Yup I made mine out of wood too with some cheapo tuners.
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| Author: | Robbie O'Brien [ Mon Jul 27, 2020 7:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Crack repair using tuners |
Here is the latest Luthier Tips du Jour video. - In this video I offer a tip for using tuning machines to do a crack repair. This video as well as all my other videos are available via my website, http://www.obrienguitars.com/videos , LMI's website or on youtube. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you want to get the latest Luthier Tips du Jour videos when they are released. |
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Crack repair using tune |
I don't know where I learned that trick either, it's been many years, but that's more or less the way I do it too. Except instead of using a block on the inside I make a cleat and glue that in at the same time that I glue the crack shut. So then it is cleated and glued shut at the same time. |
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Crack repair using tune |
I can't remember if I learned that trick from Don Teeter or Dan Erlewine, but the tool I made is old - from some oak I had laying around, and a cheapo tuner from some nameless electric. Works like a champ. Rob went fancy with nylon blocks and gold Grovers..... Bet mine works just as well. |
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Crack repair using tune |
Yup I made mine out of wood too with some cheapo tuners.
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Crack repair using tune |
That is an old technique -originally done using friction pegs so it might be hard to credit the person who came up with the idea. |
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| Author: | Mark Mc [ Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Crack repair using tune |
That technique became widely known from Don Teeter’s book (published in 1975), The Acoustic Guitar - adjustment, care, maintenance and repair. A classic book, and still in print. I am looking at it now and on page 53 Teeter credits the idea to a friend named Bill Cheatwood, who first showed him the technique of using a tuning machine and guitar string for clamping a crack in a lute. Did Mr Cheatwood invent it, or was it passed to him from some other luthier of the past? It would be nice to know. Anyway - neat trick, and thanks for the nice demonstration Robbie. |
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Mon Jul 27, 2020 7:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Crack repair using tune |
In other words, it's a classic technique proven through the decades. |
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