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Damn, Billy, now why didn’t I think of that?
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Jon, the guitar is a custom made 2005 Michael Dunn.
Following my directions, he made it with the same body dimensions as Eddy Lang’s classic L-4 Gibson but with the top braced like a Selmac.
The idea was that it would sound like Eddie for rhythm and Django for lead.
Which it more or less does, to the extent that yours truly is capable of making it do so…
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Nitrocellulose is famously unstable, I'm not sure if the newer formulations are more stable but I believe it can combust at very low temperatures.
Old film stock used to be Nitrocellulose and that's why movie theatres used to go on fire and why film archives are sort of inherently dangerous.
https://hyperallergic.com/343828/the-unlikely-story-of-how-nitrate-film-endures/
I think (!!) that Django's fire was caused by the flowers they were making being from nitrocellulose film stock? That's what I remember anyway. Makes total sense.
I would absolutely suggest you don't attempt your own binding repair on any guitar you care about. Binding is an absolute bitch and to me the hardest part of making a guitar. Repairing it is no joke.
Thanks for that wise binding advice, Paul. I think I’m going to accept it.
My guitar tech told me he had even heard of nitrocellulose bindings bursting into flames while being cut by a bandsaw.
Pickguard material with that lovely vintage tortoiseshell-look can also be made out of nitro cellulose so watch out for that getting overheated,, too.
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Hey, Buco, sorry man somehow I haven’t responded to any of your postings. Embarrassing.
Yeah when you’re playing outdoors in the wintertime you want to keep your LH fingers nice and warm to play those tricky bits… so i had the heater up nice and close to my left hand., which meant that it was also nice and close to the head of my guitar. Rookie mistake!
Miss ya buddy!
Will
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
I'd advise that playing near a heater like that is genuinely really bad for guitars. Guitars thrive in consistent temperature and humidity conditions and wood takes a long time to acclimate to temperature changes (like 18 hours to be totally acclimated).
Being close to a heater is really putting you at risk of major damage from a crack forming. You're quickly burning all the humidity out of the wood and making all the things in a guitar that want to split apart split apart.
I mean just having a guitar in a heated apartment without humidification puts you at risk of a crack. Being in a cold room but close to a heater is like off the charts.
Just saying.
Haven't we been playing guitars by the campfire for a hundred years or more?
Yes but I'd think that propane heater is a much more focused heat, open fire is a bit more diffused. Of course camp fire is still a fire, I've sat next to them and backed off further away because I could tell the guitar was getting too hot.
Rookie mistakes are understandable, but Around a summer campfire by Lake Dorr central FL in early 90's I watched a fellow musician "stir" the dying embers with the headstock of his Guild guitar while laughing with two others. Needless to say - I didn't laugh and was shocked! Same result: Burnt end of headstock! WOW!
Rocky
Whoa
That couldn't have happened without mood enhancers.