This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 3 – Change of plans. Time to glue it all up. My worbbench/outfeed/assembly table has a torsion box top so it makes a good surface for gluing something like this up. I have a 1/8″ thick piece of hardboard that serves as a sacrificial top but I would still prefer […]
This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 2 – Gluing up the top. After gluing up half of the top, I repeated the process and got the other half glued up as well. Once it was dry I joined them together with glue and biscuits just like I did for the individual boards.
This is a continuation of Workbench Part 1 – Milling down some 2 x 4s. We got another snow day so this gave me an opportunity to work some more on my wife’s workbench. Now that the boards have all been milled down, it’s time to start gluing them together. For this project, I knew I was
This is an update to my original post titled Making a guitar pick from a cracked cymbal. I learned a few things since making that first pick. Here’s what I did differently. First, I decided to trace an outline of the pick using an awl. This works better since the red Sharpie kept getting rubbed off
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Update: I created a follow-up post with a few things I did differently. You can find that here. I started with the remnant from a cut-down cymbal. I chose a cut-off from a Zildjian A Custom 10″ Splash because of how thin it was and how it didn’t have much of a bow to it.
My wife is a lot like me in that she likes to make stuff. She wants a workbench for her studio. The design we are thinking of consists of a one-inch thick top and a metal pipe framework for the legs. I’m going to worry about the legs later, but for now (since we had
I was asked by a friend of mine to cut down her pair of 12″ Wuhan China (or “Lion” cymbals, as they call them) into a smaller set to use as hand cymbals. There was one slight problem. Years ago when I first got into repairing cymbals I took my own version of the
A while ago I sat in at an open mic and got to play on the house drum kit. It actually belongs to Bill Gates (he’s not THE Bill Gates; he’s A Bill Gates). The cymbals on this kit looked like molten gold. I’m a fan of shiny cymbals. I know a lot of the drummers out there say
The following is a training document that I put together for my coworkers. I have decided to share it here in case it helps anyone. What are dadoes Dadoes are slots, or non-through cuts, in material. They are “non-through” meaning that the blade doesn’t actually cut the material in two. Dadoes are defined as being
