Blog: Build a Basic Guitar Repair and Setup Bench in Your Home or Apartment

Re: Blog: Build a Basic Guitar Repair and Setup Bench in Your Home or Apartment

Very cool. I have two similar benches setup in my studio. Now I am no builder but I can do a prtty good setup. I do t like doing fret work so I send the more challenging thi hs to my luthier.
 
Re: Blog: Build a Basic Guitar Repair and Setup Bench in Your Home or Apartment

I put some carpet on my old desk. I've been thinking of building a riser to bring it up so I can work on things while standing.
 
Re: Blog: Build a Basic Guitar Repair and Setup Bench in Your Home or Apartment

I still recommend these for use as a good work surface for the occasional bit of guitar work. I've got a sheet of cork on top of mine to protect the guitars' finish and it has plenty of storage just where you'd want it for small tools, with those drawers.

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Re: Blog: Build a Basic Guitar Repair and Setup Bench in Your Home or Apartment

I use the boxes that pickups come in for my random parts.

Am I missing something, or is the blog about what tools you need and not "building a basic guitar repair and setup bench"....?
 
Re: Blog: Build a Basic Guitar Repair and Setup Bench in Your Home or Apartment

I think I just fell in love with the Dremel Trio.... I see a change of direction in my near future, towards more intensive luthierie. :)
 
Re: Blog: Build a Basic Guitar Repair and Setup Bench in Your Home or Apartment

35mm film canisters are invaluable around the garage/shop, and pieces of foam core board can also be used to keep screws in order.
 
Re: Blog: Build a Basic Guitar Repair and Setup Bench in Your Home or Apartment

^^ Film canisters, marmalade jars, purpose made wood bowls.... It really doesn´t matter WHAT you use, as long as you have some way of organizing parts and have enough of them to accomodate all current projects. Fixable lids are nice, but actually cost unnecessary time for no tangible benefit if you don´t need to keep the parts directly at the workspace but can keep them just slightly outside of the actual area. A small shelf just beyond arms reach can be worth it´s weight in gold.

I use an old pewter Marlboro ashtray for whatever process is currently on the bench, and labeled, appropriately sized boxes and bags for everything "in the pipeline"... But my head is still working in an actual workshop and not a sofa with a coffee table :laugh2:
 
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