Respect for giving the heat sticks an honest trial and sharing your experience.
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure they work great for some people under some situations but for me.... no, not right now.
@redlinemando
Жыл бұрын
@@Bryankimsey I wouldn't discount them all together, but at the same time, you're comfortable with what you know works well & your experience/results speaks for itself. I've seen some other luthiers that use the sticks & they often use an eye dropper to add water in the drill holes as needed. Most steam pots seem to take up a fair amount of work space & are often difficult to control the amount of steam, but it looks like you've worked ways around both issues. I'm a firm believer that steam is the best course of action. It would be good if you could somehow combine the 2 & have a bit of extra work space. That's just my 2 cents & I'm sure that you've probably thought all of that out already. Congrats on the 73 D-28!!!! That's a great guitar!!!! I'm bummed about LMI. Stew Mac will most definitely go WAY up on their prices now that their main competitor is closing up shop. Awesome video as always & thanks for bringing us along for the experience!!!!
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
@@redlinemando When I got all done with it, the pressure cooker/hot plate really didn't take up that much more room than the heat sticks and their power supply. I have to deal with getting water, but, oh well. On the neck shown, I injected 6 pipettes of water!!! The sticks just don't toss the steam around as well.
@redlinemando
Жыл бұрын
@@Bryankimsey I was glad to see you give it a good test run. I was really considering investing in the sticks until I saw your video. I started looking into the tools of the trade a little more & I definitely see what you mean about the Stew Mac needle being a better option. I don't fully understand why people get so tore up about the blushing. I can understand it when they're taking it to someone with limited experience, but it also comes with the territory on the older guitars. When you have the right person doing the job & the proper precautions are taken, it's really not that big of a deal. In several instances I've seen, it went away on it's own after a while. I had a 72 D-28 re-set a few years back & the top blushed on both sides of the FB extension. I left it alone, just played it for a couple weeks & gave it time to fully dry out. It mostly went away on it's own & the rest buffed out easy. One of the leading causes of blushing, is from people thinking they can use furniture polish on their guitars. I use the Meguiar's "fine cut" or the Meguiar's headlight polish. Never had an issue with either one.
@josephcapra8484
9 ай бұрын
Great video! I've done about 150-200 resets, and I'm pretty much self-taught, with a few pointers along the way from luthiers who were kind enough to give me a couple of pointers. I use steam. I'm comfortable with it. This video nails it for me, I will stick with steam. I use the StewMac (made locally by Brown's Guitar Factory) needle/ auto fuel line setup, with a Mr Coffee Cappucino maker I bought at ChinaMart (WalMart) about 20 years ago.That gives me control by bumping the steam switch to give intermittent bursts of steam that I do in spells whilst holding the guitar upside down and facing me so that the excess hot water flows down and collects in the bottom of the mortise where the blob of glue often collects (especially on all those old Harmonys) and melts it. I never separate the fingerboard extension on the sides of the dovetail prior to steaming because the glue blocks that jet of stream of steam that always blushes the top finish. Then I wiggle it off SIDEWAYS, NEVER FRONT-TO-BACK, and if it needs a bit more steam, I repeat that process and try again. PATIENCE here is the key, it will come off when you have melted all that glue, and not before. ( Impatience here is where you break heels). DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE A Stewmac-type neck jig. It is a heel-breaking machine! If you do this carefully, by hand you will be able to feel the joint loosening and simply taking the neck off when it's ready...like a wet band-aid. With that damned jig, you have no idea when it's ready. If you want to learn how to do this, get a bunch of crappy birch Harmonys and practice. That's how I did it. Anything with a dovetail will work. Threw a few in the trash at first just to save the embarrassment , I have to admit. I still dont have the balls to take out a rosewood 70's bridge plate LOL
@119dozen55sweet
Жыл бұрын
Interesting on the heat sticks. And the shims. Nice customer community you have, pretty cool. 😎
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
My customers and viewers are the best!!!
@michaelmullen8373
Жыл бұрын
Congrats on the 73 D-28! What a great guitar to compare with other D-28s.
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
I'm hoping he can buy it back at some point but in the meantime, it's gonna be A Working Guitar. :)
@michaelmullen8373
Жыл бұрын
It's wonderful to follow someone who is not only talented and knowledgeable but kind and ethical. I really enjoy and look forward to your videos. Thank you! @@Bryankimsey
@johngeddes7894
Жыл бұрын
Where those foam cutter heat sticks from China excel is on Gibson and Guild guitars that have glued the neck heel to the rims. Some Gibson J-45s and J-50s, from the early ‘50s on, are laminated sides and back, and tend to delam with steam being used. Guild is known for strange use of glue types. Some repair people just won’t do neck resets on those Gibsons and Guilds. One that has no problem doing them uses the Chinese foam cutters with great results . I know its not your clientele to bring in these other guitars, but just in case, you may want to hold on to those heat sticks.
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
I think they would work fine on many original neck sets. It's just when I ran into long shims that I wasn't pleased. I'll keep them around and keep playing with them.
@RobertsRoger-q6h
Жыл бұрын
Hey Bryan. Looks like my guitar there! Glad you finally got the neck off w/o any additional problems. Btw surprise dowel, the shims & ineffective heat stick, you had hands full. Hopefully, when back on the body it'll fit better than ever!
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
It'll be good! I'll use better shims and 1/10th the glue (and fish glue).
@RobertsRoger-q6h
Жыл бұрын
Sounds good.
@jamesdepalma6341
Жыл бұрын
Im really glad to see this video because I have been putting together a steam rig and was feeling that I maybe should have bought the heat sticks. Thanks for this data!
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
Sell ya mine. :). The new pricing is cheap enough that you might try them but the jury is definitely out for me
@jamesdepalma6341
Жыл бұрын
@@Bryankimsey I like the idea, but, after watching this video and listening to your points, I agree it appears the steam IS infact the better way. I think at one point I saw a pressure gauge mounted on your other cooker back at your main shop, do you find the gauge is nice to have or is it something you really don't end up looking at that often?
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
The gauge was there on that cooker and so I just left it... it never gets anywhere near "red" because pressure's being released but it's handy because when you run out of water, the pressure will drop to zero. My new one doesn't have a gauge but does have pressure release valve. I'll keep an eye on it until I trust it. :) If I ever stop steaming for a few minutes, I generally turn the heat down.
@jamesdepalma6341
Жыл бұрын
@@Bryankimsey That makes sense.
@jamesdepalma6341
Жыл бұрын
On another note, LMI is closing up this fall so grab anything you might want that they have.
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
Saw that. :( I bought some glue.
@jamesdepalma6341
Жыл бұрын
@@Bryankimsey Yeah it bummed me out too! Glue Boost!! Great stuff!
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
I order my GluBoost direct from the manufacturer. Jescar carries it too so if I'm ordering Evo, I always toss one or two in.
@michaelmcinnis911
Жыл бұрын
Bryan, have you ever used heat or steam to try to straighten a neck (take relief out of a neck) rather than using compression fretting? If so, how does it work? Pros and cons? Maybe this is a topic for a video (or maybe you've done one?).
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
I rarely do compression fretting anymore. I _can_ but I've found that it usually creeps back over time, plus it excludes using Evo frets or at least limiting yourself to whatever has variable tang sizes. I've never done the heat creep because that means breaking the glue bond plus breaking the fingerboard/neck finish line. What I usually do is work with the fingerboard/frets themselves: kzitem.info/news/bejne/l3h80oZ5nqNyfnY
@michaelmcinnis911
Жыл бұрын
@@Bryankimsey Interesting - I haven't heard about compression fretting also creeping back (probably not as much as the heat treatment), but I suppose that's logical. Thanks; I'm the one who has raised this question in a recent topic on the Tech Forum of the UMGF.
@stewsim
Жыл бұрын
Have you tried the Heatstick that S/M sells, attaches to a soldering iron…?
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
No because these were recommended, and I don't have the soldering iron that the stewmac sticks use. They take a bigger hole too
@paulnbassett2437
Жыл бұрын
Drip some water down the hole, reinsert stick
@Bryankimsey
Жыл бұрын
I shot 4 pipettes of water in there. ;). Water cools the stick down and by the time it steams, it's all dripped out. Actual steam doesn't that.
Пікірлер: 32