JBag09
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- Aug 31, 2014
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Don't really start many of my own posts, kind of new here and Festool. Have been using it for just over a year and can totally understand how all of us get sucked in to buying one thing after another. All I wanted was a ts55 req to break down sheet goods. So let's see where has that taken me; Domino 500, OF1400, LS130, ETS125, RTS400, MFT/3, CT36, numerous clamps and accessories, and soon to be added Kapex, which I cannot say no to with the new promotion going on. This has all made my life in the shop much easier, faster, and the best part, cleaner.
So for the past 2 months I've been building these guitar cabinets. The wood originally came from a local state forest that had trees taken down by hurricane Sandy a few years back. Not sure how it all came about, but the lumber ended up coming through our Sawmill at Martin Guitar where I've worked for over 20 years. Was Norway Spruce, Red Oak, White Oak, and Ash. I resawed all of the lumber need to produce 2 custom guitars currently being built, tops, backs, sides, braces, blocks, fingerboards, bridges. As well as getting to final cut a lot of the custom binding out of the various woods. I've somewhat become the person who always has to make something out of nothing [big grin] That's what makes it kinda fun to work in the area I work in, get to use my woodworking ability and my brain to figure out how and what can be made out of some of the strangest exotic and RAREST woods in the world. To me it's much more enjoyable to make the parts, rather than assembly. But that's just my opinion.
After I had all the parts cut there was quite a bit of lumber left over, some 4/4 and some 1/2. I asked what they were going to do with what's left, the response was, "we'll probably just throw it out"! WHAT! So I suggested I could make some display cabinets for these guitars and all I asked for them was my name on them if anyone asked who did them. You know, have to keep work coming in so I can use my Festools [big grin].
So here's what I came up with. Wasn't an easy project as I had to figure EVERYTHING out to make sure there would be enough lumber for everything. Nothing is plywood, all solid Ash. Sanded down to 320 and finished with GF gel poly. Now to just deliver them and wait for the guitars to be completed and displayed in the museum and state forest environmental center, and know this is what I can accomplish with the right tools.
First picture is what I had to start with. Oh and thats just my guitar inside to make sure everything fit and was sized properly.
So for the past 2 months I've been building these guitar cabinets. The wood originally came from a local state forest that had trees taken down by hurricane Sandy a few years back. Not sure how it all came about, but the lumber ended up coming through our Sawmill at Martin Guitar where I've worked for over 20 years. Was Norway Spruce, Red Oak, White Oak, and Ash. I resawed all of the lumber need to produce 2 custom guitars currently being built, tops, backs, sides, braces, blocks, fingerboards, bridges. As well as getting to final cut a lot of the custom binding out of the various woods. I've somewhat become the person who always has to make something out of nothing [big grin] That's what makes it kinda fun to work in the area I work in, get to use my woodworking ability and my brain to figure out how and what can be made out of some of the strangest exotic and RAREST woods in the world. To me it's much more enjoyable to make the parts, rather than assembly. But that's just my opinion.
After I had all the parts cut there was quite a bit of lumber left over, some 4/4 and some 1/2. I asked what they were going to do with what's left, the response was, "we'll probably just throw it out"! WHAT! So I suggested I could make some display cabinets for these guitars and all I asked for them was my name on them if anyone asked who did them. You know, have to keep work coming in so I can use my Festools [big grin].
So here's what I came up with. Wasn't an easy project as I had to figure EVERYTHING out to make sure there would be enough lumber for everything. Nothing is plywood, all solid Ash. Sanded down to 320 and finished with GF gel poly. Now to just deliver them and wait for the guitars to be completed and displayed in the museum and state forest environmental center, and know this is what I can accomplish with the right tools.
First picture is what I had to start with. Oh and thats just my guitar inside to make sure everything fit and was sized properly.
