HOGS GRUNT

Nice Bio you posted about yourself, it is good reading.

thank you HG, yes, I am pleased with this cherry topper, I have it in my lap at this moment, getting to know it, I love it. I out did my self on this one.

Cheers mate. I have an obsession with acoustic instruments and this forum is brill. Thanks for the welcome.
It is raining here in England. What's new.
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Regards Neil

Yeah man. When me dad was alive he said "wear a big hat and speak quitely and hold a stick". I've got the hat.

Thank you for the welcome! At the moment I'm just someone's sidekick-guitar-builder but I'm hoping to learn a lot as we go along! :)

thanks.

thanks for the welcome . looking forward to building my own cigar box three string some day.

Thank you sir, I am glad I found this place!

Thanks for the welcome, and as far as addictions go... Hi, my name is Shannon, and I have Musical Instrument Acquisition Syndrome.

cheers mate cold turkey drew to this site therapy starts soon

she plays good brother that omar build does, but i,m having a little trouble cause of the bolt nut so i,m gonna make a nice ebony nut fer it. i think that will make it play much better. i will do a vid as soon as i can to demonstrate its playing potential. thanks for the cool comments bro i really do appreciate them.

Hi Derek this is the router bit i was talking about you can see how much longer the shaft is even with the bearing fitted but you can also remove the bearing and collar i've added a link below where you can get one from - it's the cheapest place i've found there aint any on ebay i've checked let me know if you need anymore help with it juju.:-)

http://www.wentinfasteners.co.uk/top-bearing-flush-trim-bit.htm

Hi D good to hear you got sorted mate , i've used Frued and Trend bits for years and you get what you pay for - i still have them going strong some 12 years later :-)
enjoy your routing bro
juju.

Hi Derek
Have a look at this it also describes in the description how to work-out what size taper you need
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/13mm-Drill-Chuck-Morse-Taper-size-2-Lathe-Too...

oh sorry i forgot to mention , fully extend your drill shaft by turning the Three handles , look at the shaft there should be a elongated slot ? turn the drill drive shaft by hand to align the inner Elongated slot yuo then use whats called a drill drift ( taperd bit of metal) which you insert in the elongated slot and tap it with a hammer this then ejects the taperd shaft - it's just possible that the taper size/s may be ground into the shaft !
juju.

Hi D this may explain about the Drill drift and the elongated slot i mentioned - see figure 8

try and measure the short taper see if it's anything like this ?

The B16 is the Metric DIN taper number. The dimensions of the B16 "short taper" are 15.73mm taper to 14.50mm with a taper length of 24mm

yes mate just got the pix - i would also say looking at the pictures the shaft looks about the same as the spec i gave you on the last message - if it is right look on ebay for Rdg tools he usually has a good selection of chucks ect
let me know if you have any problems finding one

juju.

Nice one mate looks like you will be drilling and routing everything from now lol! glad you got sorted

just been trying to do a video of the diddley bow for the past hour !! every time i press that record button do i screw up .. anyway i'll pick the best outa the bunch and post it some time later ( thats if theres any best bits to post ) lol!
juju.

looks like your having a tool extraviganzer week lol! - i keep meaning to get a Belt sander but everytime i have some cash something else comes up ! - i used to use them at the kitcken workshop for sandind the Iroko Worktops and they are a real good bit of kit

well i got round to postin a couple of videos , nothing special but it's a sound demo for yall , have a couple more to upload tomorrow .. one of the Mayorga Reso and the others the $ string Mayorga

Happy tooling :-)
juju.

cool have you finished belindas guits ?
hey i dont think you can ever have too many tools go for it while you can thats my moto - but i'm just a tool junkie :-) - yep you sure got the sander at the right time £5 means a extra set of belts !

thanks for checking out the vids and postin comments most kind bro
juju.

hehe! if your waiting for sunshine you may be waiting some time !
tools are what make the world go round , as much as some people try to deny using power tools it would be a strange world without the - hell we use tools to make tools , tools are all around us everywhere everyday - i love em too !

thanks mate i was suprized to see the diddley bow on the front page i had to do a double take and at first i thought why is my Diddley Bow Picture in the middle of the page , then i read the script Build of The Day ...i'm well chuffed :-)
thanks mate

juju.

lol!!

Hi Hogs,

Thanks for your comment .... "Bonjour" is a good start to speak french )) and sorry for my english sometimes no good , hope you will understand me.
A question: do you know where I can find soundhole screens (I hope it's the right word) like we can find on dobro ?
Thanks for your answer
Philippe

Ok thanks for you help...

Hi Hogs,
I have finally finished my resonator (pictures on my page) - I took longer than I thought I would because of a couple of bouts of man flu. Do you have any good links to playing slide guitar as I have yet to learn?
Regards,
David Lloyd

Hi Hogs, Inside is here

4 piezo discs, 1 magnetic pickup, 1 x 3way switch, a soundwell that splits to get the cone in place from below and a big dollop of serious glue from Tescos. It will be a while before I can post any sound from it due to a big lack of talent (LOL). Regards, David

thanks brother that was a funny comment about the canjo video. have a good day today hope you will yep. its my birthday today only 3 times now on thanksgiving day in the past hundred years.haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Thank you, Hogs Grunt for the birthday wish.

Hi, thanks for the video comment : -)...yeah Lemmings is about right!!...hope your Christmas goes as well as possible, although I'm sure the first one without your wife is going to be tough, Belinda

Hi, how's it going?...have you got the electrics sorted on your CBG yet??

mmm never enough time for everything....sounds like your table/workbench is the next thing to tidy! Yeah I'll keep making the videos....all your TLC was definately worth it!!! Belinda

Hi Hoggs,
I really like the matching CBGs - could you kindly tell me where you obtained the chrome single coil pickup surrounds from please?
Thank you,
David

Thank you Hoggs.

NICE ONE DAD 99 IT IS CAN'T WATE TO PLAY IT OR EAT IT !!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday, Hogs.

You are welcome.

Cheers Hogs grunt! thanks for the Hook up ! Yeah the gig was a good one! up to birmingham this thursday, the crossroads blues club!

Happy birthday mate!! :o)

hello sir an thnaks for the support yea mate im from hornchurch fellaa its near romford - u know it ?

Hi Nigel,
Yes I know it well. I've got a friend in Hornchurch, Warriner Avenue, anywhere near you?
Hogs.

Hi Hogs,
I noticed axesrus are selling metal single coil surrounds for strats and teles which work out a bit cheaper than ebay
http://www.axesrus.com/axepupcovs.htm#PUC
Not sure if you need any - perhaps you have plans for triplets next ;o)
Regards,
David

greetings hogs
dog was a present for the wife but the little bugger clings to me like moss(bless him) hes now nearly 10 mnths old and a real blessing.

Sorry for your loss fella
dogs are great healers cause they do stupid things to make us smile.
and it dont matter what you look like as long as you tickle there belly and make their leg shake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
barney is the most cuddly dog ive ever come across, a real slobber dog.

You could not be more right. They are great company and keep you sane.
Hogs.

It was a 1watt kit, ive assembled it but not sure of where 9v, volume pot,on off switch etc..
should go or in which manner they are conected to each other (like i said im a numpty)

That's the one I got, put it all together, didn't bother with vol pot, and it worked a treat. I then decided to put in a jack socket to plug it into a cab and the bloody thing is playing up now and I cannot find WTF is going on. Put it down and will go back when I get the urge.
Hogs

Thanks mate, just messing about really but I quite liked it.

love the laurel & hardy vid those guys always make me chuckle...

Hi Hogs-my reso -its tuned to (fat string first) A E A Csharp ...I think! it may be slightly sharper or flatter but thats the pattern of tuning-like I say, I just turned the tuners til it sounded good.sorry it took so long to reply.