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I've glued a top on the back side of the rim, but the funniest one was carving a neck. I've got a nice drawknife that was my Great Grandfathers. I keep it real sharp. I cut a neck blank completely in two with it.


Tool definition: Random orbit sander, a tool used to ruin a piece that should have been sanded by hand.

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I remember one of my first guitars, I was routing a center back seam strip with a wooden guide piece that was dead straight.....well when I finised gluing in the center strip I was proud as could be, until I eyeballed down the finished piece and in horror saw that it had a nice bend to it......I had inadvertantly used the unfinished edge of the guide piece instead of the perfectly straight edge, Oh Boy

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Too many to list.

Glued on fretboard without truss rod.
Drilled 2 1/8 end-pin pattern instead of 2 1/4.
Made 1 11/16 nut width instead or 1 3/4.
Glued on fretboard without truss rod.
Routed neck block mortise through the back instead or the top (well almost)
Put fretboard markers on wrong frets.
Used fret board as supplied without cutting off above zero fret. (I thought they did it already.)
Glued on fretboard with out truss rod.
Put CA on finish sand through.
Let squeeze out epoxy for bridge cure on finish.
Sanded through rosette.
Glued on fretboard without truss rod.
Chiseled through top while carving braces.
Put fret side markers on wrong frets.
Drilled end pin hole too large for end pin.
Used hygrometer without calibration. (Can you say concave top?)
Made a neck to thin and the truss rod came through after a year. (Twice)
And that was just one guitar! (not really. )

OK - That's enough for now.....
Is there ever and end to these screw ups?

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

I had a sig here shortly after I first joined OLF that went something like this:

new build

mistakes circle above

waiting to descend


Some builds I swear that's what's happening.

I think it came from a chess champion's haiku, uttered at the start of a tournament.

Pat

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Keep a clean workspace - especially if you own cats - cats don't necessarily know the difference between cat litter and saw dust

Fortunately learning this "only" cost me about 1 bf of a birdseye maple board and not some nice tonewood

Christian