Ian Davlin The Looth Group
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100%, but just know that we call a vape a “smoldering binky”.
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Great looking guitar Scott !
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Are you still on the hunt for these ? If so, I’ll make sure it goes out in the next email to try to get more eyeballs on it.
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Make sure the nut slot is breaking right at the face of the nut ?
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@patreon_146886659 are you up for something like this ? Im in NJ, close to NYC. Im expensive and slow though. You have a pic that isn’t under black light ?
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Appears to be a body crack. Easy way to tell is to dribble naptha into it. If it disappears, it’s a crack.
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These are all very deep questions and are starting to get more and more complicated on these guitars. One of the things that catched my attention from the top is that you are dealing with original parts that can be take on and put back on with little effort. This is the perfect time to think about taking the OG parts off, bagging them, putting them in the case and then replacing with modern equivalents with modern functionality that doesn’t modify the guitar.
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Almost forgot, these golden age tuners should drop right in to most L00 with neither fuss and/or muss.
https://stewmac.sjv.io/golden-age-solid-peghead-tuners
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I think you could produce that with Vintage Amber dye and Medium Brown from either TransTint or Color Tone (same stuff). I would hit the whole top with the vintage amber and then band with the medium brown.
If the Vintage Amber is either too red or not red enough, you could do a light coat of either red or green to get it where you want it. By light, I mean super duper light.
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This might be aove for send cut send. Do you do any 3d modeling ?
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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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Def should go back to Martin. I’d take it to warranty location . Are you Martin warranty?
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The hole is fairly straight forward. I’d back it with something on the inside, fill it and paint it. The one thing you probably dont want to do is fill it with Indian Rosewood cuz it will just get too dark. You could fill with mahogany and paint it to look like IR pretty easy.
The neck finish looks like it is having adhesion issues. If you get under a bubble and tug on it does it peel past the original defect ?
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I try to know about good alternatives. If there is a $200 functioning guitar they can buy, that’s two hours of my time. I can’t make an toy play in 2 hours.
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New Bridge. Did you go through a radical humidity change ?
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I like a rotary tool with a micro end mill. I used to use Dremels, now I use the pneumatic tool that TJ sends out with his spiffy base. I have that base which I love, but I have also modeled an adapter for the stewmac dremel base. Crap, I never did post that up.
Do you have a 3d printer yet ?
proluthiertools.com
Standard Base - TJ Thompson Guitars - Pro Luthier Tools
The one that started it all! This is our Standard model router base. It is best suited for doing inlay work.
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How much are you spraying ? Is there a furnace in the basement or anything with a pilot light ?
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We could probably work out how to make that. I’d be highly suspicious that this jig doesn’t produce the best results in most circumstances though.
The main reason is that anything that registers the fret off of the tang is subject to inconsistencies with tang to crown perpendicularity. This leads to an angled crown bottom which will look bad on the edge of the board and also look like a dark spot when you sight down the board.
This jig is also pretty slow if you have to work a destaco clamp for every fret end. I just take a softwood 2×4 cut off, clamp it to a bench and then take the fret wire I’m going to use and gouge a crown shaped trough into the 2×4 just deep enough that the nib is protruding. Then I can use the flat of the 2×4 to register the file and make micro adjustments to the fret. This is a super fast set up and when you get good at it, you can take just the nib.
One other thing. The file pictured is crazy course. I use a grobet 0000 file for this procedure. https://www.amazon.com/Grobet-Swiss-Pattern-Pillar-Regular/dp/B008HRPQWK/ref=sr_1_21
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Nice !
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It should be noted that Jeff is the producer of Transtint.
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Im not familiar with that color. You could shoot some tests.
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They are rebranded. The Dark Walnut has almost no red in it. You look you produced a fairly red neutral color. Which I like better, but isn’t as red as what you were shooting for.
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Yes. That is someone missing a step of prep in finish. They didn’t scuff sand after pore fill probably.
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Risky. How risky, I do not know.
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Yes !
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It does, but that little bit is tricky to get and mission critical if you’re into good looking fret ends.
Just made this video on the subject. -
My momma always said , “life is like a box of dog shit.”
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Hey, how are you pulling on the neck ? It looks like the regular neck popper jig isn’t going to cut the mustard.
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I would also reach out to bambu. I’ve had descent luck with their customer service.
