find the one I like the best.empyrean wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:32 amHey!
It's been a few years OSG. Hope everyone is doing well! Missed you guys.
I've had more than a few things on my workbench in the last few years, but here's the most recent guitars to soon be finished. I'm sure I'll make an update thread here soon. If you're on instagram, you can also check my workbench out @widdershins_guitars now as well.
It's fantastic, highly recommended.nelsongeets wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:53 am
Nice stuff Empryean! I'm really digging that black one too. I see the Emtech 6000 in that photo. How do you like it as a finish? I'm doing more and more waterbased stuff lately too. I've been trying a lot of different brands to find the one I like the best.
I haven't personally bought any thin kerf blades, but I know that Woodcraft and Rockler carry some and they likely have a physical stores near you if you aren't comfortable buying online. I've had good experiences purchasing from their websites though.Shadoweclipse13 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2019 11:55 pmNot a project or anything I'm working on, but a question to any fellow workworkers. I've been looking for a very thin kerf blade for my table saw (and maybe for my miter saw as well) and don't know where to go to look for any. The thinnest kerf blades I've found locally (hardware stores, my usual go-to) are +/- 1/8". That's fine for normal usage, but I've watched a few videos of guys making things that have extra thin kerf saw blades, and I can't find any. I've never bought saw blades online either. Any recommendations for where or what brands are great would be hot
Sorry, I don't have any particular recommendations to give. Saw blades are kind of like guitar strings in a way: any of them will work and for every person that loves a brand, there's another that hates it.Shadoweclipse13 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 7:00 amThanks PearDream! Any brand recommendations? I love Bosch's stuff, but I don't think they make one. I've heard good things about Freud blades and CMT too.
In our part of the world we use Australian Kwila (similar to Indonesian Merbau) for necks without truss rods. I made one Tele all from Kwila a few years ago and without truss rod and the neck ain't going anywhere.epizootics wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:11 pmI am too easily sidetracked...
This is something I have wanted to try for a while - a no-truss rod offset. I picked the two toughest woods I have in my shop - namely, a piece of service tree (aka. sorb / mountain ash) my uncle cut down sometime in the 80's and some chechen (aka. Caribbean rosewood) that has spent two years acclimating in my fretboard wood pile. The former is possibly the hardest timber we have in Europe and was used to make tools and wooden press screws until metal took over. The latter is meaningful to me because I spent a part of my childhood in the Caribbeans, and it has a very nice color that ranges from gold to green through chocolate. G&L have been using it increasingly for their guitars since the ban on rosewood.
I have been waiting a few days between each cut/processing to let the wood release its internal stress. Service tree wood is known for its stability over time. It is kind of weird getting ready for the glue-up without having routed a truss rod channel. More soon...