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Belt sanding headstock repair
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Belt sanding headstock repair
Has anyone ever used the belt-sander spline process for a headstock repair? It’s when you glue up the headstock then push it up against the rounded edge of a belt sander to remove a rounded chunk of wood, then patching the chunk by sanding down a rounded spline to fit it. Seems much easier than routing channels because you can put sticky sandpaper directly on the sanded-portion of the headstock/neck and shape the spline perfectly to the hole.
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I do it that way minus to belt sander. If you think you can produce the same cut, I don’t see why not. I just always wound up doing it on guitars where the risk of errant sanding would have been tragic. Plus, I’m a coward. Just ask @patreon_81272300 .
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It just seems like the best way to do it. You can literally just stick some sticky sandpaper to the sanded-out spot and use it as a template to sand down a piece of patch wood. Perfect
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There is an article in one of the StewMac trade secret books that explains how it’s done. It’s a patch like in the video above but there’s one patch on each side of the truss rod at the base of the headstock.
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