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- Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:47 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What to do?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26120
Re: What to do?
The ding is right down the bottom end of the guitar and I doubt I will be able to get my hand far enough down through the sound hole to reach it which makes it tricky. How do you handle that situation? I place "out-of-reach cleats" with a clamp of the right length whose outer arm tip indicates the ...
- Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:35 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bridge failure - how do I remove a damaged bridge??
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9548
Re: Bridge failure - how do I remove a damaged bridge??
Any advice on the wood I used? I used walnut as I used it for the neck and bridge. Obviously the bridge cracked as the back third was glued to lacquer, but I am wondering if walnut isn't appropriate for a bridge. Walnut is just fine for a bridge, as many other wood species are. I have seen dozens o...
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:19 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Cool
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4242
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:24 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What to do?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26120
Re: What to do?
As Nick says, steam is your friend. An invisible or nearly invisible repair should be possible. I haven't seen Dan Erlewine's video - but what I do, have done quite a few times, and worked always on tops varnished with different known and unknown methods (including shellac), is using a white rather ...
- Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:39 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trying to re-create beautiful violet padouk - (hints please)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3628
- Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:44 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Just bought this book
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14793
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:43 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: How to Add Bridge Mass
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8226
Re: How to Add Bridge Mass
Not the kind of statement his potential customers will read in his advertisements.DarwinStrings wrote: The designer has had his say there and even though he does call them "Power Pins" he is happy to concede that they are not quite like putting a 351 in your Morris Minor.
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:09 am
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Making Radius dishes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15665
Re: Making Radius dishes
Hi Paul, It is easier to sand with a generously dimensioned dish. You could do it in two halves, or use this method which for me yielded good results for radii of 5000 mm and greater, but gets difficult for radii of less than 4000 mm, although I have made a small dish with a 2000 mm radius (200 mm w...
- Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:52 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trying to re-create beautiful violet padouk - (hints please)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3628
Re: Trying to re-create beautiful violet padouk - (hints ple
P.S. At the moment I can't show a photo of the (partially) stained head plate because it is back in the pressing caul until it is completely dry (if I take it out too early for more than a few seconds if would cup). I quickly changed the laminate to a dry caul to accelerate drying, and took a photo...
- Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:51 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trying to re-create beautiful violet padouk - (hints please)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3628
Trying to re-create beautiful violet padouk - (hints please)
I like the colour of freshly cut padouk, and I also like a lot how its colour turns when ageing. However, when some years ago I bought a batch of padouk back and sides sets, one face of one back panel showed some stunningly intense violet staining, although only a blotchy pattern obviously caused by...
- Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:58 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: How to Add Bridge Mass
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8226
Re: How to Add Bridge Mass
going to give your acoustic some SERIOUS POWER!!!!!!!!!!!
Next "development" will be a bridge machined from a solid brass blank, which at the same time will be an ecological substitute for endangered ebony.
- Sat Jan 31, 2015 9:23 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Just a bit of romance
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41383
Re: Just a bit of romance
Wonderful, fantastic, cool, hot, ... not a lot more to say, I'm just speechless.
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:16 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Problem gluing EI Rosewood
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18493
Re: Problem gluing EI Rosewood
Similarly like Trevor I also think that it would be rather difficult or even impossible to starve a Titebond joint using any plate joining jig. Here , Franklin recommends for their wood glues a clamping pressure of 200 - 300 psi (ca. 14 - 20 bar or kg/cm²). Starving a Titebond joint would require mo...
- Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:29 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Small footprint
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4132
- Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:23 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Global freezing
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21159
Global freezing
Climate change in the seventies (due to air pollution).
Now, which studies do we believe?
However, I'm not tempted to buy those old newspaper articles.
Now, which studies do we believe?
However, I'm not tempted to buy those old newspaper articles.
- Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:07 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Beginners nightmare
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8430
Re: Beginners nightmare
Great find!
I have read that such things even happen to surgeons, which lets me conclude you've got the ticket to charge a premium for your guitars.
I have read that such things even happen to surgeons, which lets me conclude you've got the ticket to charge a premium for your guitars.
- Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:40 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Salvaging timber - Old japanese bolt on
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11484
Re: Salvaging timber - Old japanese bolt on
http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5462&p=62873&hilit=replacing+soundboard#p62873 Hi Pete Have a look at this post, it refers to previous posts on replacing the soundboard. Yeahnah. [...] , I don't do acoustics really... and I'm not interested. You could sent it to John the Woodrat, I sure he...
- Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:23 am
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Oh no, not yet another plate joining jig!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14051
Re: Oh no, not yet another plate joining jig!
Oh yes, the quoins!
I knew that there has been something I had forgotten!
I knew that there has been something I had forgotten!
- Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:16 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Heel block - spanish guitar or mortise and tenon??
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13624
Re: Heel block - spanish guitar or mortise and tenon??
The Spanish Heel: 1. Advantages - simpler to construct cf to neck joint method. Agreed. Much simpler and much quicker. The real time-saver and and sorrow-dissolver is thee absolutely fool proof built in neck angle when used in conjunction with an adequate workboard (solera) which provides the neck ...
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Jumbo Acoustic Re-Build
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26975
Re: Jumbo Acoustic Re-Build
Two times (the guitar + you) successfully restored to good health!
Cheers!
Cheers!
- Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:17 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Oh no, not yet another plate joining jig!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14051
Oh no, not yet another plate joining jig!
We have so far only two plate joining jigs in the ANZLF's jig collection: Taffy's jig Allan's jig So I thought I would add mine too, which I am using since about 2 or 3 years. It is a fairly simple animal, quite fast to use, and it takes parallel edged, wedge-shaped and even to some degree irregular...
- Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:57 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Scorched Sides Advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13428
Re: Scorched Sides Advice
Looks great! It reminds me bit on those sandwich-like cookies with chocolate :D cookie-sandwich.jpg It also reminds me on an occasion before my life as luthierie-addict when I commissioned some kind of guitarrilla to a Bolivian luthier and proposed a different wood for the sides than that of the bac...
- Thu Jan 08, 2015 7:51 am
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Equ 4.5-5
- Replies: 37
- Views: 70149
Re: Equ 4.5-5
Tap testing results for the falcate classical: Plate Thickness Calculator.pdf I know, I know, it's been an year now... but may I ask you "how vertical" the grain was (is) in that top? I have never worked with Engelmann spruce, and the data Elong / Ecross = 21.71 really makes me wonder if this is ty...
- Thu Jan 01, 2015 7:31 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: new year
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8254
Re: new year
Thanks Rod and Martin!
Steady hands, adequate judgement and good health in 2015 for all you ANZLFers!
Steady hands, adequate judgement and good health in 2015 for all you ANZLFers!
- Mon Dec 22, 2014 8:13 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: L1 style guitar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15619