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Dane Nichols
United States
Registrace 9. 07. 2009
GUITARS, custom one of a kind guitars. Guitar repairs both acoustic and electric. Including neck resets, crack repair, refrets, set ups.
D-35 HEADSTOCK SPLINES part 2 by JONAH GUITARS
In this part I carve and shape the splines to match the headstock. Shoot lacquer on the repair and string it up.
Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca.
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Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca.
Be sure to WATCH, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE with your friends. Always appreciated!
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D-35 HEADSTOCK SPLINES part1 by JONAH GUITARS
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D-35 with the headstock broken for the third time. No question it will get cleats. Part 1 deals with routing the ing gluing in the cleats. Part two will the shaping and finishing. Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca. Be sure to WATCH, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE with your friends. Always appreciated!
Yet another use for the LUTH Hoe. #luthhoe #jonahguitars #guitarrepair #acousticguitar
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Hugh piece of Purple Heart! #guitar #guitarrepair #wood #woodworking
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THE LUTH HOE #guitarrepair #ryangerber #jonahguitars #ergonomictool
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000-12 FRET DEMO
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Hi folks, I got Ryan over to play a few tunes on the first acoustic finished from the TWO ACOUSTICS AT A TIME series. I talk about the specs of the guitar in the video but I'll also list as the first comment. Special thanks to Ryan for playing in the video. His main thing is bass guitar but he was very gracious to give it a shot for me on camera. Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and othe...
LECHTENBERG / FRACTAL BURNING at JONAH GUITARS #FRACTALBURNINGGUITARS, LECHTENBERG BURNINGGUITARS,
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Hi folks, I've been wanting to try out this Lechtenberg vurning as a finishing design on guitars. Finally got to it. Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca. Be sure to WATCH, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE with your friends. Always appreciated!
WHY IS MY CNC PROGRAM STOPPING FOR NO REASON, JONAH GUITARS
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Well this random CNC glitch about kicked my but. Very short video be sure to watch if your having this problem. Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca. Be sure to WATCH, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE with your friends. Always appreciated!
FOXALIEN CNC UNBOXING by JONAH GUITARS
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Well I finally pulled the trigger on a CNC machine. So in this video I go over why I decided to get into CNC. And some other info that anyone who has considered getting a CNC find helpful. Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca. Be sure to WATCH, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE with your friends. Always appreciated!
WHY PAY STEWMAC? MAKE YOUR OWN SADDLEMATIC! JONAH GUITARS #SADDLEMATIC #GUITAR BUILDING
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Hi folks, here's a qucik video about how to make your own tools. A saddlematic (saddle locator) in this case. Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca. Be sure to WATCH, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE with your friends. Always appreciated!
ACOUSTIC GUITARS TWO AT A TIME, GLUING THE BACK TO THE RIMS by JONAH GUITARS
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In the episode I glue the back to the rims. Some discussion about glue types. Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca. Be sure to WATCH, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE with your friends. Always appreciated!
Clever pickup spring design by Kay! #guitar #kayguitar #guitarpickups #jonahguitars
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REPLACING TAYLOR END PIN JACK WITH EBONY PLUG - K&K PURE MINI INSTALL by JONAH GUITARS
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REPLACING TAYLOR END PIN JACK WITH EBONY PLUG - K&K PURE MINI INSTALL and some discussion about slotted and unslotted bridge pins. Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca. Be sure to WATCH, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE with your friends. Always appreciated!
FLATTENING A 57' GIBSON ES-225 PICK GUARD at JONAH GUITARS
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Hi all, had a 57' Gibson ES-225 in the shop for a few odd jobs. One of which was flattening out the pick guard. Ended up putting it in the oven. Dane Nichols builds and repairs guitars and other assorted stringed instruments in Mt. Shasta, Ca. Be sure to WATCH, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE with your friends. Always appreciated!
When Dan did the sandpaper trick he alternates direction of each swipe of the sandpaper so there isn't sandpaper scratches in one direction.
Good idea!
Thank you --I'm a dilettante/DIY sort, looking to build a resonator guitar to play in the cockpit of a small sailboat-cruiser. HPL offers a substantial number of advantages in a hostile marine environment.
@@aeneas-sails Thanks for checking it out. HPL should serve very well for a resonator.
You mean to say that the template did not move on the top with those shims? hard to believe.
@@yoheff988 Right, the template did not move.
Just great- as usual, Dane giving away the crown jewels of information. It looks so easy when you're chiselling, but we all know the feel involved. I like those hoe scrapers but I am especially taken with the bent chisel. We used to heat up and bend files for specific jobs so you can imagine what crossed my mind! It would play havoc with the chisel's hardness though. Thanks for all these consistently great videos Dsne.
@@KL3NCH Thank you sir, you always have thoughtful comments. The bent chisels I got for carving braces but you find other uses. Early on in my auto mechanic days I bent and or cut wrenches to tight places.
thanks for the info 👍
@@jalphotographynewcastle Thank you for watching!
Nice work Dane! Sounds great, 🫒 in the 🥥?
@@McDGuitars Thanks Mc! I’m not sure about the olive in the coconut.
Closest I could come to a lime. Thought I heard some Harry Nilsson in there 😉
@@McDGuitars remember it well. Nothing intentional just noodling.
I think it looks great. I like that the splines are darker. The scars are always more attractive. Great repair Dane!
@@JagStar Thanks Jag, if had used ebony like I first thought I might they would be even darker. And I would have liked that a lot.
It's funny how a lot wouldn't pick that piece for the neck and yet it seems to be pretty stable. I've got some really old mahogany that I use and some is like that neck piece, just get zero issues with it other than trying to plane it lol
@@nsjguitarsakascotsman6989 just in the habit of using the straightest grain possible for necks. Thanks for having a look Neil.
@@jonahguitarguy Yeh a lot of people are, straight and quarter sawn seems to be the thing. But then there's birdseye maple lol Only wood I've had any issues with so far has been the yew when I tried it in a neck.
@@nsjguitarsakascotsman6989 For Fender style necks I will quarter or flat sawn. And lam necks I like to have opposing grain angles. But for one a piece neck like the mahogany in an acoustic neck I think straight grain quarter swan is a good idea.
Thanks for sharing your process and thoughts on the repair. On that first plug, the grain rising on you worked out well. Made it easy to take larger chunks. Glad you found a use for that wooden mallet.
Thanks for having a look. It's always nice when the grain cooperates.
very nice work Dane! it's probably stronger now than it originally was!
Hey thanks Randy. Yes I'm sure it is stronger than ever.
Nice work Dane!!!!))👍👍👍😊🎸🎸🎸
@@steveharris2589 thanks Steve. Good to hear from you. Hope life is going good for you.
Looks good!
Thanks a bunch.
Really nice
Thank you much.
I returned two of those turkeys, they heat up just free-running. I let one go long enough to make the glue on that grip pad go soft and let go. The final one I returned was still hot when I laid it on the counter at HF. I had the same problem with the older model, so I've been through 4 HF trim routers and have never made a single chip with any of them. Avoid, avoid, avoid!
Oh man but you're the real deal Dane- a privilege to watch. Nothing I could add to what you did there my friend.
@@KL3NCH thank you Steve. Appreciate you brother.
Beautiful guitar, great sound, great playing, and a cool hang between buddies. Thanks for sharing!
@@MicroMysticMusic thanks Zak, Ryan is a great friend. He also demo-ed my 335 bass as well.
Just saw a post on Facebook speaking of a guitar repair wizard fixing a D-35 with a broken neck and after I saw the work, I knew it was you. Glad you recorded this. Amazing work as usual, Dane!
@@MicroMysticMusic thanks much my friend!
Nice, I'd love one of those but as you can imagine they aren't that common over here.
Interesting stringing technique! Thanks for the video!
Amber would be cool and blend well with the black. I'm notan electrocution expert - but I seem to remember, that water in itself is not a conductor - it needs to be polluted/spiked with something to conduct. maybe you could use saltwater instead of baking soda. If the water could get to some sort of gel state maybe the whole top could be done in one go. Perhaps mixing like a cellulose wallpaper glue could do the trick. Probably a mess to clean up - but I think you could get the whole top to light up🤯🤠
Hey Gert, good to hear from you. I had some baking soda in the water. Maybe too much baking soda. If I ever do this again I’m not going around the edges. It turns out that filling the round overs and body contours is a big O pain in the butt. I’m filling with burgundy colored resin. I’m been thinking amber in color all along. Maybe with a tiny bit of orange.
Broken three times, left in a trunk for three days, WOW! Tough repair, lucky that glue softened enough that you could clamp it back. That mineral streak fooled me, thought it was a crack. Looking forward to part two!
Thanks Jag, I consider myself very lucky that it clamped together as well as it did. It turned out really solid.
Does fish glue taste of fish? That's the main thing lol Ps any update on the electrocuted guitar body?
It doesn’t even smell like fish. Which is good. Not a fan of fish. I’ve been filling the electrocuted guitar with a burgundy metallic resin. But the contours are impossible to get in one go because they aren’t flat. Same for the edges and round overs. It’s been diabolical.
@jonahguitarguy the resin I use takes 2 - 3 days to fully cure and needs to be kept level. I can imagine the difficulties of contours. I often build dams and stuff then over fill to allow for shrinkage. Maybe have to use a big dam on a contour and use a lot of resin lol
@@nsjguitarsakascotsman6989 yep, I’ve been taping in places to form dams but it’s just a lot more sanding or carving.
@jonahguitarguy for sure, I find the belt sander pretty good but of course I've now set up the router sled which is brilliant.
Maybe worth experimenting on a spare piece with kitchen cling film to hold the resin in-situ while it goes off? It would blend around contours easily. It's not something I've tried but it should theoretically restrain the resin locally while it sets. May take a couple of goes? I used to drench Genklene solvent over residual Tedlar laminate adhesive on panels when changing decorative trim. Covering with layers of blue workshop tissue paper really slowed down the solvent flash off allowing it to dissolve the adhesive layer enough to scrape clean. Messy business!
yep yep! sometimes things got to get worse before they get better! very nice work here mang!
Thanks Randy! You get it.
Very interesting. Thanks Dane
Thank you mikie.
Interesting! When I was in AZ There was a week that I got to work on 5 acoustic guitars that had been left in the trunk of a car in the summer heat in Phoenix AZ. I will never understand why people will do that. All guitars are is wood and glue. All glue will soften up in a hot car or truck when the temperature is over 100 degrees! One of the five guitars even had the fretboard come off along with the bridge. I did wind up fixing all the guitars. But I questioned some. Been cheaper to buy another guitar.
Thanks! I don’t understand it either but I guess people get busy and forget about their prized possessions.
Man is so indigenous.....
Thank you.
Gitar
Alice Cooper fixing a Gibson neck with tongue depressors.
LOL
Hey man how do I fix minor splits on the siding of my fretboard, it’s a black neck and ebony fretboard
Do you mean the fretboard is separating from the neck? Or there are minor slits in the board itself?
@@jonahguitarguythere’s minor slits, not sure how to describe it, it’s when you hold it and look down on the fret markers on the side of the neck, it’s next to one
@@AidenM716 I would fill them with med CA glue. Once cured scrape with razor blade or file with fine file. Some fine sanding may be needed 600. Coat with fretboard oil or polish if the edge has a clear finish.
That would be a beautiful Laminate......
Nugent! Stranglehold I do believe! Looking good man!
Beautiful indeed
very nice!
looks like a very useful tool!
Anyone having this problem I can confirm 100% that it's the nut Gibson uses on their Switchcraft switches. They use a thicker long barrel nut, with a thick bezel around the toggle switch. I ordered a new Switchcraft Nut from Antique Electronic Supply and could immediately tell the difference. Once I swapped the nut the switch locked securely and worked perfectly.
Thank you for making this video! You answered multiple questions I had. I recently bought a Mos-like guitar with a tremolo of this style. 1) I didn't know how to adjust the height of the bridge (side screws, duh!) 2) I was concerned that the whole roller bridge was rocking back and forth. You confirmed that's supposed to happen! Cheers! One thing I'd like to know - how can you remove the arm on this bridge? The nut appears buried inside of the spring. Is that the only way?
Thanks for checking out the video. I'll need to look back over this video to see if I can tell how the spring is held in place. It's been quite a while since that guitar's been in the shop.
I watched the video again. I can't tell from what I show of the bridge. I would suggest pulling the spring to see if it just saddles over the nut. I suspect that's how it is. Once the spring is out of the way the nut should be easy to access.
@@jonahguitarguy Thank you for watching this again! I'll figure it out. Removing the spring makes sense to me. I just don't want to force anything that doesn't want to move and end up breaking something. Thanks again!
0 voc? That sounds nice, i hate solvents
BTW, mirrors absorb UV light, they don't reflect it.
I’ll to look that one up. It preformed better than without mirrors. But it was a huge pain in the butt so I’m using 2K auto urethane. Works great just improved my ventilation.
Update, mirrors can absorb up to 3% of the light. That means it's reflecting 97%. Makes more sense to me to say that mirrors reflect light.
@@jonahguitarguy good to know. It's still the aluminum doing the reflecting, so aluminum foil would be better than a mirror.
@@clutch2827 could be, like I said I don’t this method any longer
Trying to polish with a paper towel is a dead end. You’re making more scratches instead of removing them.
Not the case with Viva. There are many guitar finishers who agree about this.
The trouble with videos like this is the creators talk too much. It's not about you.
OK.
I watched this entire video before realizing it was almost an hour lmao. Very very soothing video.
Thank you very much!
Let me start by saying that I’m no expert, however my understanding is that Taylor guitars have been designed to use their shim system to set string height. I took my guitar to a Gold certified Taylor repairer and that’s basically what they told me. You shouldn’t, apparently, need to make adjustments to the nut or saddle if you have access to their shims (which change the overall angle of the neck). Happy to be corrected, but just thought I’d share what I’ve heard. Oh, I also believe that if your guitar is still under warranty and you’re the first registered owner, the cost of any shim adjustments can be covered under warranty if you use a certified Taylor repairer.
That is correct. I didn't have time to order shims. Nothing I did is irreversible. Nut hight can not be corrupted with neck shims and they are typically high out of the factory.
Seriously dodgy stuff Dane ...
I was playing it pretty safe. Like I said in the video, rubber souled shoes on a rubber mat. 1/2” thick bed liner. And 6’ away. And it does look cool!
Dream luthiery Dane. Superb. On top of all the obvious, you know what really seals the deal for me? -restraint with OTT adornments. The instrument speaks for itself with no need of bling and looks all the better for it. I just wish I could drop by and give it a blast. Respect Brother.
Thank you much Steve. For the first two I thought it was more important to see what all was involved. Kind of proof of concept. But It is a concept that's been proved for years. A little abalone around the sound hole for purfling wouldn't hurt my feelings though. I have more back and side sets that I bought from a guy but I don't remember what they are. And I bought a back and side set from the notorious StewMac that are Boubinga. Wish you could play it, it's amazing.
The „marvelous glue spreading finger tool“, lol. One of the most used tools in my shop! I‘ve seen Eric Schaefer use the blocks like that for gluing braces. I haven‘t tried it yet, although it does make sense. Also, I actually saw pictures of someone using gobars for an electric build. They were gluing a figured top onto a body. Is that what they call „drop top“? I will likely do that when I start adding them to my electric builds.
Thanks for having a look Chris. Yes drop top is what they are called. Not sure that came from. Why not just "top"? The little blocks do help to keep things lined up.
Resetting the neck and not doing anything with the finger board extension wouldn’t that cause it to ramp some since you didn’t shim the extension?
Since the reset is lowering the neck at the nut end it may cause more fallaway but not a ramp. Unless it's excessive there no reason to address it. we're not talking big numbers here, the tiniest amount taken from the heel is multiplied by the length of there neck. Thanks for your question.
Hey look it’s the mail man!!! Sounds great!!!
Ryan is a man of many talents. Thanks Jessie.
Nice. Lately I’m all about building the tools if I have the time. Much more satisfying and cost effective. Thanks for this one!
You bet Jag. I have built a lot of jigs and fixtures over the years. When I started build guitars there weren't many tools available. And the ones that were available were very pricey. That pickup winder you built proves you're committed to this concept.
Finally catching up with some of my favourite channels. That’s a nice sounding guitar. If I ever get brave enough to build an acoustic guitar, a triple 0 will be the one. LOL, when he said he was going to tune to double drop D, I knew it was for Black Water. 😊 Nice build Dane.
Thanks Jag. When I hear double drop D I think of Cinnamon Girl. Good catch on Black Water.
That's awesome!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!
Thanks much James. Means a lot coming from you with your background.