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K&K Pickup Aligner/Locator Jig – Parametric 3D Print

K&K Pickup Aligner/Locator Jig – Parametric 3D Print Installing a K&K Pure Mini pickup is one of those jobs that looks simple until you're blind, upside-down inside a guitar, and wishing you had a thi…

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Please share your processes for cracks that need splints

Hello good people, My shop’s in Quebec City, so I get to repair an ungodly amount of cracks thanks to our brutal winter and customers being largely unaware of the requirements of maintaining proper RH. Now for the first time (call me lucky) I have two very good guitars in the shop whose cracks won't close up after having been rehumidified for a few weeks. I have tried over-humidifying and it does it, but once returned to proper RH (50%)…

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Thanks Dave, I'll dive back into Pat's book to see if he covers his technique in there.