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Lex Luthier

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  1. Lex Luthier
    Okay, then make a poll, or something.
  2. Lex Luthier
    Thanks, I just PM'd him with the link.
  3. Lex Luthier
    Thanks buddy.
  4. Lex Luthier
    Yeah, I gotta "mentor" too. I found him a few years after I started building, but I've learned ALOT from him - I even WORKED for him for five months right out of highschool!
  5. Lex Luthier
    They're expensive - that's my opinion. You can do tha same thing with a file that has teeth on the face of the file only, like I do and learned to do from a luthier. Take any small file and grind the teeth on the edges away. You just shape the fret while you are dressing it, leaving a small amount of unfiled fret in the middle.
  6. Lex Luthier
    You don't need to use glue, you usually don't, unless the slot has widened. If you need to remove the frets, you use a soldering or clothes iron anyway, to heat up the oils in the board so there is less chip out, plus the heat will terminate any glue bond.
  7. Lex Luthier
    DANG! I spelt "guage" wrong throughout the entire tutorial, I have to fix it! EDIT: All fixed
  8. Lex Luthier
    I think I understand what you mean. I couldn't get a good picutre of it, so I drew what the but end of the neck of my bass I'm currently building looks like. The grain is symentrical
  9. Lex Luthier
    For fretting, I think: Fret pullers, which can also be your fret end nippers Fretting hammer, 8oz with plastic or nylon head is best Long flat "bastard" file I thinks it's called, for leveling Small file with edges ground smooth for taking the corners off the fret ends Masking tape Long level or staing egde For dressing frets, I like to mask off the entire board, except for the frets, use a file with teeth on the faces only and re-shape the frets, then use 320grit sandpaper to remove the file marks, then 600grit to remove the 320grit marks, then 0000 steel whool the polish the frets, so I'd say get some 320 and 600grit sandpaper, but that's just my method. I use the same file for filing the fret ends as dressing.
  10. Lex Luthier
    I have made a tutorial for making radii gauges with a router, and I was wondering how, or if, I can get it published on the main site in the tutorials section, probably under Tools, or Misc. Do I need to email it to Brian or somebody? Thanks Making Radii Gauges with a Router.
  11. Lex Luthier
    Here it is! It's a 6" X 99" Horizontal/Vertical Edge Belt Sander by Strike. The whole belt sander portion actually flips on it's side, instead of the table tilting, and the belt actually ostilates(sp?) too. I've been playing aroung with it a little. I took the back cover off, so I don't have to always remove it to change belts, and the dust chute cover is off, for now. I also made some adjusments to the table, to make it raise and lower easier.
  12. Lex Luthier
    Yes it is, but it's still nice to use as a fingerboard wood - it's my favorite.
  13. Lex Luthier
    Both. I have a large plunge router that I use freehand and in a table I made. I find most commercial avaliable router tables are REALLY small, so I made my own. I used an old desk, so my table surface is almost 2' X 4'. I use my router freehand for routing cavities in bodies, and I use it mounted in the table for profiling necks and bodies.
  14. Lex Luthier
    Allied Lutherie
  15. Lex Luthier
    I got over 10% off the price because of my "connections", plus I got a free sanding belt and a block of belt cleaning compound because I took the floor model! It's too late to play around with the thing, I'll post pics tomorrow!
  16. Lex Luthier
    I use a hand plane for the arm rest area, takes me only a few minutes to do. For the belly cut, I've done them by hand with chisels and spoke shaves, and also on the drum of my belt sander.
  17. Lex Luthier
    LOL!
  18. Lex Luthier
    Had to do some - William Lyon Mackenzie King, he was the Prime Minister of Canada back in the earlier half of the 1900's.
  19. Lex Luthier
    You're right, 600GBP is over $1400CDN. Currency Converter
  20. Lex Luthier
    Never used it at Northwood Guitars. Northwood uses the two glues I mentioned in an earlier post on this thread, Titebond I and Cabinet makers glue. Titebond is used for pretty much everything, except the cabinet makers glue is used on bridges and necks because it is less elasticy than Titebond.
  21. Lex Luthier
    I'm buying a new tool today and I can't interac anything over $500, so I'm just gonna pay with CASH.
  22. Lex Luthier
    I've used Titebond hide glue when I was making a violin. It's nasty stuff, REALLY sticky, like epoxy, and it also smells bad.
  23. Lex Luthier
    I've used Titebond and also this.
  24. Lex Luthier
    LOL!
  25. Lex Luthier
    Dido
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