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Hi Nigel Is this for acoustic or electric guitars? (or both) Cheers Steve

I thought I should share this experience of Makita service care. Last week I stupidly kicked the catch of my Makita drill case. This was 100% my fault. A moment of absent mindedness in heavy boots. The drill is over three years old. I sent an email to Makita and told them what I'd done and...

Sounds like another trip to the library :lol:

You chatty man you!

Hey James, I am reading this one at the moment: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Workbenches-Des ... t_ep_dpt_1 which I think is excellent. I'd give it 5 stars. I will be building a bench with the knowledge I have acquired from reading it. It takes you through the build of the classic English bench...

If it's a Macbook lead, Apple will probably replace it FOC. Mine went and I took it to the Apple Store and they gave me a new one.

Russell, good on you for opening up this subject. 1 in 4 people will suffer with some kind of mental illness at some stage in their life. I know how people don't get it when they find out someone has depression. People telling you to cheer up is not that helpful. It is a nasty illness and...

That sounds helpful, John. I sent off for a 16mm plug cutter last night, so I will be able to fill the holes if that is the route I go down. I think I'll take Phil.p's advice and not touch the project until next week, when hopefully all of these ideas will settle into a plan. In the...

That's a very sweet looking top Jim. What is it? I've just had a brain wave (well sort of) and I think I have come up with a solution that will save me the risk of making everything worse. Making everything worse is a special talent of mine. I have just opened the holes out to 5/8ths" with a...

Spot on. I don't have a plug cutter so I'll do some shopping! Thanks very much for the assistance. It is what this forum is about isn't it :D Steve

I might then be better filling the holes, which won't be visible and gluing strips of wood to deal with the round-over and maybe routing that over with a smaller radius cutter - what you think? Steve

I am nearing the end of a telecaster guitar build, so as you can guess I am starting to get cocky and the errors have been creeping in. One such error was to round over the back of the neck socket with a 9mm round-over cutter, when I already knew that I should leave that and hand sand it to...

Thanks for that John - CS seems to question the flex in the thinner work bench top. Mine won't be 8' long, unless my boss (ie wife) would let me have a bigger workshop (mine's 12' x 8'), so I was wondering if closer ribs would compensate in a shorter 5'6"is top. If this works, I can build a...

Check out the Sip 12 & 14" Bandsaw review in last month's (month before's?) copy of the Woodworker. They were of the view that they were pretty good and represented very good value for money.

They were internal doors, but still had quite a few random screws in them where there didn't seem to be any cause for screws! Marcros - I don't think my final bench will be recognisable as Schwartz's bench, but it's a useful starting place;)

I have just reclaimed four 1" x 12" douglas fir 6' boards from a pair of old doors. They have been painted and stripped (burnt off not chemically stripped). The boards are about 100 years old and appear to be very stable. I was thinking of using them in a work bench I am planning to build...

We had some external doors made from Sapele and you'd be surprised how much movement there has been. To such an extent that we had to increase the gaps in our t&g boards on the garage doors, as over a large door the movement is magnified.

I seem to have sorted the tracking well enough to cut an old piece of scrap into a see through veneer. My vernier callipers tell me this is between .8 - 1.2 mm. I could do better with more effort. See photos

Douglas The inca euro 205 is direct drive, so i don't think one can rule out looking at the motor. Steve

By the way, mine has virtually no vibes running and is pretty quiet - I have a different motor to yours, but I can't see that being the difference. Whenever I buy an old piece of machinery, I always forget that if it has been used for 15 years it may require more TLC than a new one. If you...