These are the things I would find it hard to do without in my workshop.
Power tools
- Bandsaw
- Drum sander
- Vertical oscillating sander
- Pillar drill
- Lathe – doubles as sander (with shaped discs) and mop polisher
- Laminate trimmer with top and bottom bearing laminate cutters and very small (1/2/3mm) cutters. Circle cutting jig with vernier adjustment
- Palm sander
Hand tools
- F-clamps – 6 off
- Wooden klampsia clamps (lots)
- Deep throat F clamp
- Deep throat clamps – for gluing bridge
- Metal vice
- Drill vice
- Flexible jaws vice (home-made)
- Set of flat chisels – 1/2″ down to 1/8″
- Skew chisels –
- Scrapers
- Shoulder plane
- Small palm plane
- Flexible sole plane – for cutting the concave jigs for back and top
- Set of small rat-tail files
- Set of nut files
- Half round file
- Flat file with flat edge
- Japanese half round rasp
- Japanese marking knife
- Set of rulers (6″, 12″, 24″, 36″)
- Square
- Digital vernier (imperial & metric)
- Screw lock bevel
- Japanese dozuki saw
- Fret cutting saw
- Sanding disc – 15′ concave for preparing bottom of sides for back
- Sanding block – 25′ convex for doing underside of bridge
Jigs
- Bench hook
- Shooting boards
- Side moulds and base building jig
- Back building board
- Lining laminate gluing jig
- Side bending jig
- Fingerboard fret marking jig
- Fingerboard fret cutting jig
- Top/bottom template
- Head template
- Fingerboard template
- Bridge positioning template
- 15′ and 25′ radius sticks
Consumables
- Double sided tape
- Wide blue masking tape
- Titebond yellow glue
- White PVA glue
- Shellac flakes & thinners
- Pumice
- Cotton waste and linen sheets
- Sandpaper 180-400
- Emery paper 600-2000
- Polishing compound
- China graph pencils
- Carpenters pencils