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by charangohabsburg
Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:47 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: What to do?
Replies: 25
Views: 25713

Re: What to do?

The ding is right down the bottom end of the guitar and I doubt I will be able to get my hand far enough down through the sound hole to reach it which makes it tricky. How do you handle that situation? I place "out-of-reach cleats" with a clamp of the right length whose outer arm tip indicates the ...
by charangohabsburg
Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:35 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Bridge failure - how do I remove a damaged bridge??
Replies: 9
Views: 9392

Re: Bridge failure - how do I remove a damaged bridge??

Any advice on the wood I used? I used walnut as I used it for the neck and bridge. Obviously the bridge cracked as the back third was glued to lacquer, but I am wondering if walnut isn't appropriate for a bridge. Walnut is just fine for a bridge, as many other wood species are. I have seen dozens o...
by charangohabsburg
Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:19 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Cool
Replies: 1
Views: 4149

Re: Cool

Now that's remarkable!
by charangohabsburg
Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:24 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: What to do?
Replies: 25
Views: 25713

Re: What to do?

As Nick says, steam is your friend. An invisible or nearly invisible repair should be possible. I haven't seen Dan Erlewine's video - but what I do, have done quite a few times, and worked always on tops varnished with different known and unknown methods (including shellac), is using a white rather ...
by charangohabsburg
Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:44 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Just bought this book
Replies: 14
Views: 14501

Re: Just bought this book

Nice. Looking forward to your online lectures of this book. :dri
by charangohabsburg
Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:43 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: How to Add Bridge Mass
Replies: 6
Views: 8048

Re: How to Add Bridge Mass

DarwinStrings wrote: The designer has had his say there and even though he does call them "Power Pins" he is happy to concede that they are not quite like putting a 351 in your Morris Minor.
Not the kind of statement his potential customers will read in his advertisements. :lol:
by charangohabsburg
Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:09 am
Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
Topic: Making Radius dishes
Replies: 4
Views: 14697

Re: Making Radius dishes

Hi Paul, It is easier to sand with a generously dimensioned dish. You could do it in two halves, or use this method which for me yielded good results for radii of 5000 mm and greater, but gets difficult for radii of less than 4000 mm, although I have made a small dish with a 2000 mm radius (200 mm w...
by charangohabsburg
Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:52 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Trying to re-create beautiful violet padouk - (hints please)
Replies: 2
Views: 3557

Re: Trying to re-create beautiful violet padouk - (hints ple

P.S. At the moment I can't show a photo of the (partially) stained head plate because it is back in the pressing caul until it is completely dry (if I take it out too early for more than a few seconds if would cup). I quickly changed the laminate to a dry caul to accelerate drying, and took a photo...
by charangohabsburg
Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:51 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Trying to re-create beautiful violet padouk - (hints please)
Replies: 2
Views: 3557

Trying to re-create beautiful violet padouk - (hints please)

I like the colour of freshly cut padouk, and I also like a lot how its colour turns when ageing. However, when some years ago I bought a batch of padouk back and sides sets, one face of one back panel showed some stunningly intense violet staining, although only a blotchy pattern obviously caused by...
by charangohabsburg
Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:58 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: How to Add Bridge Mass
Replies: 6
Views: 8048

Re: How to Add Bridge Mass

going to give your acoustic some SERIOUS POWER!!!!!!!!!!!
:lol:

Next "development" will be a bridge machined from a solid brass blank, which at the same time will be an ecological substitute for endangered ebony.
by charangohabsburg
Sat Jan 31, 2015 9:23 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Just a bit of romance
Replies: 43
Views: 40687

Re: Just a bit of romance

Wonderful, fantastic, cool, hot, ... not a lot more to say, I'm just speechless.
by charangohabsburg
Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:16 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Problem gluing EI Rosewood
Replies: 18
Views: 18071

Re: Problem gluing EI Rosewood

Similarly like Trevor I also think that it would be rather difficult or even impossible to starve a Titebond joint using any plate joining jig. Here , Franklin recommends for their wood glues a clamping pressure of 200 - 300 psi (ca. 14 - 20 bar or kg/cm²). Starving a Titebond joint would require mo...
by charangohabsburg
Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:29 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Small footprint
Replies: 1
Views: 4030

Small footprint

Now that's a small footprint (although not a very ecological one).
by charangohabsburg
Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:23 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Global freezing
Replies: 15
Views: 20851

Global freezing

Climate change in the seventies (due to air pollution).
Now, which studies do we believe? :lol:

However, I'm not tempted to buy those old newspaper articles. :wink:
by charangohabsburg
Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:07 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Beginners nightmare
Replies: 7
Views: 8284

Re: Beginners nightmare

Great find! :lol:
I have read that such things even happen to surgeons, which lets me conclude you've got the ticket to charge a premium for your guitars.
by charangohabsburg
Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:40 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Salvaging timber - Old japanese bolt on
Replies: 13
Views: 11279

Re: Salvaging timber - Old japanese bolt on

http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5462&p=62873&hilit=replacing+soundboard#p62873 Hi Pete Have a look at this post, it refers to previous posts on replacing the soundboard. Yeahnah. [...] , I don't do acoustics really... and I'm not interested. You could sent it to John the Woodrat, I sure he...
by charangohabsburg
Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:23 am
Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
Topic: Oh no, not yet another plate joining jig!
Replies: 2
Views: 13211

Re: Oh no, not yet another plate joining jig!

Oh yes, the quoins! :cl
I knew that there has been something I had forgotten! :D
by charangohabsburg
Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:16 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Heel block - spanish guitar or mortise and tenon??
Replies: 13
Views: 13341

Re: Heel block - spanish guitar or mortise and tenon??

The Spanish Heel: 1. Advantages - simpler to construct cf to neck joint method. Agreed. Much simpler and much quicker. The real time-saver and and sorrow-dissolver is thee absolutely fool proof built in neck angle when used in conjunction with an adequate workboard (solera) which provides the neck ...
by charangohabsburg
Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:17 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Jumbo Acoustic Re-Build
Replies: 25
Views: 26497

Re: Jumbo Acoustic Re-Build

Two times (the guitar + you) successfully restored to good health! :D :cl

Cheers! :gui
by charangohabsburg
Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:17 pm
Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
Topic: Oh no, not yet another plate joining jig!
Replies: 2
Views: 13211

Oh no, not yet another plate joining jig!

We have so far only two plate joining jigs in the ANZLF's jig collection: Taffy's jig Allan's jig So I thought I would add mine too, which I am using since about 2 or 3 years. It is a fairly simple animal, quite fast to use, and it takes parallel edged, wedge-shaped and even to some degree irregular...
by charangohabsburg
Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:57 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Scorched Sides Advice
Replies: 11
Views: 13186

Re: Scorched Sides Advice

Looks great! It reminds me bit on those sandwich-like cookies with chocolate :D cookie-sandwich.jpg It also reminds me on an occasion before my life as luthierie-addict when I commissioned some kind of guitarrilla to a Bolivian luthier and proposed a different wood for the sides than that of the bac...
by charangohabsburg
Thu Jan 08, 2015 7:51 am
Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
Topic: Equ 4.5-5
Replies: 37
Views: 66779

Re: Equ 4.5-5

Tap testing results for the falcate classical: Plate Thickness Calculator.pdf I know, I know, it's been an year now... but may I ask you "how vertical" the grain was (is) in that top? I have never worked with Engelmann spruce, and the data Elong / Ecross = 21.71 really makes me wonder if this is ty...
by charangohabsburg
Thu Jan 01, 2015 7:31 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: new year
Replies: 7
Views: 8071

Re: new year

Thanks Rod and Martin!

Steady hands, adequate judgement and good health in 2015 for all you ANZLFers!
by charangohabsburg
Mon Dec 22, 2014 8:13 am
Forum: The Gallery
Topic: L1 style guitar
Replies: 11
Views: 15276

Re: L1 style guitar

Oh, another "sunset"! :D