What I want to know is how do you work the sawdust into the crack without super gluing your fingers to the whole thing.
Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Re: to fret or to fretless Ah man, I better run out and get me some of that Rosewood and make loads of saw dust. I'll clean my chop-saw out really well and then just make up some dust that will end up in the bag. grin. Seriously though, this is a really fine idea. I wonder if there's a nice neat way to make sawdust in different sizes. Ay you laugh, but maybe a sawdust -making machine. grin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Janet and Felix * wrote: > Hi. I don't post very often at all. > > But on this topic, the luthier that Felix works with showed me how > to fix a > chip in the wood that was on a guitar neck-- a little boo boo where > a small > piece of wood had come out of the fretboard. "Are you paying > attention?" > He said to me very sternly and sort of upset me a bit. But it > served its > purpose-- to make me pay close attention. > > He had a glass jar full of rosewood 'sawdust' I guess you could > call it. He > had saved it from many many guitars he had worked on. He saved > every last > granual of rosewood sawdust-- he never threw any away, ever. The > he took > some superglue, yes, superglue and put a few drops into the hole, > then some > rosewood dust, then more superglue, then more rosewood dust, and so > on until > the hole was full. He then took some very fine sandpaper, 1500 > grit, and > buffed it smooth. > > And do you know what? When he was finished, you couldn't tell > there was > ever a hole there. Smooth as a baby's butt and visually too, there > was no > visual sign of the hole. (I am sighted.) > > I was very impressed. > > Then when we got home, Felix took some of the dust from the > cardboard box he > had his guitar sitting in while he was leveling the fretboard and > had me put > it into a baggie since we didn't have a nice big pickle jar handy > like his > luthier had, and then he asked me to fix a few smaller cacks that > really > only required one application of the superglue followed by one > application > of the saved dust, of which we didn't have much of anyway, and then > I buffed > it with 1500 grit sandpaper, and I too was able to smooth out some > small > nicks. > > Felix should have done it. Then he could describe it being done. > But, it > was me instead of him, this time. > > I'm only posting her today to describe my success in filling in > holes in > rosewood guitar fingerboards. > > Now, where does one find rosewood dust? The luthier saved his from > leveling > and cutting fretslots on many, many rosewood fingerboards. > > Felix and I think that if one knows where to get a piece of > rosewood, it > would be easy enough to make rosewood sawdust from that. 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