93.5 sq' - Page 2 - Woodworking Talk

Corndog · 09-23-2007, 11:44 AM

That's messed up!!!

jpw23 · 09-23-2007, 12:25 PM

Very nice work

**TexasTimbers** · 09-23-2007, 01:56 PM

Purpleheart for forms? Sacrelige! That is tantamount to Bio Blasphemy!

Nice work corndog I don't know how i missed this entire thread.

jpw23 · 09-23-2007, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by TexasTimbers

Purpleheart for forms? Sacrelige! That is tantamount to Bio Blasphemy!

Nice work corndog I don't know how i missed this entire thread.

You need to sell Corndog some of the Box Elder......he does some fine work

Corndog · 09-23-2007, 07:36 PM

Thank you, thank you very much!!! I've never use box elder before!!!

BudK · 09-30-2007, 08:10 AM

Inspiring work , Corndog !

How long have you been building instruments ?

Corndog · 09-30-2007, 11:52 AM

Hmmm.....15 years maybe. Most of that time I was gathering tools and trying to figure out where I was gonna find shop space that I could afford in Vancouver though!!!

Corndog · 10-24-2007, 11:37 PM

Just got a call from one of my partners in [guitar] crime....
We move into a 1300 sq' basement of a record shop in January.

Corndog · 10-27-2007, 03:53 PM

Can't wait...critical mass.....

That blob in the corner is the ghost in the machine....not my thumb.

**TexasTimbers** · 10-27-2007, 04:10 PM

When I saw the "93.5'" and "Corndog" as the poster I thought "Uh-oh. The roomate is back."

Corndog · 10-27-2007, 06:29 PM

Well...ummm......yup.
But I get to move shop in Jan. I'm stoked!!!!!

Corndog · 10-27-2007, 06:31 PM

I just looked at those photos again and I can't believe I actually get any work done in there!!!

ConstructR · 11-13-2007, 07:04 PM

That's pretty nice. I like watching guitars being made. I live across the street from the PRS factory and it's neat to see how some ideas come to fruition.

Corndog · 11-13-2007, 08:25 PM

I have seen quite a few large factory shop tour DVD's, PRS included.
I have to admit though, I prefer the romantic notion of an old craftsman hard at work in his tiny, poorly lit shop full of hand tools making master quality instruments over the HUGE factory where some underpaid overworked disgruntled worker chucks a piece of wood in one end of a machine and a "guitar" pops out the other!!!

....but that's just me.

Gerry KIERNAN · 11-14-2007, 11:39 AM

Wow. You got a lot of stuff in a small space. How do you move???
Gerry

Corndog · 11-14-2007, 08:24 PM

Carefully.

ConstructR · 11-14-2007, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Corndog

I have seen quite a few large factory shop tour DVD's, PRS included.
I have to admit though, I prefer the romantic notion of an old craftsman hard at work in his tiny, poorly lit shop full of hand tools making master quality instruments over the HUGE factory where some underpaid overworked disgruntled worker chucks a piece of wood in one end of a machine and a "guitar" pops out the other!!!

....but that's just me.

Surely they don't have their hearts in it like you do, but it is hardly "chuckin a piece of wood"

Remember, Paul Reid Smith started out not unlike yourself, in a little tiny shop in Annapolis.

Gerry KIERNAN · 11-16-2007, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Corndog

Carefully.

I bet you do. Did I see, earlier in the thread, that you are moving to a 1300 square foot shop in January? I bet you're looking forward to that. This is the first time I went back to the beginning of this thread. You are truly doing some beautiful work. It's great that someone actually uses the projects you build. I think that's gotta be pretty satisfying.

Keep up the good work [and the smartass comments] keeps the forum enjoyable.

Best

Gerry

Corndog · 11-16-2007, 08:30 PM

Well, that 1300 sq' got quickly sub-divided so I may only end up with a couple hundred sq'.

And it ain't cheap. Might just stay where I'm at. The space is cramped but the price is right!!!

Corndog · 11-17-2007, 12:22 PM

I think I'll gut it t'day and start from scratch. I'm sure the wife will be just THRILLED with that idea!!!