bugi

Apologies for not closing it earlier. Most stuff sold now, so I removed the gallery and will put remaining few things on ebay.

Guys, I've been reading this forum for some long time, and always wanted to do my own build ... unfortunately, I just couldn't find, or make the time to do it. I now move to a different job, which will effectively prevent me from having hobbies like that I decided to clean up my room from all unwanted/no longer required stuff, so I'm having few things for sale .... I did some photos of tools, materials, and put them here: https://picasaweb.google.com/pararampampam/GuitarToolsMaterialsAndOtherStuff?authkey=Gv1sRgCJLSnJ7_48TD4AE All descriptions, including the sale prices are there - I will copy the descriptions over to the thread as well. Please note, these prices don't include the delivery. I'm based close to Glasgow so if anyone's local enough, pickup would be ideal. I will be adding stuff for sale once I find some time to take few more photos.

Bravery or stupidity ... call it what you will Anyway, I thought I'd just try to do it - there is too many people around saying - no, this can't be done manually, you can't do this without that tool etc ... I've already seen two luthiers working with some simple tools only, without complete Stewmac shop setup, and they're fine - more over, they both produce high quality instruments. I'm rather do couple of mistakes and learn how to do it, than buy 100000 tools and blame them for the final result - I'm not trying to cut the corners everywhere, but let's be honest - did luthiers use Stewmac slotting jig 20 years ago? Did they use CNC's ? Lesson learned, I know now where to pay more attention, I know how tu improve my £5 jig to get more precise and more repeatable results... I still have another couple of blanks that can be ruined, eventually I'll know how to do this properly At the end of the day, this will be my guitar, I'm not trying to open another guitar factory, no worries I have already learned next lesson - the more dense and hard wood is, the more useable it is for fretboard binding :D Some day, I will finish that guitar (fingers crossed) Bugi

Hi, Measured everything and... looks like I didn't pay enough attention when I started slotting - I started from the end, meaning 24th fret, and was moving down towards the nut... the result - frets 1-12 are perfect, from approx 13-15 onwards, one side of the fretboard is ok, second side (bass side) is slighlty fanned - so when I have measured the frets on the treble side, I thought everything is ok - but when I measured the whole thing properly, it shows imperfections ... To be honest, I don't know if my jig provides enough accuracy as it is based on eye measurements Anyway, first 12 slots looks fine, so I think it could be done, patience is the key! Measured Ibanez, hats off people, it is 25.5 !!! Again, I was rushing to compare the real guitar with my slotted fretboard and I didn't measure it properly - but tonight I have spent 2 hours trying to figure out what happened, and how to avoid mistakes in the future ... Here are some pics from the build - it shows the body shape, blank wood I want to use for this build - all these woods are B quality, as it's first build and I'm hoping to learn how to do it properly - then I took the proper blanks that are waiting quietly in my wardrobe http://picasaweb.google.com/pararampampam/...KzNmMaOnvj7uwE# Thanks for all help guys, next time I'll try to measure everything 1000000 times before I put something in the forum, to save your time (that you could spend building guitars rather than answering my stupid questions ). Keep Rockin' Bugi

No, No - I have printed the scale from WFret - here are the measurements given from WFret (in mm from the nut): 1: 36.35 2: 70.66 3: 103.05 4: 133.62 5: 162.47 6: 189.71 7: 215.41 8: 239.67 9: 262.58 10: 284.19 11: 304.59 12: 323.85 13: 342.03 14: 359.18 15: 375.38 16: 390.66 17: 405.09 18: 418.70 19: 431.56 20: 443.69 21: 455.14 22: 465.95 23: 476.15 24: 485.78 All these measurements are marked as lines, when I was cutting the slots, I have aligned my saw with the line as accurately as I could... I also cut the nut position (so fret 0), also calculated and marked by WFret - and when I have checked the distance from the nut to 12 fret, I got 324mm , from nut to 24 I've got 486mm - i've used big long ruler, I couldn't read it accurately to 2 decimal place - but it looks like according to calculations I did the fretboard ok... I will measure the fretboard in my Ibanez tonight, - if the fretboard I've cut is 25.5, there's no way ibanez has 25.5 scale - it would have to be something like 25, or even 24.75 - but as far I know 7620 model should have 25.5 scale -(no alterations have been made to the guitar), that's why I was so surprised... R

Hi, Yeah, I double checked everything ... One more idea has crossed my head - I need to check another ruler! - I know it seems to be daft, I don't think that will make a difference, but I need to find out what's going on before working on proper wood (i used the worst maple blank I had, as I was sure something will go wrong ). Anyway, I'll post some answers if I manage to solve this puzzle (and post some pics from building as well ). Cheers, Raf

Hi, I just made first fretboard in my life - I used maple blank and template made with WFret software for 25.5 inch scale. Glued it to the maple blank and started to cut the fret slots using my £5 jig (flat piece of wood with L brackets to hold the saw). I still need to work to get the frets more consistent in terms of depth, but this is not an issue ... So, the issue is : As I mentioned, that supposed to be 25.5 scale. I have measured the distance from the nut to 12 fret and it's 324mm - the distance from fret to 24 fret is 486mm - hurray I thought - I've checked the WFret again, Stewmac website, yeah, well done me! Anyway, I took the fretboard home and compared it with my LTD H307 and Ibanez 7620 - and there's no match whatsoever! I thought the ibanez is 25.5 scale, but when I put new fretboard on the guitar, it doesn't match... Any clue what's going on? Thanks. Bugi