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It's mostly mineral deposits/stains but it's also sometimes a brown worm looking brown colored section of wood. Thesee are usually around 3/8" to a few inches in length and often undetectible until cut into. They usually run with the grain. Those are what I'm not sure of as to what they are. Th...

I almost titled the thread "Why Knot?!?-Hidden Maple knots driving me nuts!" But that was a little bit cheesy and not descriptive enough. But I am pretty frustrated with the lack of predictability with Hard Maple. I'll have a piece that looks great. Cut it to shape and run a profile or two...

If you are currently sliding the neck back and forth on the sanding beam from left to right, try pushing it away and pulling it towards you on the beam instead. Also, make sure that the table you have the beam on is at a comfortable height for you. It is currently push pull. I go past the headstock...

I had a neck come back for repair and ended up refretting it. It was my first successful refret. I've never done repair work and have fretted a pile of new necks but this was the first one that "turned out" pretty well (no major chips out of the fingerboard etc). But question... I used the...

I have been using a jig/enclosure guide that holds the block sand paper side up to the tablesaw then a top piece that holds the neck face down and has rails to follow the block enclosure. This keeps the neck dead straight to center. The neck holding piece (top piece of the jig with the rails) only g...

I've always assumed crowning frets makes them more comfortable for the player and helps the guitar play in tune better due to a smaller contact point.

But does the crowning of frets affect the amount of fret buzz in a guitar?

I have had a few instances where I'm making a repair on an old neck where I can't get the neck dead straight. I can pull it to average out to straight but there will be little gaps of light showing under the slotted straight edge. Many times I'd guess a neck is out between .005" and in bad case...

I use a swing sander to radius my necks but I like to finish them on a Stew Mac block (or at least I like the idea of it and when it works) but sometimes I'm noticing that for some reason the block is taking more of the nut and heel end (creating a backbow). I can pencil mark the fingerboard and the...

Micheal, I'm not referring to wood changing shape. I'm talking when it's rough sawn there's usually a little bit of a tendency of bow in each piece of wood. It's something you'd need to measure with a straight edge and feeler gauges on anything I'd consider using for a neck but it's almost always th...

I do the same in getting it flat (jointer and planer). But more of what I'm wondering is the wood's "natural" curvature. Wood will always move a certain way due to the way it grew etc. It will have a 'tendency' built into itself from the way it grew. That's more of what I'm wondering... wh...

Something I've long wondered, do I want the bow of the wood to face the back of the neck or towards the fingerboard when I'm blanking out a neck from raw wood? My guess is that the bow of the wood would face the back of the neck since the string tension will pull it that way naturally. But I don't k...

still sort of out on how fender and others spray the edges solid black and keep the center clean since to spray the edge black the gun has to heave overspray towards the center.

Thanks again Nick. First, in regards to urethane...it's harder to work with but if you're after high-gloss durability, it's definitely the way to go. It's much tougher to color-sand and buff and polish in comparison to nitro but it's a much tougher finish in the end. And it retains it's slickness a...

Thanks Nick. Let me see...the first is urethane. The second is an OMI Dobro that I restored with a vintage aged finish. It's nitro. The third is nitro and is a resonator I'm just finishing up with that I'm actually in the process of spraying as we speak. The fourth (tele) is urethane. And the last ...

Beautiful guitars Eddie. Great finishing as well. Is that lacquer or something else?

Thanks Nathan, Eddie, and Louie. What I'm questioning specifically is a solid body with a black or very dark brown edge such as a Fender Sunburst. With these I can't see how it's possible to spray the edges of the guitar black without getting black into the center. If not specs at least some overspr...

I've always wondered this. I've heard Fender didn't worry about it on the Pre-CBS instruments. Obviously they do something about it now. Taylor, Gibson, PRS, and many other production shops also do something about it since there are no noticeable specs in the center of their bursts. What is the tech...

I've not been the happiest with how well and how fast my 60/60 (mesh) cotton wheels and Brown Menzerna are removing sanding scratches at 800 RPMS and 12" wheels. I'm considering trying a courser wheel or compound. Caswell plating sells Sisal wheels as well as Spiral Sewn Cotton Wheels that I th...

Very nice!

And love the new forum look.