This
meeting was filled with building techniques and demos. If you did not
get anything out of the afternoon you were asleep. Many prople showed
up and were anxious to work on their individual projects. Gary was able
to accomodate all of them but the day goes by so fast when your having
this much fun.
Subjects covered in this meeting were:
1. The guitar back is being trimed down of it's excess material so the overall size of the piece is not to large for the glue jig.
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 2. Now the Ramirez shaped body back is ready to glue.  |
 3. The proper height of the strings above the fingerboard at the nut is gauged by using the top of the frets and a sharp ended straightedge. Here Gary used a neck shaping scraper to scribe the level of the fret tops onto the bone nut. |
 4 A pencil mark can be approximated where the scribed lie will be in order to make the scribed line seen clearly. |
| .  5. Thenk the approximate profile shape of the is penciled in for trimming. |
 6. Now we can use our rounded bottom nut slot files to bring the slot depths up to our scribed line. |
 7. Notice the Len is putting a slight angle toward the back or headstock side of the nut. This is know as nut break angle and keeps the string from buzzing in the slot. |
 8. The slot's depth will be further cut once the string height setup has been adjusted. |
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