Saturday, September 26, 2009

Stepping up Production Capacity!!!

Yesterday marked a milestone in the production capacity of LNS Cigar Box Lutherie.

We work out of a fairly new farm shop, but, being what it is, it usually contains half-assembled tractors, defunct seed processing equip. and, possibly the most hazardous of all, inconspicuously small oil-slicks from aforementioned tractor re-assembly. Our guitar production work table is nothing more than an old welding table that can be rolled around from location to location. It was small. It was not well lit.

It has undergone metamorphosis.

Our prod. table has been transformed! With prodigious application of 6" angle iron, wire weld, and plywood, this dim, cramped space has been illuminated and expanded. A fluorescent light kit has been installed above the table--suspended between the two ends of an old metal clothes rack that has been braced and welded to the table's edges. Completing the table's real-estate expansion is the addition of one thirty-six-inch-long piece of six-inch-wide angle iron, split down the middle two make two, three-inch-wide pieces that have been welded to either side of the table's west-most end. These two pieces of iron have been bridged by two 16-inch-wide/46-inch-long pieces of 3/4 inch thick plywood--thus making a platform on which to mount our routing table and (soon to be purchased) ban-saw. After two-and-a-half grueling hours of stripping, hauling, plasma-cutting, and welding all modifications were completed. Time to give this new set-up a try, and produce another Cigar Box Guitar!

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