Cleaning files fouled by aluminum
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Dunking it briefly in a caustic solution should loosen stuff as well (hint - don't try this with your pistons or aeroplane!) and will degrease it as part of the bargain A narrow (< 20mm) strip of mild steel works just as well for removing steel swarf from files. Eddie
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Rogan Creswick
A scrap of wood works just fine, too. I find the endgrain works best, and forms the same sort of teeth he shows with copper. On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 9:34 PM Nick Andrews <nickjandrews@...> wrote:
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Interesting. I normally use a file card, but some of the files I've found at estate sales have all kinds of odd stuff on them so different methods are interesting. I'll have to try some of these out. On Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 10:48 AM Rogan Creswick <creswick@...> wrote:
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Stephen Bartlett
I have cleaned single cut files, not cross cut, by pushing a narrow angle X Acto blade point first along the individual tooth valleys.
It is tedious but digs out stubborn swarf. Steve Bartlett |
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Glen Ruch
This guy uses Bamboo. He even built a special handle. He also has a Tips page Regards.
On 6/27/22 12:14, Nick Andrews wrote:
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Ray De Jong
Wow! that 'Tips Page' link is to a most excellent list of tips , well worth looking into and bookmarking
On Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 05:27:05 AM PDT, Glen Ruch via groups.io <gw.ruch@...> wrote:
This guy uses Bamboo. He even built a special handle. He also has a Tips page Regards.
On 6/27/22 12:14, Nick Andrews wrote:
Interesting. I normally use a file card, but
some of the files I've found at estate sales have all kinds of
odd stuff on them so different methods are interesting. I'll
have to try some of these out.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 10:48 AM
Rogan Creswick <creswick@...>
wrote:
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mike allen
Yea , Frank is a genius at other things besides just being one of the best luthiers around . animal On 6/28/2022 7:08 AM, Ray De Jong via
groups.io wrote:
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Frank Ford is definitely the real deal when it comes to craftsmanship in a bunch of materials and the use, maintenance, and creation of tools and other objects. He's high on my list of tech wizards. :) Bill in OKC William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. SEMPER GUMBY! Physics doesn't care about your schedule. The only reason I know anything is because I've done it wrong enough times to START to know better
On Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 12:33:09 PM CDT, mike allen <animal@...> wrote:
Yea , Frank is a genius at other things besides just being one of the best luthiers around . animal On 6/28/2022 7:08 AM, Ray De Jong via
groups.io wrote:
Wow! that 'Tips Page' link is
to a most excellent list of tips , well worth looking into and
bookmarking
On Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 05:27:05 AM PDT, Glen Ruch
via groups.io <gw.ruch@...> wrote:
This guy uses Bamboo. He even built a special
handle. He also has a Tips page Regards.
On
6/27/22 12:14, Nick Andrews wrote:
Interesting. I normally use a file card, but
some of the files I've found at estate sales have all
kinds of odd stuff on them so different methods are
interesting. I'll have to try some of these out.
On Mon,
Jun 27, 2022, 10:48 AM Rogan Creswick <creswick@...>
wrote:
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mike allen
Ya outta see what he can do to 100 year + Martin guitar animal On 6/28/2022 12:25 PM, Bill in OKC too
via groups.io wrote:
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I have. Was interested because I could have inherited my dad's 1954 D28 Dreadnaught. Except I couldn't learn to play it. Not sure who got it, but I have a brother & five sisters who were in the running. The brother got dad's 1903 Springfield, "Betsy", so I think the oldest sister would have gotten the guitar. I'm still unhappy I couldn't learn to play it, but glad that someone who can did. Martin guitars are a beautiful and complex machine, and I was not worthy of it. But maybe I can make tools for someone with those particular skills. :) Bill in OKC William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. SEMPER GUMBY! Physics doesn't care about your schedule. The only reason I know anything is because I've done it wrong enough times to START to know better
On Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 06:07:07 PM CDT, mike allen <animal@...> wrote:
Ya outta see what he can do to 100 year + Martin guitar animal On 6/28/2022 12:25 PM, Bill in OKC too
via groups.io wrote:
Frank Ford is definitely the real deal when it comes to
craftsmanship in a bunch of materials and the use,
maintenance, and creation of tools and other objects. He's
high on my list of tech wizards. :)
Bill in OKC
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms
to live by:
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
SEMPER GUMBY!
Physics doesn't care about your schedule. The only reason I know anything is because I've done it wrong enough times to START to know better On Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 12:33:09 PM CDT, mike
allen <animal@...> wrote:
Yea , Frank is a genius at other things besides just being one of the best luthiers around . animal On
6/28/2022 7:08 AM, Ray De Jong via groups.io wrote:
Wow! that 'Tips Page' link is to a
most excellent list of tips , well worth looking
into and bookmarking
On Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 05:27:05 AM PDT,
Glen Ruch via groups.io <gw.ruch@...>
wrote:
This guy uses Bamboo. He even built a
special handle. He also has a Tips page Regards.
On
6/27/22 12:14, Nick Andrews wrote:
Interesting. I normally use a file
card, but some of the files I've found at
estate sales have all kinds of odd stuff
on them so different methods are
interesting. I'll have to try some of
these out.
On
Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 10:48 AM Rogan
Creswick <creswick@...>
wrote:
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mike allen
Anybody can learn to play the guitar . Can they be any good at it ? Well that's up to them . I had a DR get inside of my hand & screw up a finger . I'm still sitting on several guitars worth some good $ thinking one day my hand will work right again . I
have several friends with Martins , some can play them & some
just have Martins . Myself I have never liked the way a Martin
sounds when I played one . I had a pretty nice Gibson L5 that sounded great that I left at a aunts house at the wrong time & she tossed it . She is no longer my aunt but I still don't have that guitar . animal On 6/28/2022 5:58 PM, Bill in OKC too
via groups.io wrote:
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Nick Jonkman
Back around 1987 I bought a Martin D28 guitar kit from St. Croix Kits now Music Makers for $299.95. Martin was selling kits of unfinished guitars that were supposed to be seconds with some slight blemish. Mine came with a note that said no blemish. I bought this just after my first wife had past away from cancer in 1986 and this project kinda kept me occupied and got me back to living again. I played it for many years . I also have a Gibson J50, a 1953 vintage. Now at 80 years my fingers don't work so well any more. One of these days I am going to have to sell them as none of my family is interested in them.
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mike allen
Not sure where you live , but Gryphon Stringed
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Instruments ( the place that Frank Ford , the guy mentioned earlier in this thread started & still runs ) will give you a good honest price for it or a appraisal . In my case it's mostly the work of a DR that has almost stopped my playing along with 30 years as a electrician distorting my fingers . But then I'll spin some Django & listen to what he could do with two fingers & say I'll give it another try . https://www.gryphonstrings.com/ animal On 6/29/2022 6:19 AM, Nick Jonkman wrote:
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