MIMF

So you are going for it - this will be fun - I second Bryan's post.
Questions:
- Are you not removing the neck? if not, why not?
- What are you going to replace the FB with? Braz or other rosewood?
- You are such a nerd! that router DRO is awesome!! (not a question)

Barry, those sides look pretty far gone to me.
After you get the black paint off, and fill the binding rout, and replace that crushed waist, AND replace the white-wood piece near the neck... there ain't gonna be nuthin' left.
I vote for new set of sides.

The guitar has a top crack in the lower bout (between the eagle and the feather) that should have been taken care of before you painted. But that is water under the bridge now.
the pick worn spot will just get beat up again, but you put some finish there to slow down the future damage.

Wow - to add to Bob's/ Excellent art - many of us are jealous of your ability to lay that down in 2 days. Looks great! Your "bad spot" needed to be sealed before you did the whole overcoat. Is it rough? Did the Minwax finish raise the grain of the spruce? The color does not look too bad, but the tex...

Hey Bob - thanks for the tip - I was trying t understand the rationale for using CA between hide glue surfaces. I thought perhaps the CA expedited the alcohol effect or ?? I don't know, let go at a low temperature from the protein bond. I know I will find out sooner or later - this thing WILL be com...

I've re-attached the top with thinned hide glue - it's on there pretty good. Hope it's not too good. Alan - I wanted to ask the rational that Joe Curtin used for sticking hide-sized surfaces together with CA. It seems that if you are going to separate the hide glue anyway, then why not just use hide...

i agree - use a dark wood to make the contrast - you can see how it would look in your photo where the shadow is acting as a dark line

omg - nice press!
you may have to make your first guitar first to get a side template.
or find a very similar guitar in a shop, and trace the sides - ask first

i'll bet that shellac would stick to sanded polyurethane. actually i think i tried french polish over endurovar (which is polyurethane) and it seems great. and because this is the top of the guitar, i think it would be rugged enough. Hannah, do you know how to French Polish? if not, it may be a bit ...

David, first - i believe that "wood alcohol" refers to methanol - but yes. procedure: Stick tape down, then wipe down the non-sticky (showing) side with denatured alcohol (ethanol), let it dry, and then glue whatever to it. You get a bond that is as good as the tape. I've tried with fish glue, and t...

your shop is the bomb steve.

ok - yea i did the tape-one-surface-glue-to-the-other thing. that was a week ago for the top to the rims. been fussing with other stuff since then prior to that i did a test fit with 2-sided masking/mount tape, and it is pretty obvious that i'm stupid and the eventual glue-up would not work, but i t...

Hey Hannah. You should probably start a new thread on this subject - although I started this thread, and have enjoyed all the discussion - that was 4 years ago :lol: If you look in the library there are a few discussion about covering signatures and maybe some on covering artwork. You will need to t...

Hey Matt! Good to see you.

Clay & Gordon, the bag is short. That's the way it came, I have 5 of them so I figure I'm going to wait till it's full enough that I can tell how much I need to prop it up and I'll make something that will essentially be permanent - because 5 bags is a lifetime supply for me. Daryl, if I were to jus...

David - it is a brand new felt bag from ShopFox - rated at 2.5 micron.

After seeing Steve's shop in that other thread I've aleady been dreaming of a better dust management system

took me a couple hours, but mostly back to normal.
used it all day without issue - both bags are held on with wire now.

wow - i've got nothing as fancy as Brian.
I used a relatively generic HVLP gravity fed gun i got at Rocker. Small cup like a jamb gun.
I use the 1mm tip and the recommended pressure at the gun.

Worked great.

What does that mean? That's right, Dustmageddon 2 opened last night for a special, one-night-only, engagement in my shop! I was there for the blow-out premier. holy-f-ing-$#!t - another saturday wasted I do not have enough 4-letter words for my friends at Shop-Fox who thought that cheap-ass plastic ...

Look! I've now got a matching set!