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I also would appreciate your input just to know a certain wood is translucent in order to be able to exclude it from the list. Now why would you wanna exclude using translucent woods? Hi Padma! The list I want to exclude those translucent woods from is not the list of woods I want to build with. It...

Thank you Craig for your kind words, your hints and for the link to the review site too. I have some cherry bridge blanks laying around but i don't think of making bridges out of cherry. It's local wood I cut some years ago, and part of the rests it just had the dimensions of bridge blanks ...or plo...

I noticed a comment on not knowing about how to remove rust from a plane. A VERY gentle way is to use dilute molasses, Hi TKAY, thanks for the hint. There's only a "problem" with the knobs (the knurled part of them). Indeed, putting some sticky stuff on them, let it dry and pull it off together wit...

But... It's quiet. It's accurate. It feels good. It makes me want to do more woodwork dammit! This little plough ('plow' for you yanks) plane is one of my all time favourite tools. Dammit! You made me want one too!!! :mrgreen: :D Thank you Craig for showing us this one! And now I already have one! ...

Thank you again, Allen. In Europe, Sequoia surely was not a common (or even known) wood at any time, but probably it was sold as German spruce! :lol: Oh well, it's nor really a joke, it's a fairly probable option. But maybe there are also some not so well known and renowned non-translucent pines rig...

Thank you, Allen and Bob! How about Sequoia? Looks very much like Western Red Cedar. Does this mean you suggest I should test if Sequoia is opaque like cedar or did you observe it is? Have a look here Markus. http://theunofficialmartinguitarforum.yuku.com/topic/847/MARTIN-BRACING-LIBRARY It's all Ma...

[...] the worrying fact is that there will be a few who don't get the humour and take the video seriously. No worries. This dude would carve the whole violin from one piece, hollowed out and bridge attached. (Note his detailing chainsaw !) :dri The main problem with chainsaw carving is the chain oi...

When we stick a light bulb in a guitar with spruce top (Picea abies) we can see it's strutting pattern, the top is translucent. Doing the same thing with a top made of western red cedar (Thuja plicata) we can't see the struts through the top because it's too opaque. My big question is: which other w...

Got two minutes to have a look at ANZLF's Anything goes and found this. Intrigued by this experiment I searched for more info about it and spent some more "two minutes" on further reading.

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Great job Matthew! One and a half hour doesn't seem much to me for this cleanup. How much vinegar and how much steam did you apply, and which when? Could you tell us a little bit more about that process? No questions about the use of ouzo. :gui Thank you indeed for this phantastic thread, and sorry ...

Today (25. January), at only 53 years, the great luthier Pablo Contreras (his "brand name" was Manuel Contreras II) passed away
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Yes, I imagine how bad this made you feel. Some of the most excellent steels don't forgive anything Probably I should be more careful and go back wiping my dry (or "dry" ) blades with an oily cloth before storing them.

Kim, needing that much oil: are you a full-time blade lapper? :? :?: and wiped clean and dry (I thought) but not oiled. And left on a dry bench overnight Did you lay the blade with it's mirror face down? I ask because I have a japanese kitchen knive which starts rusting (within few minutes) on the l...

[...] so I dont think Ill be back at work till mid February. I hope this is good news for your swiss spruce lute top. ;) I see that you even use some swiss knives (Pfeil). It's really nice to see that we (swiss) have more to export than just perforated cheese. :lol: OT: I have my own swiss spruce I...

Hi Craig, nice score! :cl Cutting in half won't be enough. you are not relieving the stresses enough and it will most likely split. You will need to cut the halves in half again so you have 4 pieces, and do it now. Very good advice. Cutting the truncs in quarters you'll be on the save side, cutting ...

Seems that this bass grew right on the tree. The neck block was the apple's stem.

I'm just going to insert a catchy lil tune in your brains. See how long it stays there ... Thanks for that nice melody. It really seems that the wombles never made it to "the continent". Strange... every time I want to recall now this tune, my head is playing Strawberry Fields , Penny Lane or also ...

That's the one. Steamer from ALDI. They don't all come with eyes, though. Mine is yellow, without eyes, and I use it to glue things together when gelling time is an issue ;) - I know, you are more skilled than me and don't need high tech solutions for ordinary hide glue jobs, as far as I remember y...

Thanks Matthew. Cool idea to use a bone as a small "french curve". This is a really good reason to cook (and eat) osso buco. :D ;) [...] I'm surprised no-one asked about photo #3 in my last post ... The 3rd picture is the one after this comment: I found a bit more of the original varnish under a lot...

This is the most amazing and interesting instrument restoration - fotoreportage I have ever seen! Thanks a lot for your additional effort sharing those pictures and explaining the restoration steps to all of us! I have a question on one of your earlier posts: Back to purfling repairs. Here are the m...

Thanks Allen, for letting us know of this pretty impressive video!

[...] so he can switch to the classical bits in songs without taking his electric off. [...] Others like to play two guitars simultaneously, just like this guy here . They also might want such a stand. It also doesn't surprise me that after having played two guitars simultaneously some will need......

I'd say the knee stand came from the same inventor as this device: [...] :shock: Maybe. :lol: And maybe the inventor of "this device" was inspired :idea: ...by Dionisio Aguado : Dionisio_Aguado_001.jpg Picture borrowed from Wikimedia.org Who knows. http://www.straordinaria.ch/smiley/niidea-anim.gif

Thanks Pete! Sooner or later I'll make my own "hand table saw". I remember you presented those videos earlier, and I think you also had mentioned something about the materials you used (no really cheap, right?). Will it be o.k. to use tubes as rails or should they be made of solid rods? If you used ...

I liked the way you locked down that camera!

Beautiful "signature carving", really unique.