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48 years ago today. Garcia playing monsterfret Dan Erlewine built guitar at a Thanksgiving jam. #gratefuldead #jerrygarcia #danerlewine #stewmac stewmac_guitar
Woohoo, it's #TipTuesday! Having trouble tightening a loose input jack? Use the "Jack the Gripper" tool to tighten loose jacks while avoiding twisted and/or broken wires.
This is extra helpful on modern amps where there are circuit boards behind the jacks.
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This is NO JOKE. 🤯🎸
These featherweight calipers measure imperial to two decimal places metric to one decimal place. They're perfect for a million things around your shop or for in your gig bag.
We don't have ton's of them, so they won't last long. If you want a set you should order soon. Shop via the link in our bio.
This week's #TipTuesday comes from monsterfret.
"From my shop to yours..."
While prepping an old Kay Sherwood arch top for a refret, I removed the pearl inlays to level the upbowed fretboard without sanding through the inlays. The neck didn't have an adjustable truss rod to help straighten it, and I knew I’d sand through some inlays if I didn’t heat and remove them. Four cracked or broke coming out, but the other five were fine.
Since this guitar had a low repair budget, I decided to replace the broken pearls with inlays made of “pearloid” pickguard material instead of pearl. The pearloid is flexible and will bend to the 9.5” fretboard radius if I used the shop-made attachment for a Dremel tool base that can rout a pocket with a radiused bottom. Not having to radius the top of new pearl inlays saved a ton of time. I made this attachment some years back when making a LP style fretboard with crown inlays made of “pearloid” (📸 1). The attachment is easy to make, and here’s how:
📸 2: I cut a 3/8” thick slice off the bottom of a 12” radius x 4” long radius sanding block. The block is double-stick taped to a steel block to keep it steady. I tilted the band-saw table until the blade cut on the same plane as the wood block.
📸 3: After sanding the saw marks flat, I drilled a hole for the cutter bit.
📸 4: I sawed a V-notch so I could watch my routing, and put a super fast finish on it with two coats of superglue rubbed on and sanded smooth to help it stick to the bottom router base.
📸 5: The wood base is “double-stuck” to the router base.
📸 6: And it’s ready to go!
📸 7: See how thick this pearl inlay must have been when this guitar was made?
📸 8: See just how flush the old inlays were after I routed them deeper. Pressing on either end of an inlay would make it rock because the pearl is resting on the center. Epoxy or superglue takes care of that.
📸 9: I made my replacement inlays from pearloid pick guard material, because it bends to match the radiused bottom of the routed cavities and will be flush with the surrounding fretboard.
📸 10: From this distance you can’t tell if the inlays are real pearl, and most eyes would never notice it.
We LOVE seeing lifetime memories being made. ❤️ jedd_hughes and his son built this great mini guitar this summer.
What are you building? 🎸
You know how when mixing fresh shellac you always end up with either a clump or a few pieces that won't dissolve? Here's a really simple solution.
This week's #TipTuesday comes from Brock Poling (luthiersworkbench) on our marketing team.
We're going to make a 2# cut side-by-side, the traditional way and a faster way. The traditional way takes about 12 hours to dissolve, the faster way takes about 20-30 minutes.
Ingredients:
1 oz. of fresh shellac flakes (in this case super blond flakes)
1 oz. denatured alcohol (or in our case Everclear)
⭐ Step 1 - Weigh out 1 oz of shellac flakes on a kitchen scale
⭐ Step 2 - Grind the flakes in a coffee grinder
⭐ Step 3 - Add 8 oz of alcohol
⭐ Step 4 - Use a magnetic stirrer ($15-$20 on Amazon)
It helps to use glassware that has a perfectly flat bottom.
20-30 minutes later, the shellac is fully dissolved and ready to strain and use.
Keep it in an air tight jar and it should last for about 6 months in a cool, dry shop.
🔥🔥 ANNOUNCING OUR NEXT GIVEAWAY, and this one is a doozy! 🔥🔥
This week, we're giving away our GUITAR SHOP TOOL SET. This has over $900 of our most popular tools and just about everything you'll need to get started doing your own setups and basic fret work.
🎸 Fretting Tools (lots of them)
🎸 Nut & Saddle Making Tools
🎸 Precision Measuring Tools
🎸 Setup Tools
🎸 Books
🎸 ...And Much More
🎸 (no the guitar isn’t in the giveaway 😏)
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Details:
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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 18 AND OLDER. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Sweepstakes ends: 09/18/2020. For Official Rules and complete details, visit https://www.stewmac.com/sweepstakes-terms-and-conditions. Odds of winning depend on total number of eligible entries received. Sponsor: Stewart MacDonald.
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Every pin has its place.
If you take time to perfectly fit your bridge pins (as you should) it's also worth marking them to know which pin belongs in which hole. A quick swipe with a nut slotting file makes a clean groove to mark each pin: I, II, III… For ebony pins, a little white chalk dust can highlight the grooves, and some brown stain or graphite can highlight the grooves on ivoroid or bone pins.
You’ll never see the marks when the pins are installed, but they make string changes even easier.
Thanks dpetrzelka for another great #TipTuesday! #DansTechTips
Did a safe distance hang with this fine fellow this evening for the first time in nearly 3 months. #guitarrepair #danerlewine
Correction on Date of Nudie suit pictures.
Actually is Winterland Dec 10 - 12th run.
For Contrast, Alligator was played on the 10th and the Erlewine Strat was played on the 11th and 12th. December 10th was Alligator Version 4.0 with the new Alembic Brass Bridge, Sustainer Block and Tailpiece.
Nudie suits were also worn on the Feb 19 and March 19th 1973 shows.
1972 shows have a single mic for each singer. In 1973 the Dual Mics were being used already.
#waldotronics #jerrygarciatonenerd #jerrygarcia #gratefuldead #alligator #danerlewine
Gifts from a good friend I met in Athens-OH. curlymaplewood Thomas Bennett. He gave me this beautiful Koa wood plate turned in his shop, where I went a lot of times while I was working with monsterfret Dan Erlewine for 3 yeas during the Winter and Spring seasons. Because of him I have built some particulars and special projects with Koa top on them. I learned so much from him and his fabulous shop. Many Thanks my friend! 🇺🇸🇧🇷🎸🌉🗜
Enquanto estive trabalhando com Dan Erlewine, conheci um cara fenomenal, Thomas Bennett, fui em@sua oficina varias vezes e sempre aprendi muito com ele. E ele me deu esse lindo prato de Koa feito em seu torno. Além de ter me oferecido umas Koa que fiz lindos projetos de guitarras. Muito Obrigado meu amigo. #koa #bow #woodturning #woodworking #woodworker #tonewood #friends #friendship #woods #handmade #handmadejewelry #gift #present #tool #tools #guitarshop #woodshop #danerlewine
The 1970 built Dan Erlewine Strat custom ordered by Jerry and played in 1972. Dan is a Luthier that has a rather giant Luthier retail shop online called stewmac.com. You can check out his video about it over there as well as get a quality switch for an OBEL or whole strat kit! I think this Custom Erlewine may have been given to Hunter as he is seen playing it later on.
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A quote from Dan about from The Les Paul Forum. "Yeah, I built Jerry a guitar around 1970ish? It was a black walnut bodied Strat with a maple neck. I was into "wood" so it had a rosewood pickguard and other "woody" thinks at the time. I have an 8mm movie of me delivering it to him in the mountains of St. Helena, CA where my wife's uncle owns a ranch. We visited when my oldest daughter was a baby. I charged $500 and Jerry gave me $900!
The guitar wasn't worth it! It was OK, but not compared to custom instruments that luthiers are building today. I ma(d)e the neck with maple laminations running at right angles to the fretboard. It made for a weird neck, I'll tell you because since it was a "maple neck" and had no fretboard the playing surface showed glue joints! I was always a little disatisfied with that. I thought it would have "killer" tone and strength because it was maple out of an ancient piano that I tore apart.
It had a stop-bar and tune-o-matic also (Jerry wanted that. . . it also had the num(b)ers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 , 12, inlayed in large rosewood numerals at those respective frets. Just a crazy hippie-idea of mine.
It also had a brass nut - the very first brass nut that I had ever been asked to make.
I have a pic of Jerry with it if you want to see it.
thanks, Dan
PS: I ran into a young fellow at the GAL Convention in Tacoma perhaps 6 years ago, and his father ended up with that guitar, and then gave it to him. He was pleased to meet me, and I was pleased that he did NOT have the guitar in hand (with all my building and repair buddies around (500 of them)." #waldotronics #jerrygarciatonenerd
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Albert King and Lucy.
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#albertking #lucy #flyingv #danerlewine #bryangalloup #fried__okra
Three decades later, Dan monsterfret and Bryan have re-teamed to reproduce Albert King’s iconic V, “Lucy”. To ensure these instruments not only look and feel the same, Dan used the last of his original Lucy wood to build one for joebonamassa and myself. Very happy to be a part of Dan and Alberts legacy.
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Thank you stewmac_guitar for years of satisfaction using your tools! And these are just the files... 😂 😃 🎸💪
crismasterbasses makes fret removal look like a piece of cake. 🍰 Nice work!
Dan in 1979 #throwbackthursday
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Reemplazo de #vibrola por #tailpiece (cordal) de la época, modificado por #danerlewine de #stewmac stewmac_guitar
Esto le modifica el ángulo y mejora notablemente el sustain #guitarsustain #gibson #gibsonsg 1963 .
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Muchas gracias Mariano🙏🙏🙏 .
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Today's #TipTuesday comes from Randy Hughes hughesguitars and will help you get your fret ends seated nice and tight when pressing them in. Perfect every time. Check it out!
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