David...What may have once been considered to be "High-Tech Graphite" has now been deemed to have been a "Grammatical Error"!!!
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| Author: | David Collins [ Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:45 pm ] |
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I have a Grammer in that I'm refinishing the neck on (bad headstock break, +bad previous overspray), and was finish sanding it this evening. After having a miserable time keeping the binding clean I take a look at the side fret markers, and find that Grammer apparently used pencil leads. Big, fat, black pencil leads. I don't know if they just had a bunch of extra leads laying around or what, but it sure seems like a senseless pain to me. I've seen a lot of cheap or amusing things used by manufacturers and this is certainly not the worst, but man what a stupid thing to use. Another of those "what were they thinking" moments. |
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| Author: | JJ Donohue [ Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:01 pm ] |
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David...What may have once been considered to be "High-Tech Graphite" has now been deemed to have been a "Grammatical Error"!!!
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| Author: | Bruce Dickey [ Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:07 pm ] |
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I've used thick black bristle from a hairbrush. One day playing my Taylor, I determined their dots were simply aluminum welding rod, 1/16th inch. Really nice under finish. What do you use David? |
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| Author: | David Collins [ Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:29 am ] |
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[QUOTE=Bruce Dickey]What do you use David?[/QUOTE] Plastic, metal, used toothpicks, toenail clippings - anything that will not cause the sandpaper or scraper blade to "draw" along the adjacent white binding when finish sanding. I moved on to other projects yesterday, but I think I'm going to have to carefully detail scrape around each dot without touching it in order to keep the binding clean. Or maybe I'll try an eraser. |
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