I bought a set of each at Harbor Freight for cheap. Half the Brad bits were bent and useless. The forstner bits were straight, but the tips wore down fast. Went to Lowe's while they had a Christmas sale and bought my presents of Dewalt bits.
Thanks again, Paul. I don't have a drill press and it was a small block, so I eye-balled it and got lucky. It came out square on the first pilot hole. From there it was pretty easy.
Thank you, Paul. Love the look of mahogany. That's a toilet lag-down bolt, I drilled a hole through a small block of mahogany. Hole size was about .200. The bolt is .250 so I screwed it throught the hole and trimmed the excess with a razor knife and files. It's not quite finished. It will have to be adjusted on height from the bottom.
Thanks for the tips there, Paul! I too used bolts, in my case, nearly all builds until about number 11 or so and I used a hardwood nut. Loved it. Used an old gas stove jet cleaning kit to cut the string grooves. Just matched the diameters of the little files with the diameters of the strings. Worked quite well. I liked it so well, I replaced bolts on at least two other of my previous builds. Looking forward t trying this build with a zero-fret. Thinking about putting this bridge/saddle unit on this build after finishing it up...
I've used bolts as a nut on almost all of my CBG's. I bought a assortment of small files at Harbor Freight for a few bucks and there's a half round file that's just right for filing a bolt slot for the nut. Just have to figure in the center of the bolt for your placement and scale length measurement.
If the bolt is off a bit, file a new dip slot and fill in the old one with glue and sawdust or shape a block ramp to fit in front of the bolt out of a piece of scrap.
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Merry Christmas! (Grinning!) Cool.
I bought a set of each at Harbor Freight for cheap. Half the Brad bits were bent and useless. The forstner bits were straight, but the tips wore down fast. Went to Lowe's while they had a Christmas sale and bought my presents of Dewalt bits.
Ah, yes. What I would like to have... Alas, just simply too rich for me, at least right now.
I switched all my drill bits over to brad bits and Forstner bits for wood working and that helped a lot for drilling by hand.
Thanks again, Paul. I don't have a drill press and it was a small block, so I eye-balled it and got lucky. It came out square on the first pilot hole. From there it was pretty easy.
That's a smart way of doing it.
Thank you, Paul. Love the look of mahogany. That's a toilet lag-down bolt, I drilled a hole through a small block of mahogany. Hole size was about .200. The bolt is .250 so I screwed it throught the hole and trimmed the excess with a razor knife and files. It's not quite finished. It will have to be adjusted on height from the bottom.
That bridge looks great.
Thanks for the tips there, Paul! I too used bolts, in my case, nearly all builds until about number 11 or so and I used a hardwood nut. Loved it. Used an old gas stove jet cleaning kit to cut the string grooves. Just matched the diameters of the little files with the diameters of the strings. Worked quite well. I liked it so well, I replaced bolts on at least two other of my previous builds. Looking forward t trying this build with a zero-fret. Thinking about putting this bridge/saddle unit on this build after finishing it up...
I've used bolts as a nut on almost all of my CBG's. I bought a assortment of small files at Harbor Freight for a few bucks and there's a half round file that's just right for filing a bolt slot for the nut. Just have to figure in the center of the bolt for your placement and scale length measurement.
If the bolt is off a bit, file a new dip slot and fill in the old one with glue and sawdust or shape a block ramp to fit in front of the bolt out of a piece of scrap.
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