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I'm about to buy a new blade for cutting a tiger maple neck for a dobro. What size and style blade would you recommend? I don't want to get into a brand debate.

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Hutch

Get the heck off the couch and go build a guitar!!!!

I cut neck blanks on the Delta 14 inch using an Olson 1/4" general purpose blade.

Besides necks, I also cut bone for nuts and saddles, aluminum for jigs, and pre-taper sides before bending and of course top and backs profiles before gluing braces.

The Olson GP is a great blade, I don't know how many teeth per inch, but it's likely 8 to 10 per inch. Can't beat it. Costs about 8 or 9 bucks in this length.

Others will chime in with their favorites, no doubt.

(type "bandsaw blades" in the search and you'll be reading 'til dark)

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http://www.dickeyguitars.com

I'd use a 1/4" 4 teeth/inch blade.

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Laurent Brondel
West Paris, Maine - USA
http://www.laurentbrondel.com/

1/4" 6tpi over here.

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Howard Klepper
http://www.klepperguitars.com

When all else fails, clean the shop.

1/4" 6 tpi here too (Olson premium blade).

DF

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Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

But that's half the fun!


Hey...good luck with that Dobro!

Please show off some progress pics in the Resonator section when you get a chance.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Your probably right but it just adds to my confusion. Keep the opinions coming, I've got a few days before the plans com in the mail. I ordered the blueprints from the Beard website.
Thanks Don, I will post some pictures but I work slow so the thread could last a while.

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Hutch

Get the heck off the couch and go build a guitar!!!!