Home made luthier/shop tools

drbassman · January 26, 2009, 06:05:34 AM

Shadow gave me a great idea. Let's post pictures/descriptions of our home made tools we use in our building/rehabbing shops. I'll kick things off with my home made fret press. It's a $49 Harbor Freight arbor press and a Stew Mac fret caul set up. Works great and I can use it to press other stuff as well.

drbassman · January 26, 2009, 06:08:26 AM

Here's my home made router table. I can even adjust the bit height from above with my 3/16" nut drive. Cost me $10 to make..............

Rvl · January 30, 2009, 08:18:49 PM

Gave me some good ideas
I have the workshop counter built , but need to build a wall and get it heated

Thanks

Robert VanLane

drbassman · January 31, 2009, 06:43:43 AM

there are so many things you can build yourself. I'm working on a buffing station now and will post pictures when I finish it.

drbassman · January 31, 2009, 08:27:53 AM

Here's the buffing station with the arbor attached. I ordered a 1/3 hp motor that comes in on Monday, then I'll mount that to the back of the stand and we're good to go!

Here are the 12" wheels from SM I'll use..............

uwe · February 05, 2009, 04:10:17 AM

I dread the - most certainly imminent here - pics of Scott's Saw II ...

$:-\$

drbassman · February 05, 2009, 05:48:00 AM

Quote from: uwe on February 05, 2009, 04:10:17 AM
I dread the - most certainly imminent here - pics of Scott's Saw II ... $:-\$

Yeah, and even better would be an action shot of the dismembering of some unsuspecting T-Bird!!!!!!!!!!!!

uwe · February 05, 2009, 06:32:22 AM

Yes, with a mad grin he would say to the bass, "now this might hurt just a little ..., but it's all for the sake of advancing your species ...". House of Pain.

drbassman · February 05, 2009, 06:54:41 AM

No pain, no gain, as they say in the NFL!

drbassman · February 07, 2009, 09:19:11 AM

I made some changes to my station. I decided it would be better to mount the motor directly below the arbor. Better location than trying to hang it off the back. So I cut pass through holes in the two shelves and now I have the motor mounted just under the second shelf. Gotta add a 58" fan belt and I'm finished!

shadowcastaz · February 16, 2009, 11:54:08 AM

This is my dust collector/ sanding station with the florescent light grill on top. doc,Im glad you started this because I needed to change my filters.

The front panel comes off of 4 threaded posts with wing nuts.

this motor I got from Grainger. It is basically a squirrel cage blower wired to a basic light switch on side.

this shows the 2 filter slots. 2 stage,coarse and fine . Basic 20"x20" furnace filters

Its pretty quiet. No louder than a window box fan on med...Oh yeah, it blows air towards the floor.

drbassman · February 21, 2009, 06:22:29 AM

Thanks Shadow, I'm definitely gonna make one of those for my shop. Also going to invest in a room dust collector to hang on the ceiling too. Just too much dust in there!

shadowcastaz · February 21, 2009, 07:26:10 AM

Id make the one like I did 1st. I found that along with shop vac attached to my sanders and my chip collector, leaving this on in a corner take care of all the dust in my shop. I built it for a dust collector and ended up using it for a sanding station a few years later. I keep mine in mid shop against a lolly column(sp)

drbassman · February 21, 2009, 09:05:18 AM

Quote from: shadowcastaz on February 21, 2009, 07:26:10 AM
Id make the one like I did 1st. I found that along with shop vac attached to my sanders and my chip collector, leaving this on in a corner take care of all the dust in my shop. I built it for a dust collector and ended up using it for a sanding station a few years later. I keep mine in mid shop against a lolly column(sp)

That's great, dual usage, I love it! Thanks.

drbassman · February 22, 2009, 09:05:41 AM

Hey Mike, what's the cfm rating on your blower?