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- Sun Aug 04, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: What is Double Binding?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4459
Re: What is Double Binding?
Could it be that the purfling layer is the same height and thickness as the binding thus "Double binding?"
- Tue Jul 02, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: String Instrument Repair: Practical and Political Issues
- Topic: 1970s Fender F-35 acoustic - have a dovetail?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5136
Re: 1970s Fender F-35 acoustic - have a dovetail?
I've used an oscillating tool for the finish up cuts at the top of the neck heel to do this. Protect the guitar sides with tape or thin aluminum flashing.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Guitar Number 3
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11287
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: 11287
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: 5789
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: 4770
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: 7027
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: 40
- Views: 51868
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: 6367
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: 9999
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: 14470
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: 7
- Views: 25821
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: 11063
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: 16798
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: 14944
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: 15305
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: 12570
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: 6711
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: 17621
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: 3967
Re: Favorite Fretboard Treatment?
Howard's Feed-N-Wax. A little goes a long way.