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Anycubic Photon M3 Premium \ Wash & Cure Plus - $500

I'm just not using this printer so making some space for other tooling. This is an Anycubic Photon M3 Premium 8K resin printer. The resolution on this thing is amazing. The Wash & Cure Plus is super simple and helps to wash/cure your resin prints when done. Will also include the 1.5 bottles of resin I have left over. Both for $500. Local pickup only. I'm about 45 minutes east of Cleveland, OH. Posting here for the guitar geeks before put…

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Flattening Flatwork?

I've got this Telecaster pickup (1969). The pickup works. Is it possible to flatten the top without gluing it down to the windings? Clamping lightly with a caul slotted for the magnets seats it nicely but I'm not sure how to make it stay there. Any experience with this? Suggestions?

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If it's working, you don't really want to. Plenty of people manage to cla.p down the ends and hit the pole pieces with super glue. And that can work. You run the risk of breaking the internal coil wir…
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Curious Grounding Issue...

Hello fellow Looths, I had a question in regards to a curious issue from a customers guitar. The guitar was brought to me in part because the customer was having an issue where the guitar was intermittent and would ground out. It's a partscaster with an HH pickup configuration, one volume, one tone, 5 way switch, and the tone control splits the humbuckers. The pickups are quick connect Dimarzio's. I took the pickguard off and noticed tha…

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if it is the jack blade making contact with the shielding inside the jack hole, then you could try a puretone jack. It's got a smaller footprint and two smaller blades that contact the tip rather than…
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Troubleshooting Intermittent Pickup Output Drop

Hi. I recently got a strat where the middle pickup cuts out intermittently. I cleaned and, using a multimeter, tested all the components. As far as I can tell the pickup itself has an internal break somewhere. After testing the components I wired the middle pickup directly to an output jack. Tapping the top of the pickup caused the output to toggle on and off. I also re-soldered the leads at the pickup eyelets but that didn't resolve the…

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Ran into a similar issue recently with a dimarzio humbucker where it was going dead every now and then. The issue was a broken wire somewhere in the winds, it only worked when the pickup was in a spec…
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Pickup rewind and repair corner

Hey folks, been really enjoying reading through so many loothing posts. I wind and rewind pickups day in day out and am a few weeks out from opening sundayhandwound.com to peddle my wares, making the big jump from “more than a hobby these days”!Reverb seller to LLC. I’d be happy to field any questions on winding and/or repairs.

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I just posted about the Schatten Winder Traverse in the "new" section. Have you used this or something similar? Not having much luck so far. Just wasting wire. My P90 coil was too loose and uneven. I…
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Hivemind suggestions for a wrecked archtop

So this one is a real doozy. Gorgeous Heritage hollowbody, destroyed in shipping. Owner got a full refund and they didn't want the guitar back, so he has no money in it currently. He's a collector and longtime friend/client/student of mine, which is the only reason I'm even considering it, he understands the potential nightmare this could be, and he builds very serious race cars for a living, so I can have in-depth and frank conversa…

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Hey, can we schedule a time to talk about this on a zoom call ?
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Tempe Arizona: Acoustic Vibes Music ($21-26/ Hr)

Acoustic Vibes Music is looking for a lead tech that would primarily be working on Martin and Taylor warranty issues. We are a Martin and Taylor Warranty Service center. So everything from Setups, to making new nuts/Saddles, minor finish repair, refrets, binding repairs, cleating cracks in tops, Pickup installation, strap button installation, pickguard removal and installation, bridge removals and reglue, level crown/polish, and oc…

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Definitive Collaborative List of All Things That Rattle

Hello looths worldwide ! I once heard on the Loothalong Grace talking (figuratively) about for a list of all the things thay may cause rattle in a guitar, and after fighting with a setup lately I'm in for starting this list, from the headstock down : - Old strings : replace the strings. - Loose tuners : tighten the ferrules, tighten the screws (on the buttons / on the axis). - Nut : create a funnel for the strings to ease the path to the t…

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I got the wrong idea about this forum. I thought we’d be talking about experiences that rattled us during our repair escapades! Since I’m way at the back of the pack, pretty much everything rattles me…