What's on your work bench?

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Yeah, that’s a game changer solder sucker. My only gripe is I wish the button was down near the tip of the thing, I find it hard to grip when it goes off.
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jeremyb wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2024 1:26 pm
MikeC wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2024 12:34 pm
NippleWrestler wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2024 12:20 pm

Worth it's weight in gold that thing.
Yes, best I've had with the flexible tip thing. I purchased a metre of that silicon tubing because the genuine spare is tiny & so damn expensive for what it is!
Link to solder sucker? I have an old one I've had since the 90s, never been enamoured by it...
This is the exact same one but with easier ordering and the one I have.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Engineer-SS-0 ... 323&sr=8-1

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MiniForklift wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2024 1:37 pm First and last post in this thread. I don’t have a workbench
But you showed it to me last time I was over!
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Got a cheap mulcher/chipper the other weekend because it wasn't running. Cleaned up the carburetor and replaced the diaphragm and now it's away!

Time to attack the pile of branches I've accumulated.
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Zaulkin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2024 11:28 am Fret levelling the Niklaus Tele and making a new nut with narrower spacing. Ski jump for the higher frets. Now I've had strings on it for a couple of months I can refine it a bit more.

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just restring my tele - it's great!!!
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AiRdAd wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:22 am just restring my tele - it's great!!!

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That's............. creative :clap:
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AiRdAd wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:22 am just restring my tele - it's great!!!

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Saves drilling through the body, and $5 for the ferrules, so I’m all for it. :-)
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I love how they've taken the height adjustment screw out of the mount, and put the low e string through the hole. 😊
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Can't imagine that tying the loose end around the vibrating section of the string would cause any issues.
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AiRdAd wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:22 am just restring my tele - it's great!!!
Your luthier skills are improving by the day Danny, you should be able to give up your day job soon!!
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jeremyb wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 2:01 pm
AiRdAd wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:22 am just restring my tele - it's great!!!
Your luthier skills are improving by the day Danny, you should be able to give up your day job soon!!
Grant has sent me some old Gibsons to practice on. That way I won't be ruining a new squier or anything.
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AiRdAd wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 2:41 pm
jeremyb wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 2:01 pm
AiRdAd wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:22 am just restring my tele - it's great!!!
Your luthier skills are improving by the day Danny, you should be able to give up your day job soon!!
Grant has sent me some old Gibsons to practice on. That way I won't be ruining a new squier or anything.
New guitars are too nice to mess around with, you're right to knock Grant's old wood about.
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AiRdAd wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:22 am just restring my tele - it's great!!!

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I always wondered what to do with excess string length!
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Adding optical true-bypass and LED to my Vox wah, stole it from a pedal kit I had lying around that had issues...
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