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Instagram post 17920858993531297 A nice little run of tricks to show, and I apologize in advance to any woodworkers seeing this who will surely fall asleep while skimming.
1) my short term memory is quite terrible, so instead of looping dimensions in my head which quickly melt into whatever song I’m humming, or carrying around paper/scrap I’d lose, I write what I need on painter’s tape and affix to my tape measure. I rarely lose that. 
2) the @woodpeckers_tools triangle is exactly 1/4” thick and the back slat grooves are a skosh over 1/4” wide, so I could easily use it to square the middle divider so I could take a dead nuts measurement of the yet-to-be-cut back’s length. 
3) Since compound angles have been eliminated, calculating final length is simply adding fractions. I’m basically a physicist. 
4) used screws sunk flush inside the rail grooves to affix the rails to the sides. The final design hasn’t yet been locked, so this will allow me to make adjustments later if necessary vs gluing them in place.
Espresso FTW
Oh! And I snuck in my foxy @blackwing pencil. One day I’ll have a photo hip enough to be reposted in their feed. I’m a Blackwing fanboy in waiting.
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#blackwingpencil#nobelprize#mathmatician
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Instagram post 18094039636236535 If you ain’t a cook, Splendid Spoon will feed you. And their boxes double as mini piano stands.
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Instagram post 17871607739263300 RIP Chick. His Akoustic Band is still my absolute favorite trio. Holy fuck these guys were good. 
And then there’s me & Brad. Instead of playing tonight, we’re listening to Chick.
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Instagram post 18137779834148572 Collection of our standard eurorack case photos from previous graduating classes. 
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#eurorackcase
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Instagram post 18162375604100457 With our new freight shipping partner we no longer have to build custom crates for our cabinets, but international shipments still require them. We hate making these so much we’re no longer shipping international. We truly, madly, deeply hate making these, but I gotta say @golfwithghosts did a crackin’ good job on this last one going to New Zealand. Time for sleep. Zzzzz
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Instagram post 18193198696047667 Cuts on middle divider to press fit top and bottom slats. Grooved runner strips glue-up to divider. Solid Wednesday build sesh while remembering an absolutely perfect & soul quenching evening last night. Sigh.
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Instagram post 18051770698284386 All back panel slide pieces cut and sized, exponentially easier on simple vs. compound angles.
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Instagram post 18119488039174289 Scars, miters, and melancholy mixes. Wednesday night build sesh & quiet meditation has commenced.
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Instagram post 18194862787050768 Laser engraver’s maiden voyage was two nights ago with a simple, corny message, but I’ve finally got a quick process using it with the @shapertools Origin to make little details for the cabinets. Here’s a test run of one, but the final will be significantly smaller, and inlayed into a discrete location in the cabinet. I like the idea of little semi-hidden details vs making a piece of furniture look like a NASCAR car.
I’d  love to mount the laser inside a little cat doll so it shoots out of its eyes, but I should probably keep the pedal down on my build queue. Maybe next week.
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#shapermade#shaperorigin
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Instagram post 17856702338446102 Top & bottom back slats, along with side runners cut to size and grooved. Friction fit (toot toot) and held together with a set of 7’ long clamps. I thought this clamp length would only be used on a one-off piece I built a few years ago but they’re now almost always off the clamp rack. They’re so light I can place and tighten myself without a helper. 
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Instagram post 17881261136091588 Onto cutting joinery for the zaftig double 30Us. For some reason I thought it would cool to step the depths of all rabbet, all connecting pieces need to be cut at different lengths. <update> was just told I did this because I thought it would look cool. I hate it when I’m in those moods.
It still feels strange praising a pencil, but these effin’ @blackwing s make marking lines a joy, and hot damn, are they sexy.
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Instagram post 17916391939572466 @artifactbags is genius. What dad wouldn’t buy their daughter a matching shop apron. Here Brad models it for scale.
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Instagram post 17921891791515381 Got a couple of collaborations brewing with @folktek & @weswookbeats with hardware and our walnut lovecraft. We’ve got a few more cabinet builds to knock out before changing our gears for a spell. Wait until you see what’s in store on Wes’ MPC restorations. Sweet Lord they’re going to be sexy. Black n brass magic.
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Instagram post 18192024079023827 Just finished assembling a small laser cutter I bought to make little detail pieces which I’ve been dying to add into my cabinets. We’ve got a massive cnc machine coming in April, but this little guy will handle the bits too small for it.
Note the print of Jerry Garcia’s hand print with missing middle finger in the display’s reflection. I’m praying this isn’t a bad omen.
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#jerrygarcia#theomen
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Instagram post 17939456278453174 Michael Stein’s studio build out coming along nicely with a perfect perch for the 15U w/ matching skiff I made for him last year. Stoked to see it done, almost as stoked as Season 4 of @strangerthingstv to come out. 
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#eurorackcase#strangerthings
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Instagram post 17903292217699538 Can you spot my MacBook?
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Instagram post 17896399774777128 And just like that, the assembly bench is fully taken. 
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Instagram post 17875676588118355 This may look just like a 4’ x 8’ sheet of white melamine Brad is dancing a jig of joy upon, but it’s the topper of my assembly table we haven’t been able to use for countless months while I worked an absurdly complicated double 30U monstrosity. It was a tricky cut I was making for this build which shredded my hand, leaving me with a sexy scar.
I’m simplifying the build with a flat back vs. the compound angle back w/ sliding doors, so I can get both on the truck soon. Oh, how we missed this work table.
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Instagram post 18155067538119112 Are You Not Entertained? Are You Not Entertained? Is This Not Why You Are Here?
This epic build has come to a close, and aside from my finger smudges before the pics, she’s ready for pickup tomorrow.
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#eurorackcase#gladiator#eskatonicmodular#needhamwoodworks
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Instagram post 17883823112033026 Slowly developing a love affair with brass & black walnut. This case still gets a final clean-up and wax, but holy shit this is gorgeous. Why, you ask, do I work late? This. @golfwithghosts did an exceptional finishing job on this cabinet. Wow.
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#eurorackcase#brassinlay#walnutwood
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