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 Post subject: Re: Runout question...
PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:22 pm 
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Brazilian Rosewood
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If you have very uniform grain spacing you can hide runout by doing a slip match or flip match in some cases( but the runout is still there). Not something I would particularly consider doing as a hand builder, but with a factory running production.....
Nosed tops keep you honest laughing6-hehe


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 Post subject: Re: Runout question...
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Clay S. wrote:
If you have very uniform grain spacing you can hide runout by doing a slip match or flip match in some cases( but the runout is still there). Not something I would particularly consider doing as a hand builder, but with a factory running production.....
Nosed tops keep you honest laughing6-hehe



So I found another crack in the corner area which I've seen before in other tops that worked out fine.

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Goes through at the same angle.

Nevertheless, the top works out ok.

It's not perfect, but it's not too bad...

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 Post subject: Re: Runout question...
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Thanks John Arnold for the light trick.


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 Post subject: Re: Runout question...
PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:56 am 
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Put a couple coats of shellac on it and see.

Yeah most of the nosed tops I have are Red Spruce too but also Carpathian. The cedar, Sitka, and Engelmann I have are all over 20 years old and nice and square. My guess is that it's due to larger trees versus maximizing yield on smaller trees.


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