Guitar 803 – Sanding and prepping the spray booth
October 28, 2008
Last night Larry came by ostensibly to play music, but I ended up recruiting him to help finish the spray booth installation. I crafted a booth by building a platform (table) with 1/8″ plywood trifold with a range hood mounted on the top. I measured for the location of the vent through the wall to the outside, drilled and chiselled it out inside the house and outside the house and had Larry feed the vent tube from the outside while I lined it up with the hood duct then duct taped it in place.
We spent the rest of the evening sanding and filing the neck (me) and sanding down the body (Larry). Today, I finished crafting a device for hanging the guitar body and neck. I designed so a dowel attached to the guitar or neck could hang and rotate. Turned out perfect. I’m so clever, and humble.
I returned to working on the side bending machine. I’m using plans from Luthier’s Cool Tools and referring to pictures from my guitar building workshop with Charles Fox (the purported inventor/designer of the side bending machine).
Cyndy on 29 Oct 2008 at 7:06 pm #
How many cfm’s does your spray booth move? That shop is turning out to be big time.
admin on 29 Oct 2008 at 10:27 pm #
I did a bit of research on building my own spray booth. One hot topic was CFM and there was lots of differing opinions. In the end I wanted just enough CFM to evacuate the fumes, but not too much to turn it into a wind tunnel. The range hood I ended up with is 190 CFM. I haven’t done any spraying quite yet, but I’ll let you know if it’s enough.