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I believe it is critical to control overhead costs if I want to continue building guitars and make a profit.
Sorry You lost me at that point right there !!
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| Author: | David Newton [ Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Tight-wad tip of the day |
I believe it is critical to control overhead costs if I want to continue building guitars and make a profit. So I live in a cave, but enough about me. I use the strong brown tape for binding & purfling, but have always wanted to save the strips to use a second time, but could never figure out how. I would make a "roll" of the pieces, but it was impossible to reuse the roll. Yesterday & today I am binding and purfling 6 instruments, and I figured out how to reuse the strips! As I am un-taping a guitar, I put the strips on a long board, and set it aside to use again. I doubt this would work if multiples were not being done in a fairly short period of time. |
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| Author: | WudWerkr [ Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tight-wad tip of the day |
Quote: I believe it is critical to control overhead costs if I want to continue building guitars and make a profit. Sorry You lost me at that point right there !!
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| Author: | DannyV [ Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tight-wad tip of the day |
Not bad David. If you were really tight you'd be putting the glue squeeze out back in the bottle.
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| Author: | Michael.N. [ Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tight-wad tip of the day |
You can virtually create a new set of strings from old ones by sanding eg. a 'B' string until it becomes an 'E' string. If we all contribute a few ideas such as these I'm pretty sure we can make a smaller loss! |
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| Author: | klooker [ Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tight-wad tip of the day |
DannyV wrote: Not bad David. If you were really tight you'd be putting the glue squeeze out back in the bottle. Another benefit of hide glue! ![[:Y:]](./images/smilies/smiley20.gif "Thumbs Up") Kevin Looker |
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| Author: | David Newton [ Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tight-wad tip of the day |
Quote: you'd be putting the glue squeeze out back in the bottle. Who says I don't? 
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| Author: | Ian Cunningham [ Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tight-wad tip of the day |
That'd be a fun experiment actually. Keep putting the squeezeout in an empty container until you get a pound of it. See how long it takes. I bet we'd all be surprised. As for the rubber band group, some people just like using tape. I know I do over the other method. I for one just feel like I have more control when doing it that way. |
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| Author: | ernie [ Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tight-wad tip of the day |
anyone trying upholsterers tape 1 in wide ??. A large roll will do 2 gtrs and it is indefinitely recyclable .The blue tape I use from homeless depot is not cheap , and hard to recycle . sometimes if I lay it on the edge of my pecan wkbench , can get to use it 3or 4 times |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tight-wad tip of the day |
I reuse masking tape by wrapping it around itself on a glass jar. It is good for low tack applications the second time around. |
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