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Any Good Substitute for Ivory?

I've got an early 19th century (pre 1834, the year an inside label states a few repairs were done) classical guitar in for restoration.   T…

Started by Scot Tremblay in Luthier Talk

8 Dec 14, 2010
Reply by Bruce Herrmann

Zimmermann Concert Grand Autoharp restore

Hi all- my names Will, new to the forum, but a long time visitor to the main website. I just won a Zimmermann Concert Grand autoharp on eba…

Started by will thompson in Luthier Talk

3 Dec 13, 2010
Reply by will thompson

Thickness planing with a Saf-T-Planer

Pretty much what I wrote in the subject - I am starting to build my first uke (aw, how cute!) and need to plane everything to the correct t…

Started by Mark Pollock in Luthier Talk

25 Dec 13, 2010
Reply by Mark Pollock

Pinless bridges

I was just reading about George Lowden's pinless bridge.  It seems to me that any pinless bridge would put a lot of stress on the top.  Wit…

Started by Jack Lord in Luthier Talk

5 Dec 12, 2010
Reply by Paul Hostetter

vega VIP banjo shell crack

Hello everyone. I'm looking for some direction in how best to approach fixing the crack in this banjo shell from a 1958 Vega VIP 5 string b…

Started by Lee Gendvilas in Luthier Talk

14 Dec 12, 2010
Reply by Lee Gendvilas

Neck Scale

Hi folks,  I've been building for awhile and came across something I hadn't noted before.   It appears the distance between the 12th fret a…

Started by Steve Beckwith in Luthier Talk

6 Dec 10, 2010
Reply by Ned Knepp

Cheaper Fret tang cutters

I dont know if you guys knew about this, but i was pretty annoyed by stew mac charging almost 50 bucks for one of these things. They are ca…

Started by Alexander Allgood in Luthier Talk

17 Dec 10, 2010
Reply by Ned Knepp

Epiphone Binding

This Epi Emperor is from 1952.  Is it better at replace all this binding or just repair it were needed?  Also, because I know the common gl…

Started by Steve Bee in Luthier Talk

10 Dec 9, 2010
Reply by Steve Bee

Side bender questions....

Hi everyone, I'm new here, so I'll just introduce myself.  My name is Gage, now that that's done... I'm building a new Side Bender, and I…

Started by Gage Halland in Luthier Talk

15 Dec 9, 2010
Reply by Doug T

Old Sears Catalogs

One of my other interests is Genealogy, so I'm a member of Ancestry.com (for now at least - it's $#%*!# expensive!)   They just posted scan…

Started by Mark Pollock in Luthier Talk

5 Dec 8, 2010
Reply by Mark Pollock

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