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Large numbers of pallets made of northwest woods are sent all over the world everyday. It wouldn't surprise me if one showed up in Egypt. And it wouldn't surprise me if those pieces of wood came...

No way to be sure from the pictures, but the first looks like a piece of Western Larch that I have in the garage and the weight is in the proper range. The second looks like Western Hemlock and the...

Listen to John Hamlett. Always try the least intrusive fix first. If it doesn't work nothing is lost but some time.

112557112556112554My avatar is of me standing between two western Red Cedars in Mt. Ranier National Park. And for an example of what it looks like here also are a few pictures of split cedar rounds.

I don't think what you have is western red cedar. I know it is hard to tell from pictures, but besides what it looks like to me, MOKABI is a timber company that operates in Congo. I think what you...

Since the end of those 'wings' are end grain the amount of strength that they add to the joint is minimal. If that were not true no one would bother with the hassle of a dovetail joint but just use...

It sounds like the jumping off point for one of the strings is no longer at the front edge of the nut but somewhere in the middle. Thus they can be tuned to be the same note when played open but the...

Living in the US I have nothing against the decimal system but I think people who don't use feet and inches have some misconceptions as to how it is used. When doing rough carpentry, say framing a...

I understand why Liberia isn't metric(US ties) but why isn't Myanmar?

Everybody knows, there's always room for cello.

I use a propane torch and a piece of aluminum pipe. Total cost under 10 bucks. I clamp the pipe in my vise, put a metal jar lid with nail holes in the end as a baffle, set up the torch to blow into...

I went with 4 to 5 inch splits and ended up with 19 of them. Would you cut the tops immediately or let it dry a bit first?

I have just received some partial rounds of Western Red Cedar from a tree which blew over a road this last winter. The tree itself was over 4 feet in diameter, and the usable wood on these splits is...

How I make the caul depends on the top, i.e. is it flat or is it arched, and where the braces are placed. Hard to say more without pictures. I worry a little about distorting the top if I clamp it...

Hard to say for sure without a picture or two, but if I understand what you are describing I would use a good, long set epoxy. I have done this dozens of times on similar instruments(mostly guitars)...

Well, your last post has me completely confused. Why would you pry the top up? The problem is the back was glued on with an innappropriate glue. Titebond II will creep under load. Titebond...

The man tapping the cheese isn't aiming for a specific note, he's just checking to see if the note is sharp!

Just for information, one hundred cents make one semitone, twelve semitones make up the chromatic scale. Cents are figured logarithmically, so it is not exactly percent, but close enough. If your...

It can be difficult trying to figure out what people mean to say. I recall a post on one luthier's site asking for advice on filling the poors in the wood. I was almost certain that he was not...

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Interesting discussion. This example is Big Leaf Maple. I know that because i saw the tree before it was cut down. The pieces are about 26 inches long.

I have read through this whole thread, half of the time quite confused as to what points were being made, and wondering when someone would answer the question asked in the post. The question was -...

I don't want to beat a dead horse but did you try damping between the bridge and the tailpiece? A little piece of rubber ( a small grommet works nicely) wedged between the paired strings works and...

Yes, plastic pins often get brittle with age and break. I would not use a penetrant. Try tapping on the bottom of the pin with something like the flat side of a crescent wrench. A sharp tap will...

Without doing the testing I would not be so sure that they all used wood with the same characteristics. But that is really beside the point. First the sample was too small to conclude that this was...