Andrew Framsted
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I’ve had an office day job and do guitar repairs evenings for 15 years now. I’ve gone through a few stages of life being a recent college grad with an entry level job, doing repairs for extra beer money. Getting better at loothing and charging a fair market rate. I saved up enough to buy a house in a big city. Built my workshop in my backyard to have a dedicated space for work. Then got married and had kids, to the point where I need both incomes (day job and loothing) to make ends meet. I think I can retire the day job when the kids are out of college and just looth for the rest of my days.
I’ve had to become pretty efficient with my workshop time as I only have when my wife and kids are asleep. I typically have from 10pm-2am that I work on guitars. For me, the motivation is self evident. I get through my day so I can retreat to my workshop and tinker/problem solve/troubleshoot/make things work again. It’s a means to an end. It’s taken some calibration to find a balance for everything, but for now, that’s what’s working.
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I’m in Austin and working on this exact project right now… But you probably don’t want to drive or ship. From our own looth group, looks like Wyatt Mann @dangdecent is in your area. Another shop I’m aware of is Straight Frets.
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You’re doing this with a band saw I assume? Get the largest blade your saw will accommodate (for my Grizzly 14″ band saw, it’s a 3/4″ blade. You’ll want a tall fence on the inside of the blade (for me, it’s a trued up piece of 2″ plywood clamped in place. And on the other side of my blade is one of these products to help keep my piece from wandering as I push it through https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MQ4F9ST/
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@ianloothgroup-com Ian, I can’t remember what video you mixed up this oil based pore filler, otherwise I’d just link it. Any chance you remember? Linseed oil, pumice… anything else? Color tone or Mixol to taste?
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Thanks again Ian and everyone for your help. I was able to get this working. The infeed/outfeed rollers needed to be raised to the new cutterhead size. It was easy, once I knew what to do.
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https://www.solomusicgear.com/product/lr-baggs-self-stick-wire-clips/<div>I feel like these things cost next to nothing to make but seems like the gatekeepers of the self stick bendable wire clip industry have their product locked down pretty well</div>
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Thank you all for your input. This is one of those things I would have given up on in fear of making it worse before having joined the Looth Group. The quality of information shared here is amazing.
As it turned out, I couldn’t finish the job unless I fixed the walnut plug issue, as the truss rod was overly tight and the stop point for the rod to engage the other direction to add relief was the insert. It was in there snug. I ended up cranking the truss rod to push it free. I then drilled through a dowel about the same size of the plug and tapered the end to fit against the plug’s contour. Then, I epoxied in a 1/4″ metal dowel through the the center to help with indexing when pushing (or potentially tapping with a hammer) for the glue back.
I lightly sanded the plug with 220, tightened the truss rod as far back into the channel so to allow clearance for the plug. I waxed off the truss rod nut and lined the cavity with fish glue before reinserting. After some touch up with a mix of Zinsser and StewMac Vintage Amber, I used Glu Boost Fill & Finish to seal it off. If I could undo that last step, I would liked to have sanded a bit of the hard edges of the broken finish to better feather in the fill. The customer was beyond happy with the final results so I’m onto the next one and will file this one in the memory banks for the next time.
You guys rock. Thanks again.
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Appreciate the insights Ian. Sounds like it’s a learn to live with it situation.
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I don’t see any evidence of it not adhering. The rest of the back looks great to the eye and in hard light. Here’s another area where it looks like the strap has caused some abrasion that’s caused a blush/cloud.
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I’m all about the path of least resistance and filling with epoxy sounds good to me. But you mention watching out for additional cracks. What about the cracks on both sides in the plate above the pin holes? Seems like the plate is compromised with it broken in that many places?
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Thanks for sharing your story! I think an etsy store is a great direction to go. Currently, I don’t have anything I’m inspired to create (other than boutique basses) but I need to keep that in the back of my head. My wife runs an etsy shop, so that would help me hit the ground running if I ever wanted to pursue that route. Your input is much appreciated.
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Awesome. Thank you as always
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I’m also a complete newbie with an airbrush trying to use the thing from watching your tutorial. I think Ben is onto something about straining the pigmented lacquer. But also seeing you mention the PointZero is meant for tiny lines, that changes my expectation and understanding of it’s capabilities.
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Can you elaborate on how one would filter a pigment tinted lacquer for spray use in an airbrush?
I’ll pick up a Badger 150 and give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation.
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I have the PointZero one from the Ding Kings parts list. The first/last time I attempted to use it, I was using Mixol pigment with lacquer. I couldn’t even get it to come out of the nozzle. Maybe there was too much pigment in my mix? Not sure. I ended up using the Preval and it worked decently.
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Thanks Gerry! You are correct. A little bit after I posted this, the under saddle allen wrench screws were discovered. Appreciate your help
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When I conveyed the info to the customer, he said he “had a feeling it might be that”
I didn’t pry for more information unfortunately, but I do think your intel was right.
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Yep. A standard 12v transformer did the trick. I used this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GEA8PQA and it included a a bare wire connector that made it so I only had to hack off the plug side of the sander. I’m gonna go make some bone nuts with this little thing now!
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I know $65 isn’t a lot in the grand scheme of things, I just resent it’s the only option they give me. I have a generic 12v transformer arriving today and was going to strip the plug, connect it to the current pins and see what happens. I’ll follow up here if I don’t burn my shop down.
