Uses of homemade machines, tools and knowledge required, choice of materials and cost or safety. Author’s reflections.
Homemade Rotary Tool Workstation (2)
Turn your rotary tool into a drill press, a router table and a lathe. It will come in handy when doing small operations.
Homemade Rotary Tool Plunge Base
How to make a plunge base that can be used with Dremel-type rotary tools. Ideal for crafts such as marquetry and luthiery.
Rotary Tool Multipurpose Workstation (1)
How to make a 3-in 1 workstation for Dremel-type tools. It has three functions: mini column drill, router table and lathe.
DIY Oil-Based Varnish
I’m going to show you how to prepare a very useful oil-based varnish for all kinds of wood, outdoors and indoors.
3D Router project: DIY Electric Guitar
How to make the body of an electric guitar with the homemade 3D Router and using templates and molds. Les Paul body.
DIY Drum Bearing Edge Cutting
How to make a bearing edge to a drum shell. It can be a great improvement on the sound of your drums.
Replacing P90s with humbuckers
I’ll need to make extra room for the pickups with a router and adjust the binding and fretboard.
Electric Guitar Refret
A good leveling and maintenance of the frets is very important for all kinds of guitars and string instruments.
Fretboard & binding repair
The fretboard was quite damaged and unstuck, so I decided to remove it completely and change the binding.
Changing the nut on a classical guitar
How to achieve more separation between your guitar strings. All guitars have a small margin for separating their strings.
Replacing the nut on a Gibson Lucille
After adjusting the neck’s relief, the strings buzz on the first frets, so I’ll make a custom nut adapted to this electric guitar.
Restoring an old Acoustic Guitar
Restoring a ‘79 Epiphone ft-140 acoustic guitar. The height of its bridge can be adjusted and it has a bolt-on neck.
F-clef-shaped car
Homemade wooden car toy in the shape of an F-clef, used by bassists and for the left hand of piano music.
