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Think yourselves lucky you only have valentines day to worry about, I also have her birthday to worry about tomorrow and this year is the BIG half century 😳. She thinks I've forgotten, she's gonna be gobsmacked when she finds out I've arranged a surprise party at the pub across the road 😎😎😎😎😎

I know the feeling. I have birthday on the 12th, V day on the 14th and Anniversary on the 19th. On the other hand though it does mean I dont need to remember any dates as I get warnings from both my mum and her mum about her birthday and then I know I have the other 2 to deal with also! Lol
 
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Rosewood top les Paul style guitar finished except for a little fining of the nut work (and then the string excess will disappear).

Limba body, curly maple and walnut neck.

Scratch built, mostly with hand tools for better or worse.

Seymour duncan antiquity pickups, and metal key Grover tuners robbed off of some guy's new custom shop black lp custom.
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Finally finished my bookcase last night, I had most of it finished a few weeks ago, but still needed to make the drawers.

It's mostly made of birch plywood but the lipping and drawer fronts are solid birch. Quite happy with how it turned out. All plywood edges have been edgebanded and the finish is Osmo hardwax (matte).

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Some closeups:

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The drawers are Blum Movento Tip on (without soft close). They're quite nice, easy to adjust, but I'm still not a big fan of push to open drawers. Next time I'll probably design around it so I can use regular drawer slides.
 
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Wow. That is impressive. Is it flat or contoured top. How long did it take you?

It's carved/arch top - it's not asymmetrical or ugly, but that's something to improve on the next one (I contoured a little more of the belly out of the lower bout than an older les paul would have (as in, it's fine, but people expect a copy of a les paul when you're pretty close to copying one).

It took about a month and a half of a couple of hours a day - maybe 60 hours total as I worked a few extra hours on it some weekend afternoons and very early mornings.
 
Well aren’t we the romantic pair, I got her a tin of coffee! View attachment 129461
but she did start it. She told me when she was at work that a co-worker asked what did you get Glenn. And she said. We have each other for the last 30 years, that’s all we need!

And they say "Romance is dead"
I think we have shown them it's still alive and kicking :p
 
Glazed, top coated and installed my sash window prototype. Nothing very novel about it but I wanted to see if I could make one, how much effort it is, and how much performance from a slim 4-6-4 unit.
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I also wanted to replace one sash so that I could play with the old sash, seeing if I could extend/deepen the existing rebate to take a DGU. Possibly is the answer. But oh my god timber is not what it used to be. Windows are 147yrs old and the shavings smell amazing, so dark in comparison to todays timber.
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managed to get the saw on the cabinet. the sawdust was from cutting the wood for the cabinet even tho i had the shop vac on the back of the saw. hope the dust collection works as i hope! :)
 

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