Where has all the 3/4" masking tape gone???

[Chuck Tweedy]

What up with that!?!?!
I thought maybe The Home Despot was out of 3/4" masking tape. Went to Lowes ... nope. Ace ... NOPE. Dixieline - WTF!!!

Who the heck decided that retail outlets shalt not carry masking tape narrower than 1" !!!!

Where's Ellie when I need someone to rant with??

[Bob Gramann]

Our local Benjamin Moore store carries the 3/4 Green Scotch 2060.

[Chuck Tweedy]

bragger

[Randy Roberts]

Jeez Chuck, you're a luthier, just make your own.

Take the one inch roll, unroll it across your shop. Then if you just draw a line 1/4 inch from the edge, and with your #11 blade, carefully cut along the line and then roll the tape back up...Bob's your uncle.

Or you could cut pieces off at 3/4 inch intervals, and rotate them 90 degrees and then attach them end to end to each other.

Any engineer could have figured that out after a little guidance from management.

Glad to be of help!

[Chuck Tweedy]

And you think I didn't do that?
Of course I used the 3/4"x1" bits rotated and stuck together technique. It's far superior.

And Bob is NOT my uncle. He's a bragger

[Bob Gramann]

Chuck, I wasn't trying to brag but rather suggest that you look in a paint store. I've also gotten the 2060 tape at auto parts stores and auto paint suppliers. I've gotten what I thought would be 3/4 from Amazon but it was metric and shy of the expected dimension. And if I were your uncle, I would be sure to have given you bad advice about money and women when you were younger. I use the green tape when I glue bindings. 3/4" is about the right size but I don't mind using the 1". It's a little stronger. The stretch in the green stuff is just about right (and, when used as masking tape, it doesn't wreck solvent based lacquer like the blue stuff).

[Bryan Bear]

Man, here in the Midwest we have so much 3/4" masking tape we have to keep our car doors locked at night. If you don't, when you come out in the morning your car will be filled to the ceiling with rolls from all the neighbors. I'm currently feuding with the guy next door because he keeps blowing all his rolls of 3/4" masking tape over on my lawn. Then I have to pick them up and my bin fills up. Since they made one of our garbage pickup days recycling only, we now only have two weekly 3/4" masking tape pickups. Sometimes, on Teusday mornings I have to wait until the truck arrive before I can get out of my driveway. I went over there to ask him to clean up his own 3/4" masking tape but he just taped my mouth shut. I probably should have seen that coming.

[Chuck Tweedy]

Yea, I'm using 2060 green as well. I'd love to get it a bit narrower.
And now that I'm all miffed about this and actually looking at this stuff...

The wide-ish stuff is 0.954" or 24.23mm - could someone at 3M just make up their mind here??
This dimension was obviously decided upon by committee.
It's not 1" - can't offend the metric (most of the) world
It's not 24 or 25mm - can't offend the 'Mericans

It's not even a reasonable number of Angstroms or Leagues.

All I know is - It is NOT a convenient size for masking off the FB between frets on a guitar.

[Chuck Tweedy]

Baby Bear - nuther bragger

[Bryan Bear]

Ah now I see why you are complaining. You wanted a convenient size for masking between guitar frets. I thought you were just being fussy. We actually get rolls in every width of every fret space for MOST of the common guitar scale lengths; but, they don't fall until the springtime. If you are in St. Louis in early March, give me a call. I'll let you rake up all you want.

[Chuck Tweedy]

And to answer Bragger Grama-man's question - I did look at a paint store. Sherwin-WIlliams didn't have it neether!!

You know ... it's really easy to find out if the regulars troll this site every night.

[Chuck Tweedy]

Yea! and I want to be able to get that at 7-11 !! (that's for Bear)

[Bryan Bear]

7:00, 11:00, it doesn't matter to me what time you stop by. I have to take the whole month off to rake so I'll be home. . .

[Chuck Tweedy]

There's a hoe joke in there somewhere, but I just can't put my rake on it.

BTW, Jason must be at a band event this evening.

But seriously, I am going to have to buy narrower tape online, this is absurd!

[David King]

The green stuff comes in lots of widths down to 1/4" at your local auto paint store but what you really might consider is buying big sheets of masking film and having them laser cut to mask the whole board in one go. What could possibly go wrong with that idea? Actually the stuff is fairly low tack so it wouldn't jump into a crumpled ball of sticky frustration at the first breath of a four letter word.

[Jim Bonnell]

Wow! I thought it was just me. I continued to go back to the various stores thinking they just were out of it. Now I find it's a nation wide scandal ( except in the mid west ).

[Jason Rodgers]

The band event is tomorrow night.

I'm between tapes at the moment, but now that you mention it, I do recall raising an eyebrow at the lack of narrower width tapes at the Depot last time I was shopping. The seemingly random measurements is funny. But I've taken to shopping for a lot of everyday stuff on amazon lately (if I don't need it right away). Here is some 3/4", probably cheaper than the hardware stores, and Prime shipping http://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Office-Mas ... sking+tape

[Bryan Bear]

Oh the beautiful colors of Autumn. . .

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[Bob Gramann]

Why not get a set of the StewMac fingerboard guards and forget the masking? Personally, I don't mask around frets. Too much trouble. Why would you want to do that anyway? (Maybe for Chuck it's to keep large larvae from emerging from the wood while he's working? I try not to use wood with Japanese Beetle grubs in it.)

[Peter Wilcox]

I do maple fretboards - got to mask those.