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by Peter Wilcox
Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: Bowed Stringed Instruments and Bows
Topic: Re-hairing a renaissance bow?
Replies: 5
Views: 2075

Re: Re-hairing a renaissance bow?

It was many decades ago, before the WWW and online instructions/videos, and I didn't know what I was doing - I mean, how hard could it be? :o The synthetic hair came prepared for installation, so I was lucky, though it was probably a pretty crappy job. The horse's hair was individual strands, and I ...
by Peter Wilcox
Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: Bowed Stringed Instruments and Bows
Topic: Re-hairing a renaissance bow?
Replies: 5
Views: 2075

Re: Re-hairing a renaissance bow?

Good luck. Years ago I rehaired a violin bow with synthetic hair and as I remember it went OK. I tried rehairing a bass bow from the tail of one of our horses, and it was a complete disaster. :oops:
by Peter Wilcox
Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:59 pm
Forum: Jam Session
Topic: RIP Frank Ford
Replies: 4
Views: 11304

Re: RIP Frank Ford

So many great methods, tips on guitar repair, and much more, and kind enough to answer emailed questions. What a loss.
by Peter Wilcox
Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:26 am
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: advise for altered approach for helping a first timer
Replies: 20
Views: 37989

Re: advise for altered approach for helping a first timer

Check this book out. It might turn out to be a fantastic teaching aid. I've suggested that it be added to the MIMF Amazon list, but in the meantime -- https://www.amazon.com/Building-Steel-String-Acoustic-Guitar/dp/1734125616/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3VXOD9YUBN13D&keywords=r.m.+mottola&qid=170086414...
by Peter Wilcox
Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:37 pm
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Paper for label?
Replies: 7
Views: 14555

Re: Paper for label?

I inkjet print them on regular copy paper, spray with rattle can lacquer, and glue with Elmer's wood glue. They will probably last as long as the instrument does, and certainly much longer than I will.
by Peter Wilcox
Mon Oct 09, 2023 4:21 pm
Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Walnut top basses
Replies: 4
Views: 7752

Re: Walnut top basses

Thanks for the kind words, Philip. I am a physician (now retired) and along those same lines, I was taught (semi-jokingly) that when doing a procedure on an awake patient, and a mistake is made, you forcefully say "There!", instead of "oops."
by Peter Wilcox
Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:02 pm
Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Walnut top basses
Replies: 4
Views: 7752

Re: Walnut top basses

Karl Wicklund wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:22 pm Do I remember you posting another coin inlay?
I've inlaid coins, mostly Mexican but 2 Indian head pennies, in all the instruments I've made the last several years, mostly in the headstock. Easy to do once I matched drill bits with coin diameters.
by Peter Wilcox
Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:01 pm
Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Walnut top basses
Replies: 4
Views: 7752

Walnut top basses

Just finished a couple of basses. The tops are single piece walnut I cut out years ago from a milling offcut. Everything on these is from stuff on hand, except the black tuners and neck plate I bought to fit with the color scheme. Bodies are chambered, alder with walnut strips, as are the necks - fr...
by Peter Wilcox
Thu Sep 14, 2023 2:59 pm
Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Leaving a smidgeon of fingerboard to meet string span
Replies: 13
Views: 17156

Re: Leaving a smidgeon of fingerboard to meet string span

If the neck is already cut to width, I'd think you could make the bottom of the fret board the width of the neck, and bevel out to the top the 1/32 inch, which shouldn't be very noticeable, assuming the fret board to be 1/4 inch thick (arctan 0.125 = 7 degrees.)
by Peter Wilcox
Fri Sep 08, 2023 8:20 pm
Forum: Tools and Jigs
Topic: Rust removal on flat double cut bastard file
Replies: 2
Views: 5538

Re: Rust removal on flat double cut bastard file

I've never had that problem, but I'd think a file card would clean most of the rust between the teeth, and just filing a piece of steel would get it off the tooth ridges if needed.
by Peter Wilcox
Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:12 pm
Forum: Tools and Jigs
Topic: Make a tight radius bending iron
Replies: 7
Views: 12673

Re: Make a tight radius bending iron

I stuffed steel wool around my charcoal lighter to transfer heat to the pipe. Maybe it would hold the heat cartridge in place if stuffed in very tightly.
by Peter Wilcox
Thu Jul 20, 2023 12:47 am
Forum: String Instrument Repair: Practical and Political Issues
Topic: How to repair the top of this Les Paul Standard?
Replies: 7
Views: 7949

Re: How to repair the top of this Les Paul Standard?

I can't tell from the pics what is above or below the level of the finish. A lot of it looks like some liquid dropped on it and ran down. I guess the first thing I would do is scrape it down to the finish level, assuming a some of it is above.
by Peter Wilcox
Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:18 pm
Forum: Glues and Finishes
Topic: Maintaining polished brass inlays on guitar body
Replies: 8
Views: 10241

Re: Maintaining polished brass inlays on guitar body

Maybe I'm not understanding your exact need, but I googled "polishing cloth" and this came up:

https://www.amazon.com/Cape-Metal-Polis ... B00Y7KYEQA
by Peter Wilcox
Tue May 23, 2023 4:57 pm
Forum: Other Stringed Instruments
Topic: What?
Replies: 4
Views: 7721

Re: What?

The body was from my dental hygienist, that she got at a yard sale, who knows I build instruments. She bought it because she thought it was pretty, and found out it was from an instrument, but didn't know what kind. The strings were from a 96 year old auto harp player whose harps I tune for her (she...
by Peter Wilcox
Mon May 22, 2023 5:00 pm
Forum: Other Stringed Instruments
Topic: What?
Replies: 4
Views: 7721

What?

I was gifted the body of a sanshin and a set of concert ukulele strings, so made an instrument to fit. The body is an open center wooden framework with python skin stretched over it, so is sort of banjo-like with a bridge sitting on it. A proper neck is long, fretless with 3 strings - since mine had...
by Peter Wilcox
Wed Apr 19, 2023 4:37 pm
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Replace old ply back with solid wood?
Replies: 66
Views: 22482

Re: Replace old ply back with solid wood?

Should I pull all the bracing and start over? If nobody else will answer this, I'll try. Yes, I would take it off and redo it more properly. It might be difficult to get the old braces off, unless you used hot hide glue. If not HHG, careful use of a chisel or small plane will be time consuming but ...
by Peter Wilcox
Mon Apr 17, 2023 1:15 am
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Replace old ply back with solid wood?
Replies: 66
Views: 22482

Re: Replace old ply back with solid wood?

I think that besides the x brace being too thick and probably too high, the center of the x is placed too far toward the tail, toward the most resonant part of the top, and the vertical angle of the x needs to be widened, again to avoid the most resonant area.
by Peter Wilcox
Fri Apr 07, 2023 12:55 am
Forum: Electronics
Topic: locating cuase of buzz/hum.
Replies: 5
Views: 9708

Re: locating cuase of buzz/hum.

I have found this article helpful in the past:
https://www.prosoundweb.com/eliminating ... c-guitars/

and especially love this pic.
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by Peter Wilcox
Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:26 pm
Forum: Classified Ads
Topic: SS guitar sets for sale
Replies: 1
Views: 8427

Re: SS guitar sets for sale

I have to email photos as I do not know how to post pictures on the site Instructions here: https://www.mimf.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1656 If you have them sized, it's really quite simple (from a computer - I don't know about phones as I am not smart enough to use one.) Go to full editor ...

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