Roy Noble usually takes the prize for the longest distance traveled to the NCAL meeting:
He drives all the way from Los Angeles to show off his latest tools and jigs.
Today, it was a cool router he wired with a reversing switch so he can rout the purfling channel around a guitar top with no tearout at all:
In the upper photo, he's holding the bit he uses, which he simply unscrews and turns over to match the reverse rotation.
We can usually count on Joel Hawley to come up with an interesting trick or two:
He showed us his rotating fixture for cutting perfectly concentric curved pearl sections for inlay around a soundhole.
He also revealed his latest neck attachment device:
Alan Brookes played a quick tune on his latest multi-string dulcimer thingy:
Richard McClish dropped in to demonstrate his RMC pickup system:
