Acoustic Guitar Construction

Long before this group existed I bought a granite surface plate and a stand for it from Grizzly. It still lives in its boxes waiting for me to make space in the shop for it. I also have little imagination about this tool's utility. Last time I used a granite surface plate, it was in a luthier's shop, to sand the mating edges of a bookmatched guitar back. I gotta have more uses than that for this thing.

Suggestions and advice will be gratefully received.

Thanks, folks.

Mostly tool maintenance like plane sole lapping, you can use inexpensive sandpaper to put an edge of chisels and plane blades. I know if it was in my shop on a stand I would use it to put stuff on it.

You can flatten the mating surfaces for the neck and fretboard, sharpen stuff, level frets, join plates, bludgeon small to mid sized animals, break your foot by dropping it on the aforementioned foot, flatten other things, crush beer cans, put a pizza on it at lunch time, lap plane soles, check if your straight edge is, in fact, straight, use it as a paper weight for giant pieces of paper, use it as a parking stop for your car, make shift card table when your buddies come over, use it to press clothes, a terrible pillow, a worse mattress, center piece for the dining room table at holiday time, a very heavy ottoman, tie your dog to itso he can't run away....

Endless uses.

You guys are all heart...

Gold is very often mined from granite blocks....perhaps??????????
Seriously, I use mine for all the above fore mentioned ways that Tony has exposited for us.....
I bought mine to use for tooling leather, as in my knife sheaths, but now I use it in my guitar making too!

Kevin

See? I'm helpful!

Habitat for Humanity has a Re-Store here in Medford where they sell materials from homes that are torn down etc. Lots of nice granite tiles, I got a few 18"x18" tiles that are very very flat for a buck apiece. Works fine