Recent content by thick_mike

Cannot recommend this huge resource enough. It’s full of knowledge, tips and tricks for instrument repair generously shared by a highly skilled luthier who specialises in repair. http://frets.com/FretsPages/pagelist.html

Frets.com is a great resource for this sort of thing: http://frets.com/FretsPages/Luthier/Technique/Guitar/Structural/NewBridgePlate/newbrplt1.html it’s over several pages, so you’ll need to click “more” at the bottom of the page.

Another vote for Kum Long Point sharpeners. I got banned from taking mine into school. The kids all started stabbing each other with their impressively sharpened pencils

Not sure if there is anything specific on there that will help, but I’d like to flag up the brilliant Frets.com page which has a wealth of step by step guides written and photographed by a very skilled professional luthier on all aspects of stringed instruments. The page is one of the best...

That’s like UEA on steroids

Can you take away the pain, but leave the swelling?

I did very similar with a 2tpi rip saw I’d just sharpened. For some inexplicable reason I had my thumb just under the slot as I ripped a board to test it out. Caught the thumb nail between the wood and the saw and left a deep jagged rip straight through the thumbnail and deep into the nail bed...

Hifi wigwam has always been a good source of information on all things Hi-Fi and music related. They have a healthy DIY section with plinth and speaker builds. Here’s my 401 plinth https://www.hifiwigwam.com/forum/topic/116980-new-plinth-for-my-401/

This looks like it might be a good use for broken cheap vices on the other thread.

Draw knife is definitely the right tool...have another go. They are great fun to use too.one of my favourite tools.

Car body paint is usually applied in several coats; electrocoat, primer, base coat and clear. It is also baked at 150C for half an hour. The plastic components are painted elsewhere and applied in three coats; primer, basecoat and 2 pack clear then baked at 80C for half an hour. The electrocoat...

I have attached a couple of heavy backless plywood shelving units to walls using a hidden French cleat system.

Where are you? I have a couple that I have never and will never use. You are welcome to them for free, but they would need some repair I think (wobbly handle, surface rust). I’ll dig them out and see if they’re still ok if you’re anywhere in the beds/herts/bucks area (I’m near Leighton Buzzard...

My dad refers to the brown lab coats as “cow gowns”

Use a handsaw. Seriously, it will be quick, accurate and safer. Japanese pull saw would be my choice.