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Permalink Reply by JUJU on April 4, 2010 at 11:25am

Hey Paul
Maybe the break angle of the string holes is too severe and kinked the string making a weak spot ?
juju.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Harrison on April 4, 2010 at 12:15pm

Paul,
I agree with JuJu, give your string hole a little more angle that should fix it, and sometimes strings just break. Speaking of breaking , here in San Diego we just had a 6.9 earthquake! It rocked my shop. My 2500 pound milling machine was tipping. I am not easly scared,but I was. Now I know what people mean when they say they didn't think it was going to stop.

Cheers
Bob

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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on April 4, 2010 at 12:18pm

I don't know what caused it but that is the coolest sound hole I've seen.

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Permalink Reply by J.Hofmann on April 4, 2010 at 12:28pm

I agree with juju...but it could also be a bum string or something like that, I've had a few of those...great box though, love that soundhole.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on April 4, 2010 at 12:38pm

Thanks for the info and comments. Bob, hope all is Okay. Earthquakes are scary. I was in San Diego a couple days ago, glad I didn't stick around.

Guess I will file the hole a little and try a new string.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Harrison on April 4, 2010 at 12:59pm

Thanks, All is well. On the radio they say it is the worst since 1970. There has been 3 more quakes since my last post. They say the were not after shocks.
I really am a big baby.

Bob

Paul Doug said:

Thanks for the info and comments. Bob, hope all is Okay. Earthquakes are scary. I was in San Diego a couple days ago, glad I didn't stick around.

Guess I will file the hole a little and try a new string.

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Permalink Reply by Ben on April 4, 2010 at 2:46pm

Well, I don't know where other people get their news but I find mine on CBN! As for the string...was it a different gauge to string length than you normally use?

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on April 4, 2010 at 3:26pm

Paul! Hey. Long time no hear!Bad string? - WY

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on April 4, 2010 at 3:59pm

Hi, Wes. I've been checking in often, but haven't built anything lately. Getting in the mood to get back at it.

Wes Yates said:

Paul! Hey. Long time no hear!Bad string? - WY

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on April 5, 2010 at 2:19pm

Good to hear. Hope things are well at the Doug household.

-WY

Paul Doug said:

Hi, Wes. I've been checking in often, but haven't built anything lately. Getting in the mood to get back at it.

Wes Yates said:

Paul! Hey. Long time no hear!Bad string? - WY

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Permalink Reply by Barry Evan Russ on April 6, 2010 at 3:57am

I'm actually too distracted by the beauty of this build to make a cogent comment.

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Permalink Reply by rain-air on April 6, 2010 at 9:21am

Correct! Some of these just pop eventually. May not even take a humidity change for doing so.
It sure is a nice instrument. Is it a ukulele? which tuning?

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