Beezle - if you want to try the Festool you're welcome to borrow mine. I'm only 15 minutes from you.

I was going to start my FH resto last month but my honey, the love of my life, wanted the basement finished first so my resto is getting punted for another few weeks.

Happy Easter everyone!

No kidding - didn't know that! I've lived in Morris County my entire life - Motown, Chester, Brookside and Madison (I think my dad was part gypsy!). Back in the day the Madison/East Hanover rivalry was quite intense. I remember quite a few skirmishes at the football games...

Who's you're landscaping friend - I'm sure I would know him or know of him. GV is a very small town!

That Festool is amazing. I stripped my Whirlwind in no time at all. It takes so much of that hard, tedious work out of the equation. Shoot me a PM if you want to give it a go.

Cheers!

Looking great - keep up the good work. Even with a Festool set-up I easily spent 40+ hours on my WW cab resto alone. The stripping, sanding, bondo, sanding, bondo, lather, rinse, repeat, priming, sanding, priming, sanding, decaling, trimming, touching up, etc. is a brutal process. If you take your time and don't cut corners like you're doing it will all pay off in the end.

I'm starting my FH in a couple of weeks as soon as I finish my basement and honey-do list. My cab, and back box in particular, are in such rough shape that I did what you mentioned and bought a complete set-up from Paul at Virtuapin. I estimated it would probably have taken 50-60 hours to do it right so the amount of time saved will be totally worth the $900 I spent on the cabinet. My services are worth more than $15 an hour

Let me know if you need any ink. I'll never use up my quart in a lifetime!

I'm pretty sure there would be "no" woodworking required if buying one of their cabs but ask me in a few weeks and I'll confirm. I'm fairly adept at woodworking and restored my WW cab no problem but my FH cabinet and bbox were both is such poor condition (water damage, delamination, etc) that it didn't make sense to spend the massive amount of time and reworking it would have taken to restore them. I took the plunge and ordered one of Virtuapins' cab/bbox packages and am having the art installed. Paul was great to work with had no problem with any extras I asked for (full paint down the insides, etc.).

Hey Randy - is it possible to notch the lockbar receiver you got from PBL with a cutting wheel, bandsaw, jigsaw saw, etc to accommodate the 2nd shooter? I don't think you would have to remove to much of the metal and I'm assuming a standard receiver is very similar to a stock FH receiver except for the notching and maybe some of the mounting holes? Just a thought

Sounds like a lovely Hump Day adventure...