Major f**k ups

[Steve.Toscano]

So.... I may have just put my shellac brush into my glass of scotch.. They do look very simular...

Anyway, after Martin's recent effort - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7614 , got me thinking, we all do it, what's the worse f#ck up you've made?

BTW: the scotch was 21yo Glenlivet

Here's mine:

Crack

[Bachiano]

Looks like a clean break.
HHG it and it should be invisible.

[Allen]

Easy fix. Have another Scotch and relax. Come back with a clear head and heat up the glue.

I once was going to hang up a guitar that had just had it's last coat of clear applied, and missed the wire I was hanging it from. Hit the concrete floor and bounced nearly as high as it was dropped. Back was completely shattered........I learn't how to replace a back from that experience.

[routout]

Almost every day for me then there's this broken uke neck that went flying out the shed and hit the gate made two more near perfect (to my eyes ) I have the thing that starts kind of bad then I of course keep going and guess what it gets worse .learn a lot about fixing stuff still having fun.

[Steve.Toscano]

Looks like a clean break.
HHG it and it should be invisible.

That crack was from about a year ago. I filled it with epoxy, clamped, cleated the inside, and all good, ended up invisible.

[kiwigeo]

So.... I may have just put my shellac brush into my glass of scotch.. They do look very simular...

Anyway, after Martin's recent effort - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7614 , got me thinking, we all do it, what's the worse f#ck up you've made?

I've managed to surpass my last effort.....I f***ed up cutting the tenon on the third neck.....just finished cutting tenon on the fourth neck

[routout]

Phases of the Moon ,the weather I remember reading a book on making out folding knives ,he said a coffe first thing in the morning while the brains ticking the rite way mark out then as I do check a dozen times then go what the hell did I just do

[Dekka]

Recently, I finished my first Uke (a gift for my wife). Proud of the result, I took it to show a luthier mate who had helped me along the way and upon leaving his place with a sense of accomplishment I hopped into my car just as the wind blew the door shut; pinning the uke against the steering wheel and cracking the side. I looked at myself in the rear-view and mentally mused if I was a would-be luthier or Mr Bean?

[TallDad71]

Mine was all about humidity control. I built a stunning koa spruce steel string body, handmade rosettes, lacewood bindings and fell in love with my own work it was that good.

Took it out of the workshop and into the house so I could concentrate on the neck.

Weeks later I listened to the tap tone, the top wasn't as good as before and when I tapped the back it just cracked, as I repeated taps, it repeatedly cracked. I could have cried.

It now sits in pride of place in my workshop as a reminder to do things right, just above the dehumidifier!

[lamanoditrento]

Here is my latest. Some how I have managed to cut two treble sides for a spanish heel:

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[kiwigeo]

Got neck number 4 roughed up and the bolt down tenon glued in. Checked neck rake and clearance at bridge was 2mm too high. Routed out the tenon....f****d with the main neck tenon cheeks and glued a new bolt down tenon in. Getting really good at making necks!!

[splintermike]

I've been waiting to show this to someone besides my wife.

In the process of making a couple of bass guitars, my first try at a cutaway. It was easier then I thought it would be. When I took the back out of the go-bar and tried it on I realized that orientation is, if not everything, very important!

It is the back facing up. Someday I'll make a left handed bass.

[kiwigeo]

I've been waiting to show this to someone besides my wife.

In the process of making a couple of bass guitars, my first try at a cutaway. It was easier then I thought it would be. When I took the back out of the go-bar and tried it on I realized that orientation is, if not everything, very important!

It is the back facing up. Someday I'll make a left handed bass.

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Shave off braces and back reinforcement strip and re-install on other side of the back??? Those braces look a bit on the beefy side anyway...

[splintermike]

Good idea, but I've already made a new back.
Thanks

[56nortondomy]

I just spent about 2 months getting bindings and purflings on the f holes of an archtop I'm building ( gave me a hard time ) a few times I pulled bits off and redid them, finally I was happy with the end result so I sent a photo to the client and his reply was, shouldn't the bindings be on the outside? I don't know what I was thinking but I got it arse about and never even noticed, had to pull it all off and start again. D**khead.
Wayne