jshelton5040 -> RE: Need some help after dremel accident (Aug. 18 2009 16:14:23)
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ORIGINAL: r0bbie @John, First of all I must thank you for the Turkish supplier of wood, they are cheap and as a Dutchman I can appreciate that :-) I did however not realize that the wood has to dry before I can use it ( in terms of years that is) I have been to a Dutch Luther ( John van Gool) who kept his wood outside under a roof to dry. Can I ask how you dry the cypress before you think you can use it? About the binding jig, when reading the posts earlier it seems like it is not done to use something like that but I don’t see why. After all, the guitar should be well balanced by now and the bindings don’t contribute to the final sound. A jig just makes life easier for such small detail. Why not use it if it saves a lot of time? Sometimes I which this forum was in Dutch so I could express my feelings better without giving the impression of being ignorant or stubborn. I am but don’t tell anybody ! Thanks a lot for the suggestions, Rob. I congratulate you on your excellent English. I studied French and Spanish and know how difficult it is to be fluent in a foreign tongue. I have never achieved anywhere near your fluency in either of the ones I studied. Curing wood is one of those areas of guitar making that in my opionion needs a great deal more exposure. We keep new wood in a loft in our shop for 2 or 3 years then move it to the humidity and temperature controlled environment in the assembly area. Depending on the type of wood it needs anywhere from one to ten more years before it's ready to use in a guitar. One develops a sense of when a piece of wood is ready to use. It varies from one piece to another. I could spend all my time making jigs to simplify the process of making guitars. I have jigs for cutting and tapering fingerboards, sawing frets, locating string spacing on nuts and bridges, setting neck deflection, etc. It's a fascinating diversion but you have to decide if the time spent developing and manufacturing the jig is well spent. A jig that takes 100 hours to make and saves you 10 minutes on each guitar is not really a good use of your time. I suspect that is the explanation for the aversion to these expensive gadgets but some of them are really valuable.
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