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At 6:28pm on November 9, 2009, PAUL said…: hi Frank I need to ask a question regarding intonation and a supper star guitar player has had me in the past week replace a roller nut in a Tele ,here we go indeed we will start with i replaced it with a bone /brass nut using the brass as a 0 fret not quite the strings only ride on the bone half and the complaint is that he has great intonation in the 12th and the 19th positions as well as i have ever seen but he complains about the 1st and 2ed positions ,Seam to roll sharp about 2 cents or less depending how your pressing and was explaining equal intonation to him in the best words I know how is there anything I should know about this problem in the 1st and 2ed positions?with this issue i have photos and can send them so i will do this start a question for everyone and show the photos but need you to chime in please thanks

At 10:44am on November 5, 2009, Bryn Upton said…: Hi Frank,

I have been reading the awesome information on FRETS.com and I had a question, I am about to try to fix up a 1962 archtop guitar and I want to use your technique of applying Cellosolve to resuscitate the lacquer but I am in Germany and I am having trouble figuring out how to find a suitable material. Are there specific product names that might be available here?

At 1:59pm on November 3, 2009, david a carlson said…: Hello Frank : you and me same age. I bought a 00021, d35, d28 from you. still wish for the 00021. lived in colorado for a while now in sacramento. you left comment on bugspray effect on finishes..wish i'd seen that years ago. got away with minor damage but still very irritating...i always seem to learn the hard way. thanks for writing that..should be BIG first knowledge for festival goers. I have a custom banjo with huber tone ring..really sounds great but neck finish all broken down now to bare wood at edges (something on my hands??..alcohol based sanitizers? ...bug spray again???) I hope to bring it in fri 13 nov 09. is it worth to fix??? will require whole new finish job...janet davis says graphite is the way to go ($500)...i don't know what to do....you won't either until you see it...but i'll miss you for sure because fri is the only day for me. take care. Dave Carlson

At 10:39am on November 3, 2009, Orrin Star said…: Hi Frank, I recently caught the Irish music bug and that led me to an interest in vintage tenor banjos,
both acquiring (two Orpheums and a Puntolilllo) and their care and feeding.

While googling for info on dowel tweaking I came across your millennial reflection on the state of instrument repairs looking back over three decades. It's a wonderful essay.

Orrin
http:orrinstar.com

ps I shared the relevant parts of the article with my table tennis coach - because I thought there were some evolutionary parallels with his profession - and he agreed that that was indeed the case.

pss if anyone reading this in interested, here's the URl for the article: http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/History/LookingBack/lookingback.html

At 4:00pm on October 31, 2009, Ray Pannell said…: Hi Frank,
Thanks for your quick response. I'm in Santa Barbara, about five hours away. It's a possibility I could drive it up, but i'd probably have to get a room and make a two day journey out of it. As a plan B could you refer me to some qualified people in my neck of the woods. Any where from Los Angeles up to Santa Barbara.
Thanks,
Ray

At 1:11pm on October 13, 2009, Larry Parker said…: Hey Frank,

I have an inexpensive mandolin (don't make right off top of my head). Belonged to customer's father. Neck is up bowed and it doesn't seem to have a truss rod. Any suggestions on straightening? How are mandolin necks attached? A zillion different ways like guitars?

Thanks in advance.
Larry

At 3:13pm on October 10, 2009, Charles DeArmon said…: Well, it's a tough one cause it's cracked loose at the heel,but will still hold up pretty well with strings on. I guess I'm gonna try to get some glue in there, but it's gonna be hard. There isn't much room to get anything up in there.

By the way, I'm pretty excited to have you to talk to about these things with buddy!

Where might I get the glue you said I should use? It sounded cool, but I don't know what the heck that stuff is. X) sorry, I'm new at all this.

At 2:20pm on October 10, 2009, Charles DeArmon said…: I have an old Gibson es135 I'd like to restore. It's been junked up with humbuckers n a new tailpiece and so on.
Oh, and painted white! Sad state of afairs!

But, anyway,
the first thing I'd like to do is repair the small seperation at the heel. What do you recommend? It's a very small crack that only gets alittle bigger with strings tension. But it gives me the heeby jeebies!

Thanks for your time!

At 9:12am on September 17, 2009, Jason Kamil said…: so the picture is of the air turbine (the white hose)and not the Bosch trim router. I was having trouble understanding how you used the Bosch and Air Turbine at the same time. Thanks

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