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Vacuum bag and breather material recommendations

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Back when I vacuum bagged a headstock repair, I just grabbed this mesh off of amazon and it worked pretty well. The whole process was fairly fussy though and had me pulling on the bag here and there w…
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Testing binding glue peel strengths

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soundboard spline cutter odr blade

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I don't think so. The customer didn't say. No name inside. . It belongs to a retired orthopedic surgeon who had a friend buy it for him in Europe years ago. He wasn't concerned about the look of my r…
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broken truss rod Repair

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This Gaping Maw

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Would it also be worth shimming up the neck stick minimally to widen the gap a tiny bit to build some pressure into the glue ups when shim is removed later This part I don't quit understand. Could you…
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Electric build Tremolo bridge with Piezo options

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Graph Tech have Ghost saddles for other styles of bridge too. Check out https://graphtech.com/collections/fender. You should get something that'll retrofit a two-point trem. Their Acoustiphonic preamp…
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double neck guitar

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I'm with James on this. Sounds like you need to move backwards from the jack, isolating the outputs of both circuits to make sure each works on its own first. Unsolder the hots from the jack and try e…
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repair suggestions for top cracks

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Thanks Ian. I have seen the Doug and Dan video with TJ Thompson but could not find any others. I was thinking of splining the wider crack but it is cupped up. How would you handle that? Also looking i…
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re-working very old hide glue repair

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Could there be 2 glues in the picture? The tan/brown translucent glue looks like HHG. The purplish red-hued glue looks like Weldwood resorcinol, which was a 2 part powder/resin system. My father and I…
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