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- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Guitar Number 3
- Replies: 17
- Views: 431
Re: Guitar Number 3
I us it for fretboards, bridges, binding and other trim parts. It's hard to find logs long and straight enough to come up with 32" pieces.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Guitar Number 3
- Replies: 17
- Views: 431
Re: Guitar Number 3
Looking real good, Eric. Such nice detailing. I like the local wood idea too and have made a couple from wood off my property here, White Oak, Ponderosa Pine and Manzanita.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Neck dovetail with a rounded body
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1368
Re: Neck dovetail with a rounded body
I've been doing rounded shoulders on several recent builds. Recess the neck shoulder leaving 1/8" edge around the edge and heel bottom, then you can floss it flush a lot easier. Use a sharp chisel or a dremel rasp. If doing a dovetail, this is done before shimming it into place. It will effect ...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: fretting 0 radius fingerboard.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1318
Re: fretting 0 radius fingerboard.
I got a fret pressing device from an Etsy vendor who offered a flat caul so I got one. Haven't used it yet because most of the boards I fretted lately are 20". They are available.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Silvertone parlor back loose.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2628
Re: Silvertone parlor back loose.
Assuming this is a ladder braced guitar, now would be your chance to continue removal of the back and X brace it. I understand this really improves their sound. I'm planning on doing that to a '54 Kay jumbo. Oh, if you do that, make a mold for it first so the back goes on easier.
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: Other Stringed Instruments
- Topic: Dulcimer sides
- Replies: 43
- Views: 33028
Re: Dulcimer sides
Photo please .
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Stew Mac already body built kit? Thinking of ideas for neighbors' kids
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1185
Re: Stew Mac already body built kit? Thinking of ideas for neighbors' kids
Check out Grizzly for some kits too, guitar and uke. LOTS cheaper than StewMac. Here's an example, https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzly-quilted-maple-acoustic-guitar-kit/t33952, and https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzly-hawaiian-koa-ukulele-kit/t33949. A little glue and TruOil or Osmo and you...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
- Topic: Which of these cedars would you use?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3938
Re: Which of these cedars would you use?
Use both. Two instruments at a time. I usually do more than one.
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:04 pm
- Forum: Ukuleles
- Topic: Banjo tuners?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7877
Re: Banjo tuners?
A step drill might work for that. Sets of those are pretty reasonable at Harbor Freight.
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Progress on Guitar #3
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16194
Re: Progress on Guitar #3
I've got a tower that I made from 8020 aluminum parts w/their linear slides. The weight of the router is the only thing holding it down on the guitar edge and that works fine for me. A way to lift the router carriage to set the donut on the guitar edge would be a useful addition though.
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:56 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Advice Requested for Bolt-On Neck Order of Operations
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6932
Re: Advice Requested for Bolt-On Neck Order of Operations
Check out Sylvan Wells approach to this. I'm working on two jumbos using his method. http://wellsguitars.com/Articles/Double_Tenon.php
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 6:55 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Cheaper source for carbon fiber rods?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8920
Re: Cheaper source for carbon fiber rods?
Try bitterrootguitars.com.
- Mon May 08, 2023 1:46 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Binding Side Ports
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9601
Re: Binding Side Ports
I haven't done this before but have thought about adding several more laminations to the area where I want the port, alternating light and dark wood layers. Cut the hole and bevel the edge to show the alternating layers. No binding but an interesting feature.
- Fri Apr 21, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: String Instrument Repair: Practical and Political Issues
- Topic: Cort SFX E NS Loose neck joint
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8359
Re: Cort SFX E NS Loose neck joint
It doesn't sound like a dovetail. Doweled butt joint possibly? Slide a feeler gauge into the joint to see if you can determine what's there. Use a magnet to check for metal. I've cut necks off with an oscillating tool and made a bolt on neck joint to fix them.
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 4:16 pm
- Forum: String Instrument Repair: Practical and Political Issues
- Topic: Rosewood fretboard heel chip repair.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7108
Re: Rosewood fretboard heel chip repair.
Use binding tape as the clamp.
- Wed May 25, 2022 12:23 pm
- Forum: String Instrument Repair: Practical and Political Issues
- Topic: Bridge torn off of cedar top
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5238
Re: Bridge torn off of cedar top
I fixed my early 2000s Washburn with cedar top that looked like that under the bridge after I got it off. Both corners and edge were lifting. Took lots of heat and still didn't want to come off. Must have been MAG. I put it back on with epoxy. Fit was tight and clean. I'm in my upper 70s so it shoul...
- Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:01 am
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Neck Centering Jig
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12158
Re: Neck Centering Jig
I've got a set of the hardware minus the wooden jaws. Looks like I've got the start of one. Show us the details. Thanks!
- Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:41 pm
- Forum: Glues and Finishes
- Topic: Favorite Fretboard Treatment?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3134
Re: Favorite Fretboard Treatment?
Howard's Feed-N-Wax. A little goes a long way.
- Fri Sep 24, 2021 9:33 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: ABG setup
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3397
Re: ABG setup
Here's how it turned out. Plays nice and sounds great with the Thomastic strings unamplified. Haven't plugged it in yet. Alaskan Specialty Woods Sitka top with great bear claw and CheChen back and sides.
- Tue Sep 14, 2021 11:33 am
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: ABG setup
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3397
Re: ABG setup
Thanks Bob. That's just what I needed. The bass is for me so I'll have plenty of time to get it adjusted. It has a Martin neck, fingerboard and bridge on a deep J200 style body w/JJB 220 pickups. I'm looking forward to buttoning it up today or tomorrow.