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How would you tackle this airline damage repair?
(Just to set expectations, I bought this for the sole purpose of learning. Not a client project)
I got this Martin D28-12 in destroyed condition, after an airline did something awful. As I see it:
– Top cracks
– Back cracks
– Top & side separation with some broken off kerfing
– Brace ejectedWhen I was looking at the pictures online pre-purchase,…
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What would you like to see in a luthiery Fusion360 plugin?
As one does, I got distracted designing a fretboard for my newest acoustic build and thought ‘Wouldn’t it be great if there was a plugin to do this automatically?’
Several days and 1000 lines of Python later, it’s definitely possible. But then I thought “What else might be interesting as part of a plugin like this?”
So I’d love to hear what…
Besart, Martin Bell and 3 others -
Luc Comtois and Joseph O'Brien
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Randy Zwitch Zwitch Guitars, Doug Proper Guitar Specialist and 2 others
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Throwback to the time when I needed somewhere for my young kids to burn off some energy, so I took them to a guitar show (to walk around in the A/C cooled building). They convinced me to buy a bunch of parts to put together a FrankenTele
In an instant, it’s 6 years later and I’m still building, except from raw materials as much as possible 🤯
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Using melamine edge banding for purfling?
I have some rolls of black and white melamine edge banding and was thinking of trying to make some BWB purfling.
Has anyone done this before? More importantly, is this a really dumb idea? 😂
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Bought a pre-busted Loar archtop for next to nothing, to practice various things.
Mistakes were made 😅
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The finish is so thick, its a coat of plastic. Back didn’t want to release from the neck block and tail block, cracking the thick finish
Neck was already cracked, trying to torque the back off made the headstock fall off 🤦♂️
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Rip and Tear! Have fun, break and fix. Should be able to repair that finish with super glue, level and buff. Great practice piece.
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Modeling / improving on dovetail jig
I’ve seen the Elevate Luthierie jig, and it seems simple enough. One thing I don’t like about their explanation video is the handwaving around “set the joint length where you want it”…feels like even with the jig, you have to do too much measuring to make it fit exactly (or within the tolerance you want)
Given I can model well enough in…
Tim -
Archtop f-hole placement: how precise?
I was finally able to model something like a Gibson L7 top plate! Now I’m trying to build my f-holes…
My only reference is the Benedetto archtop book, where it puts a few rules of thumb about how the f-holes should be placed. My question is, how precise are we talking here?
One of the rules of thumb is that the bridge intersects at the…
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Randy Zwitch Zwitch Guitars started the discussion Bevel-up vs. Bevel-down gouges for carving archtop plates? in the forum Quick Questions 10 months ago
Bevel-up vs. Bevel-down gouges for carving archtop plates?
Ever since I saw Archtoppery on YouTube, I’ve wanted to build a classic archtop guitar. I have the Benedetto book, have plenty of practice wood…just need to finish the 10 other open projects I’ve started but not finished 😂
In his videos, Ken Parker often talks about making tools or being unsatisfied with tools available to “guitar…
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