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Do players need help with music?

When you talk to players do you find they need help with music or different keys at all? Or are they all fully trained in every key.Is ther…

Started by John Cadd in Luthier Talk

46 Mar 26, 2010
Reply by Robert Bander

Soft lacquer?

I recently finished a couple of guitars with some old mcfadden's lacquer that was given to me.  As I understood it, old lacquer is fine to…

Started by Ry Charters in Luthier Talk

6 Mar 25, 2010
Reply by Ned Knepp

Martin Pickguard Crack

I've recently acquired a near show room clean, including hang tags, D-18 vintage 1973.  However, it had the requisite pickguard crack.  Usi…

Started by onewent in Luthier Talk

12 Mar 25, 2010
Reply by onewent

1937 D-28 Repair Blog

A couple of weeks ago, I started a new repair article for FRETS.COM - It's a sort of "blog" style account of a project - neck resetting, ne…

Started by Frank Ford in Luthier Talk

7 Mar 24, 2010
Reply by Tom Krebs

Slide guitar

HelloI had a old Kay acoustic come in my shop and the guy would like it setup to play bottle neck and chords. The neck radius is flat. I ha…

Started by Michael P. Lemieux in Luthier Talk

4 Mar 23, 2010
Reply by Tim Mace

Keeping the stain off of the binding?

Hi. Can anyone tell me how to keep from changing the color of my binding during the staining process?Should I tape off the back, sides and…

Started by Tim Warn in Luthier Talk

5 Mar 23, 2010
Reply by Pierre-Antoine Roiron

Nick Lucas L-00

In the thread about recycling timber for instruments I mentioned using the packing case from a new dishwasher (German spruce) for bracing i…

Started by Mark McLean in Luthier Talk

19 Mar 22, 2010
Reply by Harry Spring

Anbody used this?

Has anybody any experience with Titebond Polyurethane glue? I have just ordered some to tryout, as it's much cheaper than Gorilla glue here…

Started by Grahame Myers in Luthier Talk

6 Mar 22, 2010
Reply by Russell Vance

structural integrity of the heel block

howdy there. i have an old hagstrom twelve string that is almost useless, save open tuning with six strings and a slide. the top is cracked…

Started by andy savina in Luthier Talk

5 Mar 22, 2010
Reply by Frank Ford

Too simple a wiring question for this forum...

...so before I start, I'll send a big thanks to everyone  the forum - I'm a big fan of the Frets website (thanks Frank!) so I thought I'd a…

Started by c. winn in Luthier Talk

14 Mar 21, 2010
Reply by Rob Mercure

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