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Thanks Gare. I ordered the loose muslin and the airway soft wheels along with some 24 inch metal rulers, which they have for $10. For somereason 24 inch rules are very expensive at most places.

I bought a bench top buffer (1/2 inch coller), but it did not come with buffing wheels. I am looking at some wheels on the Grizzly site and they are all for metals, some soft metals but none say for wood. http://www.grizzly.com/products/searchresu...buff+wheel+8%22 Are their special wood wheels or will one of these do?

The Stew Mac wire is a good deal. I bought their wire bender last week so, no problem there. Is the Dunlop wire so expensive just becuase they have so many sizes, or is it truely better quality. Most wire says 18% nickel-silver. Just curious to hear from someone who swears by Dunlop wire and has had problems with other wire, such as Stew-Macs.

I want to hear where everyone is buying their fret wire from. I want to get a tall medium wire, I like Dunlop but it is pricey. What a good alternative for half the price?

The owner or is he the CEO, of Grizzly is a guitar builder, you can view his builds on the Grizzly site. Grizzly is also making guitar attachments for some of the power tools.

The Dremal Tool worked perfect. My brown disc was a little narrow, so I had to do a couple of grinds. I dipped them in ice water after each grind to temper the steel. Thanks Soapbar.

No, you were right on the first count. I am taking a refret class, so some people had the notch and others did not. I measured the height in class, a tall 56, but vintage width. Where did you notch for measuring height on an installed fret? And how do you do it with the calipers (i.e. how do you hold them). Drilling holes. What is the function of this, what size holes and what type bit? Did I mention I love this sight.

Thanks. I just got done putting in my first set of frets. This site is great!

Has anyone notched a caliper so you can measure fret height? How did you do it?

This is my first post, so hello to all. My first question is, is this the right forum for me? I like to buy old guitars, generally Rickenbackers, and get them back to original specs. So I solder, can make pickguards, set truss rods and intonation, clean, etc.. I do not mess around with wood or refinish at this point. I do want to start refinishing at some point, but I have a four flat in Chicago that takes up alot of my free time, so when I am done with the building, I will try refinishing. I am into the details of the guitars and can generally date them by their parts. I am also a member of the Rickenbacker Forum, but they don't want to talk about the right part for a certian year, which I respect, it is more of a players forum. So if I am at the right place: Here's my first inquery I am working on a 1975 Rickenbacker 360. Rickenbacker used Grover Rotomatic style tuners for a short time in the mid 70's. So I am looking for some Grover Tuners from that time frame. When did Grover start making this style tuner? Here is a listing on Ebay that says they are selling tuners are from the 50's, I tought these type of tuners were first used in the late 60's or early 70's. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW I know the early tuners say "patent pending" and I believe that the "pantent pending" came off in the late 70's (I think 1979). So any information on the history and dates of the Grover Rotomatic style tuner would be most helpful.