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How does that fret board radius jig setup work??? Trying to understand the logic.

I use a similar radius block but just double stick tape the fretboard to the bench and then have at it with the block. Am I missing something?

I would love to see a video tutorial on how you prepare fretboards.... from start to finish.

I just pruchased enough fret board blanks to keep me going for about 2 years.... I'm going to need to know how to prep them soon...

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Ken H

I actually finished these a couple of weeks ago, but I took a couple of vacation days this week so I had time to take some pics and resize them. The top is ebony and the bottom is honduran rosewood.



I also bought a 16-32 last week, so I've been moving some things around in my shop to get it into a convenient spot.

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I just got some great bow staves that I will start working on this summer. Osage orange, hickory and best of all, yew. Here is a picture of a nice osage billet, hopefully it will make a nice flatbow.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

[QUOTE=Arnt] I just got some great bow staves that I will start working on this summer. Osage orange, hickory and best of all, yew. Here is a picture of a nice osage billet, hopefully it will make a nice flatbow.

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Arnt, that makes quite an optical illusion on my screen. I thought, until I read the words, it was a yellow, fuzzy, pointed hat. No kidding!

Ron

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Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Red:

Please bring that endgraft jig to the Saturday MAGI thing. I'll trade you a beer for the measurements and materials list.    There's got to be a better way that the way I did my last one!

Bill

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[QUOTE=old man] [QUOTE=Arnt] I just got some great bow staves that I will start working on this summer. Osage orange, hickory and best of all, yew. Here is a picture of a nice osage billet, hopefully it will make a nice flatbow.



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Arnt, that makes quite an optical illusion on my screen. I thought, until I read the words, it was a yellow, fuzzy, pointed hat. No kidding!



Ron[/QUOTE]

I thought it was an ice-cream cone with some kind of yellow ice cream.

On a different note.  I saw in today's paper in Charlotte that a 200 year old Osage Orange tree (State Record Holder for NC) had been burned up by illegal fireworks on the 4th.  Sort of makes you sick. 28 foot circumference.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

You guys crack me up! The color of this wood is amazing though; bright, deep yellow, but t will get much darker over time they say. I have never used it before, but it is supposed to be one of nature's very best bow woods, especially if you have a high latewood to earlywood ratio as the billet in the picture has. It also makes following one growth ring along the whole back of the bow easier, which is a good insurance against breaking. This is for a traditional "self bow", meaning it is made out of a single piece of wood.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

I built a hot pipe bender and practiced on some sycamore.

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Chris Oliver
Infinity Luthiers
...in the shop.

live every minute...

Final shaping on a 5 String Bass Neck.

Below:  Inlaid D MOP into the 12th Fret per customers' spec.

Ready for the spray booth after nut and fretting.  Yahoo!

Bruce, I really like the scalloped reflector on your light.  Did you pay extra for that? 

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

I invented a new tool the other day working on my 00 12-fret with the Hibdon granadillo.

I used to use a compass, but it was sort of clunky and the compass would always readjust itself. So I made this precision tool for transferring the profile from the dish to the sides. I'll be publishing blueprints for the tool for $30, get your orders in now.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

My shop shrank over the last couple months so Im in the process of reorganizing... AGAIN!
Thinking of building a tool cabinet to free up some bench space.

Cheers
Charliewood

Waddy, yes, that light has the special contouring (scallops) installed by nothing more than the truck tool box lid slamming on it reapeatedly over the last ten years.  It's of course now retired to the back of my 14 inch Delta and occasionally a broomstick overhanging my workbench to heat release bridges.  (caution, cover any nitrocellulose surface with tinfoil.  Don't ask)

Jon, that's too cheap.  You may just be infringing on the patent for the Keith McKenzie whachama doodle, he is selling for just 27.50, still, too cheap. 'member Keith's?

Ha ha, I'll have my attorney contact Colin's attorney.

I had thought maybe one of these days I'd write up a tutorial on marking side profiles with this method, maybe a video tutorial if I start feeling ambitious.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

I started #4 on July 2nd.

Specs are sitka top
Curly Anigre back & sides from Uncle Bob
and I'm thinking EIR binding on this one.

So far the top and back are joined, sides bent and rim complete with the
linings installed on the top backside needs profiling. The back is braced yet
not carved, top is laid out for bracings and rosette. Pretty productive couple
of days.

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Christopher C. Cordle
North Muskegon, MI

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This is McKenzie's Profiler for sides.  It's in the Jigs and Tools Section of the OLF, up top.....