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Reply to Please share your processes for cracks that need splints
Thanks Dave, I’ll dive back into Pat’s book to see if he covers his technique in there.
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Reply to Please share your processes for cracks that need splints
Hi Pierre! I too live in an extreme humidity situation (see the pic) but in the opposite climate. I’m in the high desert. I think most repair people live in areas that don’t have extreme humidity fluctuation. How I handle cracks (and like you, there are many!) is: 1. Most customers don’t humidify their instruments. I DON’T re-humidify. …
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Reply to Please share your processes for cracks that need splints
I gave up on those decades ago. Always looked like a piece of wood added and stuck out like a sore thumb. I think an epoxy fill with appropriate color added (earthtone powders) to match the color of the top looks better than any spline. Pat DiBurro is really good at it! Or like I did on this one just route a channel and add cut a perfect fit…
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Reply to Please share your processes for cracks that need splints
Great link, many thanks, that’s just what I needed. And thanks for your opinion on the tool. I might be interested in giving it a spin should you want to unload it.
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Reply to Suggestions for my crack problem?
Thanks Ian, I think I’ll give it a shot on the next clunker. Do you by any chance remember the thickness?
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Reply to Please share your processes for cracks that need splints
I never could get the hang of the ibex tool. Most of the spline I have done I fit a strip of spruce to the crack. This is super duper, extra duper in fact, tedious. We did a looth pro segment a while back, when it was still Ding Kings, on splints and splines. Doug Proper, I believe, did one on the use of the ibex splinting tool.
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Reply to Suggestions for my crack problem?
I would put this idea in the speculative category. I’ve never done this in the field, but it makes sense based on my experience at breedlove.
Breedlove Guitars, when I was working there, had modelers plywood that was laminated to the top at the neck joint, out to the first brace and about 1/2″ outside of the fingerboard extension. This…
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Squier Debut Series Stratocaster - 6 Month Update
This is an update to a video that I put out about 6 months ago where I gave an overview of a Squier Debut Series Stratocaster. Since then, I’ve been using this guitar as my main shop guitar, and this new video covers how its held up, and what upgrades I did to it since I got it. The previous video I did on this topic has been the most…
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Please share your processes for cracks that need splints
Hello good people,
My shop’s in Quebec City, so I get to repair an ungodly amount of cracks thanks to our brutal winter and customers being largely unaware of the requirements of maintaining proper RH.
Now for the first time (call me lucky) I have two very good guitars in the shop whose cracks won’t close up after having been rehumidified for a…
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