Barnaby's LP Scratch Build - Hand Tools Only

[emoney]

To some of us, it seems like an eternity..........

 

[fatdaddypreacher]

b, i really liked the deep root beer before you had to strip her down, but you came up with another winner. and i dig the sound clip of your pick up test. sounds might good to me. you might even wind up as a pretty popular proficient pick-up producing professor person.

 

[Barnaby]

To some of us, it seems like an eternity..........

Geez! Alright. It shouldn't be that much longer...

b, i really liked the deep root beer before you had to strip her down, but you came up with another winner. and i dig the sound clip of your pick up test. sounds might good to me. you might even wind up as a pretty popular proficient pick-up producing professor person.

Wonderful winding with wild wanderings while working?

 

[Freddy G]

Wonderful winding with wild wanderings while working?

I love it!
Curious....do the Japanese have alliteration too?

 

[ptate]

Wonderful winding with wild wanderings while working?

or "wondering why winding whilst woefully wishing worthiness".....?

 

[Barnaby]

I love it!
Curious....do the Japanese have alliteration too?

Absolutely!

The Japanese word for 'alliteration' is to-u-in (頭&#38907. You can find a bunch of alliteration in Japanese haiku poetry, for example. The language also uses a lot of onomatopoeia. That slightly rude poem I quoted before is a perfect example:

Tan-tan-tanuki no kin tama wa (alliteration on the 'tan/tam' sound)
Kaze mo nai no ni, pura pura (onomatopoeia, meaning 'to swing back and forth quickly')

As for the pickups, perhaps the Japanese version (hyou to harinezumi no nakama) of the name is less catchy?

 

[Barnaby]

or "wondering why winding whilst woefully wishing worthiness".....?

Plaintively plucking PAF parts...I'm going to stop now and admit defeat!

 

[Freddy G]

I know a guy of Japanese heritage (born Canadian), one day a fellow worker asked him if he would teach him the Japanese language. So every day for months he taught him a new word or phrase. The guy diligently wrote everything down and practiced until he learned it. Then one day the jig was up when he asked "how do you say "home run" in Japanese" and the guy told him "bigaroo smackaroo"!
It turned out that ever single thing he taught the guy was completely bogus...just made up jibberish

 

[Barnaby]

I know a guy of Japanese heritage (born Canadian), one day a fellow worker asked him if he would teach him the Japanese language. So every day for months he taught him a new word or phrase. The guy diligently wrote everything down and practiced until he learned it. Then one day the jig was up when he asked "how do you say "home run" in Japanese" and the guy told him "bigaroo smackaroo"!
It turned out that ever single thing he taught the guy was completely bogus...just made up jibberish

That is brilliant!

Speaking of Japanese Canadians, I got to spend some time with Joy Kogawa last year after she came to my university to give a lecture. What an amazing person - have you read her novel Obasan?

 

[Barnaby]

No real build updates today...I put on a little more lacquer, but that'll be it for a while. It's overcast. My plan is to leave it now, then polish back what I have on Sunday and see if it needs more coats to be smooth.

The fun thing is that, this morning, I spent a little while cutting and assembling my workbench. I made the frames and top, then bolted on the legs. The wood is Canadian pine (three bucks for a piece nearly 2m long) and Japanese cedar (sugi) for the legs. It's pleasantly weighty and solid.

There are a few supports to go in to add rigidity, plus a shelf and some more bolts. The only reason the latter are taking so long is that I'm not using a bit and brace to make the holes - simply a hand auger. It's a little exhausting to do it this way. Nothing compared to cutting the neck blank, however.

The beauty of this design is that, if it isn't rigid or heavy enough for planing or similar tasks, it's easy to add extra supports. It's also a little higher than most (yes, I know that planing benches are traditionally much lower), but I am trying it this way to see how it feels. I can always shorten it, after all. I'll also get a bench vise and other fun toys this weekend.

 

[Claymore]

I found a vice for you that would fit nicely.
Shipping might be expensive though....

 

[Reverend D]

Nice bench.. You gonna Sunburst it? Seriously though, nice bench to work on. Cool vise too, not sure if it'd make it flip over or not, but it looks pretty darn sturdy, is the bench heavy?

Regards,

Don

 

[Barnaby]

I found a vice for you that would fit nicely.
Shipping might be expensive though....

Yikes! Tell you what...just put it in your carry on luggage and come visit...

Nice bench.. You gonna Sunburst it? Seriously though, nice bench to work on. Cool vise too, not sure if it'd make it flip over or not, but it looks pretty darn sturdy, is the bench heavy?

Regards,

Don

Cheers! Don't know about the finish at this point, but maybe just stain and oil. Perhaps a double stain with aniline dyes and some fading. Then, I can relic it with a hammer, and...

...ahem.

It's heavyish. Overall, with the extra bracing I will put in (a middle brace and one under the top, plus two extra pieces of ply for the actual benchtop and shelf), the whole thing comes to 50kg, which isn't bad for a small bench. Once all the bolts are tightened, I'll know whether it needs more reinforcement when I want to do planing on it. I'm hoping it'll be fine as it is, but you never know.

 

[ptate]

Actions when building "sumfin big":

1. Take off luthier hat.
2. Put away good, fine tools.
3. Pick up big saw, hammer and big nails.
4. Shout "UGG" and "HURHUR" loudly.
5. Hit things hard whilst shouting "Me make big fing".
6. Stand back and admire your "lump".
7. Have a beer, go out to the woods and hunt wild stag with bow and arrow.
8. Return to polite society.

Yep, really is a great, primal feeling just making something big, heavy and not having to consider aestetics as much.

Great workbench and once it's got loads of overshot drill holes, chisel gouges, blood and swearing built into it's top; it'll be perfect

 

[Asdain]

Actions when building "sumfin big":

1. Take off luthier hat.
2. Put away good, fine tools.
3. Pick up big saw, hammer and big nails.
4. Shout "UGG" and "HURHUR" loudly.
5. Hit things hard whilst shouting "Me make big fing".
6. Stand back and admire your "lump".
7. Have a beer, go out to the woods and hunt wild stag with bow and arrow.
8. Return to polite society.

Yep, really is a great, primal feeling just making something big, heavy and not having to consider aestetics as much.

Great workbench and once it's got loads of overshot drill holes, chisel gouges, blood and swearing built into it's top; it'll be perfect

should have been:
7. Have a beer, go out to the woods and hunt wild bear with your bare hands and teeth

 

[Reverend D]

Or Number 7 Go out and have a beer in the city and hunt wild Asian Women with your bare hands and... ahem.. oh yeah married, yeah that's the story, the woods, wild bear that got away (hence why your clothes are ripped to shreds) with bare hands and teeth.. Yeah that's the story.

That is so true though, building things that are big and heavy and whacking things with a big framing hammer does make one feel one's genetic lineage as a man! In my case if it lists a bit to one side and three of the four legs touch the ground, well then I feel like I've succeeded! Good job!

Regards,

Don

 

[Barnaby]

Actions when building "sumfin big":

1. Take off luthier hat.
2. Put away good, fine tools.
3. Pick up big saw, hammer and big nails.
4. Shout "UGG" and "HURHUR" loudly.
5. Hit things hard whilst shouting "Me make big fing".
6. Stand back and admire your "lump".
7. Have a beer, go out to the woods and hunt wild stag with bow and arrow.
8. Return to polite society.

Yep, really is a great, primal feeling just making something big, heavy and not having to consider aestetics as much.

Great workbench and once it's got loads of overshot drill holes, chisel gouges, blood and swearing built into it's top; it'll be perfect

It is a joy indeed!

should have been:
7. Have a beer, go out to the woods and hunt wild bear with your bare hands and teeth

OK...now I have to try it. There are bears in Japan...and wild boar as well.

Or Number 7 Go out and have a beer in the city and hunt wild Asian Women with your bare hands and... ahem.. oh yeah married, yeah that's the story, the woods, wild bear that got away (hence why your clothes are ripped to shreds) with bare hands and teeth.. Yeah that's the story.

That is so true though, building things that are big and heavy and whacking things with a big framing hammer does make one feel one's genetic lineage as a man! In my case if it lists a bit to one side and three of the four legs touch the ground, well then I feel like I've succeeded! Good job!

Regards,

Don

The stories I could tell...

...ahem. I'm sure they wouldn't be very interesting.

 

[ReWind James]

I found a vice for you that would fit nicely.
Shipping might be expensive though....

I'm envisioning a giant robot crab with each of those vices as claws.

...someone probably already built one in Japan, though, huh?

 

['59_Standard]

Imagine the Truss Rod you could peen over that...

 

[emoney]

Now that's one for the; "...got my b&*ls in a vise" statement