Post a picture of what's on your bench?

[graham darden]

sliebers, It bent well. I had a bit of warping across thye side but that was operator error I think. I think I had the blanket too hot.

Couple of years ago when you were talking bout getting a blanket. Like it?

[Rob Roy]

Beautiful work Drew, doesn't look like a first effort based on your pictures! I especially like your headstock treatment. How about a picture of the back? What's the scale length on that dred?

[Drew Streip]

Beautiful work Drew, doesn't look like a first effort based on your pictures! I especially like your headstock treatment. How about a picture of the back? What's the scale length on that dred?

Thanks man! To be ultra-transparent, this is a StewMac kit that I just added some personal touches to. I have some hobby woodworking experience, and if you held a gun to my head I could make a playable guitar from scratch, but I wanted to start with some known quantities to understand the materials at this level. There is an A5 scratch build on my workbench, though!

[oldwave maker]

Made a couple of slip-in ebony capos for bandmate's Larry Pogreba custom doubleneck steel guitar made from an old yard sale mahogany water ski. Oldest position marker is an 1803 US nickel. Double nut made from the aluminum runner on the ski bottom. Sounds 1956 with ancient teisco gold foils thru a 56 supro amp......

[jim simpson]

A break from my mandolin build to finish this tele project: hide covered face, neck pickup ring not yet installed. I still need to string up to test and setup.

[Steve Sorensen]

Some custom inlay and 3D Tortoise binding for a new Sorensen VX --



Steve

[soliver]

A cafe member requested that I test my wood burning and staining skills for this custom armrest. A before stain and after.

[Valerie Jestice]

A cafe member requested that I test my wood burning and staining skills for this custom armrest. A before stain and after.

I think it turned out perfect!

[CES]

Drew, nice job, especially for a first go at it! Spencer, I’m not an armrest guy, but you’re making me consider one...

[Dusepo]

Some of the instruments I'm currently working on...

[Marty Jacobson]

Not on my bench, per se, but curly maple makes chicken taste pretty nice....

[Rick Jones]

Not on my bench, per se, but curly maple makes chicken taste pretty nice....

Hahaha!! I saw the flames, and immediately assumed this was Mr. Condino's post. I see he was first in line to thank you for it!

[Jim Hilburn]

Here's my duplicator.

[Steve Sorensen]

Varnishing.



Steve

[sebastiaan56]

Experimenting, as usual. Mandela size. So many firsts, hide glue exclusively, pegbox, bowl and all sorts of excursions into relevant and irrelevant historical instruments. Is Lorenzo Lippi still selling Roman Mandolin plans?

[oldwave maker]

There once was a woodbutcher named Kemnitzer,
Whose brain I picked at my bench,
Cuz his mandos resembled sonic fine art.
While mine were like lipstick on a wrench

[Marty Jacobson]

I think that counts as a look of great trepanation.

[Eric Oliver]

I think that counts as a look of great trepanation.

That is high art, right there.

[JimKo]

Hey Bill, Some situations call for fine art and some for a wrench.

[Drew Streip]

A crib for my impending baby! And, while I’m on paternity leave, a cool 2-point Alvarez with a detaching fingerboard and wonky handmade nut & bridge that I’ll probably replace.

[Scott R]

Just finished my first batch of mandolin tuner buttons for Gotoh shafts. Lots of sanding work tonight

These are Ebony, sugar maple and Paduk.

[soliver]

I was visiting a friend recently who has spent a good deal of time making knives. He had a few bits an bobs of things that he wasn't using and he passed on to me a nice piece of what he referred to as "stabilized boxwood burl" ... Apparently boxwood burl while very attractive is also very fragile. It is sold as "stabilized" in that it is infused or injected (who knows?) with some sort of plastic or epoxy resin.... It is beautiful stuff indeed!



Also finishing up a very nice piece of figured Ambrosia Maple for a Cafe Member's Breedlove:

[artdeco]

With the cost of linear motion components plummeting on the web, you can put together a three-axis contraption like this for under $300.

[Marty Jacobson]

I was visiting a friend recently who has spent a good deal of time making knives. He had a few bits an bobs of things that he wasn't using and he passed on to me a nice piece of what he referred to as "stabilized boxwood burl" ... Apparently boxwood burl while very attractive is also very fragile. It is sold as "stabilized" in that it is infused or injected (who knows?) with some sort of plastic or epoxy resin.... It is beautiful stuff indeed!



Also finishing up a very nice piece of figured Ambrosia Maple for a Cafe Member's Breedlove:

Are you sure that's boxwood burl? Looks more like buckeye to me. It is cool stuff, and a good thing it's stabilized. It's almost like punk wood without some sort of help. Soaking it in super glue works well, too.

[muleskinnermandos]

A new A-style from the Muleskinner shop. Literally just strung up about 5 minutes before these shots. Sycamore back, neck and sides. Demo coming to Youtube channel soon.

More photos on the Muleskinner Instruments Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/muleskin...88643945164815