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by Gsanbrook
Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:57 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Accelerating break in
Replies: 27
Views: 28997

Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Accelerating break in

Robbie,
I should have warned you. This is a rather tough crowd when it comes to tone-rite. They want PROOF. :D :) :git
by Gsanbrook
Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:24 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Adirondack spruce
Replies: 8
Views: 9374

Re: Adirondack spruce

They are an excellent supplier. Their minimal grades, which I have purchased for 80 to 100 US Dollars are very nice. If you haven't worked with Adirondack top wood, it is typically very stiff (at least that I have gotten from this supplier). Also, this is the only shop that I get brace wood from. Th...
by Gsanbrook
Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:11 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Those Tonerite doobries
Replies: 40
Views: 38059

Re: Those Tonerite doobries

Well I went back and read the entire article. I'll accept the lack of detection by the scientific side of the study to a degree (IMO they are a little dismissive of the changes that were detected. "Uninteresting"? To who?). But that is not a stickle point with me. As a whole, I'll accept them. Instr...
by Gsanbrook
Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:35 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Those Tonerite doobries
Replies: 40
Views: 38059

Re: Those Tonerite doobries

Markus,
Let me ask you straightforward (and I'm not loading a question, just honestly curious).
Do you believe that guitars do not improve their tone over time (whether by playing or age)?
by Gsanbrook
Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:47 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Those Tonerite doobries
Replies: 40
Views: 38059

Re: Those Tonerite doobries

I got the jist of it. I personally don't care how many scientific studies they do that contradicts what I can hear or see with my own ears or eyes. I am not however an easy mojo believer, and am actually quite a skeptic on just about everything. But, I cannot deny improvements from the Tonerite and ...
by Gsanbrook
Fri Sep 05, 2014 4:06 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Those Tonerite doobries
Replies: 40
Views: 38059

Re: Those Tonerite doobries

You nay-sayers are implying that guitars do not "open up" with playing time?? Really?
by Gsanbrook
Fri Jul 11, 2014 5:15 am
Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
Topic: Tone complexity, "sweetness", vocabulary
Replies: 4
Views: 6646

Re: Tone complexity, "sweetness", vocabulary

Few guitars sound bad. Most guitars sound good. Some guitars sound better than most. A few....select few.. break the mold and are leaps and bounds better than all the rest. When you hear and play one of these freaks, you know it. What goes into it to make it this way is hard to define and even harde...
by Gsanbrook
Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:50 am
Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
Topic: Sitar-like open note?
Replies: 7
Views: 8856

Re: Sitar-like open note?

A lack of neck relief can mimic a sitar like sound. I found this out on the last one I built.
by Gsanbrook
Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:13 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Fingerboard thickness
Replies: 5
Views: 5883

Re: Fingerboard thickness

.25 inch usually works.
by Gsanbrook
Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:45 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: dying ebony fretboards
Replies: 13
Views: 15883

Re: dying ebony fretboards

I have used the Fiebings dye, but did not care for the hue it left. I did not look natural to me. Like a freshly shined pair of black shoes. But this is just MO. I have come to like the look of African ebony just wiped real well with mineral oil.