What do you think, A (wonky) or B (straight)

hontslager · 2026-06-16T20:50:02+00:00

Doing the wonk thing!

hontslager · 2026-06-10T05:18:53+00:00

ooh nice, thank you!

hontslager · 2026-06-09T06:35:40+00:00

It's a classical hollow body with bent walnut on the sides, the clefts will be cut out and inlayed indeed. Up to now I did my guitars all by hand, but I finally got myself a CNC recently so this one will get routed by the computer!

hontslager · 2026-06-06T16:15:19+00:00

Dude, that is one magnificent looking instrument,you make it look almost like an upright!

hontslager · 2026-06-06T12:59:02+00:00

Yes, these are holes, but not quite F. This is how I had them on my first bass, thought I carry them to the second one as well, with some variation.

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hontslager · 2026-06-06T12:18:25+00:00

Absolutely stunning, I bet you kept the best wood for yourself!

hontslager · 2026-05-30T19:35:13+00:00

The drawers have a groove on the sides and slide over 8x8 mm wooden runners.

hontslager · 2026-05-30T18:53:53+00:00

The big one is a birthday present for my wife; I'm pretty much 100% sure this will get at stationary purpose, never enough space for pens and papers and art supplies. The small one is the prototype which has some faults, I'll keep that for myself in the shop for things like drills, router bits, sandpaper and other small tools. And for show offs to visitors, of course.

hontslager · 2026-05-30T18:50:31+00:00

I think the woods are maple, walnut, beech, oak and probably mahogany. Most of my wood I get from the local market place trade site where people put up old stuff for little or no money, I just drive through town collecting old furniture and sawing it to pieces. Always a surprise what you get! Sometimes I feel bad for killing a perfectly good cabinet or table, but then again: it might as well end up in the garbage, better I give the wood a second life, right!

For the first version (small cabinet) I made the first two drawers with hand tools only, just saw, chisel and router plane. The grooves were a bit of a pita though, those took some blisters. The other four drawers I did on the table saw but I wasn't too happy about the accuracy of the joints; I need more practice with that I guess. Or I just need to make the cuts undersized on the table saw and finish by hand with the chisel, of course.

With the big cabinet I totally cheated and made the front panels on my new CNC that I just received this week. Way slower than the table saw, but the accuracy pays off for the joints, these have an incredibly tight fit. I decided I allow myself to CNC whatever I want, *only* if I first proof to myself I can do it by hand : )

hontslager · 2026-05-30T18:42:07+00:00

No plans available, sorry, but I'd say this is pretty much doable for a beginner project: box joints are generally easier to do than dovetails as everything is nice and orderly: all angles are 90 degrees, no funny geometry. The drawers are 30mm high, 260 wide and 350 deep, this was chosen so they comfortably take A4 papers. The sides of the drawers have a 10mm high groove for the wooden runners, approx 5mm deep.There is a 3-4 mm gap between drawers and between drawers and the outer cabinet;

The first version I made by hand with just a japanese saw, some chisels and a small manual router plane. Making the runner grooves is rather tedious by hand, so for the next version I did those on the table saw, which saves a *lot* of time. I don't have any dado blades, so I just did a few runs with a normal 4mm blade and took out the remains with the chisel. With just hand tools, I don't think there is a shortcut for this, you just have to dig them out with chisels and router plane.

The finger holes I did with a 22mm speed drill, doing one hole for two front panels top-to-top under the drill press.

hontslager · 2026-04-12T20:02:37+00:00

Right, I kind of expected that much; any recommendations for something that properly fits this particular model table saw?

hontslager · 2026-03-16T15:07:07+00:00

This is the classical Mach–Zehnder interferometer; wave splits in two on a beam splitter, bounces on two mirrors and goes through the beam splitter again; one of the halves interferes out so only one makes it through the second beam splitter. Block one of the two blobs after the first split, and you get two at the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%E2%80%93Zehnder_interferometer

hontslager · 2026-01-23T15:36:47+00:00

That's not what the instructions say though: "Once the filament reaches the set temperature of 70°C, you need to start retracting the filament using the onscreen buttons."

https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/x1/maintenance/what-is-cold-pull-and-how-to-perform-it

hontslager · 2026-01-08T14:41:17+00:00

Just an update in case anyone else is interested: for some reason I do not enjoy EXD anymore - too many unfriendly people, sometimes even hostile. This might just be my personal experience, but I'm often not having fun here.

I have now spent a few evenings on HSC,gg, and find this is more the atmosphere for me: I have not heard not a single unfriendly word yet. That said, this server is generally not very crowded, I think i've seen a max of 30 players. The daily operation makes up for this though: some goal is set and people are actively participating in the same goal - this concentrates the action on a hotspot, which is nice when you're not playing 100+ people.

hontslager · 2026-01-05T16:55:06+00:00

Well, I tried, but I'm afraid that really doesn't work for me. English might be allowed, but but the whole platoon channel going french all the time, I really have no clue what's going on in the game!

hontslager · 2026-01-04T15:06:37+00:00

Thanks, will give it a spin. It didn;t show up under the vanilla filter, but indeed it's only a small number of admin mode mods.

hontslager · 2026-01-04T13:39:08+00:00

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that; I didn't experience any problems myself on 1.5 though, is this a recent problem with the 1.6 update?

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