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No way bub... She's mine!

No whay, meng.

I just snapped off a brass screw in a finished guitar body yesterday. Now....I KNOW she likes dumb guys...given her history but I DIDN'T snap it off on purpose in order to have a fighting chance. Really...I didn't.

I hope second place isn't Janeane Garofalo.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

Knew it wouldnt last !! I just realized that when I used the Bridgematic to set my bridge I misread the instructions . The bridge was at 12 - 15/16" from twelfth Fret and the Nut is at 12-9/16" so Recon that 3/8" is probably a lil toooo mucccchhh compensation .

Well I now how to remove a bridge now , and I know that the glue was reeeeeeeaaaaallllll good the first time .

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

I want a bottle of that !!

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Well, it's still October, so here's mine.

Look at this and see if you notice anything weird:



It's an OM. When tracing out the shapes of BOTH the top and back, I used my standard OM template for the none-cutaway side, and my Classical (!!!) template for the cutaway side. I noticed it not only when the top and back were cut out, but when the rosette was inlayed and half the top braces were glued.

My templates are not identified, as I always was able to recognize them by shape (until today, obviously...). As I was drawing out the shapes on the top, I clearly remember I was saying to myself: "I really should identify these templates or eventually I won't use the right one." I'm not making this up.

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Alain Moisan
Former full time builder of Acoustics, Classicals and Flamencos.
(Now building just for fun!)

Hey, if you tighten up the waist on the cutaway side, I think it makes a pretty cool asymmetric shape. Especially if you do fan fret. Check out Bruce Sexauer's stuff.

As for me, I'm off the hook for my previous post. It turned out my fingerboard extension did have just a little too much of a gap under it to radius before gluing down, so I decided to gamble it. Went with a 20" radius instead of my usual 16", and just barely got away with it. That 15th fret dot is really living life on the edge, but it looks fine.

I did, however, smack the headstock into a brick yesterday. But it only made a small scruff on the back edge, right next to one of the tuners where it won't be noticeable. I should really leave more soft things and less scratchy things around the shop during post-finish stage.

Hey, Alain,
maybe a fix is making the shape more like the lower classical shape?
know what I'm sayin'?
You not doofus yet..
Miztakes might take you to a nice new shape!?
No boo-boo's here.
I cut a board too long the other day....

Congratulations, I relinquish the title this month to you :p

Well its end of the month and a winner is needed . It was a close race this month with Mike O and Mike L. and Alan Moisan , But we have to give the award this month to Alan Moisan for his ability to cut one part using several diffrent templates !


Soooooooooo Here ya go !








Speech sppeech !!

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Filippo, poly glue does have some good uses...it ain't all bad.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

a lil poly gue and some duct tape and you can hold the world together !!


and Fillipo , your month is comming , I will hand your the award one day ! " evil laugh "

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Yea.. I hope next month isn't how I managed to plane an Ebony fretboard into a wedge...

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I humbly accept the award. Special thanks to my family who supported me troughout the tough times when I was not making many mistakes and didn't have much to submit to the academy of doofery. I can proudly say that I'm part of the boys now!

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Alain Moisan
Former full time builder of Acoustics, Classicals and Flamencos.
(Now building just for fun!)

Hey What gives??? By my calendar, we've still got over 24 hours of October left.

And last night I went to bed with my forefinger and thumb fused together - amazing what a little CA in the wrong place can do. There was no way I was going to wake up my wife and ask her where she keeps her nail polish remover......
although she didn't even ask why when I asked her first thing this morning - she must be getting used to my ways....

Anyway - I know what I'm going to have handy in my shop for the next accidental fusing...

Thankfully I can't really compete this month but I do have a good one. I went to blow something off with my air compressor and it was dead. No air and it wouldn't turn on. I had just rebuilt part of the regulator a couple months ago and had to grind out a frozen, corroded nipple so I immediately assumed I got some crud in the pressure switch. BUT.... excellent mechanic that I am, I caught myself. Of course you don't start taking the whole regulator/switch apart before checking the easy stuff. I went to the circuit panel but no breakers were tripped. I looked all around the regulator for an overload switch and found none. So I started taking it apart. The seal where it connects to the tank completely fell apart in the process but no other problems could be found.

I turned my attention to the motor and then saw the tripped overload switch! Duh.

So I made a new seal out of some neoprene, put it back together and it ran just fine. Re-attached the hose and PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST. My first thought was "What on earth did I do to put a hole in the hose just now?" Then I realized that the hose blew out in the night, the compressor ran continuously and tripped the overload.

I used to make a habit of turning off my compressor every night for just that reason. Someone once told me about a fire starting because of that scenario. Guess I'll start turing it off again. Glad to give up the prize and still have my shop.

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http://www.chassonguitars.com

I always try to finish b4 the last day of the month . Keep this one for next month and feel frreee to submit it ( pun intended )

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

good post!
im gonna be participating on the next one. i got a back that is giving me a hard time with the bracing.

Am I the dufus or is he snake that crawled from the tenth fret where it should have gone to the ninth.

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http://goatrockukulele.com

I don't see a problem there? Great looking Uke too!

Kent,
We give you second place!
I'd come in second,
because I like wearing corduroy pants,
but that's not luthier related,
that's just a doofus.

well since i got stuck on my build because of the back giving me some trouble. ill post it.

i first braced the back at an adecuate RH but maybe I didnt wait enough to let the back acomodate to it, so it was fine until the back went dead flat at about 40% RH.

here it was fine, for a while...


so i decided to take braces off and let it dry some more. it was real low humidity those days, about 30 or 35%. I hanged the plate on a ventilated place for about 2 days but decided to go further and put the plate on the sunlight for about 10 minutes each side before glueing braces..

the next day whether become damper and I found the back swelling like crazy at about 60%. i think the sun exposure over shrinked the plate and it was now bending the braces very noticiably. it was too much. i cant imagine where it would go if RH was around 80%...



so braces off again.. this time I took the plate to my bedroom for 3 days and kept controling the humidity, at around 45% and 50%.
so here it is. i hope this one is the one


i wish i had a little workshop... well someday maybe..