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Woodie G
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For clearing small portions of the slot of CA, we use Mr. Breakstone's recommended StewMac hook tool and for wholesale slot clearing (where the luthier fretted with CA), a high wattage soldering iron with a 0.020" piece of scrap sawblade held in to a slot in the tip with a screw...good fume extraction is a must. A router speed controller does a good job of setting tip heat hot enough to melt the CA, but cool enough to avoid wood smoke.

Some fine points re: the hook tool:

- Resharpen the blade with a slip stone or fine half-round file...once dull, it takes a lot more force to cut the CA residue...proper function is a 'press-crunch'/repeat action. A fine Dremel sanding drum can be used as well, but use care to avoid heating the tip, as well as the direction of rotation due to safety concerns

- Do not use the binding as a fulcrum to lever out the last bit of CA...that will pop the binding loose with related finish damage (and turn air in shop blue )

- Take small bites, working from the center of the slot outward to the binding

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I wouldn't know, I'm non huffer:)


I was going to reply but I can't remember what I wanted to say....:)

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Woodie G wrote:
For clearing small portions of the slot of CA, we use Mr. Breakstone's recommended StewMac hook tool and for wholesale slot clearing (where the luthier fretted with CA), a high wattage soldering iron with a 0.020" piece of scrap sawblade held in to a slot in the tip with a screw...good fume extraction is a must. A router peed controller does a good job of setting tip heat hot enough to melt the CA, but cool enough to avoid wood smoke.

Some fine points re: the hook tool:

- Resharpen the blade with a slip stone or fine half-round file...once dull, it takes a lot more force to cut the CA residue...proper function is a 'press-crunch'/repeat action. A fine Dremel sanding drum can be used as well, but use care to avoid heating the tip, as well as the direction of rotation due to safety concerns

- Do not use the binding as a fulcrum to level out the last bit of CA...that will pop the binding loose with related finish damage

- Take small bites, working from the center of the slot outward to the binding


Great stuff Woodie!

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Success! I used an exacto knife I had, and followed all the cautions given here. Went smoothly.
My thanks to everyone. Much appreciated.

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Congrats! No doubt it took enough time that you’ve sworn never to get that much CA into a slot ever again. But you know what? It may happen anyway — I know I’ve been faced with slot cleanout after binding more than once, and the latest was just two weeks ago. Felt pretty stupid, but there ya go!


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Yeah, wasn't a picnic for sure.
And yep, I shall endeavor not to do that again, lol.
But, I'm pretty sure it will happen again. At least I have the solution.

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