Show us your shop and what your doing.

[Allen]

Since Hesh likes to show off his obsessive, compulsive clean fetish, and I broke down and had a major clean up of the garage, this is probably one of my only chances to show off my work space without it looking like a bomb went off in it. I like a clean shop, it's just not my priority.







I did get a little building done this weekend as well. I managed to finish a neck and get a coat of epoxy filler on it.







And braced, voiced and glued up a top.









This is an Engelman top and it comes in at 195 grams. 2.8 mm thick at the bridge and down to 2.6 around the lower bout. Bracing started out at 7 X 13 mm and shaped from there.

The yellow/orange streaking on the top is just a wash coat of shellac. I haven't decided if I'll give it a nice even coloring of this, or bring it back to the white base color. I haven't decided on binding yet, so it all a bit up in the air.

[Craig]

I'd call that a neat workshop Allen. All fairly organised and tons of room. Like the bike too !

In my opinion , a dark shellac will really suit that guitar . Goes with that beautiful rosette . That's going to be a striking guitar .

Fantastic work all round mate . Spotted the bottle of Bourbon too

Not much bench work I can show at the moment , but here are a couple of shots of my workshop I took some time ago . It is within our house , so can easily slip in given a spare moment.









And some of the view outside my workshop windows ;











Cheers, Craig

[Dave White]

Allen,

Nice workshop!! Is the motorbike part of your dust extraction system?

Nice work going on there too.

Nice views Craig.

[matthew]

Workshop today: Humidity close to 94%. That's sort of why I'm not gluing up the bass.



View from the Window ... inner suburban Sydney



What I am working on now - restoring a rustic (and rusty) indonesian harp/zither (celempung, cetar). a real home-made instrument painted in thick brown fence paint, nailed and screwed together with tin strapping for good measure.



I was asked to replace the pin block, the old pin block was either seized or the pins (rusty motorbike bike spokes) just spen in their holes.

Well, when I got the pin bock off ... well, the only way to get it off was to cut it off, and with it the 12mm plywood soundboard. So then I had to replace the soundboard.

The old soundboard was 12mm ply, with two backing pieces glued to the sides. I figured this was WAY over engineered, couldn't possibly vibrate, so I chopped out the backing pieces and braced the two sides from collapsing towards the centre with a bit of 2x1 pine.

Then I cut a lovely new cheap and cheerful soundboard from a piece of 4mm plywood and invented my own bracing design. And added a radical soundhole. Added "blocks" at top and bottom of the case, banged in the broken-off nails so I can have a glueing surface.

I'll glue the soundboard back on (radical) and screw the pin-block into the bottom block (radical) and restring the thing (using the original bicycle brake-cable strings). Using my (radical) silky-oak bridge and the original bridge wire (bent coathanger).

You can sort of see how it goes together in the first pic

It might work, there again it might collapse. Who knows? WHEEEEE!!!!

I should not have taken this job. It would have been quicker to make a completely new instrument.


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[Hesh1956]

I took a week off from building to do the final set-up on the SJ I showed in another thread.

But here is a shot of my shop, messy as it is, at the moment.

[Allen]

Hesh, the workshop looks great, but I don't see any room for the motorbike? Whats with that?

Great looking workspaces guys.

[Sam Price]

great pics, and nice to see all that greenery...long time since I've seen leaves on the trees..........

[kiwigeo]

Pics of my shop...not that its getting much use at the moment.

[Hesh1956]

great pics, and nice to see all that greenery...long time since I've seen leaves on the trees..........

Me too Sam and I am appreciating this too.

Allen your shop looks pretty spotless to me - want a referral to a shrink?

Matthew's shop looks like a great space to spend time in.

In fact all of the shops pictured look much cleaner and better laid out then most of the shops I have seen elsewhere.

Good going guys.

[Lillian]

Craig, any houses for sale in your neck of the woods?

[Allen]

It's only that clean 'cause the missus spit the dummy and I had to knuckle down and give it about 5 hours of a tidy up. She even made me vacuum...what's it coming to when a fella has to vacuum his shed

[Dave White]

...what's it coming to when a fella has to vacuum his shed

Is that an Ozzie euphamism?

[Craig]

G'day Lillian,

There aren't many houses in my neck of the woods, but send me all your money and I'll see what I can do . ( Meeting up with Kim in Borneo )

Cheers ,Craig

[Lillian]

Aah, sure, you can be our agent.


Be willing to help us immigrate too?

[Allen]

...what's it coming to when a fella has to vacuum his shed

Is that an Ozzie euphamism?

You bet, and I think it's a pretty accurate and funny one.