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Wine bottle cutting jig

John suggested I post this jig in "Special Tools" so here it is. Its just two pieces of wood joined by two hinges (?) and two brackets* to hold the Dremel. The cut off whell is a diamond coated 1.5" one. The bottle rests between two pieces of metal g

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homebuilds @flickr

Hi all, recently I got into photography quite a bit and frequently hang out at flickr. There are groups for just about everything: cats, Ford Mustangs, orchids, insects, you name it. And CBG but the groups are not updated.

I would like to open a new

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Fretboard dots

Hi all, I could use some suggestions on how to make dots for fret markers. I like making stuff myself rather than buying things if possible at all.

Bullets are cool but not available in this country, nails are not the same size and difficult to fit i

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fretting done smoothly

Hi all, I am building my second and third cbg 3string fretted and could use some advice on getting the edges of the frets clean and smooth. I used a Dremel to smoothen but did grind lots of grooves in the fretboard.

Thanks for helping folks!

Jan

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Looking for a specific schematic

Hi all, a couple of days ago I found a nice looking schematic on the internet, wrote a shopping list and now have all the parts I need to get started.

But: stupid me, I didn't bookmark the site and after spending two hours searching I gave up. Can y

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Hello everybody, my name is Jan...

...and I am new to the world of cbnation and thus postet my introduction in the comments section. Sorry about this but the layout of this board seems a bit weird to me....

Anyway, I'm happy to be here, looking forwards to my first build.

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