Ken Parker Archtoppery - The Neck Journey 11) Neck Veneer Design
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Here we have adventures in choosing wood species and thickness for a guitar neck veneer and strategies for bending without breaking.
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For an explanation of "rift sawing" and other wood cutting terms,
see Ken Parker Archtoppery - The Neck Journey 6) Material Selection Chapter 1 of 2 at 5:33 ff
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I can't get enough of these videos. you're very inspiring Ken
I appreciate that!
That linen veneer trick is so awesome.
Darn tootin'! An ancient solution, and so satisfying! Kinda like Magic!
The flame in that neck is just freaking wicked good!🤩
OK, I'll split the rest of that tree with you if you can find it!
This is some of the prettiest (rift - sawn, as we noted) Big Leaf maple I ever did see. What a dream to cut with hand tools! Kinda like really crisp hard butter.
A life time of skill and experience, all given for free. Thank you sir. Fascinating stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for sharing your process. Fascinating stuff.
More to come!
Thanks for the video(s)!
Glad you like them!
Thank u Mr.Parker🤘
It's my pleasure.
As always, thank you :)
My pleasure!
Thanks Ken, ... lovin' this series ; )
Glad you enjoy it!
I made my own " super soft" with water, glycerine and IPA ( can use denatured alcohol) worked great for rehydrating and flattening some very dry wavy burl veneer. One recipe i saw added carpenters yellow glue to the mix but i didn't bother
Bravo! I love this, and did try these "kitchen" mixtures myself, as I mentioned, but the magic fluid in the bottle worked better than my recipes, and jeez, you just give them money and they send you some!
I took me a long time to admit that it's often better to save yourself from reinventing everything (I have really struggled with this as a toolmaker), and just order what you can already buy if it solves your problem. It can protect your ability to solve those problems you can't throw money at, and have to figure out yourself on the workbench.
How do you keep a Parker aficionado in suspense………………………..
I'll have to lok into this! Honestly, I didn't know how much there was to unpack and demonstrate until I dug in to the Neck Journey series! I have been doing this so long, it just seems "normal". I promise I'll nail it all down and show everything I know about this modern application of antique methods!
Did you ever tried boiling water? then clamp till dry?
I always try the simple stuff first, as you likely do. It's heartbreaking to prepare a piece of spectacular material and then destroy it by cracking, and my experience is that every species and grain orientation presents different levels of challenge, the likes of which you might not understand until it's too late. In general, I don't like what boiling water does to wood, unless you can control the process very closely to insure the shape and condition of the intended final product.
Oh, I knew you were gonna say that!
Like pasta! = tricky! for "some".
Well, the 100+ year old wood we use needs to be conditioned so,,,our routine necessary boiling hot water treatment will cause checking/cracks if dried too fast.
Any wood new or old, It must be dried very slow at first.
We have a climate correct space for that.
Boiling is the safe magic temperature for wood matrix/resins manipulation.
Steam = no.
Otherwise no problems.
You must have dried too quickly!
Hey!!! wonder how that super soft would do in noodles? LOL. wouldn't need heat!