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My dad has a Chinese saw, Pioneer PNR16-457 cabinet type table saw. The blade / arbor seems to laterally drift out of adjustment with use. Does anyone have any experience or a setup manual for this...

The SP10 MK II is a great turntable. I built mine out of baltic birch plywood. It's more functional than beautiful. The power supply fits inside the plinth with the power switch accessible from the...

I always direct ground the strings; no coupling cap. These days most amps are properly grounded, but if a person is using an old hot chassis amp, it would seem to be a good idea to put perhaps a...

Exactly. However the copper shielding within the pickup and control cavities can help to reduce electrostatic dimmer noise sometimes, so it wouldn't hurt to put some copper foil in there.

I agree completely with this satement; The pickup accounts for perhaps 90% of the final sound and the remaining ten percent of the timbre is by the vibrations reflected back into the strings from...

The best contact cleaners I have found are made by Caig Laboratories in th U.S.
This is an oil based lubricant that won't leave the controls and switches feeling like they had a handful of sand...

Tap tuning is sort of a offshoot cult in violin making, some advocates say that the chinrest, fingerboard, tailpiece , etc. can all be tap tuned. What they don't tell you specifically is the...

The equal tempered scale is nothing but a compromise to make all keys work to what has become an acceptable degree. Some keys are actually closer to "just tuning" than others, and tend to sound...

Hardwood does not work well for soundboards. A softwood with high stiffness to density ratio will yield a good soundboard for an acoustic guitar, violin, piano, hammered dulcimer, etc.

"If you are looking for overall tonal quality and sustain, especially sustain ,build the body and the neck from the same piece of wood, if you are not able to do that you might want to consider...

Some heat can be used to help straighten the neck. You have to apply heat for a long period of time to thoroughly penetrate to the core of the neck, but not too hot as to scorch the wood.

I would start from scratch. Loosen the string tension completely, and loosen the truss rod completely, and then tension up the truss rod. It helps sometimes to bow the neck back while tightening the...

The truss rod(s) aren't supposed to move the neck , but rather counteract the pull of the strings so you don't get an excessive forward bow from the string pulling on the neck. There should be some...

This is how I store my planes; digging them out of a bag would be to inconvenient while I'm working. They are always close at hand in a cupboard like...

The ground buss is "THE GROUND". It's the star grounding point for everything within the guitar that requires grounding: terminals on the pots that need to be grounded, cavity shields, bridge /...

The best insurance I ever bought for my bass guitar was a proper flight case. You can drop this off a truck; jump on it and the instrument will still be fine. I've watched while waiting in the plane,...

If you want to experiment with a high quality tube output stage, look into an ultralinear or Williamson output configuration. With a good transformer this output stage will provide a flat frequency...

Well, I live in Canada, am an electronics technician and audio engineer. I started building violins about 25 years ago and of late have been looking at various ways of speeding up the roughing out...

Thank you for the opportunity of becoming a member of this forum. I like very much the format of this forum, and I see that there is a very large membership base with diverse talents and interests. I...

Use only rosin core 60/40 solder for electronics purposes. Usually solder that spits and fizzes is acid core plumbing solder. Using this acid core solder will bring nothing but long term anguish and...

I used to own a live sound production touring company, and all our custom boxes were built with MDF , and then an outer shell of baltic birch plywood glued and fastened to the MDF. Effectively this...