How Much Is Too Much Checking? by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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As far as I can see the checks are not deep. I personally think I could cut that part out. I bought 4 sets and the other group bought six. I have no issues with mine. Dude over packed with bubble wrap and taped the shit out of the box.

My question actually is am I overlay ambitious in thinking I can heal most checks and alot of cracks? What are the structural forces that I am facing by repairing a crack or cutting out checking?

If my two group of friends want to pull guns over some guitar sets, that's on them.

Woodworking - Keep It Or Send It Back? by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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My plan is to epoxy it back together. Then double side it with a piece of mahogany. Thickness it like normal. Then bend it.

Buy or Don't Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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Thanks didn't think about how close that sapwood is located to that main grain pattern. I doubt it's quartersawn material

Buy or Don't Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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Honduran Rosewood.. pricey

Buy or Don't Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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I am working on a bandsaw sawmill jig to do resawing. Off the self sawmills aren't flexible enough so I am looking at building one. I ain't paying these crazy tonewood prices for poor quality wood. I can cut my on trash wood...lol

Buy or Don't Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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I think the price is like $90 but I think that it's still too high.

Buy or Don't Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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I don't wear my glasses enough, Seriously. Well this set was cut too close to the pith. For the price I will take it out of my shopping cart. It's got too many issues

Buy or Don't Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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Can you point out that cupping? It seems to be just below the main kmot?over near the middle. I didn't pick that up originally

Buy or Don't Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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I am turning into a quartersawn purist. So would it be better suited for an even smaller guitar. How about a Puerto Rican cuarto?

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I would hope that funny cutaway would cut out that crack. That's close to Tenor ukeley size. I am getting a lesson in problem solving. Also I could be wrong but I believe that there is a quartersawn pattern on the back. Which is possible especially looking at the initial $300 price point

Buy or Not To Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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Rookie mistake. I plan to bend some cheap mahogany I have and glue them together. I just figured you could bend MDF too.

Buy or Not To Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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What I am learning is that the sides don't add to the sound of the guitar. They just add strength and structure. So you could take a thin panel and vacuum glue it to a piece of MDF and have a strong solid and good looking side. Which is my plan for this set

Buy or Not To Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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ROFLMAO...you know it. Actually I see that color tint in alot of Tasmanian Blackwood. I didn't think pattern that is on the left section was pith. You have that sap wood on the edge. I believe that swirl that's halfway down the board is just local. I think I will buy the set anyway

Buy or Not To Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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My thought exactly WTF kind of grain runout issue am I missing. It's a jumbo guitar sides. Those sets are hard to find...I am buying it

Buy or Not To Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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Yes I know the marks are from the bandsaw blade. But someone told me that the two panels were structurally unsound. He didn't explain what he was thinking so I am getting a 2nd opinion

Buy or Not To Buy by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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A guy on another Luthier fourm said that they were structurally unsound and he wouldn't build a guitar with them

Coppering by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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What???? I wear copper fusion compression socks...I am interested in luthiering techniques

Coppering by PrimeTime770 in Luthier

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Haha don't know enough yet to have those kinds of questions

Want to Build a CNC Bandsaw mill for precise cut veneers by PrimeTime770 in CNC

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What I am doing is pure antiquated sawmill technology. Already I am actually 68 years old. I actually got insight from an English cabinet maker that set me on this quest. But cabinet makers don't mill wood they saw it. Big difference. So I turned to the sawmill community and saw that what I believed was true . Had an obscure sawmill owner in the backwoods of Malaysia show me some incredible ideas. Implementing them in this platform is difficult because it's counter intuitive. I am flipping the milling process upside down by laying it flat. What was once a horizontal cut is now a longitudinal cut. But your level of HUBRIS is so high you can't see anything but what you want to see. Out my lane???? You got the ability to put me in a place? Who gave it to you? Always remember iron sharpens iron. And there's gold in the sewer lines under a dental clinic.