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Irving
PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:56 pm 
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nyazzip wrote:
...and is that a douglas fir body...? sure looks like it to me


No its an Ash body. From a local supplier up here in Maine.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 2:28 pm 
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Irving wrote:
So I broke down and paid the $135+shipping for one of these bad boys. I have to say, it's already one of the best luthiery tools I have. Very expensive, but I really didn't want to spend the time making my own.. though I'm sure it could be done. I can already tell that this thing is going to bring a new precision and pleasure to my work.

These are pictures of sanding my slightly warped neck. In the second picture you can see the remaining pencil after a bit of sanding - demonstrating the warped board being remedied.


I must say those are probably the best thing I've ever purchased from Stew-Mac.

Some of their items are a little gimicky, but those radius beams are serious tools.


I agree with this. The first thing I did when I got the 18" radius beam was to put my straightedge to it to check how true it is. Seems to be precision made. At the moment I'm using it as a clamping caul for all 24 frets at once while I put a couple drops of super glue down each end. Before I used to do 4 at a time with these little acrylic things.
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Irving wrote:

Seems to be precision made. At the moment I'm using it as a clamping caul for all 24 frets at once while I put a couple drops of super glue down each end. Before I used to do 4 at a time with these little acrylic things.


Kewl.

Check the middles when you remove the clamp, sometimes overhanging pressure on the fret ends can bump the middles up if the slots aren't extremely tight.

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