Recent content by johnbaz

I'm afraid I haven't scavenged parts from a Rolex, I do have two very old Rolex movements though!, One says Rebberg on, These were made for Rolex but to a very high standard! I also have a few that are named as Rolex tradenames (They had over 50!!), Names like Unicorn, Tudor, Rolco etc, I've not...

It got so bad with me that I sold my parts cleaning machine as everyone at work brought a watch for me to 'do' at some time or other, I was scared to death in case I damaged them beyong repairing so I got shut of my tools then could tell people that I don't have them any more :giggle: It was a...

The op seems to have been royally shafted by the company he bought the watch from :( I started collecting watches when I was 16, This is around half of what I have, Most of the rest were non runners that I used to scavenge parts from before my fingers became too arthritic and started dropping...

That's a smashing resto job! :love: I have an old Wolf 1hp buffing machine, Had it for many years, When I was going to use it last year the switch broke, When I looked at the switch on the connection side i'd never seen one like it!, There are two positions for off and two positions for on...

Hi I have this ancient Faircut Senior set up in the garage but the bed is worn, It's very difficult to parallel turn on as when the gib strips are adjusted at the live end, The carriage won't back off (Wear is at the headstock end), If I adjust the gib strips at the dead end then there's chatter...

Had five mins on this acoustic then leaned it against a cabinet for a minute to do something else then turned around and walked in to it, It went down on to a laminate floor! It's a fairly clean break so should glue and clamp up fine! john :)

Hi all Dragging up an old thread, I 'won' one of these ole heavyweight Bandsaws on fleabay auction for fifty quid some years ago! My lads were both out when I brought it home so I had to get it out of the car by myself (Two big strapping young lads loaded it in to my car), I could only just...

I used to do a bit of skip diving at work as some good stuff ended up in the scrap bins outside our maintenance! The last thing I brought home was hundreds of HSS twist drills, Most of them hadn't been used! Some dignitary was visiting so they cleared the maintenance dept up and binned...

It's a machine block for holding large workpieces for drilling etc.. Here's a rendundant radial arm drill with a machineblock, It used to be used for drilling railway castings at my company, It's probably gone for scrap now, I finished late in 2020 due to after effects of covid!.. John (y)

I would have no idea what to do with a tenor guitar Chris!, I've seen a couple for sale years ago and they looked beautiful instruments but I didn't go for one as I didn't know tunings or even if I could find something to learn to play! ☺ John (y)

It's actually the name of the bass that goes inside (y) :)

Hi Tony Here's an old (1960) Hofner President that I picked up many years ago from the bootsale for just £30, It had the price stuck to the headstock, I could see the H and R of Hofner and thought it was a Hohner!! On the way back to my car a lad asked if he could have a look so I removed it...

Hi Andrew The maker suggested something similar, He called it " reprogramming the wood", He said it was kind of re training it to the original shape it was meant to be and that he'd done it successfully with antique furniture but also said that it doesn't always work! John (y)

Hi Chris I watched loads and loads of video's on youtube of American Luthiers (twoodfrd and Jerry at Rosa string works), I find it so interesting to watch how they do the neck resets and removing the backs and refitting them! I don't think a neck reset would be as difficult as with most of my...

Hi all I was looking through the marketplace on Facey when I caught a glimpse of a very nice looking acoustic being sold among other really low quality guitars, Encore, Elevation, Martin Smith etc, The prices were from £30 up! I messaged the fella enquiring about the price, He said £30, I...