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Author:  Dancin Dan [ Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:11 pm ]
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Evening, all.

I'm an apprentice cabinetmaker and absolutely brand new to luthiery. While my home shop is modest to say the least, I currently have access to professional tools at work that should facilitate my feeding the luthiery bug for now. Fortunately, management is currently OK with us completing personal projects after hours so long as workflow doesn't suffer.

I have some experience with joinery when it comes to furniture and staircases. I'm thinking the concepts where guitar repair are concerned should not be entirely different from this when it comes to ensuring proper glue adhesion, solid clamping and feathering in the repaired area to hide any evidence that a repair was ever done. In general, it seems that the more attention is paid to the details, the better things turn out.

I created a profile here because I have 2 guitars in need of some significant repairs that I would like to ensure are brought properly back to being playable again. As with anything I do for myself, I want to ensure I do it right so I won't have to do it more twice (already too late on one of these guitars). The first guitar I need to repair is an Ibanez AE (acoustic/electric) 12 string. It's somewhat cheap by professional musician standards though it holds high sentimental value for me considering I've owned it since the mid 90's. It was pretty sweet to play back then and if I can bring it back to glory, I'll be very excited.

The other is a Johnson brand spider-cone steel resonator that I've owned nearly long as the AE and has a long and storied history when it comes to my past. While it's probably even less financially valuable than the first one, the sentimental value there is absolutely through the roof. It's also the worse off of the two.

I'll be reading up on repairs here and possibly planning my own build now that I have access to obscene amounts of scrap wood and other premium material.

Pics and stories of the carnage soon to follow.

Cheers!
Author:  Chris Pile [ Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:13 pm ]
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Welcome, Dan!
Author:  weslewis [ Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:47 pm ]
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Welcome!!!!!!!! [:Y:] [:Y:] [:Y:]
Author:  Bryan Bear [ Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:30 pm ]
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Welcome! There is a real section here but I don't know how much traffic it gets.
Author:  WudWerkr [ Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:55 pm ]
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Welcome , this place is like hotel California. You can check out but you can never leave ! laughing6-hehe
Author:  SteveSmith [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:02 am ]
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Welcome Dan! I think Bryan was trying to say there is a Repair section here. There is a group of us who do check that section regularly.
Author:  Bryan Bear [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:12 am ]
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Well yes I suppose I didn't mention the repair section too. But. . . I was referring to the reso section as one of your projects is a resonator. Auto correct onThis phone is killing me!
Author:  SteveSmith [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:21 am ]
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Auto correct is not my friend either. And fellow luthier correct didn't work real good either ;)
Author:  Bryan Bear [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:29 am ]
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Ha! I'm always happy to be corrected here (in the interest of presenting good information). In this case it just presented new information. :)
Author:  Dancin Dan [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:35 am ]
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Thanks for the warm welcomes. I've noticed that I've posted in the build section. Sorry. I know most forums prefer to keep discussion areas on topic, but I wasn't sure if there was a better place for an intro and this section seemed to be getting the most traffic.

I'll post up the carnage & stories behind them in their respective sections to help keep the scene clean.
Author:  Alex Kleon [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:29 am ]
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WudWerkr wrote:
Welcome , this place is like hotel California. You can check out but you can never leave ! laughing6-hehe


I'll add my welcome, Dan, even though you've gotten one from our semi-official greeter, Wud! [:Y:]
Looking forward to seeing you around here!

Alex
Author:  mkellyvrod [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:12 am ]
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Welcome Dancin Dan! Would like to see pictures as you progress, and if you need advice, there are plenty willing to help. I'm not a repair guy, but I find the discussions helpful for an amateur builder such as myself.
Author:  Robbie_McD [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:29 am ]
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Hello Dan,

Welcome to the forum!
Lots of great people here that are always willing to help out and help us all become better at this somewhat addictive and obsessive craft...
One thing you will find out quick - there are many ways to do the same thing - and some are more passionate about "their way" than others.... beehive
And yes, post pics - no such thing as too many pics....

Rob
Author:  B. Howard [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:41 am ]
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Hi Dan. What part of PA are you from?
Author:  jfmckenna [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:07 am ]
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Howdy Dan. I find building a guitar to be more of a construction/engineering project more so than an art and craft for example, there is of course both, but having cabinet skills will certainly help.
Author:  WudWerkr [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:52 am ]
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Bryan Bear wrote:
Well yes I suppose I didn't mention the repair section too. But. . . I was referring to the reso section as one of your projects is a resonator. Auto correct onThis phone is killing me!



Gotta be smarter than the lil box in your hand ! laughing6-hehe laughing6-hehe

beehive I know im NOT laughing6-hehe
Author:  DannyV [ Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:28 pm ]
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And here I was about to change my online handle. Guess it won't be that one. [headinwall] Welcome anyway.

Dapper Dan :lol:
Author:  Colin North [ Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:48 am ]
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Welcome to the circus Dan!!
Look forward to your posts.
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