Comments for This Week in Wood

Comment on Sanding a guitar body by Marilyn

Marilyn — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:39:22 +0000

Wow! This are lookin’ really, really nice! They’re turning out beautiful.

Comment on It’s a good day! by glennth

glennth — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:49:24 +0000

I did the same class but ours was a 3 piece of purfling but it was pre-glued so it wasn’t too hard. Remember too that only the binding is necessary from a sound board point of view (also protects the end grain of the top and back boards) so for the first guitar, it might be a good idea to leave out purfling all together.

Comment on It’s a good day! by John Browne

John Browne — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:37:00 +0000

Nice job. I did a Woodcraft class where we built a kit guitar. For some reason the instructor had us do 7 pieces of purling–the glueup was a nightmare–he basically had to do it for every student. I was scraping glue for days off the damn thing. Really put me off doing another guitar, but of course I will eventually relent!

Comment on Less Swearing… by Doug Berch

Doug Berch — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:46:07 +0000

Happy to hear it is getting easier. I sometimes use a light bar clamp to help keep things tight at the waste.

Comment on Motivated or Frustrated by Marilyn

Marilyn — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:13:09 +0000

Hey, Glenn! If you’ll email me, I’d be happy to fill you in on future trips!

Glenn Thompson said…
Next time you all get together, let me know as I’d love to join in. I’m just next to Redmond so not far from you in Seattle.

Comment on Motivated or Frustrated by Mr Z

Mr Z — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:26:21 +0000

Yeah, I understand. I don’t make guitars, but I do build the occasional cajon (box drum) and I am quite familiar with messing up and not having the motivation to restart. It isn’t something I have a solution for though. I think it is probably like writer’s block – you just have to keep working and forcing your own hand.

I do know that if you tell a whole lot of people that you are almost done it does create a bit of accountability to finish. Kind of works. Sometimes. Ha.

Anyway, good luck with finishing.

Comment on Sharpening – Hand Planes by glennth

glennth — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:24:22 +0000

The jig is really an oddity though once you figure it out it works well enough. It has 3 pairs of screw clamps. 2 of them have springs and the center pair are just for clamping the blade. The 2 pair with the spring clamps give the range of movement so as to define the radius. In general, I’ve found that leaving it on the tightest radius (where the clamps are loosest) gives you the ability to work to any radius. Just outside the last pair of spring screw clamps are what look to be bumpers and this is where you apply pressure to one side or the other and that accomplishes the radius. I find that the jig sticks a bit but a slow steady movement from one side to the other gets the best result.

Comment on Sharpening – Hand Planes by Marilyn

Marilyn — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:39:47 +0000

OK, I’d love to know more about how you get the jet cambering jig to work. I have the same set up and haven’t been able to make it work all that well.

Marilyn

PS. Yay! Washington!

Comment on Introducing – my Wall Hanging Tool Chest by Morton

Morton — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:56:42 +0000

Very nice. I’m going to building a relatively quick, utilitarian storage solution for my hand planes shortly. Thanks for the build details and pics!

Comment on Introducing – my Wall Hanging Tool Chest by Stephen Shepherd

Stephen Shepherd — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:16:25 +0000

Excellent method of storing tools or should I say planes.

Stephen

Comment on Introducing – my Wall Hanging Tool Chest by glennth

glennth — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:52:06 +0000

On the bottom fixed shelf on the very right is a shoulder plane and next to that are 2 chisel planes. Up 3 shelves in the middle are some small japanese curved planes for luthier work. On the top shelf I have some side rabbit planes. Thanks. The cabinet was fun and the tools have been a blast in learning how to use them better.

Comment on Introducing – my Wall Hanging Tool Chest by Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:34:42 +0000

That looks awesome. I think it looks great because it is in Pine. Very sincere. What is on the two angled shelves to the right of the dividers? Looks like shoulder planes. You have some very nice tools.

Comment on In the beginning… by Morton

Morton — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:27:57 +0000

I look forward to seeing this come together. I’m in need of some hanging tool storage and am foraging for ideas

Comment on Smurfing Good Woodworker by Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:12:34 +0000

Love it, I may need to go buy a happy meal now.

Comment on A True Luthier Experience by Gregory Pizzeck

Gregory Pizzeck — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:10:32 +0000

Hello there,

I couldn’t help but chuckle when you cussed at breaking your purfling. I’m sure it’ll come out just fine as long as you slid it in securely next to the piece that it broke off from. I’ve been building for 2 years now this month. I’ve got 23 guitars under my belt, if you’d like to friend me on facebook you can see them. My dad taught me how to build, and as he says, ‘it’s enough to make a preacher cuss’. I can’t tell exactly what wood you’re using, but it looks like it’s figured. That looks like a clean piece of sitka spruce for your soundboard, maybe Curly maple or cherry for your sides?? Good luck on the rest of your build.