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- Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:51 pm
- Forum: Glues and Finishes
- Topic: tape melted in lacquer finish
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10327
Re: tape melted in lacquer finish
Watch out for the blue 3M masking tape. The adhesive will destroy lacquer even without heat. The green tape is usually safe for lacquer.
- Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:26 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: DIY Rosette Cutter
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9144
Re: DIY Rosette Cutter
A router with a spiral bit does a nice, easy job, and cuts out the soundhole later.
- Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:55 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Heating Pipe DIY Question
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23362
Re: Heating Pipe DIY Question
Congratulations. Lock that door when you're working (or move your bench). Someone opening that door could knock you into a nasty burn.
- Sat Mar 09, 2013 10:17 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Heating Pipe DIY Question
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23362
Re: Heating Pipe DIY Question
My pipe has a nut on the inside and a nut on the outside of the pipe on each piece of threaded rod. I made it so that it stands off from the wood because my first incarnation, where the pipe was bolted into a wooden cradle, scorched the wood into charcoal.
- Sat Mar 09, 2013 6:38 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Heating Pipe DIY Question
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23362
Re: Heating Pipe DIY Question
Here's the pipe part. It's pretty self-explanatory. The threaded rods are 7/16". The lower block gets clamped into a bench vise. My charcoal lighter didn't fit into the pipe. I plugged it in, let it get red hot, unplugged it, then bent it narrow enough to fit with a large pliers. It didn't brea...
- Sat Mar 09, 2013 2:36 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Heating Pipe DIY Question
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23362
Re: Heating Pipe DIY Question
When you cut a threaded rod, first you screw on a nut inside of where you're going to cut. After the cut, you turn the nut off over the cut end and it restores the threads as it goes by. I'll get construction directions for my pipe up later today.
- Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:06 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Jointer Plane Recommendations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7915
Re: Jointer Plane Recommendations
I'm using a Woodriver #4 (http://www.woodcraft.com/product/2021170/29725/woodriver-4-bench-hand-plane-v3.aspx) from Woodcraft to joint my tops and backs. It's a very nice plane. When jointing isn't going well with it, a sharpening immediately solves the problem. I have an antique #7 and an antique #...
- Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:33 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Radius Dish Help
- Replies: 38
- Views: 41176
Re: Radius Dish Help
Louie's comment about indoor use is an understatement. The first MDF radius dishes that I made with a router I made outdoors. There was still way too much dust. I don't do any major routing of MDF anymore. It just seems unhealthy.
- Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:25 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Heating Pipe DIY Question
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23362
Re: Heating Pipe DIY Question
Yes, I understand the lecture. I'm not discounting it; I'm not ignoring it. That bender pipe is so hot that as soon as I am finished working, I unplug it and lay it on the concrete outside so that I don't inadvertently bump it and burn myself. (I did that once before I moved the shop out of my garag...
- Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:16 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Radius Dish Help
- Replies: 38
- Views: 41176
Re: Radius Dish Help
And, my 25' dish.
- Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:15 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Heating Pipe DIY Question
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23362
Re: Heating Pipe DIY Question
I was traveling during the earlier part of this discussion. Here is my pipe and controller. Against advice, I do not have a timer on it. I'm pretty anal about unplugging everything when I finish a session.
- Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:49 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Radius Dish Help
- Replies: 38
- Views: 41176
Re: Radius Dish Help
You can make your own radius dishes very cheaply. I pulled a 1/4" piece of masonite into a near sphere by calculating the deflection at a foot from the center, making a rim of that height, and pulling down the center with a flat head bolt. The same dish is very useful for sanding the rims. You ...
- Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:44 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Heating Pipe DIY Question
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23362
Re: Heating Pipe DIY Question
You want the light dimmer to have a higher watt rating than the heating element. I'm using a 600 watt dimmer with a 500 watt element. It has worked for several years with no problem. I mounted the dimmer in a metal double outlet box along with an outlet that I plug the element into. None of the wiri...
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:04 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Drilling countersink holes for StewMac ferrules?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4303
Re: Drilling countersink holes for StewMac ferrules?
You can buy a 9/16" Forstner bit from Woodcraft. Rather than make a mess, I would do something else until the bit showed up. An alternative is to drill a small pilot hole and use that to guide a flat drill bit. Those can easily be filed to and exact size. But, the hole won't be nearly as neat a...
- Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:13 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: 12-string nut cut
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5448
Re: 12-string nut cut
I use the StewMac ruler for double course to mark bass-side string of each pair. I then make the other string a fixed distance from the marked one. The fixed distance depends on the instrument and the string gauges.
- Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:50 pm
- Forum: Jam Session
- Topic: Guitars and Toddlers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11540
Re: Guitars and Toddlers
Just don't use up your "No"'s too soon. You only get a finite number of "No"'s. If you use them up on the little stuff, they won't work when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something truly horrible. A toddler's environment needs to be such that most of the things he figu...
- Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:00 am
- Forum: Jam Session
- Topic: Goodbye to Ann Rabson
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3167
Re: Goodbye to Ann Rabson
There isn't a recording that she's made that isn't excellent. Struttin' My Stuff has "Ode to George," my favorite of all the songs she's written and George earned it. In a Family Way is another of my favorite albums--it features the musicians in her family.
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:54 pm
- Forum: Jam Session
- Topic: Goodbye to Ann Rabson
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3167
Goodbye to Ann Rabson
She was a great person. She showed me many things that were obvious only after she had pointed them out. I learned a lot from her. I will miss her music a lot but I will miss her more. http://news.fredericksburg.com/newsdesk ... -musician/
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:34 am
- Forum: Jam Session
- Topic: Guitars and Toddlers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11540
Re: Guitars and Toddlers
Would wall hangers solve your problem? With a crawling infant, the string bass and the instruments on the floor might have to be removed. Once they got past 18 months, my toddling grandchildren have respected the instruments.
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 3:25 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Solving the 6th string intonation problem
- Replies: 33
- Views: 18862
Re: Solving the 6th string intonation problem
If it's just the fat E-string, I would check the nut and see if it has crumbled moving the contact point back towards the tuner. That seems way off for just one string if the nut is correct.