further to all my faffing, i've noticed that the earth wire to the bridge has come off; that's just wired to the body of any of the pots, yeah?
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Yeah or any ground point really.
thinking of building a proper acoustic instrument next.
from scratch
am I mad?
from scratch
am I mad?
i suspect you probably need a lot of specialist kit?
you're talking to a man who doesn't own a router...
yes - to do something like a guitar.. - but.
I reckon I'd be able to make something smaller like a mandolin, if I could make a jig to bend the side timbers (which might only need to be 50/60mm high.
basic for sure, and an evolution from what I've done to date, but I might just give it a whirl!
I'd need to buy some bits for sure.
i wonder are there any evening courses on the topic.
Run a thumped go fund me?
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Even by my standards, I made this hard for myself..
Slowly rebuilding the roof of the woodshed. The whole thing is made of scraps and pallets apart from the 8 upright fence posts. The original roof on the right was leftover plywood that is not gonna last much longer. I get about an hour at it a week. Will be felt covered in the end.
Not really posh woodwork but is the only thing I've had time for that isn't renovation stuff.
Not really posh woodwork but is the only thing I've had time for that isn't renovation stuff.
Looks good!
Should you be passing by marino, dublin 3 in the next while, please take the red painted pallet in my front garden ;-)
I have a stash and I used to pick them up all the time. Cant really store them these days but am planning a second woodshed in the next few months to free up the workshop. Projects keep creeping in though.
Need shelves for the 'cinema' room to make it a bit more useable.
Need to do a whole refit on part of the kitchen to make space for a washing machine.
There's a whole wall in the workshop that needs reinventing.
The office space needs to be rebuilt end to end.
But in maslow's heirarchy of needs, the woodshed is winning. I think i'm just typing them out to think about them here.
some nice hefty chunks of wood on the right there.
Thats my stash of nice wood that I'm saving for when I dont have a million maintenance things to be at.
Get a man in, Ann.
any particular plan for them?
i was driving back from buying that epiphone LP the other day, spotted some tree surgeons loading good chunks of sycamore into a trailer. stopped to ask was any going begging (not that i need more wood), and it turns out the chap i was talking to is dead keen on getting into woodturning. the next day he texted me with an 'i have a load of holly here, you're welcome to fill your boots, but come now' message. unfortunately i was tied up in meetings.
i know a couple of people also looking at the notion of getting a chainsaw mill.
i was driving back from buying that epiphone LP the other day, spotted some tree surgeons loading good chunks of sycamore into a trailer. stopped to ask was any going begging (not that i need more wood), and it turns out the chap i was talking to is dead keen on getting into woodturning. the next day he texted me with an 'i have a load of holly here, you're welcome to fill your boots, but come now' message. unfortunately i was tied up in meetings.
i know a couple of people also looking at the notion of getting a chainsaw mill.
In the short term the (not pictured, lower down) stuff is for trim around the kitchen / office things. The office was probably meant to be a dining room or second sitting room but is the full time overspill room now. I'm gonna re do the shelves and the layout and the decor and use all the poplar i have for trims and surfaces and stuff. I've already seasoned a bit of it and done up most of those plans, it just got ousted down the list a bit. A lot is held up by the need* to make a sorta tricky little spice rack. For some reason sorting the spice storage is key to everything else in that side of the house.
I've banked the idea of chainsaw mill till I've about 3 years firewood setup to dry. It'll happen eventually though
You'll draw some fresh blood into the collective...
he was telling me he's made his own surf board. didn't get to talk about it though as he needed to get back to work.
is it time for a DIY surfboard messing about thread?
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