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[QUOTE=RobLak] Well, the long day is about over so i can mull over my gifts. By far the most interesting is from my lovely wife who is really trying to understand this new obsession with building my first guitar. Trying to show her support, she bought me a really nice set of nail guns. Yep, you read that right. Has a framer's gun, a finish nailer and a brad nailer. Now i just have to make a slight design change to that bolt on neck and figure how to get the nailer through the sound hole.

Merry christmas all!


Rob
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Sounds like she's hinting around for you to build a bigger shop...
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My wife conspired with Don Williams and gave this beautiful set of figured Shedua to me this morning! Shedua
She said that she loved the wood and when she saw that Hesh bought a set, hey, must be pretty good. How does she know the name,Hesh? I must be talking about this forum in my sleep.
Kudos to Lance & Brock for putting together an easy to navigate forum so that loved ones can shop. She figured any sponsors here should be safe,and she was right!
I also would like to extend a Merry Christmas and a thank you to Don for helping my wife and for dropping in a headplate in the box! Whoops, was that a secret?
Don even gift wrapped the zoot! How cool was that!
It's after 11:00 PM here,and I'm so excited I think I have to go out to the shop now. Clinton

A couple of radius dishes, a bendindg iron, a dovetail saw and a whole slew of clamps here! I'm half way to a real work bench now, and I'm hoping I now have enough to close up a box for my first! Unfortunately, what I didn't get for Christmas was some more free time...

Rod, Yup, lookin' peaceful eh? Serge Poirier39077.0311111111

Hey Serge Bud, got me some new bo boats too. No more ear plugs

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Just some little bits really but just what I wanted.



I love the Henry Taylor paring chisels and this one completes my set. The Veritas scaper burnisher is foolproof!

It's my Birthday on Thursday, and I believe more tools are on their way! (Hopefully including the Stanley Bed rock from Arnt )

Colin

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Colin, you have suspiciously good taste in hand tools; I have the same Taylor paring chisels, and I own a full set of those 2 cherries as well, now you want my Bedrock! I better go downstairs and check to see if my chisels are still there...

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Yes Rod, now John Mayes' daughter oughta be proud of us both too huh?

Colin and Arnt, you guys know where to shop for sure! Serge Poirier39077.2889699074

I've got a bunch of old Records awaiting me in the UK next time I visit (a pair of #4 1/2s, a #5 and a #7), and I'll have some nice old paring socket chisels (Greenlee and some other brand), and a couple of olde english chisels coming my way soon-ish as well. I figured why pay for new paring chisels, when nice old quality tools are available for a little less, with plenty more character.

Also, there's the few extra lbs of fretwire, and 3 tomes of GAL Big Red Books. Not a bad year :-)

Mine came in a week or so before Christmas ...

An email from a nice guy in Italy, near Palermo, who liked the sound of one of my guitars .. that one was long gone, but still had another made from the same board ...sold !!

A letter from 12th fret, and even though I check the site almost daily, nothing had shown up as sold - but the letter had a cheque in it that says otherwise !!!

Afterwhich I promptly, with one of my students, visited the Zootmans site and dropped a wad ...

All my gifts were not luthing oriented ... needed a break anyway !!!

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Greg,

Is that anthracite or bituminous? Nice!

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I'd say bituminous Don, Greg, is it?

Hey bud, I got my Ibex finger plane from my woodworking father-in-law today. Yeeeeee Hawwwwwwwww.

I got the big one, which one do you have Bro, I'm thinking of exchanging it for the "c" plane which is 36mm with a 12mm blade as after seeing it, I think it's too big

Ok, ya I got really spoiled this year.

Rod True39078.0711226852

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Woooo hoooo hooo hooooo hoooo, you're gonna love that Rod! Congrats!   

I have the 36 mm one and it feels just right for me, it was perfect when i carved the bracing on the SJ star brace pattern because of it's width and length, i would not take less than the 30 mm one though, even 36 mm feels a bit small for the grip or grasp? sometimes but i just love it!

Well Santa took me to Ft Worth and we stopped in at both Woodcraft and at Rockler. All I got at Rockler was a 4 pound cancer....Amboyna burl that is Some nice rosettes to come from it in the near future. At Woodcraft I got a rosewood square 9 various scrapers a #2 Ibex finger plane, a box set of Sheffield chisels and a couple 3x3x18 mahogany blanks. Oh and a wood bible giving drying times species, caricaturistic and build info. Pictures tomaorrow if I remember MichaelP39078.7384953704

Well, I know it is hard to top some of the fantastic Christmas gifts (like Bob's sander!) in this thread, but I did get something bigger and better: my wife's health.
My wife, Deb, is recovering from brain surgery (neurosurgery), and is doing just great!

Once she had passed all of the neuro exams 100 times ("wiggle your toes, raise your eyebrows, puff out your cheeks..."), the next hurdle was discovering the level of memory impairment. (The neurosurgery was deep in the brain, in an area that processes memory.) She asked me to write out a time-line for her, so she could make sense of the fuzzy time. After she read the time-line I wrote out a couple of times, she discovered a couple of errors and corrected them. So there you have it - my wife, under heavy sedation, in great pain, through brain surgery, and even under general anaesthesia, has a better memory than I do!

The final test was, would her sense of humor remain intact? They shaved the front half of her head. The back half is kind of blond-streaked and a bit shaggy. Yesterday, she went to our daughter's room and grabbed a stuffed animal. She posed with an Emperor penguin doll, and said. "Hey, this is what I look like!" I think she's doing just great!

Dennis

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Dennis, thanks for sharing the very touching story, material stuff takes second place when we experience health challenges in our families.

Happy she's back stronger!

Dennis that is great news. The absolute best present anyone could want.

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Hey Dennis, that is great news! I can't imagine what you have both been through but I know all the hard parts can fade as you see her improving. What a wonderful Christmas you must have had. As Lillian and Serge said, the material stuff doesn't compare. I hope that full recovery is in the plans now.

Gee, if her memory was just a little fuzzy, you could maybe convice her that she had intended to get you that new bandsaw or whatever. Naw, that just wouldn't be right.

Wow Dennis, that is the best gift anyone could get.

Thank you for sharing your personal life with us. Be at peace.

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Dennis that tops my sander by a loooooooooong shot. I am very happy for you and your wife. Have a great New Year my friend.

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Dennis, now that is what I call GREAT news and the best present in the world. Here's wishing your wife a complete and speedy recovery and your family a Happy, Happy New Year.

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Arlington, VA

I got some Christmas cash specifically earmarked for guitar building tools... So from Stew Mac I just ordered the set of 3 fret scale rules, the string spacing rule, and the gauged saws for roughing out the nut slots... Then from ckoguitarparts on eBay I ordered the 6 nut files and fret file set. The day after Christmas I built a fret slotting jig for my table saw so I'm anxious to give it a whirl with the new fret scale rules.

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