Hi. I don't post very often at all. But on this topic, the luthier that Felix works with showed me how to fix a chip in the wood that was on a guitar neck-- a little boo boo where a small piece of wood had come out of the fretboard. "Are you paying attention?" He said to me very sternly and sort of upset me a bit. But it served its purpose-- to make me pay close attention.
He had a glass jar full of rosewood 'sawdust' I guess you could call it. He had saved it from many many guitars he had worked on. He saved every last granual of rosewood sawdust-- he never threw any away, ever. The he took some superglue, yes, superglue and put a few drops into the hole, then some rosewood dust, then more superglue, then more rosewood dust, and so on until the hole was full. He then took some very fine sandpaper, 1500 grit, and buffed it smooth. And do you know what? When he was finished, you couldn't tell there was ever a hole there. Smooth as a baby's butt and visually too, there was no visual sign of the hole. (I am sighted.) I was very impressed. Then when we got home, Felix took some of the dust from the cardboard box he had his guitar sitting in while he was leveling the fretboard and had me put it into a baggie since we didn't have a nice big pickle jar handy like his luthier had, and then he asked me to fix a few smaller cacks that really only required one application of the superglue followed by one application of the saved dust, of which we didn't have much of anyway, and then I buffed it with 1500 grit sandpaper, and I too was able to smooth out some small nicks. Felix should have done it. Then he could describe it being done. But, it was me instead of him, this time. I'm only posting her today to describe my success in filling in holes in rosewood guitar fingerboards. Now, where does one find rosewood dust? The luthier saved his from leveling and cutting fretslots on many, many rosewood fingerboards. Felix and I think that if one knows where to get a piece of rosewood, it would be easy enough to make rosewood sawdust from that. Maybe even fun, too! Best wishes, Peace, Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype ID Bluesjanet http://skype.org for free download _________________________________________________________________ Dont quit your job Take Classes Online and Earn your Degree in 1 year. Start Today! http://www.classesusa.com/clickcount.cfm?id=866146&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classesusa.com%2Ffeaturedschools%2Fonlinedegreesmp%2Fform-dyn1.html%3Fsplovr%3D866144 To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
