by Eddie McRae » Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:39 pm
David, I'm located in the sticks (VERY rural area) so there's really nothing local for me. lol The nearest city is 40-50 miles from me. So there are really no metal fabricators (other than myself) nearby. I normally just order anything I need online. I use Enco and MSC products a good bit for my mill and lathe work so I'll most likely give the Enco .010 spring steel a try. I think stainless would give me a problem holding it's memory, especially in the case of cutaway bending. As for my acoustic build, as is the norm for me, it's given me a few problems, but I think I'll still be able to get past them with no trouble. My 2 problems areas on the sides went ahead and blew out completely on me. Luckily, they're both right on the very edge of the sides and since I cut them oversized, I think most of the trouble areas will be removed during radius-sanding. I glued the kerfings in yesterday and they seemed to have completely stabilzed these bad spots so I think I'm in the clear. Plus, since the original plan was for a burst finish, any bad areas around any edges will be hidden by the finish anyway. I decided to wait on bending the second set of sides until I get some new slats though, which hopefully will be here next week. I also decided to try using a stronger top radius so I also ordered a new 25' radius dish last week and I'm still waiting on it to arrive as well. I have a few other aspects that I can be working on in the meantime (preparing the back and top) but for the most part, I'm dead in the water until that stuff arrives.