http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog Custom built guitars and tales from a North London locksmith Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:20:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you don't already know, you probably won't care. http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=224 Those of you with a long memory may remember my noble endeavor to convert a drill stand into a fretpress. Turns out, it was a bit punky, and the wheels came off. Actually, the lever came off. It didn't have any wheels. Anyhow, let me present the replacement, ... http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=223 Here's a classic example of why I go to so much trouble to construct a scarfed, back strapped headstock. The owner of this Gibson Les Paul Standard wasn't aware of having broken the neck - he opened the case and found it broken. Most likely, the case tipped ... http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=208 Finally an opportunity to post something about guitars! A little while back, Tim dropped in his Hagstrom Viking. After a good deal of gigging round Germany, the neck was very loose, and shifting unpleasantly in the pocket. Closer examination revealed the neck block had slipped, and string tension had ... http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=207 I'm not dead. Honest. I do, however, seem to be having some email problems. If you've tried to get in touch and got no reply please try again, and failing that leave a comment here and I'll try to get back to you. Unless you're posting spam (I just deleted ... http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=166 Pressing frets has a good few advantages over hammering, not least the noise - hammering frets at 12.30 in the morning isn't a good way to make friends and influence people. I didn't want to lose workbench space to a dedicated arbour press, so I decided to convert a ... http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=160 Today was a genre defining 'I should never have got out of bed' day. One of those days where everything you touch turns to shit, and just when you think the pile of indignites is heaped so high that nothing else can possibly go wrong, somebody manages to balance ... http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=155 Sorry for the lack of posts recently, there's not been much happening guitar wise; my current builds are unchanged since I started the new job. That's not to say I haven't been making sawdust in the garage - the last week I've been out there full time, fitting out the locksmith ... http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=153 ...or to look at it another way; job. It had to happen eventually, and it has. This morning I accepted a trainee locksmith position with a local locksmith. Hours are long and the pay during training is pretty tight, but the work should be interesting, they seem like ... http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=143 Every now and then, despite the best efforts to keep him locked out of the workshop, I'm paid an unwelcome visit by the cockup monster. He's a tenacious little bugger, and if he's really determined to visit there's not much you can do to prevent it. What you can do, ... http://home.asparagine.net/ant/blog/?p=142