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Current plan:

1. pressure wash with water to remove dirt and maybe the outer gray layer of sun-bleached wood. Other guides say to use diluted bleach, or buy some special deck brightener, but pressure sounds easiest.
2. Sand with 100 grit, maybe coarser to start with until it looks like the right color.
3. Put waterproof glue in the most egregiously split parts of the wood and clamp it back together.
3. Apply spar varnish. Apparently deck sealer/finish shouldn't be used on furniture according to a couple of sites.

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Bump, am also curios.

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Ignore the even shittier deck that the table is sitting on, that's a future project.

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>>1193561
here's a chart faggot

How much enjoyment will you get from them after the point of purchase? What are they used for? Some kind of turbonerd competition? Or just playing around? Do you mostly just get off on buying them and then you're down again the next day?

>>1193392
DIY one
design your own chasie

DB01

>>1193295
no

>>1193241
I assume you live in America so any Rustoleum Chrome paint will do

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>>1193241
>he doesnt want glitter paint

>>1193241
is it metal? you can electroplate at home

otherwise rattle can chrome and maybe clearcoat

>>1193200
psh. no worries. just make sure you get bolts with rubber washers/rubber coated metal washers, and torque them down well.

Easiest would be a stainless steel carriage bolt, add a rubber gasket/washer under the head, drive it in and torque it down with a spacer and a washer (so the nut doesn't dig itself into the inner side and get stuck).
As long as the bolt is tight, the gasket will compress and seal, and the carriage bolt SHOULD be smooth enough to not cause much drag. Lock washer under the nut.

Basically the thing to worry about is how to secure the bolt to keep it from spinning when you are trying to tighten down the nut, and not add to the drag on the outside. Use stainless, or be prepared to replace every few years because rust has opened up a channel for water to leak in.

>>1193200
drill is the best way to make holes man

Oh yeah no worries. Just take your time. Make sure you get you size your holes and hardware carfully.
I put some strap mounts on a couple a weeks ago so I would have a removeable deck for the doggo to stand.
I used a cheap hand riveter, and a little bit of hard resin.

sprayed hair spray on budding rose for conservation, it worked
but you can just sun dry them after some washing
or dry in an oven

My dad freezes his hops.

Dry in dehydrator at low heat, then vacuum seal in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers, keeps pretty much anything fresh for a looong time.

Hmm.. get some veneered pieces. This vil make sure that the instrument doesn't warp over time.

A lamello machine might do the trick when piecing it together if you can't manage traditional joining.

>>1193124
How precise do you want to be? A lot of people make simple stringed instruments with cigar boxes for the soundbox. That would get rid of the hardest part and you'd just need to make the neck, nut, bridge, and tailpiece. There's a lot of things you can use in an improvised fashion for some of these, like using a hinge as a tailpiece.

You can easily simplify the neck and not go for the carved headstock - probably better to focus on getting it to work right rather than aesthetics, at least for the first one. You can probably live without a proper fingerboard for the first one, but that's entirely up to you.

Get clamps and good wood glue for joining things.

If you want make the soundbox yourself, look at getting some spruce for the soundboard. You could always cheap and take the top off a cigar box and glue a spruce soundboard onto it for a quick and dirty soundbox that's probably still better than a regular cigar box instrument.

Crimson Guitars has a youtube playlist about making cigar box guitars, you can probably get a lot of info and ideas of what to do there.

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Based on the given blueprint, I definitely can say it's very similar to the family of bowed string instruments. If you want to do this properly I'd advise to get some information on violin- and especially cello building. I can add way more info than i roughly did on the pic as it is definitely incomplete. The best would be if you find a more detailed blueprint or a step-by-step guide.

>>1192919
Can you post a closer pic from straight on, and also 360 degrees pics? If its anything like my home, you can probably just dig out the outside and install structural steel on both sides with wedge anchors.
If theres any sinking to the foundation you'll likely have to underpin it which is likely around 20k if you had a split level where I am

Does it extend into the floor?

Hard to say without walking around and seeing it in context. Concrete does crack. That's just the nature of the material.
This would certainly be steel reinforced in '77 and this looks like a break all the way through, not just a surface crack. Interesting. Looks like it has been patched at least twice as well which obviously did nothing.
What's immediately above the crack? Any noteworthy structural members? How tall is this wall? How many stories is the house? Anything interesting about the soil on the outside of the building here? How steep is the grade, etc?

You're not wrong, but you're still a fairy.

>>1192761
> watching TV instead of demolishing your garage with a 6 axis shipping container.

Do you even /diy/?

tar paper and fuck it!

Plank over it with pallet wood

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A roll of tuck tape and some Tyvek window flashing.

Flash that exposed chipboard, and then tuck tape all those nail holes.

>>1191938
These were a $1000 new back in the day...used one for a bit, then bought the Makita 10" slider...

>>1191940
Yeah they're solid as fuck, but worth peanuts now. The base and sliding Mechanisms are crying out for repurposing but I'm uninspired as yet

Both have broken safety guards which is why I got a 10 inch EB (now absorbed by metabo), soft start is so much nicer.

>>1191952
Sell em for parts...

What area would that be? Go to old population centers. They're all over. Built before the 20's preferably.

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>>1188844
The new one

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>>1188845
Better picture of the original

I can say that old one is dead for sure
but it might not have died alone