Removing a back
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:47 pm
Seems like lately the only things I manage to get done on guitars is screw them up. Thus I need to know how to remove a back from a guitar I just closed up.
Here's the story, closed the back on a rosewood L-00 I am building. It had a decorative center strip on the back. When I closed the box, the back shifted and put the strip out of alignment with the center of the guitar. My idea was to set up striaght edges, route out the strip and replace with a slightly wider strip to fix my mistake.
Problem #1 - Do notwork on guitars while on cold meds. This was the first problem. Problem #2 - do not use a Dremel and router base and forget to sufficiently tighten the router bit while using said cold medication otherwise you get the problem I got - the bit slipped and went through the back and the internal reinforcement strip.
So my first inclination is to give up guitar building entirely because lately I screw everything up. That's probably a drastic move and I guess in this hobby I have to expect to make a few mistakes as well as fix mistakes as well. Now that my temper has cooled down, the later is probably the attitude to have.
So in order to finish this guitar I guess I'll have to pull the back off and replace it. Any suggestions to make this go easily/smoothly?
Here's the story, closed the back on a rosewood L-00 I am building. It had a decorative center strip on the back. When I closed the box, the back shifted and put the strip out of alignment with the center of the guitar. My idea was to set up striaght edges, route out the strip and replace with a slightly wider strip to fix my mistake.
Problem #1 - Do notwork on guitars while on cold meds. This was the first problem. Problem #2 - do not use a Dremel and router base and forget to sufficiently tighten the router bit while using said cold medication otherwise you get the problem I got - the bit slipped and went through the back and the internal reinforcement strip.
So my first inclination is to give up guitar building entirely because lately I screw everything up. That's probably a drastic move and I guess in this hobby I have to expect to make a few mistakes as well as fix mistakes as well. Now that my temper has cooled down, the later is probably the attitude to have.
So in order to finish this guitar I guess I'll have to pull the back off and replace it. Any suggestions to make this go easily/smoothly?