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common accent line materials

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vbasscustom

Sep 8, 2008
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#1
what is another material that i can use for a black accent line other than wood. im looking for something around 1/8 thick, and black. i cant get veneer anywhere around here, and i dont really want to wait to order it. i was reading somewhere that there were other common materials that you could get at a hardware store that you can use.

thanks
 
#2
I get thin vaneers of maple at Woodcraft. They come as sheets in a bag more than long enough to do neck through designs. They also make great acoustic saddle shims. You can dye them to any color you like.
 
#4
its for the bass im doing. im using bubinga for the core, and zebano for the top, and i want a dark contrasting material in between them., now, about this plastic, what type of glue would i have to use to bond it to wood?
 
#5
Do you really want to glue plastic with your neck? I've noticed that after a week or two after oiling a 5 piece neck with different woods thier seems to be high spots on some woods. I have to lightly re-sand and oil. I think it's because of expantion on some woods with the oil, I would wonder what would happen with plastic?

Is thier a Woodcraft in your neck of the woods? If so I would get some ebony venier and try that, or ask if you can buy a smaller piece of that wenge, sometimes as long as you leave a big enough piece of wood the lumber yard can still sell it.

If you still want to use plastic super glue works.
 
#6
How about a few sheets of black-dyed veneer, or the black fiber sheets that stew-mac sells? Both should come up in a LC thread search. Four or maybe eight months ago.

Using a plastic, you'd probably want to test first whether it will take whatever finish you intend to use. Many plastics resist adhesion of finishes.

Then there's a whole potential "plastic-tone-damping" question.
 
#7
i've used the fiber veneer sheets from lmii a few times. They have produced really nice, clean looking lines that i'm quite happy with. The problem, though, is that they are super brittle. They don't cut as well as i'd like, splitting easily. They are more delicate than the normal wood veneers i've found at places like rockler, but the line is super smooth.
 
#10
automan said:
I get thin vaneers of maple at Woodcraft. They come as sheets in a bag more than long enough to do neck through designs. They also make great acoustic saddle shims. You can dye them to any color you like.
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Question:
if you dye a maple veneer, and laminated it, then u need to trim it.. when u trim the veneer it will show the light color of the maple, how do u address this problem?
 
#13
Depending on if your whether you need it to be black or just a dark contrasting wood wenge veneer is another possibility. Thats what I did on the bass I'm building that which also has a buginga core but mine has a burled maple top. You can see a crappy pic of it here.

I got my veneer on ebay dirt cheap, 6 in wide and 8 ft long.
 

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