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canoeroller

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  1. Yon can also use a vern thin Cyanoacrylate glue (read thin superglue). You can find such runny versions at several hobby sites on the web, including places like Stewmac. The thin glue can help to flow into the narrower parts of the seperation. This way you will not have to open the crack very far to work on the repair.
  2. Wood is always subject to humidity changes, unfinished wood, like you find inside a soundbox will absord and loose moisture at a faster rate then finished wood. If you take a freshly cut board, and let it dry in an attic, testing it every day for a few months with a moisture meter, you are being rather anul. You will also see that the moisture content of the board will drop quickly the first couple of weeks, then level out somewhat, but continue to increase and decrease a percent or two with changes in humidity. Even if you test a very old hunk of wood, you will see that it absords and looses moisture with changes in relative humidity. In addition to building guitars, I also like making primitive archery tackle, where moisture content is critical to the success of a project, and I am anul.
  3. All I would need to do is add about a centimeter to the length of the routes, and I could replace the mini humbuckers that are there.. no need to add to the width of the route at all.
  4. Many more years ago than I would like admit, I bought an SG II - it was abused and battered, but it was my first guitar too - - I still have it, and now would like to hear some opinions on what I ought or ought not to do. It was a student model SG - and before I got it the many of the plastic parts had been broken, someone carved his name and social security number on the back of it (can we all say identity theft?). As a teenager, I replaced the broken plastic with wooden parts I made in my father's workshop and had to replace the original tuning machines with Schallers. Now, I have had to recrown the frets, and this got me to wondering if I ought to try to restore it to its original low end Gibson glory from 1972, or should I ought to customize it into the SG I have always thought I wanted, this would include routing out the body for something other than the mini humbuckers it came with, refinishing it and so on, or should I leave it alone? Your input would be very welcome.
  5. Nope that did not solve the problem, so I am back to square one. I think I will rewire the whole thing.
  6. It is a mono cable, Bill Lawrence Pickups. Last night while working on the electronics, I noticed that a few strands of the ground to the jack were touching the plug, I cleaned that up, and most of the noise in the amp that works disappeared, and the signal improved dramatically. I did not have a chance to try the other amp, and the little man who moved into the house decided to throw a fit ( as only 3 year old do ) and I will have to wait to get to this again. Could the loose strands have bleed off enough signal to prevent the one amp from working?
  7. I just finished my first build, and when plugged in to my very old practice amp, I get sound from all three pickups. If I plug the guitar into a difference amp, then I get nothing. I have tested the other amp with other guitars, it is working fine. I have switched guitar cables, plugged in the just finished guitar, same thing, beat up old amp... sound - nice new amp...silence . I have a mono jack, and as I said sound in one amp, but not the other, but only with this one guitar. What in the world could cause this?
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