tool wish list

axisus

Building an electric guitar.

What tools are:

a) essential

b) best to get first of the others

c) a nice luxury

I feel like starting a collection. Seems like a good time as I am re-firing up interest in building a tele from scratch.

Zodiac51

Building a guitar or assembling a partscaster?

Either way, essential for me would be:

• Soldering iron, de-soldering braid
• Fret levelling files / polishing kit
• Set of screwdrivers
• Allen keys
• A really good straight-edge
• A 20cm metal rule in .5 mm scale with the scale starting right at the edge
• Set of feeler gauges
• fret rocker

Drew_TNBD

I just wish they'd release the next damn album!

octatonic

Essential: hand planes, chisels, abrasive paper, router, tru oil, straight edge, fretting kit, nut files, usual screw drivers

Nice to have:  router table, drum sander, bearing guide bits, templates for router table use, drill press, band saw, bobbin sander

Luxury: Laser cutter, CNC, spray booth & compressor/gun.

This is off the top of my head- this is a huge rabbit hole to go down- you could spend £10k without even blinking.

WezV

octatonic said:

Essential: hand planes, chisels, abrasive paper, router, tru oil, straight edge, fretting kit, nut files, usual screw drivers

Nice to have:  router table, drum sander, bearing guide bits, templates for router table use, drill press, band saw, bobbin sander

Luxury: Laser cutter, CNC, spray booth & compressor/gun.

This is off the top of my head- this is a huge rabbit hole to go down- you could spend £10k without even blinking.

what makes handplanes, chisels or tru-oil essential?   for me those all go into the "nice to have" pot.    I would mainly move them out of essential because learning how to care for and use them properly can be daunting for a newb

A couple of saws needs to be on the essential list, be it a coping saw and rip saw at the cheap end, or bandsaws and table saws at the more expensive end.