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This week, everything I touched turned BAD!

My jig moved while I was cutting the slots of my spanish heel. The angle turned off a bid but not too much... But I whatever decided to refill the slot and redo it cleanly... The chim stucked in the middle of the slot...! Grrr! I will have to do my slot again and then chim my side when gluing it in the slot.

Made a nice dent in my neck... Okay, the FB will go over but, anyway... always bad!

Some dude today broke my new rosette in two. My first marqueterie rosette I had just finished. I fixed it... maybe I'll have to do some touch up before finishing...

And so much other stupid errors...

A bad week... !

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Francis Richer, Montréal
Les Guitares F&M Guitars

I feel your pain, buddy! Bummer about that rosette, particularly.

Today I inlaid my ebony rosette and used thin instead of medium CA....didn't realize it would leak right through and never though to put wax paper on the workbench. Almost had a beautiful koa ukulele top as part of my bench (was lucky enough to realize it before it completely dried and was able to separate it without breaking the top.

Figured out the StewMac circle cutter doesn't get small enough to cut the inner diameter of a uke rosette, so spent a good bit of time making a Lexan jig for that last pass on the channel and another for cutting the soundhole.
Tomorrow will be a better day! Beth

You too eh? I have been remaking a neck this week and Murphy's Law is in full working order.

You gotta keep friends like that out of your shop!

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Waddy

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Well, there is the problem: it's not MY shop. I'm studying in a lutherie school. We are 10 luthiers in the same room.

I was talking to somebody, then I heard in my back the dude say: Oh, you finished your rosette! I have a bad feeling, I turned my head, and my feeling was right. The rosette was on the floor, broken in two.

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Francis Richer, Montréal
Les Guitares F&M Guitars

Filippo, I think you meant to be in the recording thread, not the screwed up this week thread.

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Waddy

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Yeah, I just repeated a once learned error, I forgot to tighten the height adjuster on my router after switching to the purfling bearing and routed down and down... And down past the binding line. Again. Bonk. The problem is that the sharp hours are during the day and most of us do this at night.

Bummer, guys. I'm not going to write anything more out of fear that I'll jinx my own week. Hang in there.

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George :-)

Since the jig is made of aluminum, you can also extend the slot on both pieces pretty easily for uke rosette diameters. I can't remember exactly, but I think I used a small router bit then finished with a file. You just need to be careful to not enlarge the width of the slot and made sure you lock the nut down extra tight so you don't get wiggle.

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Kevin Mason
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I had to replace fret 14 on my latest build yesterday and got too energetic cleaning out the slot with one of theose StewMac slot cleaning saws. While I had the neck off of the body, I tweaked the truss rod a little bit and while putting a little pressure to ease the stress, I heard the CRACK! I shouldn't have been pressing down on the FB extension in the first place, but too late now.

Oh well, it's just an opportunity to to make a better FB this time. I'm pretty sure I cut the slots too deep in the first place. Removed the old (broken) one this morning.

Chuck

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Had an absolutely brutal day today. Trying to cut 2D dovetails and at about the 20th try with the jig they are still all over the place.