Top Spline-Alvarez Yairi
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Hello People!
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This Avarez Yairi needs a bridge re-glue, bridge plate repair, belly reducer and sound board spline / splint.
Cheers,
Scotty D.,
Harpeth Guitar Restoration, LLC.
Nashville, Tennessee
Hey Scott, just wanted to let you know I'm extremely happy with all the work you did on my old Yairi here. I've been playing it every day again for the first time in years and singing your praises to all my friends. It was fun watching you do the work too! Thanks again!
Hooray 😁 Great to hear
I’m pretty sure this tip to thin out wood shims came from Ted Woodford; you get two pieces of mdf with 80 grit stuck on, put your shim in between and just like rubbing your hands together the shim’s thickness gets reduced. It’s a great tip I find very useful.
Great tip!
It absolutely maddening to fix a crack on a guitar top like that especially when the crack is old. Just when you think you got it, you apply CA glue and or finish and the SOB gets a mind of its own and tints the finish in unexpected ways. Sadly there is no one size fits all because all the guitar cracks behave differently. It is nice to see that you have the patience to continue working with it. I on the other hand have very little patience for contrary repairs like that. Good job.
Couldn't agree more
You might try a Diamond Deb nail file. Probably still a little thick but you could grind one side down to paper thickness. I use these regularly
Incredible finishing skills right there!
Thank you kindly!
one of those U-tubers that ya might as well hit the like button as soon as ya can because ya know it's gonna be GOOOOD! thanks Sir!
I appreciate that
'mornin Harp!
Morn!
That crack repair was radical, Scotty. I am just hypnotized by your skills, my dear sir!
Thank you kindly
A very good video. I heard Mike Schramm's voice in the background loothalong! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Dave!
Great job. I've cut pieces an inch or more longer than needed and glue it down with hot gun glue or CA only on the edges. Using a cabinet scraper or a razor blade, I draw it towards me until I get the thickness I'm looking for using painter's tape as a thickness guide. Worked on my Goya and Washburn as well as some furniture and rc aircraft repairs.
Thank You!
I made sort of depth sander by putting a small sanding drum on my drill press with a fence to size wood binding that I made ,it worked ok
The constant problem with epoxy you can get a darker line than you want .maybe just use hide glue and blond shellac once as a test.maybe a glue cleat or two on the inside.
A tricky repair, nicely done!
Thanks 👍
Artist at work. 👍
Nice work 😎👍🙏🏼
Thanks ✌
Accelerate-tahhhhh! Beautiful work as always Scott.
Thanks again!
Here’s my idea for thicknessing a spruce splint for that really narrow crack: make a splint as thin as you dare, and make it nice and long; maybe a few inches. Clamp it down flat to a piece of abrasive - maybe cloth backed for strength. Then, a carefully sharpened card scraper may just be able to shave that little splint to the thickness that you need. If it doesn’t work, we’ll always think it should have. Actually if it doesn’t work, maybe it should be sanded with a small block. I had to learn to distinguish .005” , .010” , and .015” shims for setting up a machine by feel, when I was new to the work force. That might help you to learn to do that, and compare feeler gages to your splint before unclamping. The amount of info transmitted from the fingertips to the brain is crazy, y’all. Just dang ass crazy!
Excellent advice!
Thanks 😊
Do you have a binding thickness jig? Ted Woodford pulls his splines through his binding jig and that thins them right out. No need for sanding…the blade on the jig does it for you!
Had friend who Made a Spline once.
Red-headed stepbridge 🤣
Nice work have you ever seen the ibex spline system
Thank you!
I don’t think so.
I’ll look it up!
@@harpethguitar Doug Proper used it on the looth group once. There is a knife that clears out the crack and a splint forming tool as well
After you glued the spline what did you use to scrape with at the 11:21 mark in the video?
The razor blade was ground from both ends on the bench grinder leaving a small spot in the middle still crisp