Hello Janet, a most interesting post you have written. I learned something here. this luthier would for sure been the person too know, if you did much work on guitars. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet and Felix *" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:06 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Re: to fret or to fretless
> 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don't 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 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/
