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RE: Inlays/marquetry aren't they a bit subtle for you? they don't glitter! @jonhodgson 🤣✨✨✨ It’s not for me so I have to go with what my customer wants. |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
5 years ago |
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RE: Inlays/marquetry Hmmm, now there's a thought.. some metal flake in the bottom of the hole, then gluboost tinted yellow. Bit expensive for a one off though. |
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RE: Inlays/marquetry @boo aren't they a bit subtle for you? they don't glitter! |
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RE: Inlays/marquetry @jonhodgson Yeah I think I’ll email him, see what he can suggest, thanks. I need something to match this yellow on the pickup, something quite vivid. Attachment : FB99FC16-34BB-44E2-8DFB-B75242B... |
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RE: Inlays/marquetry @booMaybe the gentleman at Small Wonder Music that Mark talks about in the video could supply some in Honey Jasper? That looks pretty yellow on the website. |
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5 years ago |
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RE: Inlays/marquetry Does anyone know where I can get bright yellow (not gold mop) inlay dots please? It could be plastic or any other suitable material really. |
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5 years ago |
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RE: Inlays/marquetry @rocknroller912 I’ve seen the super glue accelerator used by various people along with liberal use of superglue for inlays and frets. I’m presuming the accelerator evaporates and leaves nothing on the... |
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5 years ago |
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RE: Inlays/marquetry @rocknroller912 thank you, so much to learn! |
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RE: Inlays/marquetry @tej Here is the video |
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5 years ago |
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RE: Inlays/marquetry @tej Marquetry is different to fretboard inlays, it’s contrasting pieces of cross grained wood traditionally fixed in with hot hide glue. Tracing paper can be used for both to draw the shape, so for ... |
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5 years ago |
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Inlays/marquetry Evening you lovely people! My dream build that I’ll eventually make will need to have much more excitement on the fret board than some dots. I’ve a few ideas that I want to try but wanted to understan... |
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5 years ago |
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RE: Fret pullers and other animals @jonhodgson @rocknroller912 Thanks guys, appreciate the guidance, clearly need to take more care next time I do similar 🙂 It didn’t help only having access to a mini grinder as trying to get t... |
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RE: Fret pullers and other animals @tej Jon is correct. Heating metal goes though colours - blue, yellow, red then white. Hardening is done by heating to cherry red then quenching in oil as Mark demonstrated on the live stream making a... |
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5 years ago |
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RE: Fret pullers and other animals @tej sounds to me like you let the metal get too hot. Unless you're grinding HSS tools you need to make sure things don't get hot, if it changes colour then you've compromised the hardening. |
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5 years ago |
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RE: Fret pullers and other animals @rocknroller912 so immediately the difference between the home ground ones I made and those is the metal on mine took on a sort of rainbow colouration, clearly not present on yours suggesting I did “s... |
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RE: Fret pullers and other animals @tej These are my fret pullers that I mentioned earlier. Attachment : 519D7DD6-8277-472A-97B1-0732ECC96C09.jpeg |
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RE: Fret pullers and other animals You’re probably not getting into the business of refrets so you don’t need an expensive pair. @mattbeels I only need them for regretting 1 guitar but I love the neck on it and really don’t want to wr... |
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RE: Telecaster build Progress @mattbeels 😴 😜 |
In forum Electric |
5 years ago |
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RE: Telecaster build Progress what’s your plan with the ferrules then, settled on that yet? Not sure what your plan was with the filler but wanted to let you know I’d tried to use filler in the past and if you try to drill near ou... |
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5 years ago |
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RE: Telecaster build Progress I just finished experimenting with mixing wood filler @koendb what’s your plan with the ferrules then, settled on that yet? Not sure what your plan was with the filler but wanted to let you know I’d ... |
In forum Electric |
5 years ago |