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| Every Jupiter Creek Music instrument is made by me in my home workshop in suburban South Australia. I get emails from people asking if they can come and visit, but there's really not that much to see, and as quickly as I finish instruments they're packed and into the post. So I thought I'd take some photos and create a virtual workshop tour showing my workshop as well as some of the custom parts I make or adapt from standard parts. |
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Routing area - The belt/disk sander, thicknesser and router get a lot of work (and create the most mess). |
Build area - Fabrication of parts, fretting and assembly. |
Fret slotting saw. |
Packing materials area. |
Cutting and shaping area - Tablesaw, bandsaw, oscillating spindle sander. |
Parts and materials. |
Setup bench - mission control! |
Build rack - work in progress. |
Paints, lacquers and sandpapers. |
Spray area - eventually I'd like to make this a proper sealed off spray booth. |
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Timber - Fijian Mahogany in this case. |
Rough sawn so it needs to go through the thicknesser. |
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My new bandsaw! Yay! It's even got a trippy little laser guide... cool! |
After thicknessing the body blanks are marked out. |
To make the cutaways nice and smooth I bore holes with spade bits. |
The new bandsaw is better than my little one... haven't broken a blade yet! |
Bodies... some for my stock instruments and some for orders. |
Necks marked out. Stompers behind them. |
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3mm brass bar is marked out for neck plates, then the screw holes are drilled and countersunk. |
The bar is then cut into individual neck plates. |
The neck plates are cleaned up on the disk sander. |
I send them off to a commercial chrome plater for final preparation, plating and polishing. |
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The bridges are fabricated from 3mm x 50mm x 25mm solid brass angle extrusion. |
They're marked out two at a time, then the screw holes are drilled and countersunk. |
The're cut into individual bridges, cleaned up on the disk sander and drilled for the saddle screws and string holes, then sent off to a commercial chrome plater for final preparation, plating and polishing. |
10.5mm pitch. |
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14mm pitch. |
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Three string bridges for my Stompers. |
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Most of my lap steel instruments feature a solid brass bridge bar for increased sustain. |
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Nuts for my lap steel instruments are fabricated from solid brass angle extrusion, then chrome plated. |
These copies of the original P-bass control plate come from a supplier in Canada. |
My local trophy engraver makes up plates for my Stompers. |
The same trophy engraver engraves my lap steel and guitar neck plates for me. |
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