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Looking back it went very well, considering how many times it almost went in the stove. I remember stringing it up, I was working on the nut and reaming bridge pins and got the low E on and was really amazed at how horrible it sounded :mrgreen: got all the strings on did a rough preliminary set up a...

I recently finished up my version of a 1937 Nick Lucas special. John Arnold supplied a very detailed tracing of his original 1937, I tried to get as close as possible to what Gibson did (I went with a 13 fret neck) Great little guitar.

Rear bout, front bout, waist. By the time my thermometer hits "150C" I've bent the rear bout, the front bout is bent by "190C" and the waist by "220C" I let it get to "300C" and back off on the heat it gets down to "250C by the time the 15 minute timer sh...

Start bending at "110/120C" or it will break, buckle etc. I just followed John Halls recommendations.

I had the same thing happen to me. I had successfully bent Sycamore, White Oak, Curly Maple, and messed up a really nice set of Honduras Mahogany sides. John Hall at Blues Creek had the answer. I use a Fox style bender, heating blanket, and stainless slats, & craft paper. Wood and paper slightly...

Nice guitar, more impressive is your out playing it live. I played in several bands into my 30's and have had quite a break. My youngest daughter (she's 13) can sing like an angel and its been a lot of fun getting out in the community with her.

Thanks to everyone for the advice. Success! I very carefully cleaned all the old hide glue off all the exposed surfaces. Also cleaned out three suspicious looking joints on the body and reglued. DId a dry fit, needed just a little bit of scraping on the neck, and then glued her back together all wit...

Do NOT use epoxy. What you have there is an easy repair, the way it is: Epoxy will make the instrument unrepairable, permanently. Use warm water and a brush to clean all the old glue out of the seams, and reglue the seams first, so that the corpus is solid. Then do the same thing to the neck joint....

Local music store (where my daughter takes voice lessons, has me doing some repair work. Mainly new nuts, saddles, reattaching loose binding, etc. I have in one hand the body and in the other the neck. Any suggestions, clean and re-glue? I build with HHG so thats not an issue. Any and all suggestion...

Arnt Rian wrote:I have a pair of the large ones, from DICK gmbh in Germany, but I believe its the same product. They are nice, especially for the price, but nowhere near as nice as my Arious...

I have a pair of the dragon rasp and they are just fine, but which Ariou rasp are similar to the dragon?

Nice job. Great story.

Scroll down through the pic's last one is the neck block.

http://laneguitars.blogspot.com/2010/04 ... ur_08.html

I saw a Martin neck block with those cuts in John Arnolds shop.

John Arnold & Wayne Henderson use a table saw. Martin did it for years, I was just curious?

Thanks

Michael, I got those F-5 plans from Elderly, very very nice. I'm starting to carve that walnut back you roughed out. Thats some hard walnut.

Anybody use a table saw for the neck/neckblock?