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Not really a (tutorial) per say, but rather a little trick I came up with to glue in the linings and not leave crush marks on them.

I like to stack two layers of linings on top each other, this spreads out the
clamping pressure and avoids denting the delicate thin outside layer of the reverse kerfing.





This photo shows the compression marks that are often left when we use
clamps that provide sufficient enough clamping pressure.



Hope this helps!

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Lance@LuthiersForum.com

Do I see a mahogany guitar being built in the background????????

I thought you only built with cocobolo and LS redwood?

   

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Only badly."

Busted Actualy there are two Mahogany guitars going.

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Finally coming to your senses, eh?



Colin will be proud of you!

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

This is a good trick and even more so with standard triangular kerfing. Not
only does it protect the wood, but it puts extra pressure to the thin edge
where gaps are unacceptable. John Slobod showed me this trick years ago.

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I get them all in the end Don .

Colin

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Thanks Lance
   That really is a neat yet simple idea.

John

I could be wrong .. but those marks look an awful lot like some kind of oil residue coming out of the orange clamp liners ... I used to get the same thing when I used a rubber piece as a caul liner when gluing the backstrap on a headstock - solved that with a simple piece of baking paper in between that and the wood.

I just switched from binder clips to watkins clamps and couldnt be happier with the results.

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"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

[QUOTE=Colin S]I get them all in the end Don .



Colin[/QUOTE]

That's what Larry Craig said........  Not that there is anything wrong with that mind you.

Great tute Lance!!!!

Tony, you may be right, this was a poor excample because its on the back side of the kerfing. I usualy would get this marking along with a crushing or denting of the surface. By the time it was sanded out there was almost nothing left of the face of the reverse kerfing.
Binder clips always stain when I use to use them.

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staining .. you bend the linings damp/wet then, right - I got that too .... we should sue Business Depot

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[QUOTE=TonyKarol] I could be wrong .. but those marks look an awful lot
like some kind of oil residue coming out of the orange clamp liners
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Yep....I get that too.  It seems to either disappear by itself, or sand off.

[QUOTE=Colin S] I get them all in the end Don .

Colin[/QUOTE]

Sorry, not me yet...

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