G'day Mike,
Ivory for me !
Craig Lawrence
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| Author: | SniderMike [ Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:26 pm ] |
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Hola. I've seen a few of you do white purfling in your fretboards, and I was curious what you use and how white it stays. Seems like ABS would stay the cleanest. Anyone use white fiber though? Thanks |
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| Author: | Rick Turner [ Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:35 pm ] |
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White fiber works great. I think a lot of folks imagine problems where there aren't any... |
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| Author: | SniderMike [ Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:37 pm ] |
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Thanks Rick. I'll give it a go. |
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| Author: | Howard Klepper [ Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:41 pm ] |
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White celluloid. |
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| Author: | Rick Turner [ Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:54 pm ] |
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That works fine, too. |
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| Author: | SniderMike [ Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:20 pm ] |
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Thanks guys. I've never used celluloid. Do you recommend the Weld-on cement? |
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| Author: | Howard Klepper [ Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:21 pm ] |
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I get my best results with CA. Weld-on works, as does any acetone based cement. I've even glued it with PVA glues; if you give a wipe with acetone before using them, they can adhere OK, and I've even had OK results without the acetone wipe. But I trust CA the most. ABS plastic is quite a bit harder to glue than celluloid. |
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| Author: | KiwiCraig [ Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:28 pm ] |
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G'day Mike, Ivory for me !
Craig Lawrence |
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| Author: | SniderMike [ Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:48 am ] |
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Thank you, Howard. G'day Craig. That's a fine lookin' neck you got there. Did you have some long pieces? I've got a bunch of reclaimed piano keys, but it would take quite a while to cut them all up and prep. |
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| Author: | KiwiCraig [ Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:59 am ] |
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Yep Mike , it takes a lot of mucking around . Just one other reason it takes me thousands of hours to complete a guitar. Key tops are graduated in thickness (front to rear),about .7m.m. to .5m.m. ,so you have to thickness them , which isn't easy when they are so short. On top of that , nearly all of them will have hollows worn in them from the pianists fingers. As a piano tuner ,I have quite a lot available and choose the tops from the very treble and bass ends of the keyboard ( less wear ).As Ivory comes in various colour shades, I take them off the same keyboard to keep the whole thing uniform in colour. It's worth the effort ( to me anyway ) as I can't bring myself around to using plastic ,and hey! ,I've got ivory purfling ! 
Craig Lawrence |
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| Author: | A Peebels [ Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:54 am ] |
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I just bound a fretboard about an hour ago using maple veneer for the purfling. Al |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:35 am ] |
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I also use maple. I prefer the natrul white of maple to the stark white of fiber or abs |
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| Author: | Barry Daniels [ Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:42 am ] |
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I am currently using cream colored plastic purfling which seems to better match the white purfling elsewhere that's under a lacquer finish. |
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| Author: | SniderMike [ Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:14 am ] |
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Great. Thanks for all the input, everyone. |
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