MIMF

We used to just dunk the mouthpiece in a disinfectant mixture. Mind you they were plastic mostly, some metal, so affecting the wood long term wasn't an issue. It was probably alcohol based. There is this; https://www.nfhs.org/articles/covid-19- ... uidelines/

The spring tension on long stroke (1" stroke) dial indicators is probably higher than the tension on 1/4" stroke versions. Have the other DI's all been 1/4" stroke? They aren't very common.

For me, I can leave the sides out of the mold as soon as they are cool, and if you use water, dry. I found that understanding the plastic transformation of the wood solid with heat was critical to getting smoother bends, I try to get around a 4" section up to bending temp, work the bend in slow...

Find a young child with a 3D printer. Would be "childs play" (pun intended) to make some for you...

So I got my third and final nut blank out, started to fit it, and decided to mix it up from my normal. I usually rough shape the nut way too high, hence with a quite deep slot the file chipped off the shoulder of my first try. This time I got out a pencil that I had sanded flat to a fine point, so I...

I have three nut blanks, or I did this morning. Making a nut for a new neck. File grabbed and chipped off the shoulder when I was cutting the first slot. Cut the first slot on the next blank too low. Stupid mistake, did the "fret at third, measure string height over one" with no tension on...

I've dealt with them in the past, but not in Covid times. They do everything custom order, so delays can be expected I would think. I remember the fretboard I got was not planed square (the top was angled compared to the bottom) so when I didn't notice before I glued it on I had to sand almost throu...

Fun with bolt numbers. If a 1/4" bolt is Grade 2 it has ultimate tensile strength between 60,000 and 80,000 psi, which translates to around 3500 lbs. A 8-32 bolt, at .164" diameter, has a UTS of around 1500 lbs. Two of them can pick up a car (a little car, anyway). They both can create ove...

I have a 24" flexible ruler that I use a lot. I use it to see what the scale length of a guitar is - that's about the measuring I do with it. I recently used it to center a neck I was installing - flexible is good when you need to bend the thing. When I carve archtops I use it all the time to j...

I've used eastern, or Canadian, hemlock for construction. Makes very rot resistant siding, decking, piers, blocking for rigging in factories. Otherwise it's kind of a junky, fast-ish growing softwood that splits and splinters about as fast as you can look at it. Can't reasonably be shaped, sanded sm...

I'm doing a kind of Les Paul ish tenon neck joint, glued. Straight tenon so fit is critical. I've never done one before, so I can't make up my mind if I set and glue the neck first, then finish, or vice versa. I normally do bolt on necks, so I finish everything first right through final polish then ...

I'm at the "finalize the neck fit and start finishing" stage of a build, and I may very well modify the joint based on your ideas. I love the idea of an adjustable neck, and using string tension to keep it together. My favorite neck joint is the Howe-Ormes arrangement, and while yours is c...

Thank you all very much. I was under a mistaken impression that it was a brand new product - the ad for it I saw kind of implied that. But 46 years ago is a long time!

http://www.titebond.com/product/glues/9 ... 7daa20f8ed

Have we tried it? What do we think?

I build archtops, and I find that when I build a traditional F-hole top I end up with a strong air resonance around Bb or C. If it's too strong I end up with a dead sounding note. I built an archtop with F-holes and a sound port on the upper shoulder, it had a stronger resonance around D (open 4th s...

I'm getting ready to "dress" the J-bass I've been making for what seems like decades, but is only years. The guy I'm building it for gave me a bunch of random hardware that he had collected, including some individual bridge/saddle units. You mount them beside each other but they don't touc...

I'm doing a kind of Les Paul style neck tenon for my current build, I normally do dovetail or bolt on joints. The tenon is straight, around 3" long, flat bottom, and straight flat sides. It will rest firmly on the bottom, and get clamped while gluing, but I can't clamp the sides. How tight a fi...

Thanks for your reply. Not what I was told by the other guys, but if you're doing it, that's it! I can follow up on my 2019 comment on Beautitone Acrylic Lacquer, from Home Hardware. Finally got around to refinishing one of the instruments I used it on, first of three to do. Good news - it's about i...

How do you get around the supposed ban on shipping? I was told directly by lacquer manufacturers that they would not ship it to me. I'm in Nova Scotia.

Thanks for the feedback, I believe I will fret first and carve after. As it happens I decided to bind the fretboard first, but I still think New York Epi's had the binding installed after the frets, I've seen a picture of that from their factory, and other Epi experts agree. It's quite unusual now t...