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Some wood torrefaction companies like for example Thermowood of Minnesota will treat your own wood. I have no idea about minimal quantities, maybe you just had to wait for the next batch where your top or couple of tops could go with.

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This is what I do with such pieces: Cut off the parts I colored green in the picture. This will be brace wood. Then resaw. The blue colored parts will also be brace wood, the red center part will be to a great extent perfectly quartered tops (these will have nice or even spectacular medullary rays) ...

Glad you made it work, that's cool!

Regarding "how it works": doing a scarf joint on a normal neck is actually only a special case where you don't get such a funny off-cut piece because the two cuts happen to fall into the same plane (hence only one cut).

Harry Fleishman provided a good description with excellent photos of the process in American Lutherie #118 . He boils it down to these 5 steps on the table saw (I'm citing what he wrote): Mark the nut angle [across the neck's width] Set up to saw the peghead scarf angle. I use 14°. Tilt the blade to...

Marcus, I've never had to heat a top/back joint done with tape, because the method aligns the joint along its length and brings the faces together perfectly every time. There is plenty of time to adjust the tape by playing with the plates as a book prior to applying glue. Once you apply the glue, i...

Tape - for instance - work really well. Or 4 nails in the bench with a wedge or 2 is about as fast as tape. Good luck with re-heating a joint held by tape, or tucking away a bench (or several benches when joining a batch of tops). I don't use, and wouldn't recommend a flame as heat source though. I...

Waiting for the vegan telling us how evil HHG is.

Taping takes me more time than the method with wedges.

Bob Gramann wrote:Neat, but more work than it needs to be.

Yes, two minutes is too much work to join a top, but that's what it takes me too. I never got it down to less than that.

I wonder if there is a trade off between having an extremely responsive top where the energy quickly dissipates and the sustain. In this interview , Matthias Dammann explained the relation between volume and sustain as a psychoacoustical phenomenon: Sustain is another phenomenon, which is connected...

Thank you Charlie, for posting this.

Yesterday I was searching for it, but couldn't find it. A couple of times I hoped to have found the newest April fool's joke, but nope, every time it was something you can actually buy!

Bob, I use the same type of hygrometer ( this one ) since 2011 and it works a treat. I also "calibrated" it using this home made sling psychrometer, and it turned out that the "bi-wood" hygrometer gets a bit less sensitive over the years. But more important than precise RH% numbe...

Someone stole it from a modern art exhibition.

Let's analyse this case thoroughly. ;) A budget guitar (or budget whatever item): we get what we pay for. Why even have a warranty? Because that's what people are asking for, even if they are too lazy to read what it contains and excludes, and because most people don't even claim the covered issues ...

What should the fret layout have to do with the vibration modes?

There is in fact someone making archtops as you suggest, without resorting to Alan's method. I forget who he is and where I saw it, [...] Steve Andersen. As one can appreciate in this video his double tops are only slightly domed, and with no recurve. Someone else actually forced the Nomex layer in...

Nice knock-off Geoff! :) You can make as many of these as you would like as long as you don't use the trademarked name. These sorts of story gauges have existed for hundreds of years so I doubt anyone could patent them now-a-days. Some details of this Bridge City gimmick are patented indeed. If the ...

You're correct Bryan, halfhearted won't do the trick. ;) First I had finished the conical hole (without the "entrance chamfer"). Then I set a marking gouge to the apex of each side of the conical hole and scribed the two lines to the far end of the block. With these lines scribed one shoul...

but I would caution you to ignore what that site says about using any piece of junk wood. Hmmm... I did not suggest to use any piece of junk wood! I just wrote that you can make it for " the price of a junk of wood [...] " - which in my case was a piece of nice flamed maple that I had to ...