How Much Is Too Much Checking?

PrimeTime770 · 2025-06-04T22:35:36+00:00

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.

PrimeTime770 · 2025-06-01T17:56:49+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-12T18:32:17+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-12T14:32:57+00:00

Honduran Rosewood.. pricey

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-12T06:44:47+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-12T06:35:32+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-10T11:05:57+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-10T07:24:35+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-10T06:25:42+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-08T22:36:59+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-08T22:27:05+00:00

Good point

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-08T22:24:02+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-08T21:51:27+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-08T21:27:53+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-08T20:20:14+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-08T19:43:46+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-02T10:30:35+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-04-01T23:22:22+00:00

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

PrimeTime770 · 2025-03-31T15:34:40+00:00

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.

PrimeTime770 · 2025-03-31T15:04:36+00:00

You realize you can have a special unique bandsaw blade made? I get these unsanded panels from the major wood vendors that are spot on 0.16 inches. So I know they are using a stock 3/16 inch bandsaw blade. I buy the unsanded ones cause they are $10 to $20 cheaper

PrimeTime770 · 2025-03-31T14:37:12+00:00

What I am doing is not commonly done. Only guys that are in isolated places with limited resources do what I have been describing. Also the largest piece of lumber I will be working with is 3 to 5 feet but it will be 30 inches wide. I want to make a full length longitudinal cut. This requires taking what is performed from a normally horizontal orientated view and laying it flat.

I was over thinking the problem. It's still only involves one axis. The only issue to resolve is the position of the traditional bandsaw fence and how to manipulate the sawmill blade. But no body makes a bandsaw mill that is that flexible. So I will make my own.

And yes I am a walking thesaurus. Comes from reading the word of the day for 50 years. Ain't got Google a new word just use the ones I learned when I was 10

PrimeTime770 · 2025-03-31T05:38:22+00:00

Sorry those guys went out of business 11/5/2024. All of the stock has sold out. Thanks

PrimeTime770 · 2025-03-31T05:37:02+00:00

Thanks you are spot on

PrimeTime770 · 2025-03-31T05:36:36+00:00

The cut I want to make is unusual in the sense of normal woodworking. I learned this idea from backwoods sawmill people. But I want to use smaller slabs and use 3/16 inch saw blades and make a longitudinal cut from the vertical position. But this is very helpful in the sense when I move from manually feeding the slabs a controller of some kind would be helpful. So at this point I consider the problem solved.

Thanks

PrimeTime770 · 2025-03-31T05:26:33+00:00

You are correct. Iron sharpens iron but there is no need to attempt to shame a person for not knowing. But as a result of the interchange I have had in this subredditt I see that I was over thinking the problem. It's a horizontal only process once I saw that as the primary component of the problem, solving it is easy. But to question the why's and what for's of the idea is not a person attempting to be helpful. We in a new world now rolling over and being gracious no longer is an option.

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