With a break like this with plenty of surface area, I would just glue it without any additional supports. My glue of choice is hot hide glue, but there will be lots of opinions on that and many option…
I think that's a good move. One thing I might do to kick things of is to hit the area with some ultra thin master glue so it wicks under the area and prevents more chipping from potentially delaminate…
Hi guys, I finally managed to sort the problem out. Seens like was a simple issue that I cant see in that moment. I took the whole bridge apart and did a complete setup from scratch. I read somewhere…
This is precisely why Leo Fender developed the insideless guitar. A compromised neck block is super hard to come back from and when I see something like this, it leads me to believe that it's the tip…
Chris, can I add this for the council of elders show ? Also, we are going to have @member on pretty soon to talk about a job about this dramastic. Here's a link to the live show co…
I used the rubber waffle weave anti-slip mats until I noticed they left residue on bare wood and marked up lacquer. I used felt for a while but its splinter loving so nix that. Currently I'm using the SM pad with super cheap bath towels on top. The bath towels are cheap enough (buy them in sets on closeout) to rip into "grease rags" after a build or two. I'll even lay the towels on the radius dish when carving braces over the dish.
Either a plush bath mat or a towel. They wash well.
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I use the Hosco workbench mat. They're pretty cheap, don't effect any finishes, have a decent weight and two little magnet areas in the far corners (I position the magnets far left and right as I look at an instrument on the mat) to quickly place screws so you don't lose them during a quick task. I'm pretty happy with them.
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that's pretty nice, have you had glue drips on them? Do they just fall off?
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↪ Private memberI get at drips pretty quickly so I don't have an issue with them per se...I'm not sure that they'd fall off it they were left to dry however.
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↪ Private membermy question might have outted me as a slob.
I use a thick yoga mat and a thick fabric on top,. Cheap easy I wash it every 2 weeks and if it gets ugly i throw it away. I have a brush to keep it clean on a daily basis
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Bench top is Plywood, then I use a DIY wooden neck jig, Maybe 6" in height, topped with a anti slip mat like the ones used for the kitchen. @member Miguel turned me into that material, I like it because you can use it also on top of the instrument to guard against scratches.
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Hello Carlos! I find your bench set up really intriguing and may try to recreate it! Is the jig/workstation fastened down at all or do you just let gravity keep it where it is?
Also wondering what the butt end looks like or if the + is all that makes contact with the bench.
Lastly Im guessing the pole is a light or phone holder?
Thanks in advance!
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Bench is plywood. Carpet on top of that, cotton towel or old t-shirt on top of that which gets tossed when all sides are unsafe for nice Instruments.
The top of the bench is made with particle board capped with melamine
3/4” foam wrapped in flannel just barely big enough to hold a guitar, but too small to put parts or loose sandpaper on.
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In my personal work, I had used the StewMac Guitar Bench Mat (very yoga mat like) and carpet off cuts.
At Bourgeois, we used off cuts of med. length carpet and had to vacuum and replace them quite often.
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We use the stewmac mats and really like them. I've gone through a dozen or so on the five benches in four years. They get kinda yucky from cleaning chemicals I suppose and kinda turn a booger green after a while. lol. But I love the weight and texture of them. Kind wish they were black, but they say the color was intentional. I tried the music nomad ones and they are too thin. Carpet traps little pieces of solder and wire that can scratch the guitar. So for me, butcher block and stewmac mats.
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I have some cheap carpet lining my entire bench which I can replace easily, and directly next to my bench is a Dyson V10 cordless vacuum which makes quick work of all debris. I like it because I have a few jigs with velcro on the bottom and they just stay where you put them, no clamps required.
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I used linoleum for ages. It’s fine as long as you don’t forget and leave a nitro-finished instrument on it for a week (I suspect the same might be true for many yoga mats). Never cared for towels/carpets as they have a habit of collecting debris.
Bought one of the music nomad mats a while back and like it a lot. Planning to get more but would really like it if some enterprising person started selling it by the yard/metre.
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My bench top is oiled MDF. I'm leaning towards just using that with no buffer. There's something that feels weird about not putting something down but I can see that all the other options have flaws.
One thing I learned from Sergei Dejonge was taking a really stiff scraper (he makes them out of bimetal automatic hacksaw blades) and running it over your bench top before you work. It is sort of a simultaneous glue bugger detector and destroyer.