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I did that once and my shop mate crossed the room with his camera and said "Hold it up for a picture!" You only have to do that one time and then you'll remember to turn the bolt over.
I'd be careful about the jigsaw, but carefully drill enough holes around the bolt to release it. Just go slow. I see the little wing you pieced onto the back. Things like that just teach you to have better joining technique so you gave yourself an extra lesson!
As Señor Banana said, I too have done that and when you do something like this once, you won't do it again. It's a learning process. Luckily, all I had to do was pinch the bolt with a pair of thin vice grips and slowly turned it until it released from the wing nut inside.
A dremel with the little grinding disk may work. Grind a slot in it so you can turn the bolt with a screw driver. If that doesn't work, just grind the head off the bolt and it will just slip through the hole.
Yep. Things have been tense here at Estudio de El Burdo. I eventually used a sharp chisel/gauge after some drill holes; sawing was too difficult as the mdf is 2x18mm. There was an unpleasant Alpine Spruce sound 'audible' throughout the whole process but all was well. At least afterwards I got to use the hole cutter that has been dormant since making my violin clamps to put the back on in phase 1 of my making career.
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where the soundhole will be
Er..I have already cut the soundhole as I figured a flat s/board would be more contollable (flat, that is) than doing it once the box had been assembled.
Yeah, the back - it was an afterthought. Clearly
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Er..I have already cut the soundhole as I figured a flat s/board would be more contollable (flat, that is) than doing it once the box had been assembled.
Exactly - where the soundhole will be...if you could see where it is!
Congratulations - welcome to the club.
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Oh yes, indeed. As I was digging through I was thinking of ways of making a believable soundhole 'partial eclipse' effect where a smaller hole moved into the larger soundhole. OK though.
Too bad it was so uncooperative. The one time I've done that, I cursed myself for a good bit of time, and then put a socket on the bolt and it turned right out. No problem at all.
edit: Ahh, but I see, it's not a hex head. Well then, what were you thinking?
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