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- Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:42 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Ukulele Pickups and Amplification
- Replies: 12
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Gaby (and others), we (D-TAR) don't have a packaged, ready to go uke unit. I modify our Timberline system by disconnecting the battery/voltage booster pack from the preamp, putting a jumper from the battery positive input to the preamp over to a solder pad on the PC card that connects to the output ...
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:47 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: es-335 contour templates
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17377
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:45 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: archtops?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 46928
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:10 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Calling People with Guitar Finishing Experience
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4297
For maximum "pop", try epoxy sealing first. It's not just good on open pored woods. Do wash and sand before top coating to get rid of any amine blush issues. If you don't mind trading off chatoyance for a bit more obvious grain highlighting, you could use a water stain in amber or brown first, allow...
- Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:17 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Titebond or Epoxy or Resin
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6284
One other point...when you say "butt joint", what comes immediately to mind is an end grain to end grain glue joint...about the weakest you can do. I do understand from the context of what you're writing that you intend to glue long grain to long grain...and the advice is good...if it's a good joint...
- Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:02 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bending with Titebond 2 or 3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29553
As promised: Glues I use in lutherie, where I use them, and a bit about why. Hot hide glue Center seams for tops and backs Gluing braces to tops and backs Bridges on acoustic instruments Kerfing for acoustic guitars Tops to sides on acoustic guitars Traditional, and still a favorite for many lutheri...
- Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:43 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bending with Titebond 2 or 3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29553
Apparently there have been issues in the past with the LMI stuff...a bad batch or a batch that got frozen or something like that, but we've put literally hundreds of guitars together using the LMI glue in a lot of the joints including peghead scarfs which are about the toughest joints to get really ...
- Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:31 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bending with Titebond 2 or 3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29553
Tim's tests pretty much confirm what many of us know from a more empirical perspective. There is still nothing about how vibrations are carried through and across glue joints. Tests on that factor could be conducted using a Lucchi Elasticity Tester, but I don't have one. That would be interesting, t...
- Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:57 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bending with Titebond 2 or 3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29553
Dennis, I'll write up my list of glues and uses over the weekend, but here's a question for you. Why on earth would you use Titebond Original when there's another glue...LMI white glue...that is just as convenient to use as Titebond and which, from all we can gather, has significantly lower cold cre...
- Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:30 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bending with Titebond 2 or 3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29553
I'm merely asking questions, not shoving some concept of the truth down anyone's throat. As for me, I choose not to use rubbery glues for building instruments. I don't have any issues building as I do, so for me, Titebond 3 is a solution looking for a problem. Hey, in spite of the evidence that orig...
- Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:07 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Smallman Carbon Fiber Epoxy Fingerboards?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7155
David...nice to see you over here! I don't know about that, but it seems kind of inefficient as a way to make a fingerboard. I'd think that to really take advantage of the compression strength, you'd want a real layup. I patented a carbon fiber fingerboard with stiffening webs back in 1989 when I wo...
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:27 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Ukulele Pickups and Amplification
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13353
Yeah, unfortunately I've found myself usually in the middle of audiophile heaven...that place where it actually has to sound good or you're homeless and reviled for daring to let inferior sound loose on all the latte drinking cougars who would otherwise subject you to all the hidden pages of the Kam...
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:20 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bending with Titebond 2 or 3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29553
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:28 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Melbourne Get Together?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5154
Melbourne Get Together?
I need to book my flights over for the Cairns Ukulele Festival in late June/early July, and I'm considering a couple of days in Melbourne. Any interest in getting a luthiers' group together and having me chat and hopefully not drool over your instruments? I need to do this pretty quickly...
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:21 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Is westsystems epoxy sprayable?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9420
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:30 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Is westsystems epoxy sprayable?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9420
Allen, what about the amine blush issue? I now sand back the epoxy a bit, wash the surface with a damp maroon ScotchBrite pad, and then hit it with a coat of Waterlox before spraying subsequent coats of anything. I did have some serious adhesion issues a couple of months ago that I put down to amine...
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:07 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Newbie wanting to buy an acoustic/electric
- Replies: 44
- Views: 39172
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Ukulele Pickups and Amplification
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13353
My solution isn't cheap, but it sounds really good. I use a modified D-TAR Timberline with the head shrink sliced off of the pickup cable, the cable shortened, and the preamp modified so that battery power comes up on the "ring" of a stereo cable from an external battery box. This puts the preamp in...
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:13 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: How would you set the action for this player.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15199
- Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: My New Fave Video
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7232
- Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:33 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: My New Fave Video
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7232
- Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:44 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Newbie wanting to buy an acoustic/electric
- Replies: 44
- Views: 39172
There must be some decent Yamahas floating around. I, of course, forgot about the need to cut a new leftie string nut, but that would add a bit to the conversion cost. Still, a decent used guitar with a conversion might be less expensive than holding out for that rare leftie. And Bob and admin folks...
- Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:52 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Newbie wanting to buy an acoustic/electric
- Replies: 44
- Views: 39172
One other thing. It's not all that big a deal to convert a guitar from right handed to left. All that needs doing is to fill the saddle slot with the appropriate wood, well fitted and glued, and then rout a new slot at the proper angle for leftie intonation and make a new saddle. Here in the 'States...
- Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:06 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Nato (Nyatoh)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10296
- Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:52 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Newbie wanting to buy an acoustic/electric
- Replies: 44
- Views: 39172
Why not buy a reasonable used guitar that you like and have a good pickup put into it? One of the problems with lo-balling a luthier is that he or she will wind up resenting having taken on the job as the build time stretches out and the dollars per hour drop below minimum wage. You'll wind up with ...