Ziribari filled and sealed - ready for topcoats tomorrow. Spraying the Cardinal UV urethane for the first time.
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| Author: | Colin North [ Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:42 pm ] |
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Brad Goodman wrote: Colin North wrote: That's some really neat tail joints there Mr Goodman. Thanks! Like all of my processes I have simplified it as much as I can and I’m getting really nice results. After I bend the sides I simply mark the center lines off the mold and then bandsaw 16th of an inch away from the line. Then on my 6 x 89 sander I sneak up to the line and adjust as necessary just takes a few minutes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Much the same as I do, bandsaw just outside the line just I use a 90 degree shooting board and a block plane. |
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| Author: | bcombs510 [ Sun Apr 03, 2022 4:38 pm ] |
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Ziribari filled and sealed - ready for topcoats tomorrow. Spraying the Cardinal UV urethane for the first time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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| Author: | ballbanjos [ Sun Apr 03, 2022 4:51 pm ] |
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This is an Indian Rosewood 7 string Hawaiian guitar neck with a picture of Howard Dixon (of the Dixon Brothers--20's NC based duo. Howard played Hawaiian Guitar) on the headstock. Gold lip pearl, white pearl and black pearl. Engraved banjo style inlays on the fingerboard. I'll get this thing done one of these days! Dave |
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| Author: | KingCavalier [ Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:53 pm ] |
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Sweet, very nice work! |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Wed Apr 06, 2022 2:12 pm ] |
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Trying Osmo Oil on a neck, this is silk. Feels pretty good. |
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Wed Apr 06, 2022 2:28 pm ] |
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This is the only place I have ever heard of the stuff. Result looks nice. |
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| Author: | KingCavalier [ Thu Apr 07, 2022 6:01 am ] |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Thu Apr 07, 2022 6:10 am ] |
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Beautiful, |
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| Author: | ballbanjos [ Thu Apr 07, 2022 8:38 am ] |
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Very nice! |
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:15 am ] |
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Grit Laskin should be worried. |
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| Author: | Ken Nagy [ Thu Apr 07, 2022 3:49 pm ] |
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I don't have anything cool like those inlays. I just decide to finish some things, one at a time, that have been sitting around almost done. A Bastogne Walnut and Alaskan Yellow Cedar violin. Attachment: IMG_0752.jpg Attachment: IMG_0753.jpg I have a fingerboard started, so I started with the pegs. I use a basic heart shape. I do them like production; one op at a time. I don't mind doing this at all. It took about an hour to get this far. I hade to make another, because I split it with the center! I've done that before with ebony and rosewoods. Think of the pressure on that center. I've made maple pegs for a baroque guitar, so I imagine that the walnut should be fine for a violin. Maybe I'll superglue the shaft? Attachment: IMG_0751.jpg
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| Author: | doncaparker [ Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:21 pm ] |
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bcombs510 wrote: Ziribari filled and sealed - ready for topcoats tomorrow. Spraying the Cardinal UV urethane for the first time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro I'm looking forward to hearing about your work with the Cardinal UV products, Brad. My Cardinal products arrived today, but I won't have time to try them out for a short while. |
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| Author: | bcombs510 [ Thu Apr 07, 2022 5:03 pm ] |
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I'll write up where I land with a spray schedule and feedback. Already a couple of lessons so far: - The Cardinal UV cured porefill takes more careful attention and more time with the light to fully cure. ~50% more time and needs the light source to be really squared up to the surface. The simtec was much more forgiving in this area. - The solids % is much lower with the Cardinal compared to Simtec. Like 50% compared to 75%. It sprays a bit differently. I had no issues with test panels (flat boards) but had a couple of sags with the first coats on the uke above. Nothing I couldn't fix between 1st and 2nd coats when scuffing though. I will share the end to end at some point. Looking forward to seeing you at the end of the month. |
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| Author: | doncaparker [ Thu Apr 07, 2022 5:28 pm ] |
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bcombs510 wrote: Looking forward to seeing you at the end of the month. Same here! Pulling everyone into the loop: please consider visiting Appalachian Tonewood (Lewisburg, WV) with me, Brad, and a few others on April 30. It's an opportunity to both see a tonewood wholesaler's operation in person, and buy some wood in person. These are rare opportunities for some of us. See the separate thread for details, and PM me if you are interested. |
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| Author: | pullshocks [ Tue Apr 12, 2022 3:33 pm ] |
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All luthier projects are on hold whilst doing some long overdue house repainting and refinishing. The small desk in our kitchen has a support with a +/- 4" radius roundover piece glued to a plywood panel. When I built it, I glued up before the roundover (which I did with hand planes and custom sanding blocks). Here's what I came up with for gluing on the replacement panel. I don't always bother with dry clamping, but glad I did in this case. Pleased to see the joint pull together nicely. |
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| Author: | Hesh [ Wed Apr 13, 2022 2:55 am ] |
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pullshocks wrote: All luthier projects are on hold whilst doing some long overdue house repainting and refinishing. The small desk in our kitchen has a support with a +/- 4" radius roundover piece glued to a plywood panel. When I built it, I glued up before the roundover (which I did with hand planes and custom sanding blocks). Here's what I came up with for gluing on the replacement panel. I don't always bother with dry clamping, but glad I did in this case. Pleased to see the joint pull together nicely. Mark when I started building guitars all my wooden furniture got..... nervous including my 100 year old Birdseye maple bedroom set  It sure sounds good now (just kidding...  ).
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Mon Apr 18, 2022 11:21 am ] |
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Not inside the shop but just outside. What does a luthier do when a big White Pine falls on his property? 
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| Author: | Ken Nagy [ Mon Apr 18, 2022 2:10 pm ] |
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Cool Jf. How long are the sections? It that pine as big around as it looks? Only thing happening in my yard right now is this: Attachment: IMG_0762.jpg I suppose the white will reflect light into the window to make cutting veneer easier? There has to be something good in it. |
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:05 pm ] |
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32in diameter and 22 inches long. They probably should have been cut longer but these will be for my small folk art parlor guitars. We got a dusting of snow in the highlands of Virginia today too. Yesterday I was out mushroom hunting at 65deg LOL! |
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| Author: | Skarsaune [ Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:29 pm ] |
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jfmckenna wrote: 32in diameter and 22 inches long. They probably should have been cut longer but these will be for my small folk art parlor guitars. We got a dusting of snow in the highlands of Virginia today too. Yesterday I was out mushroom hunting at 65deg LOL! I just resawed some EWP from a tree we milled last year. Attachment: B48DFBE2-87A9-41A9-85E4-E8BDBBBEE072.jpeg For some folk art little guitars myself. |
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:47 am ] |
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Skarsaune wrote: jfmckenna wrote: 32in diameter and 22 inches long. They probably should have been cut longer but these will be for my small folk art parlor guitars. We got a dusting of snow in the highlands of Virginia today too. Yesterday I was out mushroom hunting at 65deg LOL! I just resawed some EWP from a tree we milled last year. Attachment: B48DFBE2-87A9-41A9-85E4-E8BDBBBEE072.jpeg For some folk art little guitars myself. Nice! I got in on an old Maple tree that fell a few years ago on one of my local University's property, a historic museum. The tree fell and they offered it up to local wood workers with an agreement that they would build something for the museum. The profs of the forestry department estimated the tree was 350 years old so it was a piece of history itself. Anyway, the wood is just about dry enough to use now. I've also got some other local soft wood that I need to get tested. It looks a lot like red spruce. It was a shelf that my wife used to dry her pottery work on. When we moved away from the old farm to a new house she told me I ought to look at that shelf. I didn't really feel like it but went down in the basement anyway and it was this perfectly quartersawn board of what looks like spruce that was 23 inches wide and vertical grain all the way across. Got a few nail holes in it but that's just part of the folk art story. |
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| Author: | Skarsaune [ Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:42 pm ] |
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Love rescued / repurposed wood. We got a similar call about a big oak that came down local. I’ve got a couple of pieces in my kiln now. The mayor called the other day about a big maple. Going to look at it this week. |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Tue Apr 19, 2022 3:18 pm ] |
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Tried this today on fretboard when wicking CA under the frets, worked like magic. I've tried a few furniture waxes, beeswax and candle wax, but this beats them all. The CA (Bob Smith Industries Insta Cure Super Thin CA) just floated on it and wicked under and around the frets leaving very little residue on the fretboard for the attention of a single edged razor blade. Leaves a nice sheen on the board and feels very good under the fingers. |
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| Author: | Hesh [ Thu Apr 21, 2022 11:33 am ] |
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Yep we are waxers and wickers too and it works great save time and energy with less clean up too. |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:57 pm ] |
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16" model, EIR/Torrified Sitka, Padauk neck and bridge, just off the bench. Finish is Osmo Oil (silk) neck, back & sides, GluBoost top and headplate. |
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