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What's on your work bench?
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Fret ends snipped and beveled. Now for my least favorite part - masking off the board ready for level and crown.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
string retainer hor a headless?
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Masked up, Vivid marker applied to frets. Now I can't find my fret leveling file.... Bugger.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
It'll be in the last place you look...
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Re: What's on your work bench?
How the hell do you snip the ends of frets and they don't try & jump back out of their groove? Never tried it but my instincts of all steel chopping says this.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
interference fit or interference fit and glue... oh and end nippers so you're not cutting downwards you're chopping in line with the frets
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Nice work. If you don't mind me saying so... but in that photo it looks like the fret ends might benefit from a bit more rounding... or you might do that after the leveling?captainfruitbat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 1:05 pm 20220314_140239.jpg
Fret ends snipped and beveled. Now for my least favorite part - masking off the board ready for level and crown.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
It actually is a Steel bar with tapped holes for pole pieces. The coil will be wound around it and the magnet will go underneath the bar.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Yep, rounding doesn't happen until after the frets are leveled and crowned.Jay wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:54 pmNice work. If you don't mind me saying so... but in that photo it looks like the fret ends might benefit from a bit more rounding... or you might do that after the leveling?captainfruitbat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 1:05 pm 20220314_140239.jpg
Fret ends snipped and beveled. Now for my least favorite part - masking off the board ready for level and crown.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
In this case, I definitely needed the glue. When the old frets come out as easy as these did, it's a given that the new ones won't want to stay in. Ask me how I know.....
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Re: What's on your work bench?
- Heat treat neck to remove major twist and forward bow
- full refret, level and crown
- replace tuners (owner supplied diecasts - headstock was too thick for those because of the multi-layer plastic veneer, so I had to recess them).
- make and install bone nut
- Fix vibrato ($5 compression spring from Bunnings works perfectly)
- Fix pickup selector switch that was just rotating freely without doing anything
- clean and set up
Of course this is way more work than would be justified on a guitar of such limited value. But it's for a friend who just wants it playable, so mates rates. Plus he is giving me a deal on a PRS SE Soapbar that I've been trying to persuade him to sell to me for ages.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
That's an impressive amount of work to get a mate's guitar going again. Do you do this for fun or are you a luthier by trade?
(I'm looking for somebody who can confidently & reliably do a neck reset on an acoustic, ideally in Auckland...)
(I'm looking for somebody who can confidently & reliably do a neck reset on an acoustic, ideally in Auckland...)
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Wouldn't call myself a luthier, more of a hobby guitar tech. I used to take in occasional repair/upgrade work when I was importing and selling parts and guitars via TradeMe (as webdude/ATF Guitars), but I stopped that a couple years ago. Now that I've retired from my day job, I'm thinking about starting up again in a limited way, but a neck reset is beyond my experience I'm afraid.olegmcnoleg wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 11:12 am That's an impressive amount of work to get a mate's guitar going again. Do you do this for fun or are you a luthier by trade?
(I'm looking for somebody who can confidently & reliably do a neck reset on an acoustic, ideally in Auckland...)
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Picked up a bench top belt and disc sander and a new angle grinder today… going to have a crack at knife making.
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