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I have a BC Rich Mockingbird (Bronze) that I am practicing my tech skills on. I refretted it and that came out pretty good.
I pulled off the old rusty wrap around bridge and am replacing it with a Wilkinson preset. I’m in the process of trying to locate the studs/bushings and I thought I had a good idea on setting the scale length but then I…
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“The Last Repair Shop”
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Mark Pavia, Doug Proper Guitar Specialist and Ian Davlin The Looth Group -
Reply to Deflection vs. Frequency for measuring flexural modulus
The units are gigapascals for flexural modulus on both axes. One calculated from frequency and the other from deflection. They’re within a reasonable range for spruce, just no correlation between the two methods.
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Ian Davlin The Looth Group started the discussion Whittlesticks has new total vise gear at store.loothgroup.com in the forum Total Vise 3 months ago
Whittlesticks has new total vise gear at store.loothgroup.com
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Proper Workstation Neck Rest and Hold Down Kit – store.loothgroup.com
This kit includes one adjustable neck rest that drops into existing short support, giving you the ability to fine tune the neck while fret leveling. it also has two hold down /clamps for simulating string tension during fret leveling as … Continue reading
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Reply to Deflection vs. Frequency for measuring flexural modulus
I agree that the regression basically shows no fit at all. What are the units you are using on the X and Y axis? They don’t line up will values I would expect to see. E.g., what are the deflection units (are 9/5 to 13 in thousandths?), and the frequency units (10-13 doesn’t make any sense to me for frequency units).
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Tuner Bushing RepairI often get asked to change the type of tuners on acoustic guitars. This usually involves fitting different sized bushings into the peghead. Not as…
Joseph DiTucci Guitar Repair & Learning Center, Ian Davlin The Looth Group and Ben Miranda0 Comments -
Deflection vs. Frequency for measuring flexural modulus
I’ve been testing all my top and bracewood to find the best combination of stiffness and density, optimize plate thickness, etc. I started with Nicoletti’s spreadsheet which calculates both stiffness and density, but since I was also testing deflection, I decided to compare the flexural modulus using that method (with the formula from T.…
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John Carey Guitarworks of North Jersey replied to the discussion binding a 1953 Guild archtop in the forum Quick Questions 3 months ago
Reply to binding a 1953 Guild archtop
Thank you Ian
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I often get jobs changing the type of tuners on a guitar. In this case, the customer wanted open back Waverly style put on a guitar with sealed tuners. I have conversion bushings for 10mm holes, but they don’t fit tight and fall out. I need to plug and drill smaller holes to fit the bushings. I hate trying to find the center of a dowel…
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