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    Router bit

    in Repairs and Technical

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    it's just a smidgen to accommodate the Haussell MM pickup – the body is a new one and the short edge is not quite right, just a couple of mm nearer the bridge

    I will experiment with a chisel on some scrap, but although I'm a novice, I have done a few bits and pieces that have been better with the router

    It's part of a slooooooow build thread so I'll update there soon

     

    Show your Wals... Appreciation Thread

    in Gear Gallery

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    Alas, no longer mine, but thought I'd better record my ownership here, for no particular reason.

    I bought the fretless in 1988 from ABC Music in Oxford – it started life as a fretless and was fretted in the first year – Pete confirmed this to me when I took it over for some fettling of the electronics back in 2007. I had it returned to it's original fretless state by Paul Herman via Charlie Chandler's just after Pete passed away.

    I wonder where they are now?

    Fretted is W2446 and the fretless is W2516

    😥

     

    Wals on wall.jpg

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    Oil over dye

    in Repairs and Technical

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    I'm nearing the end of the slowest build ever and I'm thinking of what to put on top of the Fiebings black leather dye I've applied to the swamp ash – my question is, what are the best options for a durable satin finish over the dye?

    Will the solvents in wax, tru-oil, etc reactivate the dye and lift it, or is there something better out there – advice please!

    Graphics

    in Repairs and Technical

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    On 24/05/2020 at 15:10, NancyJohnson said:

    There's a wonderful art restoration channel on You Tube called Baumgartner Restoration, which operates out of Chicago.  Julian Baumgartner regularly uses tissue paper (or later on a stronger Japanese version), which is pasted to the front of paintings to stabilise the paint layer while he reverses previous restorations (generally on the rear of the canvas).  It's fascinating stuff and is similar to what @TheGreek, the honourable member for Hatfield, describes above.

     

     

    Wow! As a photographer who does lots of professional retouching, albeit in Photoshop, I take my hat off to this chap – watched at x2 speed

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    What do you know?

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

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    4 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

    The unit was designed for permanent installation, including hard-to-get-to shelves and the back of cupboards. Solution? All inputs/outputs on the front, nothing whatever on the sides, back, top or bottom.

    Very sensible piece of design, if you ask me. Which you didn't, of course ...

     

    Thanks @Happy Jack – I knew there would be good reason as soon as I posted 🤐

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