A couple of months ago I had a thread up discussing my current fingerboard compound radius jig and looking to brainstorm a new, improved version. That...

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I have created a completely new design of my own that will provide maximum precision and versatility when radiusing fingerboards. This jig will allow me to...

"You start with a piece of wood and you cut away anything that isn't a guitar." - Wayne Henderson, luthier I don't know where I first got the idea that I wanted to build a guitar but I do know it's been in my head for a long time. Several years ago I read a…

Another Fretboard Radius Jig - MIMF

Finally, I finished the plan for the Neck Router Jig! A flexible tool that helps you to create/re-create your favorite necks, or to do more advanced asymmetric neck shapes that otherwise can be time-consuming. About two years ago I finished the Neck Router Jig and did a post in Swedish about the idea and how it works. And

UPDATE: I've improved the design of this jig by using t-nuts instead of simple nuts, it works so much better now... I also added a few more improvements... Y...

What type of jig do you prefer to rout body binding? Build and Repair

TrueChannel Routing Jig

Carve Violins, Violas & Cellos Base Plates and Necks creating precise duplicates.

I have used a dremel tool with a Stewmac binding router base in the past with adequate success for cutting binding channels. I did seem to have an occasional problem with tear out, Last year I purchased at a garage sale, a binding set-up which had a sliding up and down stand with a Laminate Trimmer. To date I have been too lazy to figure out how it all goes together ( it was in pieces when I bought it). Is a laminate trimmer a much better tool fir cutting binding channels then a dremel?

Boring big or odd-size holes just got a whole lot easier using this simple method.

This is a guitar binding jig that I built based upon an ingenious design by luthier Don Williams. You can read more about the design here. My jig also has a second "lazy susan" around the router, which is a design modification by luthier David White

Binding Router Jig

Pictures are better than words when it comes to describing how to make something. So yesterday, I made a curved sole finger plane, keeping a camera within reach to record each step. I hope these photographs will be a useful supplement to the written instructions in my last post. Read across the rows to stay…

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shipwright's Project

The Smallest Workshop in the World: Been a woodworking enthusiast is not enough especially if you don’t have a place to work and you leave in an apartment court. In my case not only this was the issue but also I had no budget and space for big machines, so I came up to do the imp…

How to sharpen a scraper

Using a Marples thin blade pull saw.