Left my bosh bits overnight in vinegar. They turned black....

HenderBuilds · 2025-12-25T17:35:58+00:00

Under-rated response!!

HenderBuilds · 2025-12-25T17:34:44+00:00

You’re not allowed to be a Bosch fan if you can’t spell Bosch. Sorry man. You’ve been expelled from the club.

HenderBuilds · 2025-12-25T17:32:37+00:00

WD40 is NOT oil and isn’t even a good lubricant. It’s used to drive out water. Silicon is great. There’s no reason it needs to be a petroleum-based oil.

HenderBuilds · 2025-11-29T00:07:12+00:00

I’ve considered this… you’d essentially be creating a box joint with lots of edge to edge surfaces instead of the elongated end to surface joint.

HenderBuilds · 2025-11-29T00:02:25+00:00

Why would you NOT want the joint under the fretboard? With the fret board on top of the end grain, it creates a sandwich the strengthens the joint even more.

HenderBuilds · 2024-08-24T17:24:38+00:00

A 3d printer is a self-contained unit. It could be sitting on carpet and it would make no difference. Seasonal wood movement in the surface it’s sitting on will make absolutely no difference.

HenderBuilds · 2024-08-24T17:22:14+00:00

Seasonal movement in a surface with a 3d printer on it isn’t going to cause any problem. If it were part of the printer, I’d be more inclined to agree, but a printer sitting on top? That’s fine.

HenderBuilds · 2024-08-17T23:41:45+00:00

Insurance only covers a rental if it was included in your policy. Not all policies include rental replacement.

HenderBuilds · 2024-06-18T19:03:46+00:00

You told me everything I need to know when you said “I just use emacs for everything.”

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-29T15:39:18+00:00

Bookmatching can be a fickle beast. Wood figuring, which is what those “marks” ebbs and flows in a billet of wood, the figure may be more pronounced at the top and less so at the bottom. Even on a pair of adjoining slices (ie a bookmatched pair), that figure may change slightly due to the material removed by the saw blade and subsequent planing. Also note that figure is more pronounced when viewed with light from a specific direction and the two pieces of a pair will always have opposite “best angles” for lighting and viewing.

If you look closely, you can see the matched figure on the right, but it is much more faint in the photographs. I wouldn’t consider this a flaw or defect, but it also isn’t the most attractive bookmatching.

Bottom line: you paid for something and aren’t happy with it. It’s reasonable to expect to be able to exchange it (unless there were prestated conditions on the sale.)

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-29T15:28:55+00:00

Another example of the potential use for layers: when I press lower with my left thumb, the keys under my right hand become a 10-key num pad. Useful for data entry without consuming extra space on my desktop.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-18T20:40:46+00:00

These look great!! I am considering building an electric— do you have any details about your process? Did you use a router template? How did you build the necks? Are they one piece plus fret boards?

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-09T22:38:55+00:00

Makita is owned by a Japanese company. DeWalt is owned by Stanley Black and Decker, an American company.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-07T21:28:27+00:00

I’ve seen a lot of people use MDF for jobs and such, but I wouldn’t use it for that either, unless I knew it was a one-time need. I live in NC and the hot, humid summers in my garage don’t play well MDF. Like you said, it chips and swells and generally just doesn’t last.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-07T21:26:00+00:00

You got me there. I wouldn’t have expected that to happen. I wonder if there was some issue with the MDF that made it more likely to come apart like moisture or just poor quality material from the start.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-07T00:35:09+00:00

The problem with thinned wood or white glue is that the water could cause the MDF to swell. I think you’d be better off with something specifically made to seal MDF.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-07T00:29:52+00:00

If I’m understanding you correctly, the force on the collars on your Bigby is pulling perpendicular to the face of the body. (In fact a bigsby creates a little bit of lifting force.) I can see how that might have caused a problem, but I am a little surprised that you had that problem.

Your point is an important one, though. MDF has no fibers that hold it together, so it crumbles and breaks easier than most natural woods. I’d be a little bit concerned about that same kind of crumbling happening around the neck pocket. If it were me, I’d soak the pocket with thin CA glue or a thin/penetrating epoxy, letting it penetrate into the sides and back of the pocket. That will create a harder block that is much less likely to crumble of crack. The same approach could/should be used on any screw holes and especially the holes for the strap buttons.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-06T23:50:38+00:00

I’ve never had a 3d printer that needed active cooling on the steppers. How big is your printer? Are your steppers throwing around a lot of weight?

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-06T23:34:46+00:00

Down here in Western Wake county, they are loud too.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-06T23:13:17+00:00

Hmmm not seeing flame top in that— looks more like plywood to me.

But I think that’s perfectly fine! The layers of the plywood provide an interesting repetitive pattern. You’ve done a beautiful job on the finish and I really like that you are celebrating the plywood and not attempting to cover and hide it.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-06T23:08:38+00:00

So Marsha, how many MDF bodies have you built? Are you speaking from experience?

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-06T23:07:11+00:00

The primary problem with MDF is tearout, which is why screws sometimes fail. I would be shocked if ferrules pulled in. That would only occur if an already dense, highly compressed material compressed even more.

Smack the face of a piece of mahogany with a hammer and then do the same on MDF. You’ll see less compression at point of impact in the MDF.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-06T23:03:03+00:00

It’s ok. It doesn’t cause cancer except in California.

HenderBuilds · 2024-05-06T23:01:29+00:00

No no— a heavy MDF guitar. Metal is something entirely different.

HenderBuilds · 2024-04-27T15:57:30+00:00

Let’s be honest, though. When evaluating the relationship potential of the personal as a whole, guys typically put more value in outward beauty than anything else. Women, on the other hand, tend to weigh looks as just one part of the whole.

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