You'll see how I repaired a hole in the side of this Alvarez guitar. Turned out pretty nice if I do say so myself. Support: / rosastringworks Website: www.rosastring...
Wow Jerry, that output jack repair started out "ok" then devolved into "terrible", and then bounced up into "excellent." Had me on the edge of my seat. :) Fantastic video.
Oh Boy!!!! I thought Jerry has sanded himself into a mess now on that plug job....But doggone it!!!!you pulled it out of the trash to make it look great lol. AWESOME..
The repair job on that hole, and restoring the finish is super impressive. Wow! I seriously wondered if the sanded finish was ever going to look half as good as it does! But who am I to ever doubt you’d bring it all together so well? Thanks for posting.
If you take a hole saw and cut w/ the grain for your plug, the grain will match better. You could elongate the hole so it's less round. After I plug a hole, I take a razor and cut long grooves and then add slivers of wood to fill them in, so the round hole disappears and it looks like grain in the wood. It does help to be able to clamp the slivers of wood down tight w/ glue.
Thank You Mr.Rosa.You are a great inspiration with your good common sense.And the way that you shoot from the hip.If people don't like it yes they can lump it.....!!!!
Holy moly,what a whole lot of frustration for a hole. and then coming all unglued and getting in a sticky situation.not to mention a bridge to far.well done. COFFEE BREAK!!!!!
Being a car body paint sprayer we call it mapping the repair out and feathering the repair you can discuss what we call a flip line using masking tape which reduces over spay and eliminating the strait line never repaired wood but yours was an excellent repair well done
Got to admit, half way through I was thinking you'd see the finished repair from a mile away ........... fast forwarded to the end and I was gob-smacked at the result!! So I went back to see the bits in between ;O) Nice repair, I'd be very happy with it.
@Rosa String Works Hey Boss. I filled some holes in my day, but that's besides the point. I must have done this a dozen different ways. Doing it on a Hondo the first time is a blessing, I put some tape on the inside and mixed up some epoxy and filled the hole and sprinkled some magical pixie dust (Rosewood) and some dark mahogany works and dusted the top and just before the epoxy hardened I'd use some waxed paper and a nice flat surface and trued it up nice and flush. This allowed it to be rounded off and almost really didn't need a clear coat because it had a nice shine already and I had my artist pencils and matched it to perfection. Sanded the area with 1500 and thinned out the clear and sprayed the spot with a air brush then thinned it more to blend leaving scuffed area around it then rubbed it out. There's nothing like practicing on firewood first. I have also used a unique plaque to cover holes and dowel rods. Good to see you again.
Nicely done! If I'd needed that hole fixed, I'd have put a brass piece in it & said it was good. The sound is very nice. No screeching, hurting my ears. After I custom ordered my harp, my husband said he really doesn't like the sound of stringed instruments!
Jerry - great job as always. FWIW I use 2P-10 almost daily for general woodworking. For cosmetic stuff it's worse than the Stewmac CA product to work with or for that matter off-the-shelf superglue. Once it's activated it's difficult to level even with a super-sharp card scraper or taped-off razor blade. It's like trying to level granite next to wood IMO. The Fastcap activator is 95% acetone with 5% amine (the active ingredient) so you have to be really careful around anything that acetone would react with. I've also ruined entire bottles of the glue just by spritzing the activator nearby before putting the cap back on the bottle. The slightest amount of activator in the air will catalyze an entire bottle if you're not careful. So yeah- it can be a pain to work with. BUT... for structural jobs it has no equal in strength that I've found. It's 10x stronger than plain old 'superglue'. I've been using it for a cpl years on stuff like fusing difficult end-grain scarf joints together on long runs of trim - places where even Titebond is unreliable. It's also a life-saver for repairs to instruments or furniture that need hide glue or Titebond but are impossible to clamp. I'll activate one side, then glue the joint leaving just the very corners dry - and use a cpl dots of 2p-10 on the other side of the joint to mate with the dry spots. It grabs in 2-3 seconds and will hold the repair in place until the PVA or hide glue can set up. I used to try that with regular big box 'superglue' and the joints would always fail. It's rugged stuff.
Bonkers? We (UK) have a history of adopting "Americanisms", but I'm amazed to hear English expressions making it to the USA. Another fine vid. Thank you sir.
Did a similar hole filling job on an old jumbo Kay guitar that I own...Turned out good,but I couldn`t match the stain as good as you did...Keep the videos a coming..
Great job Rosa. Even better than the 2 best luthiers in my area. Wicks and Lambs luthier shops. Our little group is working up the ole Big Mon song "When the bees are in the hive" . Key of G major "When the bees are in the hive, and the honey's in the comb" remember this tune?.......Art
Hole lotta lovely work, Jerry! I am liking the K & K pure mini pick up lately. Three elements stick along the bottom of the bridge plate and not under the saddle so you don't get that box of Rice Krispies snap, crackle and pop sound . It also doesn't hinder the unplugged tone.
Howdy Jerry, nice work! These repairs are often like peeling an onion: lots of layers and tears :o) Here's a thing you should try in order to avoid removing all that finish around a plug or drop fill: use a smooth single-cut ignition file. Apply a piece of masking tape on each end of the file so there's a middle section of file teeth exposed about 2" long. This allows the tape to slide on the finish; you apply fingertip pressure to the center as you work the file back and forth, which flexes downward to remove *only the repair* and make it flush with the surrounding surface, without removing any finish. I've been doing this for years and I get good results 100% of the time. Cheers!
Very surprised at the outcome of the hole patch, great job! I have never been a fan of new strings on any guitar but I suspect it will come around in a week or so.
Hi Jerry, Ian from Tassie here, great job on that hole repair. I had a 1/16 violin in the other day with the peghead completely broken off. The job was about 20 percent of the repair and the dying and colour matching was about 80 percent lol I'm really into invisibility these days and experimenting with colour matching so I know how you feel mate lol
I really do enjoy watching your videos. I've learned quite a lot. I'd like to make a suggestion for color matching, especially with your plug... you could have taken the piece you cut the plug from and colored that near the hole from the plug you cut and held it up against the color you want to match to. It would give you a great indication of what direction you need to go. That would give you the opportunity to experiment to get it as close as possible before hitting the work piece with color. Also, a cabinet scraper might help to level the super glue without sanding the adjacent surface, or at least get you close. Just a couple of tricks I've learned from woodworking that you may well already know! Someday I hope to get the guts to attempt to repair a crack in my beloved Tacoma DM20. It's not a $5K guitar, but I absolutely love the tone! The top cracked across the lower bout to the bridge plate. Thank you so much for the videos, I know it can be quite time consuming, and I really appreciate you sharing with all of us.
Jerry, You might have better luck not sanding through if you were to scrape the glue level with a taped off razor blade before sanding. I use this method all the time . Great color match! Not an easy job. Jeff 👍
Beginner amateur here, but I've been doing a bit of super glue filling (where I've eaten into the wood trying to round fret ends) and it sands much easier if I add the baking soda, gives something softer to sand. I'm guessing that you may have tried that before...
Really nice e job. Plug is almost invisible. Maybe try an airbrush for this sort of thing!? Tint the lacquer with dye and spray heavier/lighter to match color.
I’m pretty sure that 2p-10 is just a rebranded, “fancy sounding” version of the same exact stuff I use. Comes in the same viscosities AND the same bottles, to boot. You can get it pretty cheaply on eBay/Amazon. If you search for “thick super glue” it always comes up...it’s pretty decent stuff but if I’d been told that it was super special, basically lacquer, all finish, pro formula one...I’d be a little annoyed, too.
I have zero experience with these type repairs. I do wonder if trying the stains on the piece the patch was cut from to see color effect? And maybe Try to stain the patch before inserting and then sand and polish. Ain’t we all armchair QBs ha ha...the result is amazing, i am just an efficiency freak...
Personally I would have installed a second jack. Then I would have installed 2 pickups. One a magnetic soundhole, and one a soundboard transducer. Two pickups. Two sounds. Blend them. Use them in a stereo setup. Use them separately. More choices. But you gotta do what the customer says....
If it was mine I would have put a patch on the inside first, then just filled the hole with coloured filler on the basis that it isn't in a very visible position anyway. But that's what you can do when you only have to please yourself.
Jerry. You may already know about this, but if you don't, you may want to check out Dave's World of Fun Stuff. He has several videos where he uses a product called Gluboost which I think is a CA system for finish repairs. It seemed to work quite well for him. Anyway, you did a good job on a tricky problem. Keep on keepin' on!
Boy, you are a stubborn Eyetalian! I know because I come from a long line of stubborn Eyetalians myself. Anyway, Dave, (Dave's World oFS) who has very little patience with tools that don't work or are overpriced, (see StewMac) seemed pretty pleased with this product. One way they are not just another CA glue is they also provide a line of tints that mix with the glue so the color is in the glue and makes it easier to fill chips, gouges, etc. You could check out Dave, or the Gluboost website for more info. (I have absolutely no affiliation with Gluboost, but I thought you might find the repair/fill system worth a look). Anyway, I really enjoy your videos and you did a nice job the way you did it, as always.
Jerry: Tom Ewing has a nice cover of "Bees are in the hive" Tom was one of Bill's better lead singers as well as Wayne Lewis and Pete Rowan. Tricky chord progression......Art
There are different production levels of Alvarez guitars. The most handmade guitars get the Yari name, the less handmade were given the Alvarez Artist name.
I Was wondering do you have any tips to reduce the belly in an acoustic guitar. I dont have the money for the Stew Mac belly reducer. I bought a 1966 Gibson lgo because im graduating from high school this year and bought it myself was present. Please get back to me the thanks.
It's not a simple fix. Some people try heating and moisture to flatten the top out with some clamps. I don't find that that works very well. Generally I flatten it with a board and clamps but at the same time I glue down a new bridge and possibly a new bridge plate on the inside while it's flat. In general it has to be fixed mechanically not just through bending.
I honestly don't remember. The video was made quite a while back. Sometimes I lose footage or forget to turn the camera on. Too many instruments come through here to keep track.
Scrape the glue flat before sanding. You need to treat the glue filler like you would touch-up paint on a car. Either use a small scraper, a utility knife blade, or use a single edge razor blade setup as a scraper. While 2P10 is "just super glue" - you'll find it is specially formulated for wood and works far better with wood than other cyanoacrylate glue for that application.
@@RosaStringWorks Whatever...I've been using it for about 5 years on 45 degree corner molding joints and find it has worked far better than other brands that I've tried. It seems to penetrate the wood better giving a stronger joint. I put a small dot on either end of the joint with Titebond II in the middle between the 2P10 dots. Spray the opposite piece of wood with accelerator and put the joint together - no clamps needed. I've also used it with a mixture of baking soda and powder dye tint color for filling cracks. Put the mixture into the crack, and soak the mixture with thin 2P10 and then a coat of medium viscosity. Scrape the filler level and continue finishing the work. However, as they say...your mileage may vary...
@@RosaStringWorks Another nice video, great result!👍 When it comes to super glue, this video shows that they are not equal. czcams.com/video/_vR15u0vmms/video.html
Great job Jerry, this beats watching regular tv any day..., thanks.
Under saddle pickups aren't easy to handle when repairs are concerned.
Fantastic work on the hole! Amazing!
Wow Jerry, that output jack repair started out "ok" then devolved into "terrible", and then bounced up into "excellent." Had me on the edge of my seat. :) Fantastic video.
I heartily agree!!!
Oh Boy!!!! I thought Jerry has sanded himself into a mess now on that plug job....But doggone it!!!!you pulled it out of the trash to make it look great lol. AWESOME..
It's an Alvarez. They have fantastic sound! Distinctive, clear and big... I love Alvarez. I've had mine for around forty years. 💖
The repair job on that hole, and restoring the finish is super impressive. Wow! I seriously wondered if the sanded finish was ever going to look half as good as it does! But who am I to ever doubt you’d bring it all together so well? Thanks for posting.
That's amazing! If the customer will just stay quiet, nobody will ever see that repair.
If you take a hole saw and cut w/ the grain for your plug, the grain will match better. You could elongate the hole so it's less round.
After I plug a hole, I take a razor and cut long grooves and then add slivers of wood to fill them in, so the round hole disappears and it looks like grain in the wood. It does help to be able to clamp the slivers of wood down tight w/ glue.
wow! nice job! you could barely tell. very good job jerry.
You just ruin a big part of my day. I love watching you repair these instruments, the next thing I know I've missed lunch.
Great videos, Larry
With the difficulty of matchingthe woods color I think it came out very well. Another outstanding project!
Razor wrapped in scotch tape will take that glue down pretty quick without having to sand so much around the area.
Turned out great
Yes I do that often.
The only ones that will notice the patch job are those looking for it. It really looks nice. great sound too. Thanks for the video.
As usual EXCELLENT,Sir you are good.
Thank You Mr.Rosa.You are a great inspiration with your good common sense.And the way that you shoot from the hip.If people don't like it yes they can lump it.....!!!!
Holy moly,what a whole lot of frustration for a hole. and then coming all unglued and getting in a sticky situation.not to mention a bridge to far.well done. COFFEE BREAK!!!!!
Color matching is always the hard part. And all said and done that looks really good Jerry. Doing the fakey grain really tricks the eye.
Being a car body paint sprayer we call it mapping the repair out and feathering the repair you can discuss what we call a flip line using masking tape which reduces over spay and eliminating the strait line never repaired wood but yours was an excellent repair well done
Got to admit, half way through I was thinking you'd see the finished repair from a mile away ........... fast forwarded to the end and I was gob-smacked at the result!! So I went back to see the bits in between ;O) Nice repair, I'd be very happy with it.
Alvarez are generally nice guitars. Nice work. Looks and sounds good :)
@Rosa String Works Hey Boss. I filled some holes in my day, but that's besides the point. I must have done this a dozen different ways. Doing it on a Hondo the first time is a blessing, I put some tape on the inside and mixed up some epoxy and filled the hole and sprinkled some magical pixie dust (Rosewood) and some dark mahogany works and dusted the top and just before the epoxy hardened I'd use some waxed paper and a nice flat surface and trued it up nice and flush. This allowed it to be rounded off and almost really didn't need a clear coat because it had a nice shine already and I had my artist pencils and matched it to perfection. Sanded the area with 1500 and thinned out the clear and sprayed the spot with a air brush then thinned it more to blend leaving scuffed area around it then rubbed it out. There's nothing like practicing on firewood first. I have also used a unique plaque to cover holes and dowel rods. Good to see you again.
Excellent job on fixing that hole and boy does it sound good.
that was a nice repair on that hole, guitar does sound good!
Awesome hole patch, spot fixing colored wood grain is tough.
Nicely done! If I'd needed that hole fixed, I'd have put a brass piece in it & said it was good. The sound is very nice. No screeching, hurting my ears.
After I custom ordered my harp, my husband said he really doesn't like the sound of stringed instruments!
Your struggles were well worth it, the repair looks excellent and the setup perfect! Nice work Jerry.
Nice repair Jerry, it looks darn good!
I must say ole feller, iffen yer customer don't like that there repair, he do indeed be a hard person to satisfy. Good job!
Jerry - great job as always. FWIW I use 2P-10 almost daily for general woodworking. For cosmetic stuff it's worse than the Stewmac CA product to work with or for that matter off-the-shelf superglue. Once it's activated it's difficult to level even with a super-sharp card scraper or taped-off razor blade. It's like trying to level granite next to wood IMO. The Fastcap activator is 95% acetone with 5% amine (the active ingredient) so you have to be really careful around anything that acetone would react with. I've also ruined entire bottles of the glue just by spritzing the activator nearby before putting the cap back on the bottle. The slightest amount of activator in the air will catalyze an entire bottle if you're not careful. So yeah- it can be a pain to work with. BUT... for structural jobs it has no equal in strength that I've found. It's 10x stronger than plain old 'superglue'. I've been using it for a cpl years on stuff like fusing difficult end-grain scarf joints together on long runs of trim - places where even Titebond is unreliable. It's also a life-saver for repairs to instruments or furniture that need hide glue or Titebond but are impossible to clamp. I'll activate one side, then glue the joint leaving just the very corners dry - and use a cpl dots of 2p-10 on the other side of the joint to mate with the dry spots. It grabs in 2-3 seconds and will hold the repair in place until the PVA or hide glue can set up. I used to try that with regular big box 'superglue' and the joints would always fail. It's rugged stuff.
Answered my question!
That was bettet than a mystery movie anticipation of the ending. The hero won.
Great job as always!
Bonkers? We (UK) have a history of adopting "Americanisms", but I'm amazed to hear English expressions making it to the USA. Another fine vid. Thank you sir.
StewMac has a video on how to patch a crack with die solved in acetone to color the damage and then superglue using a razor blade to "scrape" it down
Great job with the plug, Jerry and all around!
Another great job Jerry
Wonderful video Jerry!!!!!!!!)))👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😊
Beautiful repair Jerry. No doubt you are the master!
Did a similar hole filling job on an old jumbo Kay guitar that I own...Turned out good,but I couldn`t match the stain as good as you did...Keep the videos a coming..
Wow! That came out so nice!
Great job Rosa. Even better than the 2 best luthiers in my area. Wicks and Lambs luthier shops.
Our little group is working up the ole Big Mon song "When the bees are in the hive" . Key of G major
"When the bees are in the hive, and the honey's in the comb" remember this tune?.......Art
Very nice sounding instrument.
steadfast in pursuit of awesomeness... you hit the mark my friend ... great job
Awesome job!
Very nice repair on the side.
Hole lotta lovely work, Jerry! I am liking the K & K pure mini pick up lately. Three elements stick along the bottom of the bridge plate and not under the saddle so you don't get that box of Rice Krispies snap, crackle and pop sound . It also doesn't hinder the unplugged tone.
The best guitar I ever owned was a 1973 Alvarez. Had it not been stolen in the early 90's I'd play it now
Howdy Jerry, nice work! These repairs are often like peeling an onion: lots of layers and tears :o) Here's a thing you should try in order to avoid removing all that finish around a plug or drop fill: use a smooth single-cut ignition file. Apply a piece of masking tape on each end of the file so there's a middle section of file teeth exposed about 2" long. This allows the tape to slide on the finish; you apply fingertip pressure to the center as you work the file back and forth, which flexes downward to remove *only the repair* and make it flush with the surrounding surface, without removing any finish. I've been doing this for years and I get good results 100% of the time. Cheers!
Another fine job. Thank you for sharing.
Mr. Rosa, LOVE the TIME CARD !! Do ALL luthiers use these! LOL GREAT JOB.... AGAIN !
I was holding my breath during the sanding, but the final result looks great!
Looks and sounds really good to me.
Very surprised at the outcome of the hole patch, great job! I have never been a fan of new strings on any guitar but I suspect it will come around in a week or so.
Looks good
Great job Jerry! Looks great as usual! Very very nice!
Hi Jerry, Ian from Tassie here, great job on that hole repair. I had a 1/16 violin in the other day with the peghead completely broken off. The job was about 20 percent of the repair and the dying and colour matching was about 80 percent lol I'm really into invisibility these days and experimenting with colour matching so I know how you feel mate lol
Way to go Jerry 👍 nice 🙏
I really do enjoy watching your videos. I've learned quite a lot.
I'd like to make a suggestion for color matching, especially with your plug... you could have taken the piece you cut the plug from and colored that near the hole from the plug you cut and held it up against the color you want to match to. It would give you a great indication of what direction you need to go. That would give you the opportunity to experiment to get it as close as possible before hitting the work piece with color. Also, a cabinet scraper might help to level the super glue without sanding the adjacent surface, or at least get you close.
Just a couple of tricks I've learned from woodworking that you may well already know! Someday I hope to get the guts to attempt to repair a crack in my beloved Tacoma DM20. It's not a $5K guitar, but I absolutely love the tone! The top cracked across the lower bout to the bridge plate.
Thank you so much for the videos, I know it can be quite time consuming, and I really appreciate you sharing with all of us.
Good job
Jerry when you got to sanding, I thought you might have decided to completely refinish the whole thing! Turned out ok in the end.
Jerry when using a plug cutter slow the speed on your pillar drill, enjoyed the video.
That looks real good to me!!! Wow that sounds great
Thanks for sharing, I can’t understand why I like these videos so much, but I watch and enjoy for hours!
If it had been my guitar i think I would have just put a decorative plug cap ! After all it doesn’t effect the sound .Really nice job 👍
Nice job.
Jim
As you can plainly see I don't know much about Alvarez. Except a member
of. Our bluegrass club plays one..Sounds good.
looks and sounds great
the engineering rule of thumb for good bearing length is three times the diameter (or three times the width of the saddle).
Jerry,
You might have better luck not sanding through if you were to scrape the glue level with a taped off razor blade before sanding. I use this method all the time . Great color match! Not an easy job.
Jeff 👍
GREAT JOB!
Beginner amateur here, but I've been doing a bit of super glue filling (where I've eaten into the wood trying to round fret ends) and it sands much easier if I add the baking soda, gives something softer to sand. I'm guessing that you may have tried that before...
great video good results
Finest craftmanship I have seen !The performance had me in anticipation like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. How will it end ?
"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished". Hmm. Where have I heard that before?
It looks good Jerry,
Really nice e job. Plug is almost invisible. Maybe try an airbrush for this sort of thing!? Tint the lacquer with dye and spray heavier/lighter to match color.
I’m pretty sure that 2p-10 is just a rebranded, “fancy sounding” version of the same exact stuff I use. Comes in the same viscosities AND the same bottles, to boot. You can get it pretty cheaply on eBay/Amazon. If you search for “thick super glue” it always comes up...it’s pretty decent stuff but if I’d been told that it was super special, basically lacquer, all finish, pro formula one...I’d be a little annoyed, too.
you had me chuckling to myself @1:30 into the video. :)
take a deep breath,,,,,,,,,,,all good of course. turned out great.
My Alvarez acoustic-electric had the jack mounted there.
I use black paint and a course brush to simulate grain
Nice job.
Troll hunting with the like button is the best way to spend a Friday
good job
Simple job huh:) Turned out awesome though Jerry!
Great job Jerry. There's a product made specifically for guitar finish repairs called "Gluboost"
You might want to check it out
It's just another form of superglue with a lot of marketing height
I have zero experience with these type repairs. I do wonder if trying the stains on the piece the patch was cut from to see color effect? And maybe Try to stain the patch before inserting and then sand and polish.
Ain’t we all armchair QBs ha ha...the result is amazing, i am just an efficiency freak...
I've used the stain thousands of times so I'm pretty used to it.
Personally I would have installed a second jack. Then I would have installed 2 pickups. One a magnetic soundhole, and one a soundboard transducer. Two pickups. Two sounds. Blend them. Use them in a stereo setup. Use them separately. More choices. But you gotta do what the customer says....
I had a similar idea, install the jack in that hole and install an endpin. The cheap way out.
If it was mine I would have put a patch on the inside first, then just filled the hole with coloured filler on the basis that it isn't in a very visible position anyway. But that's what you can do when you only have to please yourself.
Jerry.
You may already know about this, but if you don't, you may want to check out Dave's World of Fun Stuff. He has several videos where he uses a product called Gluboost which I think is a CA system for finish repairs. It seemed to work quite well for him. Anyway, you did a good job on a tricky problem. Keep on keepin' on!
oh, no! don't mix Jerry and Dave! Lord knows what they'll make of each other!
It's just another Super Glue.
Boy, you are a stubborn Eyetalian! I know because I come from a long line of stubborn Eyetalians myself. Anyway, Dave, (Dave's World oFS) who has very little patience with tools that don't work or are overpriced, (see StewMac) seemed pretty pleased with this product. One way they are not just another CA glue is they also provide a line of tints that mix with the glue so the color is in the glue and makes it easier to fill chips, gouges, etc. You could check out Dave, or the Gluboost website for more info. (I have absolutely no affiliation with Gluboost, but I thought you might find the repair/fill system worth a look). Anyway, I really enjoy your videos and you did a nice job the way you did it, as always.
Superglue - nag nag nag, woodfiller nag nag nag😁
Jerry: Tom Ewing has a nice cover of "Bees are in the hive" Tom was one of Bill's better lead singers as well as Wayne Lewis
and Pete Rowan. Tricky chord progression......Art
Jerry: Are you aware Alvarez has joined with Yariri Guitars of Japan?
There are different production levels of Alvarez guitars. The most handmade guitars get the Yari name, the less handmade were given the Alvarez Artist name.
I Was wondering do you have any tips to reduce the belly in an acoustic guitar.
I dont have the money for the Stew Mac belly reducer.
I bought a 1966 Gibson lgo because im graduating from high school this year and bought it myself was present.
Please get back to me the thanks.
It's not a simple fix. Some people try heating and moisture to flatten the top out with some clamps. I don't find that that works very well. Generally I flatten it with a board and clamps but at the same time I glue down a new bridge and possibly a new bridge plate on the inside while it's flat. In general it has to be fixed mechanically not just through bending.
I thought right at the start you would have used a sharp chisel to pair the excess on the plug. May have given you less sanding.
Great job! Are those all your kids?
If you're looking at the picture on my computer that would be my grandkids
Did you opt not to put the backer patch on the inside backing the plug, since it was tapered, and kind of wedged in?
I honestly don't remember. The video was made quite a while back. Sometimes I lose footage or forget to turn the camera on. Too many instruments come through here to keep track.
Scrape the glue flat before sanding. You need to treat the glue filler like you would touch-up paint on a car. Either use a small scraper, a utility knife blade, or use a single edge razor blade setup as a scraper. While 2P10 is "just super glue" - you'll find it is specially formulated for wood and works far better with wood than other cyanoacrylate glue for that application.
I can't tell a bit of difference.
@@RosaStringWorks Whatever...I've been using it for about 5 years on 45 degree corner molding joints and find it has worked far better than other brands that I've tried. It seems to penetrate the wood better giving a stronger joint. I put a small dot on either end of the joint with Titebond II in the middle between the 2P10 dots. Spray the opposite piece of wood with accelerator and put the joint together - no clamps needed. I've also used it with a mixture of baking soda and powder dye tint color for filling cracks. Put the mixture into the crack, and soak the mixture with thin 2P10 and then a coat of medium viscosity. Scrape the filler level and continue finishing the work. However, as they say...your mileage may vary...
@@RosaStringWorks Another nice video, great result!👍 When it comes to super glue, this video shows that they are not equal. czcams.com/video/_vR15u0vmms/video.html
Another question! Could you use a scraper to bring the super glue back down?
👍💪
As this guitar has a pickup under the saddle and you replaced the saddle, did you do a sound test running the guitar through an amp?
Why fill the drainage hole? It was put there for folk festivals with funky tents.