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Nice! I'm always on the lookout for knitting needles at yard sales. I've used the hard plastic and the aluminum ones.
I know I'm dumb, but...
can ya' explain what this is and how it works?
(Is this for trimming the sides of the fretboard?)
I have used 12 ga copper solid house wiring. Nice and cheap.
Thanks all. Good ideas. I gotta try the BBs. Also impressed by the drafting shield protector idea. I've got a couple of those stuck away somewhere.
Now, how do I find "styrene" strips that I can use to "bind" the fretboard edges? So far Hobby Lobby and Michael's haven't had what I want. Who uses this stuff? Cabinet guys? Model airplane guys?
Notice I'm too cheap to go to StewMac and buy bindings. That would be cheating.
I haven't seen plastic strips for the model plane industry... a lot of hong-kong based cheapo supply places sell plastic binding stuff...if you can wait 4 weeks...
Ebay... I am seeing Canadian supplier for $10 you can get 5 feet of abs or celluloid... or the Chinese stuff for next to nothing.... not sure how I feel about that...
Hey, I like the b-b's idea!
I forgot about this: My son gave me some airsoft BB's... they're plastic, come in varied colors, but are bigger and better suited for top markers... Drill a small hole, pound them in and sand them flush... BB's... hmmm... I have some here somewhere...
I just use a soldering iron with the end ground off.works for me and cant get any cheaper.
Nice. Right now I am on the lookout for something like that in clear or translucent.
My plan is to install an LED light inside the cigar box and then run a bunch of fibre optic lines under and through the fretboard so that I can light up the fretboard markers so that I can see what I am doing when I am playing out at campfire jam sessions.
If I can't find anything suitable in solid plastic then plan B is just to drill the holes and fill them with 5 minute epoxy; that should be clear enough to get the job done.
You could go the low-tech route... Install clear plastic rod, and expose both ends, or the sides... They'd pickup campfire and glow...
http://www.delviesplastics.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Sto...
Got the idea from my son's bb-gun sight... Daisy Buck... they have them at Wal-mart if you need to see how it works...
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