Found a tutorial on how to make tort

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Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by Mechanical Birds » Thu May 16, 2019 8:37 pm

Sorry if this is a commonly known thing or if it’s already been talked about. Like once a week I spend a half hour trying to research where, specifically, Fender sources their tort from in the 60s, like hoping one day I’d be lucky and a new story would pop up explaining exactly where it came from, why it stopped, how to reach someone alive who could still make it haha, just anything because there is an offensively small amount of information out there about it. Even the old heads I know who’ve been repairing guitars since the late 1960s can never tell me anything definitive other than it came from Italy.

I’ll forever hate myself for not loading up on Spitfire guards before he doubled the price and made them a thing I’ll never be able to pull the trigger on, so I’ve been trying to find some kind of tutorial, considering the fact that I think we can definitively say there aren’t any other options out there for the good stuff.

Ran across a link to this thread in another forum and about caught my bedroom on fire in excitement. Seems like something a lot of people could pull off nicely with a little practice and is something I’m excited to mess with when I can afford to spend the money on materials.

Now, the one the guy makes is specifically an acoustic guard, so single layer, no extreme bevel or anything. I’m gonna have to alter the mold in some way to allow me to add the tort to an existing multi-ply white guard, but as far as I can tell that shouldn’t be too tall an order. First post of the tutorial appears about halfway down on pg. 26 and it’s from December 25, in case you get lost.

http://www.tdpri.com/threads/epic-knobs ... 62/page-26

Pumped to try this!

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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by Amon 7.L » Fri May 17, 2019 2:42 am

This is marvelous!!!
I remember some time ago Deed_Poll posted some very, very promising tort made out of epoxy and it looked splendid, could be that the makers were the same people/using the same kind or recipe.
I love this aspect of the internet where a combined force towards a common goal proves to be more effective than CSI and CIA :w00t:

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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by antisymmetric » Fri May 17, 2019 4:01 am

This is great, I've wondered if epoxy might work. I will give this a go one of these days. Thanks for sharing!! 8)
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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by Futuron » Fri May 17, 2019 6:14 am

Do it, and share any and all results!

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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by 601210 » Fri May 17, 2019 8:09 am

I just came here to say "tortorial" but didn't have enough brain cells to make a proper setup.

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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by Haddock » Fri May 17, 2019 11:57 am

I love his tort + gold numbers knobs on page 30.
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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by Mechanical Birds » Fri May 17, 2019 8:06 pm

Honestly thinking fuck it and maybe I’ll just try and reach that guy and commission one haha

I’ve gone back and looked at this like every day since I first found it. I know there are a lot more diy-oriented posters here than me so I’m excited to see what happens.

Those Deed Poll guards were awesome for sure and I’ve been excited to see more of them. I hope it’s something he’s still pursuing

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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by Unicorn Warrior » Fri May 17, 2019 9:07 pm

Pass the tortellini

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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by invisible man » Tue May 21, 2019 6:55 pm

I’ve thought about doing something off these lines for a while. Need more time, space, resources..., but could be an fun project that could become a side hustle.
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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by Singlebladepickup » Tue May 21, 2019 7:11 pm

Me gusta!

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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by Con-Tiki! » Wed May 22, 2019 4:04 am

guy has to be a make-up artist.
I use a silicone called GI-1000 from Silicones Inc.
you an buy it direct, or possibly from Monstermakers.com (although I didn't check before posting this)

I only brought this up, because I've run into problems with other silicones, like he did. Smooth-on makes a bunch of cool casting materials, but I've not had much luck with their mold-making silicones.
I've not used the tin-based one that he mentions late in the thread, though.
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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by 601210 » Wed May 22, 2019 10:02 am

Con-Tiki! wrote:
Wed May 22, 2019 4:04 am
guy has to be a make-up artist.
I use a silicone called GI-1000 from Silicones Inc.
you an buy it direct, or possibly from Monstermakers.com (although I didn't check before posting this)

I only brought this up, because I've run into problems with other silicones, like he did. Smooth-on makes a bunch of cool casting materials, but I've not had much luck with their mold-making silicones.
I've not used the tin-based one that he mentions late in the thread, though.
From what I gather I think he's a VFX guy.

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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by aliendawg » Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:29 pm

It's crazy how tort guards are still so mysterious at this day and age
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Re: Found a tutorial on how to make tort

Post by Steadyriot. » Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:50 am

I've read that thread before and this combined with more random processes like "pour painting" could make for some cool and tort-like surfaces.
Epoxy tort has been on my list of interests for a while now but it's hard to get into as a project. You need to read up on a lot of new materials and I'm still a bit hesitant.

This versus making real tort is a walk in the park though, cellulose acetate and nitrate are a bitch to produce. The process involves pretty heavy acids and alkali combined with highly flammable materials. Plus; epoxy actually survives the test of time.. ;)

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If you are looking for places that still make real tort material; check out mazzucchelli in Italy. They still produce the stuff for spectacle frames.
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