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I had to build a new workbench a year or two back. Taking a hint from MIMF member Arnt Rian, I got a wood table top (birch, I think) from Ikea which is roughly 3'x5' ( 1 x 1.5 m). The base is four 4"x4" uprights. I used 2x4s to frame around the top and another set about a foot off the floor, with ou...

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Probably the same stuff, but most lutherie supply places carry black fingerboard dye. It is commonly used on violin fingerboards, but can be used any any instrument. From my limited experience, it seems to hold up well.

And if you have a dog, they are used by many vets for trimming nails. Plenty of uses all around!

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You can chisel out the kerf above where the brace should have fit in, and replace it with a larger triangle that sticks out far enough to secure the brace.

It is, but DC used in connection with motors almost always refers to the power source. The whole point is spelling things out only takes 2 more seconds, but prevents a lot of confusion.

The "DC" here is "dust collector". Ah! That is why is we strongly recommend taking the time to spell out all but the most common abbreviations. Not only do different people use different abbreviations for the same thing and the same abbreviations for different things, but our foreign readers often ...

I don't know about this particular motor, but DC motors are used all the time in CNC machines with motor controllers with no problem. The controller are more of a fancy automatic speed control that constantly regulates the pressure as needed rather than a crude on/off switch.

How much air is needed entirely depends on the size and number of pipes. Have a look at this discussion on portative organs, which are small, easily carried organs. There is plenty of info on-line about making organ pipes. If you can find a suitable pressure gauge, it is always possible to put the D...

The other thing about new strings is that it takes a while for them to stabilize under tension. They will keep going flat for a while, so you have to keep retuning. From the scale on the front, the two adjacent strings should be the same note, so C and C, not C and C#. Just go over it once a day for...

Stew-Mac sells a Schatten soundboard transducer piezo disk. No idea if it is as good as a Fishman, but no doubt better than cheap Chinese ones. I have a Schatten, along with a Pick Up The World transducer on my cittern (wired to a stereo end jack). I definitely prefer the PUTW, but I don't think the...

Thanks, Bryan!

A few years back I hacked a similar cheap Chinese violin to turn it into an electric skeleton fiddle (see my avatar) for our $100 Electric Contest. It wasn't even a decent acoustic fiddle, but does much better as an electric. That being said, it would probably be less work to just build the electric...

Caley, if you read around the boards here, there are tons of stories where chisel slipped at an inopportune moment, something set a little off-center while gluing, and any number of other problems. These things happen to all of us, even the ones who won't admit it. But what you will also find here i...

The blade on my peg shaver is held on by two end cap bolts, so the blade can be easily removed for sharpening with an Allen wrench. If your blade cannot be removed, you can use a variation on the Scary-Sharp sandpaper sharpening trick by getting some old pegs and gluing bands of various grits of san...

There is another ongoing discussion on Kalimbas here, and the original video that spurred the project used steel electrician's fishing tape for the tines. It is probably stainless, and available at every DIY store. Also look for rakes with metal tines. they are usually about the right size, and ofte...

Caley, without getting into the math, from the bass end each tine should be 0.9438743 times the length of its lower neighbor (assuming a chromatic instrument). For example, assuming your bass note is 100 mm (about 4"), the lengths going up should be 100.00, 94.39, 89.09, 84.09, 79.37, 74.91, etc. Th...

To protect sides from the threads, pick up some 3/8" inner diameter poly-whatever tubing at Home Depot, then cut into pieces a little less than the thickness of your instrument. Place over the threaded rod between the spools. Since the clamps work with everything from fiddles to guitars, I keep a bu...