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Brazilian Rosewood sides thickness
I’m building my first BRW guitar, started with the back, pictured below.
What do you normally thickness BRW sides to? I guess they can probably be a bit under 2 mm, but I don’t want to overdo it in case there is some slight deformation that needs to be sanded later.
I bend manually on a heating iron if that makes any difference.
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Sorry for the multiple posts (limited by the photo count). Love to hear any general feedback
David Foster Fostino Guitars and Ukuleles, Ben Miranda and 3 others -
Rossella Bottone Liuteria Bottone, Danny West West Guitarworks and 4 others
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Jean-Marie Prual Super Real Guitar Works started the discussion Repairing recessed jack hole 🕳️ in the forum Quick Questions 4 months ago
Repairing recessed jack hole 🕳️
Hello fellow looths ! I’m deciding on a repair method for the jack recessed/angled hole on this Aria Pro SB bass. What kind of direction would you take ?
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Lee Valley FYI
Got a letter (a month after the fact) from Lee Valley Tools that they got hacked and their customer card payment data (yep ALL of it including the CVV) got stolen. If you did a CC transaction with them from last Oct to mid-March your card data is available on the dark web. Nice.
Teppei Teranishi and Dave Staudte (rhymms with "Howdy") NB Guitar Repair (New Braunfels, TX) -
"Angle, center, elevation"...how to close this gap in the neck?
I wasn’t familiar with the loothalong, thanks! I *think* I have figured it out, first checking for mystery bumps/undercutting further and using sidewise flossing (we need better names for this!) on the purple tape side and base of the neck.
If I don’t get it in an hour or so, then I’ll jump into the loothalong. Thanks Ian and Pete for putting…
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Los Angeles Area Looth to take on Martin Neck reset
Im going to make sure this gets into the next news letter. In the meantime, have you looked at the loothmap ?
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"Angle, center, elevation"...how to close this gap in the neck?
I’m with Ian on this one, getting more eyes and being able to walk through it with video would help a lot. If you can’t do the loothalong and want to video chat DM me and we can schedule a video call.
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