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There ya go showing off ya tools again........jeesh!!

Allen wrote:Let us know if there's anything that's of interest to us when you check them out.

Well my dental hygenist was quite interesting. She kept talking about her "girlfriend". I couldnt ask any questions of course because she was busy mucking around inside my mouth

Dentist wasnt as bad as I thought it would be. The hygenist does jewellry in her spare time and she gave me details of a place here in Adelaide to get some decent tools.

You using a Mac by any chance Colin??

Khaki shorts and shirt, Akubra hat with corks around the rim and hell be holding a can of Fosters.

Youre a bldi knob mate.

Kim wrote:Bloody hell Lillian I thought that would have been obvious to blind Ned and his dog

Martin, the bridge pins are in an express post bag and are on the way to SA, should be there in Fridays mail at the latest.

Cheers

Kim

The guitar turned out fine...the person I loaned it to 4 years ago hasnt yet given it back. oh ok, thats a bit of relief that it has been done before. we have block planes at school, and i guess im going to have to improvise the rest coz i cant really afford to buy the specialty tools. how did the g...

Okay I pulled out the saddle and infilled the slot. Ive worked out position for new slot with more angle and closer to front of bridge on treble side. Tomorrow Ill re-route the slot and hopefully all the bldi bridge pins I need will turn up and I can do a full string up and continue with setup. Neck...

Dominic wrote:
If you do this and you still pop pins, well, could be karma. Were you a bastard in a past life?
Dom

No I was a saint in my last life......Im a bastard in my current life.

Balls were bent over but not enough in a couple of the holes obviously.

Like the man in the purple long Johns says...a reamer is the best way to enlarge a hole.

Just remember to drill the holes for the tuner posts before cutting the slot and cut the slot with the head a little over thickness as it is likely that there will be some tearout on the back of the head when drilling the holes to roughly cut the slot cheers graham Important advice. To minimise tea...

You could do it with either guide bushing and a straight cutter and suitable jig or with a bearing/bit set. With the guide bushing you just have to make allowance for the bushing when positioning the jig. I bought a full set of different sized bushings for my router. Each bushing has an internal and...

Kim,

Pin popping was because I dont have ramps cut in my bridge pin holes. String was coming up to tension with ball not properly seated.......I was able to tell when the ball seated by the cracking sound the pin made as it bounced off the ceiling.

gratay wrote:thanks for that Kim..
I have heard Z-poxy is a bit more forgiving than other brands of epoxy . But I'm not taking any chances...

I can verify that.....Z-poxy is very forgiving in respect to mixing ratios.

Thanks mate. Ill pay you back in pins with next Stewmac order.

The extra pins will come in handy.....an hour ago two of the buggers shot out of the bridge on the 12 string, bounced off the ceiling and disappeared behind a pile of tonewood. That's four of the buggers that have done that so far.

Youre preaching to the converted here mate. Tim is tops in terms of product and service. Hes even been known to pick up customers from Perth Airport in a stretched limo with girls and champers in the back. Well ok there wasnt a limo and there werent any girls and champers. But he did pick up the cus...

Oh Shit! Must stop and apologise here and now. My sets came from ALLIED luthiers $10 per set deal around 3 years ago. Kim Youre not the only one having a bad day mate. After f****ng up he saddle on my 12 string this morning I went to the bldi dentist with at least three gaping holes in my pearly wh...

I did a guitar building course a few years ago and the venue was actually a high school woodworking room at a New Zealand high school. Most of the hand tools we used were straight off the racks in the woodwork room, we just had to make sure they got a good sharpen before we used them. The machines w...

I pretty much went through the same process....sanded back and washed with Shellite. Didnt help at all. Thought it was the shellac so changed that out but still same result. Surface was breaking up after a day or two.....I wouldnt call them fish eyes....looked like hairline cracks at a distance. Fun...

I dont know if Im very patient...some of my problems probably have lack of patience as a root cause. You and me to :( Martin do tell, could the "contaminated" back set you replaced have been an opportunity grade set of EIR from Luthiers Mercantile by any chance??? I would be VERY interested to know...

Yeah the Hauser classical has had 3 backs.....french polish problems due to wood contamination and then back lost its arch. I then merrily scraped through the bindings on one side so had to redo same. I dont know if Im very patient...some of my problems probably have lack of patience as a root cause...

Root cause is relying on working out intonation myself with nut slots not cut to final depth (= strings too high) and then positioning saddle slot based on same. So, what do you think has been the stuff up Martin? String hight? I'm not trying to rub it in, just hoping not to make the same mistake.

Okay, Ive got the saddle fitted and have been fiddling with intonation on bass E pair, top E pair and the G octave pairs. All intonate ok with exception of string 11 (low E slightly sharp) which needs to go back a fraction on the saddle and the G octave (string 6) that is right at front of saddle an...

Im off to the dentist so the 12 string is going to have to gather dust today.

All your advice, comments and arse whipping have been taken on board.

Okay you can stop bldi panicking you guys. I've routed the slot but its a bldi 5.5mm wide saddle so there's heaps of leeway for ridge positon on top of same. Yes the nut slots are way high. I dont cut them down to final depth until saddle is in. I rough out intonation only to work out where to cut t...