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Topic: Where to get MOTS plastic? |
Paul Arntson
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2004 7:53 pm |
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Has anybody ever bought pearlescent swirly shrink plastic? Does anyone know if it is still made?
I was sitting here staring at my MOTS laps thinking how cool it would be to figure out how to do that stuff.
I like it so much I think I could shrink it on every wood project I ever make...
Am I right in thinking it was a heat-shrink type product?
I found some used in the model airplane hobby industry, but none with that cool old texture.
Ideas are welcome.
Thanks.
-paul |
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Andy Zynda
From:
Wisconsin
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Posted 2 Sep 2004 4:56 am
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Someone still makes the stuff, because they still make pickguards out of it.
Maybe talk to a boutique guitar builder??
-andy-
[This message was edited by Andy Zynda on 02 September 2004 at 11:11 AM.] |
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Mike D
From:
Phx, Az
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Posted 2 Sep 2004 6:55 am
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You can get a large sheet of it from Stewart-MacDonald, drum supply houses may have it too.
Here's a lap steel where I used the S-Mac stuff for the fretboard. http://members.cox.net/maricopaguitarco/misc3_image.jpg
I used a fretsaw to cut down through the top layer to the black center and did the markers in tortise pick material.
The Stew-Mac stuff is pretty thick (3 layer) and I don't know how flexible it would be. Back in the day at Fender I know they used acetone to soften the MOTS that went on the lapsteels. Maybe Jody Carver could shed some light.
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Half-assed bottleneck and lap slide player. Full-assed Builder of resonator instruments.
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Jay Fagerlie
From:
Lotus, California, USA
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2004 7:57 am
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| I have a new Italia Modena guitar that's completely covered in the shrink MOTS. So it's definitely available somewhere. The Fender Custom Shop made a MOTS guitar for Danny Gatton. Maybe someone there can tell you where to get it. I think it would be great stuff to use in building a hot rod. Steering wheel, dash, etc.. I don't think that the stuff they make pickguards out of is what you're lookin' for. That stuff is thick. Real MOTS is pretty thin I believe. JB |
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Andy Zynda
From:
Wisconsin
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2004 3:24 pm
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| 60 to 90 sheet minimum order! Expensive!! |
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Ed Naylor
From:
portsmouth.ohio usa, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Sep 2004 10:21 am
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| I have used this in the past and it is nice but sometimes it is hard to make it "Adhere" I usually keep some in stock and on those "Experimenting" days I will play around with.Also it is expensive. Ed Naylor Steel Guitar Works |
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