Official Luthiers Forum!

[QUOTE=Serge Poirier] Hey you guys peaked my curiosity with that Jazz music there, Alain, you gotta make me a copy of this album, i feel i'm missing something in my music culture here! [/QUOTE]

Well, my good friend, consider it done!

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

Thanks bud, it sure will be a good experiemce that i look forward to!

[QUOTE=John Mayes] FWIW my method of slotting using a cross sliding vise and a drill press
the spiral bits worked HORRIBLE for me. I could not get a clean cut. I
then tried a cheap Ace hardware straight cut bit and it was like magic...[/QUOTE] John, you mean a straight cut bit, but still in the cross sliding vise, right? I've been using this method (with the spiral bit) and get a small amount of chatter.

Hey everyone, why not post your pics of your bridge jigs, if you've got 'em?

Okay Roger, I will post some pics!

Here I am using a disk sander chucked into my drill press to sand the end bevels on my classical bridges.

[QUOTE=rlabbe] [QUOTE=John Mayes] FWIW my method of slotting
using a cross sliding vise and a drill press
the spiral bits worked HORRIBLE for me. I could not get a clean cut. I
then tried a cheap Ace hardware straight cut bit and it was like magic...[/
QUOTE] John, you mean a straight cut bit, but still in the cross sliding
vise, right? I've been using this method (with the spiral bit) and get a
small amount of chatter.

Hey everyone, why not post your pics of your bridge jigs, if you've got
'em?
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Yep a cross sliding vise but a straight bit, and shallow passes.. about
.040 at a time.

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

Hesh,
Yea... everything Bob sells is real nice. I always, well almost always, buy what ever he gets...I have three sets of that wood already...Not buying from Bob is missing out on a holiday or something...It goes fast, so you got to get right in and get it.

As far as split saddles go...I don't do them...but I don't think I would change the break angle if I did( if that's what you meant). I use fairly thick saddles ( ala Mike Doolin) and the StewMac intonator...Since I don't slot until I have all my intonation points I can always get the slot to hit my points...in the rare instance that I don't, I build a "shelf" into the saddle (ala Buzz Fetein) to get me where I need to go.

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Dave Bland

remember...

"If it doesn't play in tune...it's just pretty wood"

Dave: I may have missed it, but does Stew-mac sell their jig with the ability to use a lam trimmer instead of the Dremel? thanks, tom

Looks nice Hesh!

Mike
White Oak, Texas

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] Carlton yes the tip it in method. I make many passes only going a very little bit deeper each time.[/QUOTE]
Thanks. You're getting a really clean cut by doing that, so I just wanted to make sure.

[QUOTE=Hesh1956]I still think that Ken Burns missed the boat when he named Louis Armstrong as the greatest jazz musician..... I would not want to name just one but if I had too it would be Miles.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, my friend, but I must respectfully disagree. Not only have Armstrong's technique and virtuosity not been surpassed to this day (really--he played as cleanly as any orchestra musician over the full range of his instrument, and that's while he was improvising!), but he changed the definition of jazz by taking it out of a ploding 4/4 rhythm and making it swing. His inventive, never-heard-before phrasing ideas and harmonic sense made everything that followed possible. The only other jazz musician that approached that sort of genius was Charlie Parker (and maybe Sarah Vaughan). Without Louis Armstrong, though, Parker and everyone else wouldn't have known what was possible, because jazz quite possibly might have died before it had a chance to develop.

[QUOTE=Hesh1956]So you are a Sarah Vaughan fan are ya?[/QUOTE]
It took a long time, but yes! Like many groundbreakers, she was not as easily likeable as more "listener friendly" singers, such as Ella Fitzgerald. I had to start thinking of her voice as an instrument, like, say, a saxophone, and then I got it. In fact, someone (I wish I could remember who) with clout once called HER the greatest jazz musician ever.


[QUOTE=Hesh1956]Charlie Parker was also a giant and when he died he looked twice his age from drug abuse..... They thought that he was nuts and dismissed him thinking that he could not play whole notes. He just didn’t want to play whole notes. The movie was excellent as well and a real achievement for Eastwood and one of the greatest actors of our time Forrest Whittaker.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, a very sad story. It seems he was mentally ill, and, of course, treatment was less helpful back then, and much less available to people without money...even geniuses. We were definitely robbed, musically, when he died.