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Ben Schmaus Bench Zen started the discussion High Resistance for Gibson Mini-humbucker in the forum Amps, Pickups, and Pedals 4 months ago
High Resistance for Gibson Mini-humbucker
I have a customer with a 2018 Gibson SG special with mini-humbuckers who is complaining about the pickups being too hot (distorting their amp too easily). I took resistance readings and, to my surprise, the readings are very high. The neck humbucker (see photo) reads over 16kohm and the bridge reads 23kohm. From the specs I’ve seen, mini-hums…
Jay Daniels J Daniels Guitars, Joe Suhre and 4 others -
So I’ve finally gotten around to hammering a couple frets in after sawing the slot. There is the tiniest gap between the fret and fingerboard is this normal or did I not saw enough. I think you would like the fret to be completely flush right? You can barely fit a piece of paper under there. How much leeway is there to this? Also I will be using CA glue.
Michael Karriker Karriker Customs, Brian Watson Sick String Guitar Repair and David Helmer Helmer Guitars -
Thomas Snape Cold Stream started the discussion Kamouraska Classical 1979 in the forum Neck Reset Database 4 months ago
This is a Kamouraska classical guitar, model 111, made in Canada in 1979. Internet information says it was made in La Patrie, Quebec, and later the line became La Patrie guitars. It looks like someone has been into this one before as the dovetail fit was poor, the gluing is very sloppy, and there are some rough chisel marks on the face of…
Dave Staudte (rhymms with "Howdy") NB Guitar Repair (New Braunfels, TX), Ian Davlin The Looth Group and sean RT Gold City Guitar Repair -
Tony Lewis Skypilot Guitar Repair replied to the discussion Local builder mandolin neck reset in the forum Folk, Bluegrass, Irish, Old Time Instruments 4 months ago
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KT Vandyke Frog Level Guitar Shop replied to the discussion Local builder mandolin neck reset in the forum Folk, Bluegrass, Irish, Old Time Instruments 4 months ago
Reply to Local builder mandolin neck reset
Much appreciated. Might just skip straight to the heat stick and soldering iron then.
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Ian Davlin The Looth Group replied to the discussion Local builder mandolin neck reset in the forum Folk, Bluegrass, Irish, Old Time Instruments 4 months ago
Reply to Local builder mandolin neck reset
Foam cutters might be a little underpowered. If you struggle getting it off let me know and I’ll cook up some larger resistance heaters.
Michael Karriker Karriker Customs, Ian Davlin The Looth Group and 2 others -
KT Vandyke Frog Level Guitar Shop replied to the discussion Local builder mandolin neck reset in the forum Folk, Bluegrass, Irish, Old Time Instruments 4 months ago
Reply to Local builder mandolin neck reset
I have not. It’s a fairly expensive instrument in cost, but not necessarily in quality. Local builder who has since passed away. It belongs to a friend of mine, and he was pretty adamant about having me do the work.
I was thinking to drilling a couple holes for my foam cutters to see if I can break it loose. My biggest fear at this point…
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Ian Davlin The Looth Group replied to the discussion Local builder mandolin neck reset in the forum Folk, Bluegrass, Irish, Old Time Instruments 4 months ago
Reply to Local builder mandolin neck reset
Pretty straight forward mando dovetail. Have you ever done one ? How expensive is the instrument ?
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jack Cunningham replied to the discussion does anyone offer nickel plating? in the forum General 4 months ago
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I did contact Ron at Nashville Plating Service. He was very straight forward and easy to talk to and we agreed to do a test run of some archtop hardware. Thank you for the contact.
Michael Karriker Karriker Customs and Doug Proper Guitar Specialist -
Darrell Pope The Village Luthier replied to the discussion Cracked x-braces on Guild F20 in the forum Acoustic Repair 4 months ago
Reply to Cracked x-braces on Guild F20
Tony thanks for sharing this example. Your work really paid off!
My top deflection is about the same (1/4″ at the sound hole). It’s interesting to me that you took the bridge plate off. When I reach inside it feels like there is a bend at the midpoint running along the length of the bridge plate. In addition, the bridge pins are inclined in…
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