Pete Howlett
Well-known member
I want to publicly thank an occasional visitor and poster here - Kevin Waldron. A few years ago he kindly produced some templates for me in exchange for some information. I lost those files and he, unlike me, a cautious archiver recovered them for me. I had been struggling to recreate them and in 5 minutes was up and running again producing quality drawing files - please note I will be offering tenor only plans some time in the future as I expand my 'parts' business.
Kevin also inspired me to more seriously explore the opportunities of CNC based production. Just recently I have been struggling because of my PD to manipulate bindings without the help a third hand so am anticipating more future limitations. Trying to get a jump on this using CNC router technologies is a stimulating challenge and I actually think I will get to 1000 instruments with improved standards of fit and finish than I achieved at the height my pre-PD days. I cannot imagine using my excellent fret slotting machine to ver do a fingerboard again and am trying hard to make the use of a pencil obsolete...
Now who would have thought that Pete Howlett would be writing a post like this, on this forum, 7 years ago eh? You could say this is a major 'hat eating' moment
Kevin also inspired me to more seriously explore the opportunities of CNC based production. Just recently I have been struggling because of my PD to manipulate bindings without the help a third hand so am anticipating more future limitations. Trying to get a jump on this using CNC router technologies is a stimulating challenge and I actually think I will get to 1000 instruments with improved standards of fit and finish than I achieved at the height my pre-PD days. I cannot imagine using my excellent fret slotting machine to ver do a fingerboard again and am trying hard to make the use of a pencil obsolete...
Now who would have thought that Pete Howlett would be writing a post like this, on this forum, 7 years ago eh? You could say this is a major 'hat eating' moment