What I want to know is how many points the member at position 11 has!
In fear of my top 10 membership!
Darren

Hi, I also meant to ask you all to repost the details to any other guitar/instrument making/woodworking groups you may belong to. If the wood doesn’t find a new home then it will either be burnt or end up in…   Read more»

Happy new year to You both, Mark and Carol, and I hope that 2025 is your best year for quite some time.
Hope to hear from you soon
Darren

@rathius Hi Rathius and happy new year to you. You really shouldn’t be seeing this kind of failure if the veneers are bonded properly in the first place and it suggests to me that they haven’t been pressed firmly to…   Read more»

Good afternoon, Here’s a question that I am sure must also come up with 6 string pick ups. The bridge that I have ordered has 19mm string spacing ie 57mm in total but the pitch of the bridge pickup poles…   Read more»

I guess it also allows…   Read more»

Now THAT is commitment! 🤣 🤣 

I’d have taken this up with the supplier as it sounds like there was a pre-existing weakness in the soundboard. Before you glue it onto the body have…   Read more»

You could always cut layers of 1.5mm ply or 2mm MDF and laminate them together using laser cut dowel holes for alignment.
Darren

@nsj for any fret template that is printed be it on laser printer, plotter or anything else I would always want some kind of reference measurement to check that it has printed/remained at the correct size. Just ask them to…   Read more»

To my mind, given that the accuracy of the fret positions are absolutely key to the sound…   Read more»

Wealden Tool Co. cutters are significantly cheaper than Trend and, IMHO, are of a higher quality. I use them with manual routing and their solid TC spirals are the standard on my CNC router. https://www.wealdentool.com/

[quote data-userid=”49852″ data-postid=”24463″] I have one of those fret jigs for a 24.75″ scale and it strikes me that with a 0.58mm kerf on the saw the end cut, where the nut is, should be 0.29mm offset, if anyone sees…   Read more»

All of my larger presses (4m3 per hour and upwards) have a built-in vacuum adjustment knob so the pressure can be slowly increased. This is a technique…   Read more»