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thanks Barry,

I'll scrap a case for a trial, then a good cleaning, some shellac and a finish coat as you said and I'll come back to you!

thanks,

and happy new year !

Hi fellows, I have a 1972 RD custom Gibson on the bench for a refret. the fingerboard was very dirty, frets were more than rusty (you kown this beautiful green shade...). fretboard leveling has been made to found a clean maple. refret has been done. But something happend with refinishing the fretboa...

Huuu ! the repair is now completed and I used Lmii white glue (note titebond as I said) in which I give all my confidence.




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Hi fellow, I am back and the repair has been done. I removed the fingerboard with a spatula, a metal rod, a domestic iron, an old tshirt and some water. heating the finger board with the iron with the precious help of a damp(wet) Tshirt. after 1/2 an hour of labor, the fingerboard jump off. as you c...

The fingerboard seems poorly jointed to the neck. on all the sides jonctions between fingerboard and the neck the glue joint seems cracked and you can easilly put a samll needle in the crac at some (lots) places. The glue they use (I saw it when removing the top) looks like a past more than a thin l...

Hi fellows, I back with a big thing. a big mama. I have a Chinese double bass with massive top which I repaired the broken top last month and now it's time for the twisted neck. I already fixed that kind of problem on guitars and bass but on a Double bass it looks big. what do you think about the fo...

Unfortunatly, the customer picked up his baby just after the repair was done... I had to scape a bit of the binding (say 0,05") to make it flush. I used stewmac color tone and some nitrocellulose varnish to match the yellowish color of the binding. Fixture could not be bigger in any way, it was...

I am back ! first during my inspection of this big baby, I was stunned to see how those guys in gibson build this ES300. it seems to be a Super 400 to which it is cut a pickup hole. they had cut thru the bracing !!! http://www.laboiteason.org/latelierdesmusiciens/repair/es300/HT10.jpg back to the re...

Hi fellows,

I am fixing this guitar this week and coming week. I'll detail my way to do it in few days.

Interesting! I am not sure it could fit 'cause the crack is about 3"1/2 long. I am planing, if it works to use this technic adapted to archtop: http://hamlettinstruments.com/repair-services/gibson-j-45-side-repair But I keep the teeter technic close to me in case off....... Much thanks guys and...

Thanks guys,

Joshua, don't you think it could be a good idea to make exteranl cauls pressed with a big cam not to deform the upper bout side?

Hi folks, I'm back with an old es300 Gibson that's have a bumped side on the lower bout close to the tail bloc. Not difficult to fix on a flat-top but on this old archtop with almost no entrance excepted F-holes and/or pickup. I've tried with a wood large wood shim in shape to push the side with a s...

Thanks guys,

I followed Mark advice to minimize the defect working around the 4th & 5th frets and I now have a pretty good setup for a 73 PB.

I'll make some of those neck jigs because it seems really practicle and fast.

much thanks barry!

here it's 10pm already and I leave the shop...I'll see it tomorrow.

you mean by that this jig put your neck on tension without string in the same way if it was strung, that's it? so I can see the wood deformation. I assume that I'll make it 'cause 400 bucks it a bit too much actually. i'll have a look to DIY neck jig on the web. Do you think I need to unfret or a go...

thanks guys for your support. I don't have yet stewmac neck jig but I still have made 50 refret/fingerboard leveling with succes without it. I've found no special sound change on the fingerboard tapping it. there's no crack I can see with my eyes the maple neck piece is not what we call now AAA grad...

It doesn't seem so. But when I get it, the rosewood fingerboard was already thin (2mm max on the edges) and most of the frets were touching the maple. When I removed the frets, I could see on each sides and all the way long a bit of maple on the fret slot assuming that someone else have made a level...

HI guys, I have a 1973 precision bass guitar at the shop with a strange problem on the neck. it comes for a bumps at about the 4th fret that makes it impossible to play in the lower positions. I've tried to play a bit with the trusrod without succes, the bump still be there on the 4th fret. I took m...

I was using some scrape from this back for a repare job on another instrument, and I've found small white mineral material in some pore... so my issue was from Mineral deposit......you get true!

Where does it come from? and how to treat this ?

Hi,

what do you use with Cocobolo? French polishing? PU? nitro? water based?.....and what about pore filling?

thanks

Cédric