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jshelton5040
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RE: Workflow and Questions (in reply to HemeolaMan)
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ORIGINAL: HemeolaMan What is your workflow process? I know this is complex. If it helps, choose a particular guitar or batch of guitars and describe the order in which you did the various steps in constructing it. I always start with neck blanks usually 4-6 at a time, then select and join the tops, sand to thickness and install rosettes. Once this is done I know the dimension needed to inlet the top into the neck, cut that and bend the sides. Once the sides are joined to the neck (we don't attach the top first like most makers) the sides are tapered and linings installed (always solid). While this is happening the fan braces are being glued in the go-bar deck. From there on it's obvious. I like to do things in batches like making linings, bindings, neck blanks, fingerboards, overlays, bridges, etc. Always at least 4 at a time since it saves a lot of set up time. I cut fret slots on the table saw with a setup that was shown on the foro a year or so ago this allows cutting slots in 4 fingerboards in just a few minutes with great accuracy. quote:
Secondly, how do you prepare your bracing stock? some prefer splitting, others sawing. What’s your take and why? Split billets, jointed flat and sawn into sheets. The sheets are sanded to exactly 7mm high then the individual braces are sawn and sanded to exactly 4mm wide. I like this method since all my braces end up perfectly quartered and of uniform dimension. It makes shaping them much easier. quote:
Thirdly, What are some ways you keep your shop organized? I personally am a complete mess and would love to know how you manage to keep things straight If you have a co-worker it becomes essential that tools be put away when you're finished with them. It avoids conflict. Once that rule is established keeping the place tiny and clean just seems to follow logically. We have a vacuum in the assembly area and another in the machine tool area (we call that the dirty shop). It makes it so much easier to have a vacuum handy so you can immediately clean the area when a process is done. I'm much too clumsy to allow debris to get under foot and don't like a cluttered bench since it always seems to end up causing a ding on a guitar.
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