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A Week in the Shop
13 Aug 2023 - älgen, delfinen, 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.
![Two guitar bodies are mounted on a rack in the wall of the workshop, the lower one is painted in white primer, and the upper one has black primer around the sides, the top being covered with a cardboard screen.](/blog/2023/08/13/a-week-in-the-shop/IMG_4920_hu2c30edcec413dbfaea4852b23a7bb78f_1470151_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Week in the Shop
5 May 2023 - delfinen, emily hopkins, harp, hästen, jigs, routing, templates, verkstaden
A quick review of all the in-progress guitar builds, a bunch of progress on the offset build, putting an excessively complicated jig to use, and finally some fun facts about harps.
![Three work in progress guitars sit on a workbench, each a body with a neck beside it. All are raw wood and unfinished. The left body has pickup cavities and a neck pocket cut, and the neck is just roughly shaped with a template on top. The middle one is the most complete, with the neck fretted and all the body holes cut. The right body has only a neck pocket but no other holes init, but the neck is fretted and otherwise complete.](/blog/2023/05/07/a-week-in-the-shop/IMG_4049_huf968271080127ef1d04681f49cf4014b_2517426_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Week in the Shop
6 Mar 2023 - 3D-printing, älgen, birthday, laser-cutting, telecaster, templates
Rushed weeknotes for a rushed week: I make some progress on älgen, meet the real version of what it's named after, and spend far too long nursing a laser-cutter.
![The pub sign for The Duke of Cumberland which shows a painting of a 17 or 18th century duke playing a Fender Telecaster with a jazz ensemble behind him.](/blog/2023/03/05/a-week-in-the-shop/duke_hu67dc0d9c5e713f56eb2569a30fab4bbd_4101494_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Week Out the Shop
26 Feb 2023 - archtop, bhm, cad, delfinen, fusion 360, rendering, templates, verkstaden
A week spent paying off some CAD debt to fuel the workshop time, and a look at another builder of some amazing archtop guitars.
![A 3D render of my älgen guitar design, which has a central wooden core that starts as the neck and continues the full length of the body, and then has a 3D printed latice either side where the guitar body would usually be.](/blog/2023/02/26/a-week-out-the-shop/%C3%A4lgen_hu2afce03468a7c053ab4c37b1753c5583_6496152_150x150_fit_box_3.png)
A Week in the Shop
1 Oct 2022 - 3d printing, älgen, delfinen, sanding, templates
Lots of sanding and tidying on my Älgen guitar build as it gets ready for finishing, some last minute template redesigns, and I learn how to use a new 3D printed.
![](/blog/2022/10/01/a-week-in-the-shop/IMG_2833_hu913e07962c00f3207525a0ddbe8ea93b_2445506_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Week in and out the Shop
19 Sep 2022 - 3d printing, älgen, delfinen, ferrules, fusion 360, jigs, laser cutting, patching, templates
A week of having more questions than answers as try to push the Delfin build forward.
![](/blog/2022/09/19/a-week-in-the-shop/template_huca79780bb9061212cb315522581c426c_2831603_150x150_fit_box_3.png)
A week in the shop
12 Jun 2022 - 3d printing, älgen, delfinen, templates, thingiverse
My Älgen build finally starts to become a guitar in my eyes, fun with 3D prints, and so so much sanding.
![](/blog/2022/6/12/a-week-in-the-shop/IMG_1898_hu7db7abf2133a775d5bfbe2d155a7b05d_901343_150x150_fit_box.png)
A week in the shop
15 May 2022 - älgen, delfinen, fusion 360, jigs, laser cutting, templates
Dealing with 3D print shrinkage; looking at the tiny design details users will never see; how a damaged guitar body leads to a better design; and just what makes a guitar a Michael Dales guitar?
![](/blog/2022/5/15/a-week-in-the-shop/IMG_1633_hu00f581fe57aaf657747417f8d17f6493_924275_150x150_fit_box.png)
A return to the shop
2 May 2022 - 3D printing, älgen, fusion 360, jigs, laser cutting, palm router, templates
After a hiatus due to reasons, I'm finally getting time back in the workshop. This week mostly redesigning my tooling after some initial setbacks on my hybrid guitar.
![](/blog/2022/5/2/a-return-to-the-shop/IMG_1348_hucd5fb38077679554662f579f8db16459_854828_150x150_fit_box.png)