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A Week in the Shop
10 May 2024 - cleaning, hästen, nut carving, verkstaden
An exciting week in the shop as a new guitar gets strings for the first time, I tidy up a neck on another build, and I find out how dirty old rosewood fretboards can really get.
A Week in the Shop
2 May 2024 - hästen, measure, measure, cut, routing, verkstaden
A week of highs and lows in the workshop, as I try to push forward again with two stalled builds.
Workshop Catch-up: Verkstaden
15 Feb 2024 - painting, spraying, verkstaden
Continuing the catch-up series: Verkstaden goes through the process of getting a gloss finish, and I end up making some costly mistakes along the way.
A Couple of Weeks in the Shop
A Week in the Shop
31 Oct 2023 - delfinen, finishing, fretwork, hästen, verkstaden
Putting in the time: nothing new this week, just a week of getting on with the jobs I started previously in the workshop, with more staining, more oiling, and more fret-dressing and polishing.
A Week in the Shop
A Week in the Shop
15 Oct 2023 - correcting, deflinen, glue, hästen, staining, verkstaden
Last week we had a failed attempt to stain a guitar body, and this week we get to work saving the instrument from the rework pile.
A Couple of Weeks in the Shop
1 Oct 2023 - Delfinen, Hästen, Laser-etching, Logo, Painting, Verkstaden, Westfield
A lot going on in the workshop as I try to push the three ongoing guitar builds towards finishing, and I get re-united with the instrument that is somewhat responsible for all this.
A Brief Week in the Shop
20 Aug 2023 - delfinen, hästen, painting, spray-booth, verkstaden
Making some scary holes in one guitar body, getting two more further along the spray-painting process, and getting very excited about how one of them in particular looks.
A Week in the Shop
13 Aug 2023 - âlgen, deflined, hästen, OSHCamp, painting, spray-booth, templates, toothbrush, verkstaden, wuthering bytes
A busy day in the workshop, including finally learning how to spray paint bodies using the booth and spray-gun, and prepping my talk for OSHCamp at the end of the month.