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Total Vise Quick Dock Neck RestA couple of years ago, I came up with a neck rest for the Total Vise system- they worked great but were quite difficult to…
Dave Staudte (rhymms with "Howdy") NB Guitar Repair (New Braunfels, TX), Jon W Queno Musical Instruments and 3 others0 Comments -
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Maple bridge plates: plain versus rift/quarter sawn versus laminated
I’m fixing a cedar top guitar with a big bulge and a bad bridge plate. Ideally I’d like a replacement plate with optimal stiffness in both directions and a thickness between 0.090 – 0.100″.
After I flatten the top as much as possible, should I:
1. use plain sawn maple
2. use quarter sawn maple (if so, any recommendations for sourcing?)
3. make up…
Doug Proper Guitar Specialist -
Steam Box Idea... What's wrong with this idea?
Speaking of Trevor Gore… I’ve started using falcate bracing on my ukuleles and in making the braces, 3 strips of .0625″ spruce are bent and then put in a bent lamination glue up rig using epoxy.
Bending spruce is no fun on a hot pipe. It’s slow, fussy, the fibers want to delaminate. I have been thinking about building a small dedicated…
sean RT Gold City Guitar Repair and Ian Davlin The Looth Group -
Stainless steel fretwire for compound radius
Hey!
I have a friend who builds flat tops who wants to give stainless a try. I have done a handful of refrets and he was asking advice.
He is using a compound radius from 14” to 20”. Jeskar sells the coils and they come in 10”. I have only done installs where the wire matches the board precisely. I bought pre cut pre radius bags for these re frets.
Ian Davlin The Looth Group and Doug Proper Guitar Specialist -
Taylor 310 Top Crack, Finish Delaminating
So this 310 came into the shop and had a pretty gnarly crack that splinters some toward the lower left bout. Going to do a crack repair with the TJ Thompson crack corrector and some hide glue. The issue I’m inquiring about is the finish is delaminating around the area. I’m curious as to what type of finish it is. Seems a bit flexible and spongy…
KT Vandyke Frog Level Guitar Shop -
Hey guys, a little help? I’m trying to recreate the old PRS wiring (rotary switch) but instead of the rotary, on a 5-way superswitch.
I managed to get almost everything but I can’t seem to figure out the series/parallel positions and it’s starting to hurt the brain. I’ve looked everywhere online but I can’t find exactly what I need.
Here’s the…
Martin Bell and Doug Proper Guitar Specialist -
3D Club: 3D Printing Jigs for Guitar BuildingThis week on 3D Club we’re joined by Emmanuel Stone, Paul McEvoy, and Massimiliano “Max” Monterosso to talk about the 3D printed jigs they’ve created…
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Multiscale GuitarsMulti-scale guitars have become increasingly common in today’s guitar world. In this demo, Michael Bashkin and Massimiliano Monterosso will explore what a multi-scale guitar is…
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Council of Elders 2.0, December 2025The council meets for its monthly review of looth-submitted questions. 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:21 Q1. Cleaning and polishing 0:21:20 Q2. Humidipack explosion 0:28:47 Q3. Pickup winder…
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