) have found my "favourite tool" post & cobbled it back together. Along the same nosey lines though, I wondered if there was any job you really don't enjoy or can't wait to get onto the next bit, when making guitars?I think for me it would have to be the levelling & dressing of frets for the first time. I've always had a dislike for repetitive jobs ever since my apprenticeship where you got all the crappy production work so if there was a machine that could level,re-crown then polish the frets to a level I would be satisfied with while I had a cold one, I think I'd be bloody near the front of the line to buy one.
Fortunately as my technique has improved I've gotten to a point where I don't have too much leveling work to do but it still requires repetitiveness & time to do the rest.
I think the recrowning & especially the polishing is the bit that makes it less attractive to me Jim. Did my time as a tool & diemaker in pre CNC days so plastic moulds had to be polished to a mirror finish by hand, this was a process that could take up to 2 months (depending on the size of the mould) so everyday was the same...rubbing bits of metal with increasing grades of paper & diamond paste, used to drive me nuts with boredom. So even the thought of 21 little frets induces a chill.
Just seen your signature Aidan 
Never a truer word spoken (or written in this case).
