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by Fernando Esteves
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: Steel & vinegar ebonizing
Replies: 7
Views: 870

Re: Steel & vinegar ebonizing

Hey, this guy from Brazil has 3 videos explaining how he does it and it worked even on pinus. One is talking only and 2 is showing how it's done, I'll put it here, but it's in portuguese, don't know if there is a closed caption to translate to english... Basically: he add the iron and alcohol in a j...
by Fernando Esteves
Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:22 pm
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: Cutting carbon fiber rods
Replies: 2
Views: 625

Cutting carbon fiber rods

Hello!
I've some carbon fiber rods that I would like to mak thinner and narrower.
I know power tools goes dull in it and I just discovered laser won't cut it neighter...

Is there anyway to do it?
Thanks
by Fernando Esteves
Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: Steel & vinegar ebonizing
Replies: 7
Views: 870

Re: Steel & vinegar ebonizing

Thanks guys, will think another way... It's an archtop top I bought that has a very dark wide streak in the middle, like 2" on each side and it needs to have a solid finish, but I don't know anyone here in Brazil near my place that makes finish in acoustics and there is that stuff about 0.02&qu...
by Fernando Esteves
Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:01 am
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: Steel & vinegar ebonizing
Replies: 7
Views: 870

Steel & vinegar ebonizing

Hello!
Have someone make this way of ebonizing wood?
Let the steel in the vinegar for some days and then applying in the wood?

Does it change the resistance of the wood?
I was thinking in use it in a soundboard, but I imagine it would change a lot the wood
Thanks
by Fernando Esteves
Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:52 pm
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Guild 12 strings
Replies: 8
Views: 13055

Re: Guild 12 strings

Nice one! Stick to the double tone bars?
by Fernando Esteves
Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:36 pm
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: How does soundhole size affects tone? PTII
Replies: 1
Views: 900

How does soundhole size affects tone? PTII

Hello! I was searching in the archives about soundhole size and found this nice thread: https://www.mimf.com/library/How_Does_Soundhole_Size_Affect_Tone_-12-22-2007.html But I've a question that is not answered there (a stupid one, for sure): How much can I change the size of the soundhole with no c...
by Fernando Esteves
Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:07 pm
Forum: Electronics
Topic: How to make a piezo saddle stop sounding like a toy guitar?
Replies: 0
Views: 4592

How to make a piezo saddle stop sounding like a toy guitar?

Hey! I really dislike piezo undersaddle, they sound like 8bit toy to me, but my friends who use pickup systems that have internal or soundhole microphone said most sound tech guys don't know how to work with it, in the smallers bars, because of the extra bottom end. (To be fair, must live music bars...
by Fernando Esteves
Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Carbon fiber bridge plate
Replies: 6
Views: 15206

Re: Carbon fiber bridge plate

Thanks
Did you find any difference in tone?
by Fernando Esteves
Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:16 pm
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Guild 12 strings
Replies: 8
Views: 13055

Re: Guild 12 strings

Thank you very much for the info, it's really detailed and knowledgeable.

That extra tone bar is on that couple behind the bridge?
How do you find it? Never heard of it.

But I'm pretty much saving this posts for posterity 😅
by Fernando Esteves
Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Carbon fiber bridge plate
Replies: 6
Views: 15206

Carbon fiber bridge plate

Hello!
Has anyone used a carbon fiber sheet as bridge plate instead of wood?
Or a sandwich of carbon with wood?
by Fernando Esteves
Wed Jan 03, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: Soundboard woods
Replies: 6
Views: 8597

Re: Soundboard woods

Thanks, guys!
by Fernando Esteves
Wed Jan 03, 2024 12:21 pm
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Guild 12 strings
Replies: 8
Views: 13055

Guild 12 strings

I saw an article about the Guild 12 strings guitar, that Page, May, Vaughan and a lot of heavyweight players preferred them and that they are one of the best 12 strings made. Does anybody has experience with them? What would be the major design aspects that made them a really good guitar? Is there a...
by Fernando Esteves
Wed Jan 03, 2024 12:18 pm
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: Soundboard woods
Replies: 6
Views: 8597

Re: Soundboard woods

Thanks Alan!

Do you think Redwood would hold the pressure of a 12 strings?
Either in flat-top and archtop.
by Fernando Esteves
Wed Jan 03, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Topic: Bridge design
Replies: 0
Views: 11513

Bridge design

Hello people! Happy New Year, everyone!!! I'm thinking in design a bridge that goes on the this way (would have some thin details, but structurally would be this) But I heard that there are some requirements, like the outer parts need to be over the X bracings, things like this. What do I need to ob...
by Fernando Esteves
Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:08 am
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: Soundboard woods
Replies: 6
Views: 8597

Soundboard woods

Hello! I've a J45 I've built with Sitka/Limba that I've built on a course and am planning to try to steel build by my own, my idea is to do something different wood wise, to have a different tone. I'm thinking Redwood or Red Cedar or other kind of cedar like Port Orford or Alaskan Yellow for the sou...
by Fernando Esteves
Sat Nov 11, 2023 2:29 pm
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: Laminated neck - with or without scarf joint?
Replies: 2
Views: 5686

Laminated neck - with or without scarf joint?

Hello! I've found that laminated necks are waaaaay more stable than one piece neck, specially with soft woods like mahogany and cedar. My electric with 3 pieces mahogany and carbon fiber doesn't need to get almost no tuning, while my 1 piece mahogany acoustic, the tuning changes like the wind change...
by Fernando Esteves
Wed Nov 08, 2023 6:52 pm
Forum: Builders' Supplies and Services
Topic: Semi hollowbody factories
Replies: 5
Views: 14196

Re: Semi hollowbody factories

Ok, will take a search
Thanks
by Fernando Esteves
Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:04 pm
Forum: Builders' Supplies and Services
Topic: Semi hollowbody factories
Replies: 5
Views: 14196

Re: Semi hollowbody factories

Thanks! I don't have any tools to do bent laminated top and back, like the 335, don't even know how. Bought a book about "how to build your laminated archtop" the guy literally spent two paragraphs NOT explaining how to do it and the rest of the book was just the same of the Benedetto's, b...
by Fernando Esteves
Mon Nov 06, 2023 11:31 am
Forum: Builders' Supplies and Services
Topic: Semi hollowbody factories
Replies: 5
Views: 14196

Semi hollowbody factories

Hello! I'm studying the possibility of making a line of semi hollow guitars to sell here, laminated top and back, central block like 335. I was thinking in talk with some factories about they making the body ready and I make the necks and install/assemble the guitar. Does anyone knows good factories...

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