Baking tops

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Tim Benware
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Baking tops

Post by Tim Benware » Thu May 22, 2014 10:15 am

What do you guys think about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9AsN8TnR4
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Re: Baking tops

Post by Bob Matthews » Thu May 22, 2014 3:23 pm

I've been meaning to try it for some time now but it's funny that the wife is not too keen :)

Here's an interesting article - one of many if you do a google search http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/D ... _or_Nuture

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Re: Baking tops

Post by ken cierp » Thu May 22, 2014 4:13 pm

Taylor has been baking their top material for a long while much hotter than 200 degrees. I tried the oven, I think too hot since it scorched the Spruce a little. Next time the stickers stained the Spruce. Have not tried again, but if I do I plan to make a proprietary oven using light bulbs, no stickers but holder on the ends, halves standing vertically on the width.

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