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Well,

last evening I glued in the top kerfing on my FIRST ACOUSTIC...It has been quite fun.
I cracked the sides 2x getting them into and out of the mold, but the kerfing lining is finally in.

To get a clean glue joint, I simply masked off the wood beneath the 0.625 kerfing line...Then I installed the kerfing, clamped it in place, and peeled the tape away - with it, all the glue squeeze out....

The sides are granadillo - which other than is seeming propensity to crack when stressed (dry), has been great to work with...

Thanks for looking,
Stephen

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Lookin good Steve!

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Looking great Stephen my friend

Nice job! Good luck with the rest of the build. It looks like you have some interesting figure in those sides--very striking.

George :-)

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George :-)

Fine looking work, there Steve! Keep at it, and keep us updated.

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Waddy

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Looks good. I love the "in progress" pics just as much as the completed ones. Your comment on the glue clean-up got me thinking. I used reversed kerf linings and cleaning up the squeeze out wasn't a huge deal, but I wondered what builders do to avoid/clean out the glue filling the saw kerfs in the linings.

Gonna be a fantastic looking guitar when she's done.

Darrin

Wow! Really impressive work for your first build. When it's done, it'd be great to see some pictures and maybe a sound clip or two... Keep it up friend!

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Jake Archer
~~Make a joyful noise unto the Lord~~

Stephen, nice job so far. We've all cracked a side or two, I think that is why God invented hide glue?

Okay, has anyone ever razzed you about lingo?

Kerf is a cut in a board.

Linings have kerfs cut in them to make them flexible.

Kerfed linings have many varieties, triangle, reverse kerf, and I forget the name of the Fox/ Woolson type with the overlay.

Kerfing would refer to the act of making kerfed linings or the series of cuts themselves.

Which begs the question: What is usually found inside kerfing?

Two things: air and unfortunately, glue

I hope you know this is all in fun: kerf on

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Bruce,

no one has razzed me about lingo yet...but if start splitting hairs like that, soon instead of saying airport, we will have to say "the place where planes land"...

But to defend myself:

kerf = the notch left by the action of a saw or blade
kerfed lining/ strip = a strip of wood whose purpose is completely identified by the presence of a very large (ratiometrically speaking) quanity of individual kerfs

So rather than saying two words where one hybrid word would suffice, I simply chose to use the "kerfing". As does essentially every other major luthier supplier of strips of wood that are identified by the presence of a large number of "kerfs". And unless I am mistaken, in a clean build using traditional/ non reverse kerfed linings, the only thing found within the kerf would be air... (But alas, I suppose it would be impossible to keep glue out of kerfs when gluing on the back and top)

Have a great one!
Stephen

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Well, it's a good thing you explained that you understand the difference between a kerf and kerfed linings, because Howard or someone may have come along and corrected you!

Now if we could just get people to stop calling a guitar project a "build" (a verb) we'll have really succeeded in something...


The guitar is looking very nice btw...and I'm looking forward to more pictures as it progresses.

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Stephen, I found a recent photo of kerfing online. Everyone has seen this before and knows what it is.

Congrats on your fine work. No GLO's in sight.

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Nice one Bruce

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Aoibeann

Not to split hairs...but to encourage meaningless banter

But, strictly addressing the definition of 'kerf', a picture of saw dust really has nothing more to do with kerf than that it is sawdust: meaning, kerf is not saw dust, it is the void from where that saw dust originated...

In the Taoist tradition, it is always said that void in the bowl of spoon is what identifies the spoon and gives value to it - however, that void where the spoon does not exist is no more a spoon than a chair...In the same manner, sawdust, while the result of an operation in making a kerf, is no more a kerf than a hunk of brazilian rosewood.

Stephen

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Nice work Stephen.

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Brad
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