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Here is the latest Luthier Tips du Jour video. - In this video I show some really cool machines that every luthier would love to have in their shops.
This video as well as all my other videos are available via my website, http://www.obrienguitars.com/videos , LMI's website or on youtube.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Never seen a planer quite like that before, can it actually do thin tops as well?

I am not sure as we didn't try to put a top through it.

That was cool to see.

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They're called super surfacers.

Back in the 80's Fine Woodworking (when it was printed in B&W & good) reviewed smaller machines by Hitachi & Makita.

Kevin Looker

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I'm not a luthier.
I'm just a guy who builds guitars in his basement.
It's better than playing golf.

The bread slicer was really cool too though I can get more then 4 per inch on my resaw, but still in a factory environment you could really process some wood with that thing.

Like the idea of putting my hard tack bread through the slicer robbie vy cool. Oh wait . I do have a laguna 20 in bs