Paul was a truly dear friend; I had dinner with him and Robin up at their place in Bonny Doon a couple of times a month for a number of years. I knew he was seriously sick for quite a while, and...
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Paul was a truly dear friend; I had dinner with him and Robin up at their place in Bonny Doon a couple of times a month for a number of years. I knew he was seriously sick for quite a while, and...
Kind of an aside: Loars weren't "tuned" to A-440 from what Roger Siminoff has found. Tuning was based on Philosophical Pitch where middle C = 256 Hz, A = 430.54 Hz. Loar was a Theosophist, and that...
A few comments and questions.
1) Those reverse mounted Handel tuners won't work unless the bushings are holding the tuning post and thus the gears firmly against the worms. Are those the original...
More a guitar thing, but Addam Stark (who was the lead finisher at SCGC for several years) shares spray booth space with me, and he does work for a lot of other guitar makers, so regularly get to see...
Try putting it on one of the rubber mesh mats that are used in bars and restaurants for glass ware...and are used in my shop on bench tops. See what happens. I hope you don't see what I did years...
Haven't been around here for a while, but here I is...
Another advantage in using HHG are that if you're doing a repair and everything fits, the glue line will virtually disappear. I've reglued a...
Cardinal's satin nitro lacquer is absolutely wonderful. I tend to shoot it over dead flat sanded poly build coats for a closed pore look, but it is also nice as an open pore satin look. I strain it...
Having owned about 20 Howe Orme instruments in my time, and still having 7 or 8 (depending on your definition re. condition!), I can say pretty unequivocally that A) they were not built by Vega, but...
I've got one, too...mahogany with the bag as described above. It's a bit of a basket case, but it'll be a "retirement project" someday...
BTW, Elias Howe was one of the "inventors" of modern...
Michael, the 3M system was a total game changer for me. It cut down on my cleaning solvent use (acetone) by at least 300%, made quick changes in color a breeze for 'bursts, and I haven't had to...
I use a Sata MiniJet for 'bursts and low viscosity sealer (Simtec's "adhesion promoter"...a urethane isolater) and a Sata NR95 for other work, and they are fantastic guns...both are HVLP conversion...
We're starting to see two very separate issues get tangled here in this thread.
Compensation is about string stiffness, and you can't get around that well by simply changing string gauges or...
Gibson literature has never been a paragon of accuracy! Hyperbole and mis-information abound, particularly in the years before WWII. The writers were rarely the builders or even closely involved...
That would have been Leonid whose last name I don't recall. He had three spruces...Carpathian, Caucasian, and another; I suggested he call them White Russian, Black Russian, and Red Russian... I...
Wood never completely loses it's ability to absorb and release moisture, but over time and cycles of wet and dry the changes settle down and become less drastic.
Also, the title of this thread...
You want real fun?
Change strings on an autoharp...
I'm with Joe on the power winder thing. I use 'em all the time. I don't go high speed, but the thing is faster than a hand crank.
I'd...
The Timberwolf blades have a .025 band thickness, so they'll go around 14" wheels with no problem. They have about .010" set on either side of the blade so the nominal kerf is .045". I've cut and...
Do you have a radiologist friend? You could have the neck X-rayed to see how much wood is behind the truss rod.
For resawing, go with the Timberwolf A S S blade (unfortunate model designation...) in the 3/4" variable tooth spacing version. Killer blade, very thin kerf. I use them on my 20 hp Baker horizontal...
First a drop of butyl cellusolve or Behlen's Qualarenu, then a drop fill with thickened nitro lacquer, a few days of cure, light wet sand and buff. But this is luthier stuff...
Do you really believe that every little change at Gibson was ordained and deliberate?
There are dozens if not hundreds of slight changes in this and that in Gibson models that have nothing to do...
We use WEST Systems epoxy as a sealer/pore filler under anything else, and as long as you give it a light sanding and then wipe off the dust with a damp shop towel to get rid of any amines that may...
There's no such thing as too much grain; there's simply grain. Close grain lines just indicate that the tree grew slowly. Michael nailed it...it's all about a recipe of low density, high stiffness,...
Wait a few years on that nitro. The span I've read is 75 years, and then it's really unstable. Of course a lot of nitro finishes go to Hades sooner, but the stuff will out-gas nitric acid and lose...
Note that Eugene advocates mixing the walnut oil in with the thinned shellac. Given that walnut is a drying oil, one could make the case that this now makes the finish a hybrid oil/spirit varnish. ...