Steaming dents

[simso]

Its good,

Having a nice diverse range of repairs coming through at the momment.

http://www.mirwa.com.au/HTS_Steam_Dent.html

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[blackalex1952]

Do you take any precautions when steaming soundboards to avoid the possibility of water stains? -Ross

[simso]

You have a good point. But no I don't.

I always advise a customer, will do my best, some discolouration may occur from the process, this is regardless of what repair I am doing, it's like a "you have been advised" card.

As repairers we are always having to work with aged surfaces and fresh wood sands up differently, so tints and colours become your best friend.

Steve

[blackalex1952]

Yeah Steve, I am still trying to master the colour matching game, and to build a collection of stains and pigments for my arsenal...cheers! Ross

[simso]

Did you see how I store my stains.

The best thing I ever did

Buy eye dropper bottles and fit the lids to your stain bottles, makes mixing so much easier, gets more difficult as the bottle gets empty but works fantastic, Available through ebay for 10 dollars - 20 bottles I think it was

Also colour matching is a true art, makes it easier when you use a test piece of wood already sprayed up, takes time but makes life so much easier as well.

http://www.mirwa.com.au/HTS_Colour_Match.html

Steve

[lamanoditrento]

Thanks Streve, another great I really like that you have estimated the time in each of your tutorials

[simso]

Cool cool.

Steve

[Mark McLean]

Thanks Steve. You are amassing a really useful set of pictorial tutes - and you have got just the right amount of detail for a semi-knowledgeable, reasonably sensible novice to be able to follow. Keep them coming!
Cheers
Mark

[simso]

Thanks, trying not to make them too long or complicated, hence the here's how we do it, with a follow up photo of the finish, on my earlier ones I was just showing the repairs and leaving the last shot without it being the finished product, simply a link.

Decided, may as well make the final photo a shot of the finished job with links to colour matching.

Steve

[simso]

So many more walk through's I keep meaning to do, but am absolutletly smashed work load wise (always the same for this time of the year), so have been a bit slack on the tutorials

Still trying to squeeze one out each week, hopefully in a few weeks after school has restarted I will get her back on track and can do a few new ones each week.

In the shop at the moment as an example, I have of the top of my head the following

Banjo restoration,
Acoustic guitar snapped heel
About 19 guitars with cracked tops/backs/butts and sides
Snapped Martin headstock through the tuners
2 banjo mando restorations and reskins
1 bass guitar solid body with busted body through control knobs
One epi with a broken neck
One guitar that needs new binding
One Taylor to be upgraded to an es2 system
One Ibanez for a full refret
One ovation with warped top
one yamaha acoustic with lifting bridge
One Perspex strat pickguard to be manufactured
One Maton for a new fretboard and frets
One Martin for a refret with evos
One schecter guitar for restoration
One prs styled guitar to be manufactured from customer supplied woods
One strat to be modified to a floyd rose

Today alone I turned away a refret, a fret level, and a paint job.

That's what I can think of from the top of my head here at home

Absolute madness

This is one of the reasons for my tutorials, there is plenty of work out there for anyone who has skills as a luthier and wishes to step into the repair world?

Steve