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This does not make me happy. I think in the future I will forward Rick work to my competitors and let them be unhappy. I've worked with nitro for years and still am learning new things about it.

I scored the edge of the fretboard quite effectively and got a very decent clean break at the finsh transition line. I'll use an airbrush and do what I can to melt the finish back together by spraying straight acetone into the transition. You can pull this off if you can thoroughly wash out the ...

For the moment, I just drilled straight through the markers with a 3/64ths bit and will take my chances drop filling the little hole with my super magical custom process for matching cream colored plastic and topping with ambered lacquer. If it doesn't become invisiblized, I'll pop out the dots and ...

Its a good word and has alternate spellings. Dissassembleability or the more coloquial dissassembla-bility. Its a technical term used soley within the luthery community which has license to develop any word it wants to describe lutheristical processes.

Hey! I got around to cleaning up the mating ...

John, the twist in the photo, yea I see it too, is just due to the camera angle and maybe the editing I did for size using photoshop. I'm currently doing a lot of exploration of documentation photography and hopefully will be getting some instruction from a pro soon. Taking pictures of guitars and ...

I've done all I can and removing the truss rods didn't help toward closing the gap at the heel. Even with heat, the gap would not close using clamps. One of the trussrods was fractured and I'm going to replace both. I took photos of the fretboard being removed and the techy folks here might find ...

Hello. I'm new to this forum and generally live on the Fender forum. I'm a professional luthier, and the service manager at a small privately owned music store. I've only seen a few Ricks over the years and found out about your forum via the FDP.

I have a late seventys 330 in pristine condition ...