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Using epoxy to cover up a mistake.

Finding gaps in the binding and trying to to get rid of unexplained scratches on unfinished spruce.

[QUOTE=kiwigeo] [QUOTE=Dave White] Sanding down an ebony finngerboard blank. I always come out looking like an extra from "Germinale" or "How Green was my Valley" [/QUOTE]

Whereabouts are you getting your green ebony?? [/QUOTE]

Obviously Coal Mining films are not a big thing down-under

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Calling it that.

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Howard Klepper
http://www.klepperguitars.com

When all else fails, clean the shop.

Most unpleasant part in order of unpleasantness...

5. Filler
4. Sanding filler
3. Filling again
2. Resanding filler
1. Trying to get a good finish after several failed attempts at filling

Long

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"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus

Now I'm over much of the stress of doing something for the first time (it's probably a trap ), I can't think of anything that's unpleasant, except leaving the shop halfway through a process, or longing to be out there with no chance of shop time for days at a time. Oh, and finding unexplained marks in the spruce top.

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

For me it is not so much to do with every guitar as it is to do with transforming myself into GRANOLA MAN other wise known as routing out MDF to make a new radius dish in 115 degree weather.

I stold this line but the picture fits

I don't particularly enjoy the finishing process, at least after the fun part of applying the Sunburst!!!! but what I really dislike is cleaning the shop. I guess sanding is sometimes a drag too but I just turn up the music and enjoy it.

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Tickle your guitar daily, and it'll tickle you back.

Setting the neck.

Mike

I love it all. Well, except rough sanding lumps of camel bone on the sanding disc. The smell!

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

You mean, there’s something unpleasant about building guitars?

I’m with Colin, I love it all!

Of course, in a couple of years, I may change my mind.

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Everything has beauty, But, not everyone see's it!