#2 LMI OM Monkey Pod
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Thanks Tony! She is my little baby doll and such a big help. Every time I say that daddy is going to work on the guitar, she is right up there besides me asking what she can do to help. Tonight she helped me put on the center strip and put my "Go-Bars" on.
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Blaine Conrey
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That is an interesting clamping technique. I have a few luthier's bricks for gluing in my rosette. You might want to buy a couple. Or pick some up on the road or something. LOL
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Tony, I measured each candle to ensure that they were of equal weight for the applied pressure ;)
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Last night I started the bracing of the back. I am having to sand and glue one brace at a time since I do not have a radius dish. I now only have one more brace to sand and glue to the back. My poor finger tips have about as much sanding done to them as the braces do. Anyone have a good recommendation to get blood off of wood?
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The best sanding tip I ever got was to wrap your finger tips with masking tape or blue tape when you sand. I learned this when refinishing wood floors. There is a lot of hand sanding on a wood floor to blend the drum sander areas with the circular sanded areas along the walls. Unfortunatly I got the tip after my first floor.
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love to see you using those gravity clamps
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http://www.bluescreekguitars.com
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John P, Thanks for the tips. I will use that to save my own tips.
John H, budget building is always fun and exciting and almost always unpredictable.
John H, budget building is always fun and exciting and almost always unpredictable.
Blaine Conrey
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I used a bunch of paint cans and a big bin full of books to glue my first rosette. My techniques have evolved since then. Now, I have an old can of paint filled with cement. Plenty of weight.
P.S. If you attempt to try my cement in the pain can technique, you will only get good tone out of your guitar if you use an old, dented can of Behr interior latex paint. Eggshell finish works best but flat works almost as well. ;-)
P.S. If you attempt to try my cement in the pain can technique, you will only get good tone out of your guitar if you use an old, dented can of Behr interior latex paint. Eggshell finish works best but flat works almost as well. ;-)
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Damn, they only have old Japanese cans of paint here. I am so screwed!
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Been a few days since I updated but I have been trudging along with my progress. I was able to get the back and top completely braced up and scallopped. Since I already had my sides done and radiused, I decided to go ahead and attach the back to the rim. I was originally going to get some tire innertubes and cut them into strips for this, but when I went to the local hardware store I found a whole bundle of threaded rod stock already cut to size perfectly for threaded clamps. So I set to making about 24 spool clamps. I realized that with the rim in the mold that I would not be able to use these clamps so I set to drilling 24 holes close to the rim in the mold so I could just insert the thread stock through each hole and then attach the wood circles and cork which I cut out. This worked great, because I was to keep everything lined up in the mold and use the spreaders to keep the sides where I needed them to be.
Now here is my dilema: What is the best way to attach the top to the rim. The spreaders that came with the LMI mold are way too big to fit out of the soundhole. As soon as I take the spreaders off of the rim, the top portion that are closest to the top come off the sides of the mold by about a 1/8-1/4". Any suggestions would be very appreciated.
Now here is my dilema: What is the best way to attach the top to the rim. The spreaders that came with the LMI mold are way too big to fit out of the soundhole. As soon as I take the spreaders off of the rim, the top portion that are closest to the top come off the sides of the mold by about a 1/8-1/4". Any suggestions would be very appreciated.
Blaine Conrey