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| Author: | Mike Baker [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Rosewood for position markers? |
Hi. i'm working on a maple board and would like to use rosewood for the position markers. What I'm worried about is when sanding the markers down to match the fretboard radius, having the rosewood ground into the sanding scratches on the maple. Anyone done this with good results? Any advice? |
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| Author: | DennisK [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rosewood for position markers? |
My experience... if the maple is curly, you'll probably never get all the dust out. If it's straight grained, you'll probably be fine. Test on scraps. |
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| Author: | jac68984 [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rosewood for position markers? |
My only experience with rosewood dust and maple is a rosewood body with flame maple bindings/tail wedge etc. build and seems to confirm what Dennis said. Once I sanded to a find grit, the only issue with dust was in the run-out portions of the binding (i.e., the darker, end grain portion of the flame in the maple). Other spots did not gather color from the dust. Unfigured Maple has very fine pores that don't seem to take in the sanding dust. I really didn't mind the sanding stain as it seemed to add some depth to the flame. I'm sure someone out there can give a better response, but that's all I can offer. Good luck. I'm sure it will turn out well. Aaron |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rosewood for position markers? |
Same story here with EIR and ightly flamed maple bindings |
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| Author: | Bob Garrish [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rosewood for position markers? |
File or sand down to 'close', but preferably not to flush, and then use a razor blade to scrape the final surface. If you get dust on the surface, you can use the razor to scrape it off. Don't wipe off dust, blow it off with compressed air. Ground in (smeared) dust is another thing, but if you keep it all 'dry' then there's pretty much nothing that won't come out of pores with 90 (or preferably 150) psi. |
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| Author: | Corky Long [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rosewood for position markers? |
Bob Garrish wrote: File or sand down to 'close', but preferably not to flush, and then use a razor blade to scrape the final surface. If you get dust on the surface, you can use the razor to scrape it off. Don't wipe off dust, blow it off with compressed air. Ground in (smeared) dust is another thing, but if you keep it all 'dry' then there's pretty much nothing that won't come out of pores with 90 (or preferably 150) psi. +1 - exactly what I was going to say, and you could use a very sharp scraper instead of sanding as well. |
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