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Comment by BUGGY (C) on October 5, 2012 at 5:40am

With free chopsticks and rice bowl!!

http://search.diy.com/search#w=bench%20saw&asug=

Comment by BUGGY (C) on October 5, 2012 at 5:39am

http://www.diy.com/nav/fix/power-tools/bench-tools/bench_drilling/P...

Cheaper in the sale seems to drill holes ok!!

Comment by BUGGY (C) on October 5, 2012 at 5:37am

http://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-sf13n-230v-pillar-drill/54072

Comment by South Paw,Davey on October 5, 2012 at 4:23am

Being a left hander I have found it hard to find a guit in a shop that I can test drive. I always wanted to build one for myself and after seeing a 3 string played on you tube. I thought will try to build one. Now I am on no 10. I did go out and buy a bandsaw but every right hander I have built I sold 7 bandsaw paid for.

I just like music I looked at a banjo 1000 Swiss franks plus right hander 20% more for left but no we dont have one you can try.

Building that first 3 string has given me the confidence to build a banjo and a bass not finished as I am building another 3 string for a mate.

Time is not free but its not about the money although what would the bass and banjo cost me?

I have made loads of freinds here on the Nation and here in Switzerland just from the guits.

My investment is paid back 10 times.

And i am having fun!!

Comment by BUGGY (C) on October 5, 2012 at 4:05am

Digly I got a pillar drill from b an q for about 40 quid works fine!
Just can't get to it anymore!!!

Comment by Diglydog on October 5, 2012 at 3:54am

I've only built a few but I use mainly hand tools, with an electric drill and occasional contracting out to an industrial circular saw to rip oak necks. You can do a lot with hand tools.

However, there's also times when power tools are nice. As RTZ said, they can make accurate work easier and quicker to accomplish. Unless you get it wrong, when they can be quickly destructive ! I'm seriously considering a drill press because it irritates me when I spend ages marking out a neck and then my wonky-chucked drill wanders across the grain and out of line.  A belt sander would be good too, but you can actually sand quite quickly by hand if you have the right grades of paper.

My costs tend to mount up when I'm lazy on the Internet and spend silly amounts of money on dots, for example. I reckon on upwards of £35 for each CBG, depending on what hardware and electrics I use. I think my stuff will always have a home-made, rustic feel to it however many power tools I use. I'm getting used to that :-\

It's an addiction when you go into the garage and can't control whether you'll be out in 10 minutes or 6 hours.

Comment by BUGGY (C) on October 5, 2012 at 3:23am

I think both .....you could say I have few builds to be getting on with.
and rather too many to play with.
However at what point is it in excess??

Comment by frank tennyson on October 5, 2012 at 3:13am

Either love or addiction. When you run out of room send some spare parts my way :-)

Comment by BUGGY (C) on October 5, 2012 at 1:52am

I have collected pickups tuners dishes bowl guitars wood boxes necks bodies and sold none....look everywhere at everything, and every day think of my next song or video, listen to my own creations in my car as i drive looking at what skips I pass and junks shops, do a song nearly every night or build something.....In every room inevery part of the house including the loft.....what's the problem? :>)

Comment by RTZGUITARS on October 4, 2012 at 4:03pm

I know i can build a 3 string fretless with a hand saw & hand drill.

But having a router and dremel, fret saw and power saws and sanders drill press makes building better intrument faster and much easyer.

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