Graiskye

One thing to help prevent becoming overly sensitized to any wood is to always wear some type of disposable or washable overall, like painters wear, you can get quite light ones for the summer time and heavier ones for when it is colder. You should look for elastic cuffs you can pull over your gloves. Basically as nerdy as it seems you need full coverage, even your face, heck especially your face and eyes covered, this is very important never disregard eye protection, sealed eye protection for sanding, not standard safety shades. They make all this stuff, any safety supply shop should be able to set you up. its used everyday by woodworkers all over the world who cannot afford or who dont want to lose their livelihood. If your arms are getting covered in sawdust, your getting sawdust on your face and in your hair, your just playing with fire, you may not be sensitized yet, and truthfully, maybe you never will, but if you do !!! If you are covering up proper, then when your done your sanding sessions you must go outside, or into a 'dirty room' to take of the overalls first, dust off with a decent duster, wearing your respirator the whole time, it does not come off till your not all dusty. Never hurts to go wash up. I know there are tons of stories about people who have worked with this stuff their whole lives in T shirts and shorts, getting covered in dust everyday, they are lucky I guess, becoming sensitized to wood, or whatever, is a personal thing, everyone is different, it doesn't mean you are not tough, it means your chemical make up really disagrees with whatever it is your getting exposed too, some people are hardly sensitive to wood, some not at all, some terribly so. There is no one size fits all prescription either, but a little prevention, that is proven to work. can never hurt. May be damn uncomfortable in the hot summer, but that's just the way it is. Stay Safe everyone. PS: on a related note, last summer me and a partner were removing a dead and crusty old Japanese Elm(IIRC ??), we had to buck the tree into firewood lengths once we dropped it on the ground, after cutting it up, my partner had to go to emergency ward for allergic reaction. I wore a bandanna as a makeshift respirator as I do some days if the wood is really dry and dusty, I told him to do the same but what do I know? You see usually sawdust is quite wet, but occasionally a tree will be near dead and dried right out and when you buck them up they kick out big clouds of dry dust, much like sanding would(wood). Thankfully it was/is a very rare tree, this persons grandfather had planted it not something we run into very often if ever before.

I know they are addictive...lol. NO worries tho gang, I did a search and fond a fair bit of relevant info in regards to the whole graphite/composites idea. Peace.

mmmmm I was 'simply' trying to edit the original post and seem to have doubled up somehow, my apologies. If an admin wants to just cleaqr this up, I cant seem to even edit the above post, new to the forum so bear with me please.

So I was watching some rig rundowns on the 'Tube, and holy freaking crap there is Doyle of Misfits fame on Rig Rubdown(!!). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFTd_Q45xX0 I figure this is gonna be good, and it was, misfits being the misfits some of you will likely hate Doyle and his anti tech attitude, but I love his no BS way of being, and imagine when the grease paint comes off you get a pretty intelligent, creative human being, he mentions he is a metal worker probably what he does for a day job, when he wants or has too. All that aside, I just want to talk about his guitar, what a beast, and the part when he mentions he had to start making his own guitars so they could take the abuse(on golden Gods Doyle actually power chord punches the guitar in half the last chord of the Last Caress, he mentions it but I had to see it, its true he punches the guitar in half). Rock and Roll..lol. Anyways he talks about getting sik of carving necks so they made a mold for a neck thru out of graphite, and lay it up with truss rods etc etc I guess, then glue and press I am assuming.The body wings actually attach and can be removed, heres picture of Doyle sans grease paint with a couple of the axes....(not sure if either are the now graphite necked model he makes) but you get the idea. I guess a company called October Guitars was making some of em but Doyle says they are not up to snuff..lol. enough about Doyle. So the graphite I know it has been used, and I think you can even buy graphite necks, but the neck thru idea intrigued me enough to want to ask about it. Have we any members who work with graphite, I build model aircraft and use it all the time in them so I have experience in composites, and would like to maybe try to make a graphite or maybe to start a graphite/wood neck, say graphite neck rosewood fingerboard, something along those lines. Anyone able to add any ideas or information to this surely halfbaked idea. Peace all, Mike,

So I was watching some rig rundowns on the 'Tube, and holy freaking crap there is Doyle of Misfits fame on Rig Rubdown(!!), I figure this is gonna be good, and it was, misfits being the misfits some of you will likely hate Doyle and his anti tech attitude, but I love his no BS way of being, and imagine when the grease paint comes off you get a pretty intelligent, creative human being, he mentions he is a metal worker probably what he does for a day job, when he wants or has too. All that aside, I just want to talk about his guitar, what a beast, and the part when he mentions he had to start making his own guitars so they could take the abuse(on golden Gods Doyle actually power chord punches the guitar in half the last chord of the Last Caress, he mentions it but I had to see it, its true he punches the guitar in half). Rock and Roll..lol. Anyways he talks about getting sik of carving necks so they made a mold for a neck thru out of graphite, and lay it up with truss rods etc etc I guess, then glue and press I am assuming.The body wings actually attach and can be removed, heres picture of Doyle sans grease paint with a couple of the axes....(not sure if either are the now graphite necked model he makes) but you get the idea. I guess a company called October Guitars was making some of em but Doyle says they are not up to snuff..lol. enough about Doyle. So the graphite I know it has been used, and I think you can even buy graphite necks, but the neck thru idea intrigued me enough to want to ask about it. Have we any members who work with graphite, I build model aircraft and use it all the time in them so I have experience in composites, and would like to maybe try to make a graphite or maybe to start a graphite/wood neck, say graphite neck rosewood fingerboard, something along those lines. Anyone able to add any ideas or information to this surely halfbaked idea. Peace all, Mike,

Thanks for the welcome friends. Right now I am still taking it all in, was just reading about the sustainer of ansels, that was the origibal thread that lead me to finding the forum. Ive always wanted to have one of those Fernandez(?) Sustainer, with the overtone and harmonic switch,and almost bought an old single coil version off kijiji but it got sold before I managed to seal the deal, c'est la vie as they say in Quebec. Peace all. Mike.

Wow what a great site ProjectGuitar is. Its really stunning My name is Mike Latimer, come from a large and loving family,and I live in British Columbia, Canada, and love everyfreaking thing aboput guitars and what makes then work. For money I do a few different things while I prefer my job as an arborist(tree climbing/trimming/care),construction fills the bill when there isnt enough tree work to keep me busy enough. I have dont a ton of different work and like to busy and be learning new things. FInally I think I have found a guitar forum that just plain works for me. I took a long break from playing and I am currently just doing a lot of practicing to get my chops back, and trying to get rid of a few of those ol bad habits as well(basic reexamination of my playing and where I want to take it I guess you'd say). Ive played since I was 9-10, 42 now...lol. I love metal, always will, but I am also open minded and have diverse tastes like most decent musicians. I love it all from Joni Mitchell(Blue just kills me),SOAD(not much too say about SOAD pure awesome), Mikey Batio(a MONSTER player but an even larger person, few people in the woirld love guitar like MAB), even Manowar(Manowar play for their true fans if you dont like them they dont care, I loved em the first time I heard Battle Hymns, and so did millions of others worlwide because they play real Metal from the heart). If I feel heart in the music I will lsten to it. I have been bloody amazed at the amount of information on guitar playing and gear there is on the web. It is rather staggering to an info addict. Ive had internet acccess for well over ten-fifteen years but just the past few months have really been delving into the musical diversions it offers, as I am sure you all know, there is just so much info out there from guitar technique to construction to amp building, to DIY stomps the list goes on and on and on forever seemingly. Im also an avid DIY and love to tinker and muse, have lots of other hobbies and loves as well as luthiery, so I have also been searching for a site where I could ask questions of a more technical and luthiery(?) nature. Hoping to start building my own ax soon, just working on getting the tooling together atm scoping for wood etc... I'll just leave it at that then, just a taste of who I am I guess you would say, I sincerely hope you all had a fine new years and holidays, hope the new brings you all much luck and love in all the best of ways. Peace from Salmon Arm, B.C., Mike 'Graiskye' Latimer PS: spellchek crapping out on me, so please excuse any missed mistakes