Jerry, as a user of CA glues I want to share with you my misfortune. I was using CA glues daily last year in a ventilated shop. I ended up losing my hearing because of the effects of the CA vapors. While it has taken 6 months for some of my hearing to return, my physician ran toxicity tests on me and found the presence of toxins from the glues within me. Be ever so cautious to avoid breathing the vapors. I found out the hard way how noxious CA glues are. Love your videos.
Hi Jerry, i have loved your video’s along with your sense of humour / humor. I will miss seeing you with all your projects. May you have a long and rested retirement. Keep well, and who know’s we may still see you if Caleb carries on with rosastringworks.. rest easy..👍🏻
Very nice Job, the rosette is going to beautiful. You are truly a artist and craftsman, thanks for sharing your wonderful skills, and also thanks to Caleb
37:44 English class indeed. BTW, very much appreciate hearing the word height being used correctly. 37:07 You've made my day Jerry! I was aghast when I started hearing Caleb using it wrong (heighth) a little while ago so hopefully he's now learning the correct way from you.
Man, I didn't think it would come so soon, I will miss him it's been a good run. Good luck in your retirement Jerry! Perhaps Calib should take over the channel instead of just letting him go tomorrow..
Clearly it's winding down with Jerry. It sounded a little like poking fun at Caleb for minor missteps like he's done before. I hope the lad finds a situation where he can use these skills whether by carrying on somehow at the Rosa shop (maybe it would become the Rosa-Miller shop for a while?) or by venturing on to another luthier shop. It seems to me Caleb is at a midpoint, too much skill to want to waste, but too little to strike out completely on his own. I'd be surprised if such issues weren't actually well discussed as part of the proposed apprenticeship.
But I wish both of them well: Jerry on his way to a graceful retirement and ultimately to heaven, where Jesus will chide him a bit that he didn't need to have been so harsh, but then welcome him into heaven -- and Caleb on his way to working heart and soul back into wounded instruments and perhaps even starting to work the same into instruments produced from scratch.
If I'm right about this, it might be fitting for the eventual departing of the more seasoned Caleb with the complete retirement of Jerry to be marked with Caleb performing "The Last Warrior" except on a guitar not a mandolin.
That's why we love you Jerry you're awesome thanks for all your videos and let Caleb The apprentice know that he is awesome and he does great work too so I think you got lucky with him and I think you're both severely talented when it comes to building guitars and fixing guitars so you guys have a great day and take care
On the shoes, Jerry -- reminds me of a song I wrote with a buddy -- "With Duct Tape On His Boots." The silicone beats the duct tape, of course. But this was based on an actual incident in northern Indiana. My car caught fire and burned up on the road. The fellow who stopped to help me had -- you guessed it -- duct tape on his boots. I was touched and wrote a short saga about it. Unfortunately I don't have a recording handy.
A luthier doing shoe repairs !! Now I've seen everything. Only kidding, Jerry -- I've done the same thing many times. 15 years ago we didn't have that many glue products like we have now. I use Lexel a product of Sashco products. Sticks to vertually everything. Comes in a small clear tube. Fixes shoes, seals gutter seams, you name it. I have vinyl windows where a couple are hard to slide up. There is a short glass retainer vinyl piece that pops out if it's lifted. I put a couple small beads of this Lexel in the groove the strip sits in. A week later, after it fully cures, it won't pop out again. I'm sure I got it at a home center and should be available at Home Despot or Lowes. Cheers, my friend. Bob.
Hi Jerry, great stuff as always but a little tip when vacuuming small piees like you were at 38:12 if you take a nylon stocking and place it over the end of the vacuum hose it will catch any small pieces before they get sucked in to the shop vac and maybe save you from having to make some more because they got lost in the vac tank. Just a thought for you. Waiting for the next part of this project and will keep looking.
Hey, I use Shoegoo with success. Use like contact cement and clamp overnight. Another trick is to use a large wire nut on the end of the opened caulking gun tube. You just need one of the large blue wire nuts.
Seconding the Shoe Goo. I enjoy skateboarding, and pretty much everyone in that community considers it an essential product - you skate a pair of shoes long enough, there'll be more Shoe Goo than shoe left
That looks beautiful with the natural colors and the Osage Orange has been a very useful color to use and you just don't see it on anyone elses guitars.
best thing I have found repair blowout shoes, i am cheap too!! Duct Tape just for my beat around shoes... they will be a conversation piece for those fortunate to see them...
Jerry, on the shoe repair, I have had great success using Permatex Ultra Black gasket maker. I clean the gluing surfaces with alcohol and put a block n the shoe, then clamp and leave overnight. Really works good.
I’ll try the silicone caulk trick on my hiking boots. By the way, I’ve had good luck sealing the caulk nozzle by inserting a nail instead of taping it. No problems with the caulk drying in the tip between uses.
I used the nail trick for some time but found the tape works the best, as I may take some time before I use the tube again. And it always seems I only use a little bit of caulk on each job. Tired of throwing away almost full tubes
I have used large screws or, if the hole is large enough, a small lag screw. It has to fit tight in the tip. Crank it down, to the tip, and it seals well.
Darn right. Price out a pair of custom shoes and you will see how proud. I'm not knocking them. They deserve it. They produce shoes which Actually fit, as opposed to "off the shelf", which sometimes, don't even come close.
One of our more endearing attributes is our frugality (shoe repair). Were you born before the war? I don’t know which I admire more your presentation, your creativity, or your problem solving. I’m a forester (50:years) and that is some pretty rosewood. Good luck with your health.
Operating a lasercutter is simple but never easy. If your wooden piece is not perfectly flat and parallel with the plane of movement of the lens you will create a kerf that is not consistent. This results in slightly different sizes of chevrons. Might also be a reason why some chevrons fit and some don't.
@@zapa1pnt 19.33 Jerry has tried about 4 pieces of osage orange when he finds one that fits nicely. He uses cardboard underneath the wood. If you look carefully you can see the cardboard is not laying flat. That is the culprit i guess
The slot is fine. The higher priced machine tools are more repeatable. These little bench top machines have limited repeatability but they are affordable.
that proxmon mount has one on it, the center hole in the back holds a stop rod and a set screw, just need a set of feeler guages to adjust the offsets.
Left it in; lol! Very lucky it went toward the center! Nobody else on the planet would have left it in! Had it gone out there's no doubt in my mind he'd have done it all over! Amazing standards for high quality! When he's gone there'll be 52 investment grade quality instruments out there. I know they're copies but a Stravidari, Amati, Guarneri, etc. is a copy of the standard to some degree... It's the Italian heritage. It a last name ends in a vowel... Wish it had been Rosi; 😆.
Jerry, another great video! Just an idea: from what I can see, your router fence assembly doesn't have any sort of threaded fine-tuning adjustment on it. If it had, that would greatly improve your ability to sneak up on things. As well, is it possible that your fence assembly is somehow moving on you, which would change the radius being machined? And, one final point: the way you're holding your caliper each time you're taking a measurement appears to be inconsistent... which in turn results in inconsistent results.
I'm going to miss you Jerry good luck and happiness in your retirement( I hope you still allow Caleb use of the shop he's got too much talent and is too far into it to turn back now)
Hi Jerry. I’m building my first acoustic guitar. I’m about to attach the neck to the body. Can you tell me the dimensions of the dove tail joint. I’m nervous guessing about this. Thanks very much.
@@MillsGuitars Ok, thank you for the answer. Go on with your fine work. It is a pleasure to follow your growing skills. Greetings from Schwarzwald/Germany.
you started you apprentice too late you should have two by now but give caleb the channel and change the name, you can occasionaly drop in for consultation
