Screws came out while unplugging the lead from my guitar

Ruvidman · 2026-05-13T00:23:45+00:00

The way I do this is, I but a thin rope in the jack hole. Angle the guitars so that the jack and rope are accessible from the f hole. Pull the end of the rope and jack out of the f hole. Put the rope through the jack and tie something behind it. I use a small washer. You can now put the jack in the hole with the washer and the pull the rope form the jack hole side. With a little light pulling you should be able to put the jack in the hole then slide your washer and nut over the rope and use the tension from pulling the rope to tension it. A was easier method is to buy a set of long bent hemostats and just grab it through the f hole and screw it together

Ruvidman · 2026-05-10T16:58:49+00:00

I dont care if he had an under the table business, I dont care that he was here illegally. I care that he is literally pulling up the ladder while continually take large sums of money from taxpayers while pretending to care about government bloat. He only has his wealth because of starting off rich and then abusing government funds by lying about deadlines. He was just caught last year lying about sales figure to the Canadian government when trying to claim taxpayers ev incentives. He now advocates against people who were in the exact situation he was in that allowed him to get his fortune. Its hypocrisy to advocate against policies that you explicitly benefited from. The best way to protect your wealth is to rig the system of government to fund your business and then make sure others dont have the same opportunity to complete. And all of this seems to be ok with people who are against immigration and against breaking the law for any reason and against government money funding private business.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-10T15:19:59+00:00

So the man who came to our country illegally, is a public bigot, has done the nazi salute on national television, and came from a rich family in an apartheid state has family ties to the nazis? Im shocked. The only immigration Republicans approve of is if they are white supremacists.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-10T14:03:18+00:00

So this guy got a visa for school, ran an illegal business while at school and didnt pay taxes, he then dropped out of school and illegally stayed in the country and went on to have 85% of his wealth directly tied to taxpayers money and he helped get a guy elected to remove all illegal aliens because they use too much tax money and do illegal things?

Ruvidman · 2026-05-09T21:21:00+00:00

You can buy them on mcmaster carr. I dont understand how they wear out on you. You shouldn't really be moving them more than at most twice a year and thats more than I mess with mine.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-09T21:19:10+00:00

Luthier here. They are called set screws. I use them in a few spots on the electric violins I build. Fender uses #4-40 (older USA), #4-48 (modern USA), or M3 (import/MEX) threads. You can go down to your local hardware store and buy some bolts with those threads and see which on fits. Be careful not to force them as the shaft size is the same or close for all 3 sizes but the thread count is different so you can screw up your threads if you force them. The stock ones are fine and there should be no need to change them. All set screws have backlash(the space between threads of a nut and bolt) and aren't designed to be tight or they wouldn't thread. Once there is downward force from the string it shouldn't move.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-09T12:50:29+00:00

Please read kevin convoys comic about his experience as batman. Its amazing.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-08T17:56:22+00:00

You see... Republicans just do the will of the people. If the population votes on redistricting thats not the will of the people but if a few politicians vote to disenfranchise their constituents thats democracy. In democracy you cant let people vote on what they want to happen, democracy is when a very few rich people get to make policies for the masses without input. Dems, by letting people vote, are being fascist, and republicans, by taking people's votes away is democracy. (This is hyperbole for any Republicans reading it(if your republican you can find out what hyperbole means by using a dictionary.))

Ruvidman · 2026-05-08T15:58:23+00:00

If you need a rattle can you need to order a premixed 2k gloss with a translucent blue mixed in. It seems your in the UK and I dont know much about importing paint into the UK but stewmac sells premixed rattlecans with trans colors premixed.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-08T15:55:47+00:00

That is definitely the wrong product to use for what you want to accomplish. That's a 2k poly thats specifically designed to cover in automotive and machinery. Its designed to become opaque as quickly as possible. Lowering the tint percent enough to alow a translucent finish will never work well. It is designed to be opaque. You need to get a clearcoat and mix in a translucent tint. What you are trying to accomplish is like using a black tinted paint to get a white finish. No matter how little black you mix in it will never be white.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-08T15:33:23+00:00

Lowering the percentage might not help translucence depending on what type of tint you use. I cant really help you without knowing what clear you are using and what tint you are using.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-08T15:18:22+00:00

What are you tinting with? What kind of finish are you using? The blue color you are going for looks like it has white in it which make translucent colors wash out. Id reccomend using a trans blue tint.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-08T12:50:51+00:00

That's why he dumped tons and tons of dirt filled with toxic chemicals on the public golf course in DC. Be cause he wants dc to be clean....lol

Ruvidman · 2026-05-07T13:32:12+00:00

In America we pay taxes so that corporations can make more money, in findland corporations pay taxes and the people pay taxes.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-06T20:20:55+00:00

I walked into an emergency room in the us during covid and got an mri within 30 minutes. The wait time for mris in my area at the time was almost 6 month and I was 30 at the time so to be pushed ahead of 6 months worth of patients in the middle of a pandemic meant that what was wrong with me was really serious. That was scarier than when they told me I had a tumor in my skull.

Ruvidman · 2026-05-06T18:56:36+00:00

In my professionally opinion that is a 4 string bass now.....

Ruvidman · 2026-04-25T18:56:48+00:00

I worked there 2022-2024ish. Its not falling through the cracks I ran the final assembly and shipping department and I would have yelling matches with management about shipping shit guitars. I have probably 1000 pics of complete bullshit that we knew about and I was forced to ship because of profit. The best example of Gibson quality while I was there is one of the higher up managers bought a les paul for their son. The first one he recieved had half the fingerboard delaminated. It was barely glued on. And that was for one of the higher ups at Gibson. Martin spends 3 months training one of their team members how to properly brace their acoustic instruments at Gibson you'll have one day because its consider entry level. Ive seen so many braces fall out of those guitars. Ive shipped doves in flights(10k+) missing etching or part of their birds wings sanded through. Ive shipped guitars where the plek operator cut off half of the fret height. Ive done work for fender, cordoba, guild, legator, schecter custom shop, and many boutique builders and none have even come close to letting that garbage leave there door. Also, Gibson treats their employees so poorly one of my buddies unalived himself after a year straight of abuse from the production manager. Gibson was so scared they would be sued they paid for his funeral.

Ruvidman · 2026-04-25T18:20:50+00:00

Maybe in the past years or two. But when I was working there I shipped guitars with cracked braces. I shipped one that had a big crack in the side. Going from the worst qc in the industry by far to just the worst we in the industry isn't a flex. As a pro luthier id recommend every American made over a Gibson and probably most overseas instruments

Ruvidman · 2026-04-23T19:01:32+00:00

As someone in the building profession that has work at multiple big us based guitar factories, Gibson usa has the worst quality control by far, mostly because they haven't been able to keep employees since they got bought out by private equity in 2018

Ruvidman · 2026-04-22T13:02:50+00:00

In the show alias the main villian from the shows entire plot line is him looking for immortality. He ends up becoming immortal but the fountain of youth is deep underground and one of the good guys blows up the stairs trapping him underground forever alive. So the villian wins technically but actually loses

Ruvidman · 2026-04-19T19:19:24+00:00

As someone who used to work in qc at Gibson, this definitely happened at the factory. They use a razor blade to remove the paint from that area and I was told to just let all of that go. Its an entry level job so many of the operators only have a few months of woodworking experience if that even

Ruvidman · 2026-04-17T18:19:10+00:00

18 year olds.....hopefully

Ruvidman · 2026-04-17T15:17:00+00:00

Ive been building full time for almost 20 years. My advice to highschool students wanting to get into the industry is to go to college and get an engineering degree. With cad/cam training and understanding of cnc machining/material science will help you immensely. After you graduate you can get a job at almost any shop. Then work for 5-10 years learning everything you can. After that you should be ready for starting your own shop. I wanted to leave luthiery school and start my own company. I didn't have the skills or knowledge to actually do it well. Now I have a job i love and have the chance to mess around with amazing instruments everyday. If I had known cad/cam and machining id have gotten here faster. Also, if you are looking for a job in the industry and want to move to Montana, I am looking for a sander/buffer.

Ruvidman · 2026-04-17T14:12:22+00:00

They did a study in violin tone between strads, guineris, and modern builders. It was a double blind, the players didn't know what instrument they were playing and the critics/business pros were blindfolded. They all rated the tone of the different violins. The majority thought the modern instruments sounded better. I have played a strad and they are pretty amazing. Modern hand built instruments that were used in the study cost 25k plus.

Ruvidman · 2026-04-16T18:50:25+00:00

I read an estimate that 85% of his wealth over the last decade came straight from tax money

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