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Our Eldest started his luthering by firstly building his bench; those vice parts look very familiar..! He's just finished his second, commissioned, Build (he's out right now, delivering it; I'll post photos when I can...), and his bench, and the vice, work very well. You'll not be breaking that any time soon..! Here's the lad micro-planing a part for one of my model 'planes... ... and here's the first guitar he built, for himself...

This is going to be a rehash of what's on BC up until today, new posts will be made when new stuff happens Plus it fills up GC and keeps @ped happy... So, I have an old Red Bull GP workshop bench that my dad aquired (with permission and help!) from a skip behind the factory. Apparently, the new season had a new factory sponsor so they replaced all of the benches etc. The guy my dad knew who worked there got a beech blockboard bench from the "scrap" 1m x 2m x 70mm. The same size as mine, but mine isn't block board. It's melamine faced something. They couldn't find matching legs for it, so I replaced one of them with a pair of square frames joined to make a 1m cube. I have an old engineers vice fitted over the middle leg. So far so as it was. I now want to get into doing more woodwork, picture frames, little boxes, ultimately a door or two () so I need a woodworking vice.

Good evening, Norm, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Yes, synthetic wine often has that effect. ...

Yeah, but one has to show GC love too.

This is a copy n paste direct from BC: 1) It's solid AF. I can't make it rack front to back, side to side is a bit sloppier. 2) It's as near square as dammit lengthwise. Vertically from the bench top not so much unfortunately. 3) The individual sets of two laminations are four square, which I'm very happy with. As full units they're not great, the back leg in particular is very out on the cut dimension. 4) It's a little short as pointed out. I had always planned to make it the same size as the bench top excluding the edging, but why, I don't know. There's no reason to have done that, except, and this is in hindsight rather that being planned, it can have a removable fixed jaw plate which can be swapped if it gets tatty. Saves having to repair the leg proper, but I've only just thought of it. In general, I'm happy with what I've made. Yes, more care could have been taken, more thought should certainly have gone into it but I've learnt a lot and I've enjoyed doing it. The next step is cutting the chop, no idea why it's called that, and making the cross. Cutting the chop will have to be done by hand, I don't have a powered saw and I don't see why I should go to Hagebau and buy another board just becase they can cut it into 60mm strips for me. The sawing and planing practice will be good for me. It'll be laminated the same as the legs, but I'll cut the mortise first this time and dowel the laminates whilst gluing to make sure they don't float on the glue. That's you on GC up to date with what I've been up to. I'll add more as I make more sawdust/firewood... Oh, and to steal a quote from the doyen of BC Build Diaries, @Andyjr1515, this is how I'm doing it. It doesn't necessarily follow that this is a) the right way, b) the only way, or c) it'll ultimately even work. (Though even I can manage to post on two foruii at once and not put dirty guitar builds on BC... )

Mmm..! Tea..!

Thanks for the 'Pask Makes'; I'll scour through that later. Meanwhile, I, too, am, sitting back, preparing the popcorn.

I've come to the conclusion that I like any build diary, no matter what's being built. I'm pulling up my virtual armchair and tucking into ethernet popcorn.

Ha..! I am the proud possessor of a Daisy Rock Retro 12-string... ...and a fine guitar it is, too..! Bought second-hand from a bloke in Holland, for a very modest price, and a staple of my humble 'collection' of instruments. Daisy Rock are maybe aimed, demographically, at girls, but they are real guitars, not toys.