Woodworking

[toomanatees]

Two coats Tried and True Stain + Finish in Java top-coated with two coats of Tried and True Original Wood Finish.

[Zedkah]

white oak sides to make a vertical modular case- horizontal slats are beech I thing and back is ply. The cutaway at the base is to fit in better with my much more hastily constructed first case. Quite pleased with the result.

[tehn]

highly recommend this doc: https://nakashimadocumentary.com

goes way beyond woodworking but many of these moments are the best insights.

beware, it’s a full 2 hours and i may be a bit biased (our friend is george’s niece, we’ve visited the studio, etc)

[jlmitch5]

figured i’d do a crosspost here with some of the things I’ve learned after hand-drilling and cutting a plywood panel:

Mobenthey/Ciat-Lonbarde (synthmall) thread

Finally got around to drilling my front panel for the rollz 5. Still lots of wiring with the output mixer (bottom two rows) but it’s exciting to see it all together. Sides are avdog and gong mods. [image]

This is cheap 3mm birch ply. I still haven’t pulled the trigger on the table saw so I cut the panel with my jig saw…turned out a lot straighter than I’d done in the past…some quick sanding and I was good to go. I used masking tape on both sides, and an “xtra clean” bosch blade and it worked great with no splintering.

For drilling (just using my hand drill), I did the masking tape on both sides again. I did some experimenting with my leftover pieces and found out that stripping at the back was gonna be a huge problem, so I tried the “backing board” trick and it definitelly helped. There is still a fair amount of stripping but the tape and backing board definitely makes i non-terrible. The irwin unitbit set I have did seem to do better than the craftsman bit set I have in terms of stripping.

My dad gave me a bunch of quick vices and they made things go very smoothly…much better than the rotary vices i was using.

My approximate cuts weren’t exact to the parts, so I did some small tweaks with the dremel to get things to start to seat. Then, I took a pen and marked which holes and where needed to be enlarged to get things to seat fully. I took the unibit and I increased the hole sizes with some fairly light pressure in the direction they needed to open up. I couldn’t use a backing board for this, and so I was nervous, but luckilly no super bad stripping happened. This worked great, and the unibit was so much faster than the dremel.

One other trick with the unibit I figured out was if you do some masking ttape to the level you want to go, it makes it a lot easier than eyeballing or trying to feel for the clicks.

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! Far from perfect, but I don’t think it’s too terrible. Hopefully this helps if anyone wans to experiment with drilling plywood panels for synth things.

[tgk]

Hi! I just discovered this thread and I’m eager to share a small project I did for my kids as a Christmas present. I try and make them something by hand every year and this year I spotted some coat hangers online that I tried to replicate.
These are cut from alder (I believe is the English name) from a piece I had left from a different project. I cut them out with a jigsaw (a cheapish Bosch) but predrilled round corners. The space around the horn was a bit of a challenge!

I treated them with food grade bees wax and mounted a thingy I have no idea what is called in the back for easy mounting on screws on the wall.

When I bought the hardware I didn’t realise it had a bit of metal protruding so I had to go quite deep chiseling out the recess. I did some heavy marking with a marking knife before chiseling it out to avoid chipping!

[zuliani]

Love that so many Lines friends are making their own versions of the upright synth stand! Can’t wait to see how yours turns out

[rennerom]

I plan to build a few handy jigs over the winter this year. A cross cut sled with some t-tracks would be useful for a lot of what I do, but I’m curious what other lines folk have up their jig sleeves.

[Lemmy]

I’ve recently made a router table with t-tracks for fence and mitre guide. Just a table top for sitting on my folding workbench. Made from a discarded table I found in the street.

The goal is to be able to make boxes with box joints. I have a bought box-joint jig which will fit into my router table’s mitre guide, though these are also not difficult to make by hand.

I also needed a thicknesser to get wood properly squared off. I made a simple sled arrangement for the router based on this video.
First tests with it are really promising! I got some reclaimed hardwood into really good shape.

I’ll post a picture of the router table once I’ve made and added the fence and there’s a bit more to see.

[tgk]

I’ve seen many bigger planing jigs for massive slabs but never such a small and neat setup for smaller stock. I am definitely going to look into building one of these!