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Eb posted a new video. 3 months ago
Luthiers Interactive of North Texas (Simulcast): Setup BasicThe Looth Group gets setup with Luthiers Interactive of North Texas (LINT) for their bimonthly meeting . https://lint.org/ https://www.facebook.com/LuthiersInteractive/ 0:00:00 Intro 0:04:52 Evaluate the guitar…
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Buck Van Laarhoven VL Guitar Repair posted a new video. 3 months ago
3D Club: Inserting components into prints, mid-print!Buck Van Laarhoven demonstrates how to embed components in prints and James Roadman creates two drawings in Fusion. Buck: https://www.vanlaarhovenguitars.com/ https://www.instagram.com/vlguitarrepair/…
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Sam Stewart Bridge City Guitar posted an update in the group
3 months agoLooth Troop PNW 3 months agoAt last, a hub for the looths toiling away in the wilds of the Cascades. The first Looth Troop PNW meetup will be announced shortly!
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Ian Davlin The Looth Group posted a new video. 3 months ago
Loothing For Dollars: 1 on 1 with Bryan Parrishttps://www.instagram.com/parrisguitars/ https://www.parrisguitars.com/ 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:35 Bryan’s background 0:12:16 Getting into guitar work 0:17:18 First home shop 0:19:24 Other business ventures 0:21:27…
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Reply to Getting perfectly flat without a jointer
Depending on budget, a 16-32 thickness sander is an invaluable tool (I have the supermax and it’s great). A planer is pretty rough on most guitar woods. I do this sort of thing on my thickness sander.
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Ian Davlin The Looth Group posted a new document. 3 months ago
Outlines Of Instrument BodiesAt the first meeting of the acoustic guitar builders subgroup, we talked about posting some work product, and someone asked if anyone had acoustic guitar…
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Reply to Getting perfectly flat without a jointer
Thanks for the additional replies Paul. I did go back and try it with extremely light passes (barely turning the handle) but still the same outcome. I’m beginning to doubt the sled so will make one from doubled up laminated plywood (glued together clamped on a granite kitchen counter) and see if that does it.
As for the wood, it looks pretty…
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Reply to Getting perfectly flat without a jointer
The other thing is that it could be flat, but curved. Meaning that if you clamped it against something flat, it would be flat, but it’s naturally taking a curved shape.
Again that might not be suitable for a neck blank. But for me after I mill the neck (including the back, on CNC) I clamp the fingerboard and the neck together against a…
Danny West West Guitarworks and Brandon Forsyth Fret Tec, LLC -
Reply to Getting perfectly flat without a jointer
Yeah you want to take cuts that are barely anything. Mark the surface up with pencil cross hatches and take the tiniest cut possible. You should see the planer catch in some places and not others. As you slowly come down it should take more and more and then your complete pass should be flat.
The other thing could be that the wood is got…
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Ian Davlin The Looth Group posted an update 3 months ago
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