Guitar jigs!

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Dane -- Great photos of the jig. It is great that you can use the same fixture for a number of different processes.

Eddie -- dragging out the planes...it is getting real now! My guitar mentor told me years ago that I had to get good with a plane if I wanted to be a luthier. I worked with a guy who had built mandolins at the Gibson factory and he told me the same thing.

John

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Oct 29, 2021 9:32:36 GMT -6 GuitarAttack Forum said:

Dane -- Great photos of the jig. It is great that you can use the same fixture for a number of different processes.

Eddie -- dragging out the planes...it is getting real now! My guitar mentor told me years ago that I had to get good with a plane if I wanted to be a luthier. I worked with a guy who had built mandolins at the Gibson factory and he told me the same thing.

John

To ,e It looks likes something I should learn. But I do know of a couple of old school wood workers that say "if you can't work a plane, you are not a true wood worker" One of my uncles That was a wood worker used the, all the time. I was a kid back in them days. But I found it interesting how someone could take a thing that looked like some kind of a box to me, as kid and flatten the wood. Plus it made these cool curly things. LOL! I was only a kid. But that kid is still in me today. So now I want to see if I can grasp the technique of how it's done.

EB   

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Letting the paint dry on the table router. Once that is done then I'll put things in place and post more pictures of it. I think it came out great. But at some point I will be putting a bottom drawer in it. But it's good to go for now.

EB

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OK here we go!

OK here I added some wood to help my clamps. I would up putting this on the other side as well.

here is the door. I was having a problem with it closing all the way. So I used an old trick I used in building cars. I place some wood in between the hinges and I pushed on the door to bend the hinges so that the door would close. I did it on the first try. LOL!

I used a magnet that is made for cab work. I put the latch on with the base. I put fingernail polish on it then closed the door. that give me the placement of it without doing measuring

So here is what it looks like now.

In case you are wondering about dust collection here is how I solved it. I used some vacuum tubing I found over at Lowe's. I use my hot glues gun to help seal up the connecting parts. The router base has a dust port on it.

here is another look at what I did

Here is look at the outside dust port. I could not find anything that was the same size as my hose on my shop vac. So I had some of this stuff that is used in guitar amps. Kind of like weather stripping but made for heat. It worked to help make the hose off the vac fit and it fits good. Again I used hot glue to secure it to the side of the router table.

Here is the other side and the clamp holder.

Well I think this came out great. I may add some more clamp holders later on. I am also going to add T-Track at some point. I am also going to add a bottom drawer. But that is ging to have to wait for now.

EB

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Neat Eddie. We used to do that trick with the airplane galley anodised door hinges. Before we used anodised, we used to knock out the hinge pin and joggle the hinge legs in the folders, but that approach ruined the anodised surface treatment- hence your trick. Lovely work my friend, real pro.

e&oe ...

[dnic]

Oct 29, 2021 9:32:36 GMT -6 GuitarAttack Forum said:

Dane -- Great photos of the jig. It is great that you can use the same fixture for a number of different processes.

Eddie -- dragging out the planes...it is getting real now! My guitar mentor told me years ago that I had to get good with a plane if I wanted to be a luthier. I worked with a guy who had built mandolins at the Gibson factory and he told me the same thing.

John

Thanks John, Steve mentioned he couldn't see something on my jig. I don't remember specifics but I thought I would add some more pics.

Some of the old school woodworkers are amazing with planes. But chisel and plane blade sharpening is huge part of that skill set. Me, I swear by my 65"x6" shelix equipped jointer.

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I came home with an other Stanly plane. I got it for free. My brother had it sitting on a shelf in his work shop and tole me to take it.

 It too need some work done to it. But what the heck it's free!

All my tools are I have are cool. They all seem to work just fine for me. I wish I could have all my tools I once had but no since in crying over spilled milk. So, I am doing the best I can with what I can afford.

 I also came home today with a table saw. It a portable one. So it's small and will fit under my bigger table when it's not in use. Yes it too needs some work done to it. But it was cheap. I'll be changing out the blade on it and doing some clean up. The plastic handle for raising the blade up and down is broken. And the whole thing needs a good cleaning. But like I said it was cheap.

It will come in so handy for small stuff in my shop that I do. Plus it won't take up a lot of space.

 I also picked up two guitars from a customer that need some work. A 12 string and a bass. Both are acoustics. I need to order some strings for both and a new bone saddle for the 12 string. The last person he took this too really did a number to the saddle so, it needs to be replaced. I'll post some pictures and start another post on them.

 EB

[dnic]

People just give me planes as well. I two out the garage and I don't even know what size they are. I'm going to guess #4s And also a brace at the same time. I haven't checked it out close enough to know if it takes normal drill bits or the square tapper end like my father in-laws brace was.

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did a little upgrade to my shop vac today. My shop vac is always getting plugged up with sawdust. I was going to make a separator but after adding up all the parts, it was more cost effective to buy this kit form Harbor Freight. You have to buy the 5gal bucket to go with the kit. So about $45.00 to make this. Was it worth it? Yep!

 The only thing I have against it is, it's top heavy. Likes to fall over if you pull the hose to hard.

  So, I am going to build a stand the will hole both the Vac, and the separator. That way I can wheel it around better too.

The other thing I need to work on is making all of my machines ports all the same size. No two are the same.

 But this system works good! It takes all the dust into the first bucket and nothing goes into the vac. Been using it for most of the day. I keep on checking and nothing in the vac. Cool!

EB

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Cool. Tiny image but it looks like it's cyclonic like a Dyson vacuum cleaner? Industrial dust extractors are usually cyclones.

e&oe ...

[dnic]

Hey that's a good set up! I've been thinking about doing this to my big collector. The idea is that the dust still goes to the vacuum but the big chips that could fill the bag fast and possibly cause damage to the fins in the blower motor are drop in the bucket by the cyclone. It's easier to empty the bucket of chips than to replace vacuum bags. So the idea goes. I'm surprised there's no dust in the vacuum.

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Nov 5, 2021 7:22:43 GMT -6 dnic said:

Hey that's a good set up! I've been thinking about doing this to my big collector. The idea is that the dust still goes to the vacuum but the big chips that could fill the bag fast and possibly cause damage to the fins in the blower motor are drop in the bucket by the cyclone. It's easier to empty the bucket of chips than to replace vacuum bags. So the idea goes. I'm surprised there's no dust in the vacuum.

Yep nothing at all in the vac. I supposed over time it will get some dust. But it make the vac work super good on top of it. So I was glad I did this.

 I reworked the hoses on it today. It not works out better as far as attaching the vac hose to the tool I am using at the time. I may later on buy one of the kits so I can hook up all my tools to the vac at one time. The kit comes with a shut off door so you can control what tool is getting the dost collection. But that kit is not cheap. But heck I don't think anything is cheap anymore. LOL!

EB

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I was off work when I set up dust collector. Recovering from rotator cuff surgery. So I made my own blast gates, still work fine 10 years later. But yes it is nice to have all the tools connected it speeds up the work flow.

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Well, I am onto another project.

 Going to build a flip top bench for two of my tools. It will be on wheels so that I can move it around. Plus this will free up some space on my work table.

 I bought the plans for it for $5.00 off of YT.

 I have already made a few small changes in the way it's built. But hey, that is what we do right? But I figured for $5.00 it would make things a little easier to figuring out.

 I got a good deal on some plywood. I found it on the FB market place near me. One of my friends with a truck helped me out. Yep I got a lot of 1/2" plywood. Most of it was used as storm protection for windows and doors. So, a lot of it is 1/2 sheets and there are 2 full sheets that 4X8 that came with it. I figured the 2 full sheets was worth the price I gave for all of it. We all know how much plywood has gone up.

 So, I am happy with that. So, today I'll be starting this project. I do have some things to over come in cutting the wood, But I'll figure it out.

EB

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In case you wanted to see the plywood.

Man trying to work in an 8'x10 space is not fun! I got he sides cut for this project. But it was not easy. I had to wind up shoving everything on the table off to one side to make room so I can start cutting the wood down. I used my circular saw. I cut them the best I could. I cut 4 sheet at the same size. I am not gluing the sheets together to make a 1" thick sheet. This is 1/2" thick ply wood. The plans call for 3/4". But I can't afford 3/4". So, I had to make some small adjustments in how to pull this off. I think it will work. But more on that as I go along.

 EB