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Post by latestrummer on Jun 11, 2015 20:01:50 GMT -6
They say misery loves company so I just glued the back on my 2nd acoustic, when I untied it I realized I still had the piece screwed through the sound hole to the work board. I just had to borrow my wife's iron (she'll never know) to heat up the back and remove it!
Any one else have one of those moments?
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Jun 11, 2015 21:03:57 GMT -6
They say misery loves company so I just glued the back on my 2nd acoustic, when I untied it I realized I still had the piece screwed through the sound hole to the work board. I just had to borrow my wife's iron (she'll never know) to heat up the back and remove it! Any one else have one of those moments? No..never! Lol John |
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Post by dnic on Jun 11, 2015 23:42:16 GMT -6
I've made plenty of mistakes but not that one. I'm sure you thought long and hard about another remedy.
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Post by latestrummer on Jun 12, 2015 19:18:56 GMT -6
Well the back is back on. I had to repair some of the back braces I hit while taking off the back but it's all good again. I just hate it when I do stuff like that.
Kinda like a surgeon who sewed his scalpel into someone.
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Post by antares on Jun 13, 2015 4:39:46 GMT -6
How about your's truly then? I plugged and re-bored some tailpiece holes using Devcon. Big mistake and exposes me for the chancer that I am. One year later, I get around to cleaning it out and plugging properly with oak dowels, forgetting that the replacement TonePros wrapover TP had different hole pitch. Had to bore out the plugs again and reseat new oak plugs and re-bore. Forgot that the original posts had been installed as if the axe was intended as a southpaw (Friday afternoon job for the makers) I decided to live with it rather than risk a fourth attempt. It looks OK because the TP hides the repaired lacquer around the plugs. You're not alone!
e&oe...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2015 10:34:07 GMT -6
I think anyone that builds or repairs guitars sooner or later have a guitar that does not go too well. I know i have had a few go bad.
There are also them times when for, what ever reason we forget things. Sometimes we remember when it's too late to do anything about it. So we have to come up with a way to fix what we forgot. (like for getting to put in the ground wire in from the bridge) HA!
So yes I think we all have a few stories on things we have done or not done in a build.
The cool thing is you did not give up on the project.
EB
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Post by antares on Jun 13, 2015 11:30:08 GMT -6
Bridge ground wire gaff- did that one too!
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Post by latestrummer on Jun 13, 2015 18:22:13 GMT -6
I can't give up, I'm expecting to do a few more gaffs before she's done:)
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Post by brianloco on Jul 2, 2015 18:16:54 GMT -6
On the very first guitar I worked on a fretless conversion on a strat I knocked the nut out like it was a les paul had to glue chunks of the fretboard back in live and learn
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Post by dnic on Jul 3, 2015 7:43:26 GMT -6
On the very first guitar I worked on a fretless conversion on a strat I knocked the nut out like it was a les paul had to glue chunks of the fretboard back in live and learn OUCH! |
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Post by dnic on Sept 22, 2015 8:30:34 GMT -6
Ok I got really fresh one for you.
Been wet shading the Nighthawk. I've ended up using lacquer and am wet sanding after 3 or 4 coats trying to keep things level filling in little grain grain divots. I'm using mineral spirits and wiping down with naphtha, so I dump the mineral spirits to put clean in the pan. When I start sanding again I realized much to late I refilled the pan with lacquer thinner. Man I made a mess out of the back of that guitar. I've already sanded it out and shot two more coats on the damaged area man what a pain.
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Post by hoz on Sept 24, 2015 16:44:14 GMT -6
Oh man. Those cans do look similar.
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Post by latestrummer on Sept 24, 2015 17:18:28 GMT -6
Ouch! That sucks!
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Post by dnic on Sept 24, 2015 17:51:14 GMT -6
It's fixed, I'll post some pics on the appropriate thread.
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