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Borrowing from Ian Davlin, I’m calling this the Looth station.

As part of my shop reconfiguration project I’m simplifying a lot of things. I’m also hyper focused on keeping the main thing the main thing. That means anything not directly related to instrument building goes away. I don’t need plumbing elbows, door hinges, and paint rollers mixed in with StewMac tools. I also don’t need a sliding compound miter saw. So…..





I’ve always envied Ed’s swappable binding tower setup. Sounds like a perfect time to make one! I noticed that the LMI tower base and the Dewalt 611 sub base are almost the same size. I had to cut down the acrylic sub base by .007. To keep it centered I cut .0035 off each side. I used a transfer punch to mark the holes and drilled / tapped the sub base. Swapping between routers is with two thumb screws.























And I finally got to use the Festool mount for the Vacsys. It uses the same MFT channel as their workbenches and allows flipping the vacuum under the table and out of the way.





Getting close to being done with all the shop cleanup and getting back to building, you know….the main thing.

Brad


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Next level, Brad!!!

Right up my street!

I’m in the market for a set of transfer punches, any recommendations?

Best, M

I may have to come over sometime in December and see the revamped shop! It is all looking very impressive so far. Envious!

Thanks!

I bought a 28 pc Grizzly punch set that was recommended here. I think it was recommended by Terry Kennedy but won’t swear to it. It looks like it’s maybe discontinued now.

Grizzly G5651 Transfer Punch Set, 28-Piece https://a.co/d/iiUTiPs


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Very clean and organized, Brad. …unlike my shop. I haven’t seen a neck angle jig like that. What can you tell me about it?

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Steve Sollod (pronounced sorta like "Solid")
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Thanks, Steve. That’s the LuthierTool jig. It’s the same premise as the Robbie OBrien jig but uses a dial indicator to project the neck plane out to the saddle location and lets you set a very accurate and repeatable angle.

https://luthiertool.com/neck_angle_jig.html


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Someone is a neat freak Good to see.

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Excellent Brad!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Slick! The multi router binding setup is one of the biggest time savers I put in my shop. It’s predecessor was a single router where you’d have to switch rollers and do test cuts for every step…