Recent content by Limpet

Hi Ross As a guitar maker ( hobbyist ) I would be interested in acquiring some 2 inch sycamore, but preferably curly/flamed if you have it. Although I can also use the plainer stuff. I don`t do the furniture thing so I don`t need a vast amount and storage for me is a problem so I wouldn`t be...

A couple of pics of my home made drum sander.

As you are spraying and finishing with cellulose then you could do worse than give Behlen Vinyl Sealer a try. link

No plans as such, just scribbled some sketches down one evening and worked from there. Obviously it was modified a bit as I went along but not too much and it seems to work okay. I still only have rough sketches to hand but I suppose I could generate some working plans/drawings if required. As...

Well I`ve had a few goes at editing the link but to no avail. It`s gotta be me, I`ll come back to it later when I`ve looked for some instructions on how to do it. Cheers Limpet Huzzaaahhhhh. Success at last. But I`ll try to size them a bit smaller in the future :oops:

Thanks for the info OPJ

At the school where I work we have a Boxford CNC router. Some of the bits that were supplied with it were made by Trend and all of these were of the Pro variety. These all had plenty of use and of course were intermittently broken but to be fair this was usually when machining acrylic sheet. The...

Hello there, I also looked at drum sanders for a while but thought they were a bit too expensive so I made my own. The idea was to accomodate guitar tops backs and sides etc. As such it will sand about 450mm wide and from about 30mm in thickness down to zero. I hope the picture works and if...

I agree. I have owned a Binks Bullows 222 for many years ( from the days when I used to mess about with cars ), and have found it performs well as long as it is cleaned thoroughly after use. The only caveat I would point out is that as it is a suction feed it works fine when there is plenty of...