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HemeolaMan
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RE: Crack from dry humidity won't cl... (in reply to JasonM)
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I should add that the instructions in my post are paraphrased from an email conversation many years ago. They are too generic and that is my fault. There are some important details I left out for sure. Tell me you haven't done the same on your posts once in a while! I posted a simplified version of the methodology. The expectation I had, and perhaps my wrongful presupposition, is that someone asking a question in the lutherie section had some knowledge of lutherie or wood working. It was not my intention to post a complete and exhaustive "how to" on the matter and I assumed that the OP would use good sense and woodworking knowledge in conjunction with the general outline that I provided. This was my mistake and I should have been more clear for a mixed audience. The subject of the conversation I had with [him] LONG AGO was not "how does one rehumidify a guitar in explicit detail including the fretboard" rather it was a conversation about something else in which he briefly explained his process for doing so. I expect that he didn't intend the description to be more than a basic summary of the process nor that I would use this information as a methodology for repair. Rightly so. One other point, the discussion he and I had (at this point I'm thinking it was about 8 years ago) was not about rehumidifying a fingerboard. And indeed, I am not offering advice on fixing the fingerboard but the crack in the soundboard next to it. Our conversation was about backs, sides, and tops. Not finger boards. So if you ask him about it he will of course say that he never advised such a solution for fingerboard repair. Which is correct. He never once said that this was appropriate to fix a fingerboard and neither did I. And as such I have not quoted him directly and as you have seen he has supplied his rebuttal which clarifies his position on the matter. Everyone is welcome to roundly debate and ridicule my position with their experience and facts. I make no claim to be an expert repair person nor am I a builder of exquisite instruments with years in the trade. However, no one has offered a solution for mister Jason, whose guitar still has a crack in it despite our efforts. I would've expected the experienced and highly reputed luthiers to have offered their counsel on the issue and a critique of my method. Instead I am dismissed as wrong without so much as an alternative methodology. I don't mind remarks from Anders because this is an internet forum and any perceived personal differences we may imagine between us could be solved with a few beers and a good conversation. I would rather expect some good advice and some counter points to my position though. It's one thing to call me inexperienced and dismiss my ideas, it's another to just leave it at that without correcting me. I've been lumped into a a category of "cerebral infights" which I don't understand. I answered Ricardo's question with a technical explanation of facts about how the repair works and what the wood does... I don't think that he or I labor under the supposition that we are "fighting" in any way. My second mistake was not emphasizing the other sources for this methodology. I will perhaps refrain from using names here. There are many exquisitely skilled world class violin repairmen in the chicago area. Several of whom I have access to on a personal level and have discussed these matters at length. I am not suggesting the method in my original post without due consideration of the advice they have given me in such matters. The method, or more detailed version thereof, works. I have repaired several guitars and other instruments this way. Maybe it isn't the best but there's three important facts about it: 1. you can do it in your home 2. it costs nothing 3. it works. Just don't screw it up! I didn't learn to fix guitars and things made of wood by apprenticeship or by going into it as a trade. I learned it because I started playing guitar at age 8 and couldn't really drive to a local shop to get my guitars set up or repaired. For those of you counting I'm 27. I had a basement and some tools. Now I play over 20 instruments and make a variety of them in a pretty badass shop. I repair guitars, furniture, and other mechanical devices for both practical reasons and for fun. I'm not a luthier by day. I have no emotional stake in being right or wrong about what repair is best.
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