I don’t understand why you don’t have more subscribers than you do? You do excellent work on great guitars. You explain every step and help builders to not make mistakes, so I don’t get it! Maybe more will come. Carry on Patrick! Thanxz
That guard looks fantastic with your wood selection! Glad to see the Firechick return, it already looks much more like a "real" instrument of its own with proportions that make sense (rather than a weirdly shrunk down knockoff a guitar that most other ukes seem to be).
I use a 24" stick to hold bodies for spraying. I grasp the stick about 12 inches from the body with my left hand and spray with my right hand. This allows me to position the body at the perfect angle for spraying front, back and sides very quickly. This also allows me to put on multiple heavy coats with no fear of runs. I just never stop moving the body around as the paint is flashing off. It also allows me to uses a floor mounted heater to "speed dry" the finish coats, which limits the time that dirt can find my paint. I have managed to get as many as 5 coats applied and dried in as little as 4 hours.I can actually handle the body the same day as the paint is applied. I almost never have to sand and polish.
Just a thought, your French cleat wall has still got lots of room for more items, if you make simple hand plane hangers for your French cleat wall you could claim back the floor space taken by the plane rack, I've got a a small shed too for me floor space is the most valuable, anyways thats my two cents worth!
Casters on benches are wonderful as long as you have a way of securing the bench when in use. If you don't want a 45 degree angle on the side of the pick guard, maybe go less than 45? For me, 90 degree sides on a pick guard seem a bit unfinished. Whatever you go with will be fine. You always make good choices!
I don’t understand why you don’t have more subscribers than you do? You do excellent work on great guitars. You explain every step and help builders to not make mistakes, so I don’t get it! Maybe more will come. Carry on Patrick! Thanxz
That guard looks fantastic with your wood selection! Glad to see the Firechick return, it already looks much more like a "real" instrument of its own with proportions that make sense (rather than a weirdly shrunk down knockoff a guitar that most other ukes seem to be).
I use a 24" stick to hold bodies for spraying. I grasp the stick about 12 inches from the body with my left hand and spray with my right hand. This allows me to position the body at the perfect angle for spraying front, back and sides very quickly. This also allows me to put on multiple heavy coats with no fear of runs. I just never stop moving the body around as the paint is flashing off. It also allows me to uses a floor mounted heater to "speed dry" the finish coats, which limits the time that dirt can find my paint. I have managed to get as many as 5 coats applied and dried in as little as 4 hours.I can actually handle the body the same day as the paint is applied. I almost never have to sand and polish.
Just a thought, your French cleat wall has still got lots of room for more items, if you make simple hand plane hangers for your French cleat wall you could claim back the floor space taken by the plane rack, I've got a a small shed too for me floor space is the most valuable, anyways thats my two cents worth!
Casters on benches are wonderful as long as you have a way of securing the bench when in use.
If you don't want a 45 degree angle on the side of the pick guard, maybe go less than 45? For me, 90 degree sides on a pick guard seem a bit unfinished. Whatever you go with will be fine. You always make good choices!
I'm sure someone has already said but have you thought about a sky hook to hang the body up with a hook in the strap button ?
I keep thinking, why doesn’t Pat make an acoustic guitar?