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    Madeira EG-150

    On the Luthiers forum on FB, a fella posted about an issue he has with a Madeira EG-150. It's a Les Paul Special kind of guitar. The pickguard is disintegrating and the off gassing has effected the finish.
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    Grover tuner grittiness fix

    I never thought about how they are actually constructed, but grease on the thrust washers under the buttons does the trick. I would imagine that this would work on most Grover-style tuners.
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    Guild Amps Book Project

    For the longest time, I've been thinking that someone should do a book on Guild amplifiers. After a lot of hemming and hawing, I have decided to tackle that project. It's going to be the biggest task I've ever attempted, so I would appreciate any help I can get. If you have any Guild amps and...
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    Alan Lomax field recordings

    Everything here, and free. https://archive.culturalequity.org/collections/field-work
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    Those zoom recorders

    How good do you think they'd be at picking up a speaker at a conference room? I'm going to the ADHD conference in the fall, and my physical note taking abilities are not good. I was wondering if those zoom microphone / interface/recorder things are any good at being able to pick up a speaker at...
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    Solar panel fun

    Solar panels are going up today! Only two months earlier than they told me, so frantically applying for home equity loans to kite it over for a couple of months until I get it paid off. Should be interesting to see how long it takes for them to install it. It's a 6 kW system, so it's not...
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    Battery tech leap

    The local boys and girls at Drexel have discovered a way to make rechargable batteries lighter and increase the number of times you can recharge them. This will also reduce the cost, and put us on the road to eliminating most, if not all of the toxic metals used in making batteries...
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    Novak Franz reproductions

    Just posted on his FB page.
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    Awful Japanese tuners on 65 CE-100D

    Remember these? I think I might have found a replacement solution from Graphtech.
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    A small project, GSR X-150

    Next (or third or fourth ) project. It's the one with loose braces. No label, don't know which of 26 this one is. 2013, 310th* day, first guitar made that day. *see hansing below.
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    CE-100

    This is the 1956 example with the delaminating top. Someone might be interested in looking at the process I'm going with. The victim:
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    Tailpiece question

    I'm sourcing parts for the 1956 project CE-100 and was wondering if the harp that year was a trapeze or the bent chrome type?
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    For the wood workers in the audience

    Every issue of Gustof Stickley's The Craftsman magazine. There are some basic plans for furniture in the issues that I glanced through. https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AQ5VII6GNL36H78T
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    Micky Mouse pickup reference thread

    This pickup is the thin, single coil pickup that Guild used primarily in the mid to late sixties. "Mickey Mouse" is an in-house nickname and never appeared in Guild literature. I've had a couple of guitars with these pickups slip through my fingers over the years, and I would like to get some...
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    Preparing for retirement

    Stuff
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    Neckthru solid bodies?

    Did I miss the memo on these?
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    Need hording intervention!

    Now I have two... 😫
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    Country music the easy way!

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    Beautiful feet, ugly guitar (Starfire IV)

    Pulled out another guitar I rescued a while back. I'll be going back to work on Monday, so I figured I should get another project underway. Lots of sloppy Titebond on the neck joint which had to be scraped off. No neck binding when I bought it, but clumps of glue in the channel that had to be...
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    Reference post: Bisonic hack

    This is a technical thread for historical purposes. If you have no interest in bass, or in re-engineering pickups, please do not posts veers. Thank you Lunginsam had a Bisonic that had been dropped and had shattered. As it wasn't more than a paperweight, I volunteered to repair it. Having not...
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