Shop Tips

[Mphenley]

So I found a site of a Luthier (guy that makes and repairs guitars and similar stringed instruments) who has a huge number of assorted shop tips on his site. Some are instrument specific, some are wood specific, but there are a bunch that deal with general shop tips, SMALL shop tips (for those of us who happen to be spatially challenged ), tool making, metal lathes, and mills. He's even made a wood lathe style chisel rest for his metal lathe to use a scraping type cut with a turner's chisel on brass stock.

Some of the general tips have been repeated in a few places, but most things seem to be useful.

Here's the main tips/projects page:
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/hstpages.html

and a sampling of tips from the "Giant Collection" that seem to pertain to metalworking or general shops:
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/088.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/116.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/147.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/155.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/165.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/169.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/190.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/193.htmlhttp://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/205.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/205.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/220.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/224.html
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/225.html