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Topic: I found this and I don't know what it is... (?) |
J D Sauser
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Wellington, Florida
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Posted 2 Jul 2024 8:17 am |
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I found this "device" in my boxes I schlepped around from continent to continent for the past Decades.
Anybody have an idea what it is? I think it may be related to guitars, maybe acoustic guitars... but beyond, I am into "duh?":
Thanks!... J-D.
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Gary Meixner
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New York, USA
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Posted 2 Jul 2024 3:16 pm
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JD,
It looks to me like it could be a heating iron. The aluminum block would be heated and then passed through the sound hole of an acoustic guitar and held against the bridge plate or a brace to gently soften the glue. The brass item looks like it could be an electric heating element but I only see one wire running to it. All just a guess.
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Bill Sinclair
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Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 3 Jul 2024 5:03 am
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| Wow Gary, if you haven't correctly identified that handled tool you've at least come up with a great use for it! The brass cylinder with the wire coming out looks like some kind of thermocouple. |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 3 Jul 2024 11:50 am
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| Gary Meixner wrote: |
JD,
It looks to me like it could be a heating iron. The aluminum block would be heated and then passed through the sound hole of an acoustic guitar and held against the bridge plate or a brace to gently soften the glue. The brass item looks like it could be an electric heating element but I only see one wire running to it. All just a guess.
G. Meixner |
 I don't know how I got to have that thing.
Thanks!... let me play this by my guitar builder in NYC who works on my Gypsy Jazz guitars State Side... maybe it is his!
THANKS!... J-D.
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Was it JFK who said: Ask Not What TAB Can Do For You - Rather Ask Yourself "What Would B.B. King Do?"
A Little Mental Health Warning:
Tablature KILLS SKILLS.
The uses of Tablature is addictive and has been linked to reduced musical fertility.
Those who produce Tablature did never use it.
I say it humorously, but I mean it. |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 3 Jul 2024 12:32 pm
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I would concur with Gary that it resembles a heating iron to soften the glue to facilitate bridge plate removal on a flattop. I made one decades ago as directed in an old Don Teeter acoustic guitar repair book. The idea was to heat the metal block with a propane torch, carefully insert it through the sound hole, and carefully work it around the bridge plate to heat up the glue. With another modified tool -- an old wood chisel bent around at about 90 degrees -- you lift and remove the old plate. Mine was made from a chunk of brass with a curved drill rod handle with threads that screwed into a tapped hole in the brass block. Only used it once to pull the plate out of a '60s Gibson LG-0 or LG-1 with the infamous plastic bridge. Worked like a charm.
As for the cylindrical brass rod with the wire? Nary a clue. But as Bill suggests, it looks a lot like a thermocouple. |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 3 Jul 2024 1:23 pm
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| Jack Hanson wrote: |
I would concur with Gary that it resembles a heating iron to soften the glue to facilitate bridge plate removal on a flattop. I made one decades ago as directed in an old Don Teeter acoustic guitar repair book. The idea was to heat the metal block with a propane torch, carefully insert it through the sound hole, and carefully work it around the bridge plate to heat up the glue. With another modified tool -- an old wood chisel bent around at about 90 degrees -- you lift and remove the old plate. Mine was made from a chunk of brass with a curved drill rod handle with threads that screwed into a tapped hole in the brass block. Only used it once to pull the plate out of a '60s Gibson LG-0 or LG-1 with the infamous plastic bridge. Worked like a charm.
As for the cylindrical brass rod with the wire? Nary a clue. But as Bill suggests, it looks a lot like a thermocouple. |
Thing is, I don't own any FlatTops. All I have are Selmer Maccaferri (famed by Django Reinhardt) French (made by Italian Violin luthiers) guitars... with a "floating" (loose) bridge.
Anyways, I wrote to Rodrigo Shopis in NYC who "does" most many of these guitars in the US... see what he says.
I shall report back.
Thanks!... J-D.
_________________
__________________________________________________________
Was it JFK who said: Ask Not What TAB Can Do For You - Rather Ask Yourself "What Would B.B. King Do?"
A Little Mental Health Warning:
Tablature KILLS SKILLS.
The uses of Tablature is addictive and has been linked to reduced musical fertility.
Those who produce Tablature did never use it.
I say it humorously, but I mean it. |
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