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. . . but fretted, strung, tuned . . . from the advertisement A little bit about frets and instrument-building. There is a retired mailman named Wayne Henderson in Mouth-Of-Wilson, Virginia, who makes guitars. When a lad, he made his first guitar but it sounded like it was made from slatwood vegetable crates. Wayne wanted to learn more. He went to a top builder further south. This luthier gave him an old mahogany door and said, "Made a guitar out of this door, then bring me the guitar". Fret slots are traditionally crosscut .023" wide within in the fingerboard. Wayne could not afford a fret slot saw. He instead took a hacksaw blade, hammered it flat, and filed it to spec. Last week in @aaronc's file discussion, @Gene Howe mentioned he tried an experiment stacking several lengths of a broken bandsaw blade together, alternating the tooth direction to make a rasp. I remembered that experiment for some reason, and I'm getting to it. The hacksaw blade is a variation of the 20 most important tools in the history of civilization. Bet I could even perform an emergency appendectomy with one if I had to. With, of course, a bottle of grain hooch, some old gut violin strings, and a fishhook.

Hi John, This upload is what lead me to The Patriot Woodworker. I was doing a web search, hoping to find a pdf of this article. Back in 1967, in high school wood shop, I started making this clock, using my Grandfather's copy of Workbench Magazine. I never finished the clock, but still have all of the parts. I hope to get some time to complete it, among my other activities, but have not yet located my old copy of this issue. I have downloaded the file here, but cannot locate the rest of the article that DeafJeff requested. Did you ever upload the rest of the article? By the way, I think it is a terrific site that you created here. Thanks, Bunsen

Just downloaded the pattern and it WILL be on the saw tomorrow. Thanks sire for including it.

I really appreciate showing our generations and younger ones that we can still survive with these wonderful tools. I grew up at times where we used kerosene lamps. It gave us an appreciation for our electric lights and now we have LED. Thank you for helping us to get a grip of the older way which we may need in the near future as things are going globally.

Interesting no gear wooden clock. Are additional pages of the plan available?