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I use PU (polyurethane) “leather” desk pads

Here’s the original post I did about them:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CLn0l67sgF7/?igsh=b2JiZHh5MWQyN2x2

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Guitar Specialist on Instagram: "I Hate Carpet!!! Today's shop tip is brought to you by a question from Grace @guelphguitarrepair. A couple of others have asked about this as well so I thought it would make a good shop tip. Grace asked about the top guard she noticed in the double hammer fretting video I posted. I'll start by repeating, I hate carpet. I used to cover the benches in our old shops with carpet as many of us do to have a soft bed for guitars to rest on while working on them. I've always hated how they trap everything. Wood dust, feet dust, glue, dirt ... you get the idea. No amount of vacuuming can pick up all the fret dust we generate. So when we moved into the new shop with our wonderful new benches I searched for some alternative. I struck gold. I found these "PU leather" desk pads that can be bought pretty inexpensively. They're the perfect softness and thickness to protect the guitar from hard benches. We spend an inordinate amount of time and effort protecting our customer's guitars from us. As soon as we got some for the benchtops I realized they were also perfect for lots of other uses. They're easy to cut into any shape and make perfect top guards for guitars. We call them guitar bibs in our shop. They're great to protect guitars during fretwork, bridge work, at the electronics bench from spitting solder shooting where you dont want it. I even save the little pieces to protect pegheads from a runaway nut file. They even make great protectors for clamping cauls. They're better than suede because that stuff still picks up all sorts of nasty stuff that can scratch up a customer guitar. They wipe perfectly clean with a little soap and water and dry in seconds. If you're not choosy about the color you can get them for less than 10 bucks, sometimes a lot less. A really huge one can often be found for 20 bucks or less and you can make lots of bibs out of them. Try it out and let's get the carpet off our benches! 🙃 #guitarspecialist #guitarrepair #guitarrepairshop #guitartech #luthier #luthiersofinstagram #whatsonyourbench #guitar #fretwork #fendermustang #frets #techtips #shoptips"

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Hello Carlos! I find your bench set up really intriguing and may try to recreate it! Is the jig/workstation fastened down at all or do you just let gravity keep it where it is?

Also wondering what the butt end looks like or if the + is all that makes contact with the bench.

Lastly Im guessing the pole is a light or phone holder?

Thanks in advance!

Dude, the ovation holder is a killer move !