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The scary part....

On to the binding...then shaping the neck and headstock.

One thing I should mention or remention.... is the TM wood hates routers...I've learned the hard way to scribe everything with a sharp razor blade before I do anything with this stuff...it blows up way too easy...I shellaced the whole top on this bass as a precaution...still had some tear out till I scribed the pickup and neck cutouts.

Hmm, I have had just the opposite experience with routing the TM wood...cuts really clean and does not fuzz up. Maybe dull bits??

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Grant,
I thought the same thing...I was using some cheap bits from Sears...

Ordered a set from Stew Mac...same issue....

stuw wrote:Grant,
I thought the same thing...I was using some cheap bits from Sears...

Ordered a set from Stew Mac...same issue....

Well, I am talking about binding and purfling channels and rosettes and soundholes. Maybe you are talking about bigger hogging off of wood.

But I also routered TM monkeypod and ash for speakeasy trim and all went well. Just my experience.

What were you routering that "blew up" ?

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Modified curly maple for the necks... when I got up around the headstock it tore chunks out...cut off and reglued new ears on and same thing happened, 3rd time I just sanded the shape I wanted.

Modified spruce top had some tear out in it as well...cutting in the f holes and routing out for the pick up...thats when I started scoring everything.

Might just be the type of wood...because when I did the modified monkey pod I had no issues