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Looks great, clean work!... congrats!

Maybe in the next build you feel comfortable to make the neck too, I think you're missing the most exciting part... XD

I'm not surprised by the feedback... your guitars definitely look 10/10, top notch instruments. I would love to taste one of them...

Well, that blue guitar rocks... love the single NECK pickup, best choice IMHO when you only have one.

Congrats both you and your girl!

That top is spectacular... can't wait to see it glossy.

Looks very nice!... don't like the heel carve though - I think it's not necessary in this kind of guitar - but experimenting is good and nobody will see it. The overall aspect is excellent. Hope you solved the truss-rod incident and it will plays as it looks.

I attempted this on a strat with a bubinga drop top recently, did the mistake of trying to level it using Psikot's advice for leveling nitro (starting from P240), its actually surprising in how little places I sanded through.. reparing that was a nightmare but it did polish up to a very nice gloss.

This time I plan to me more careful and only do a very delicate leveling with micromesh or something like that.

Sorry, maybe I forgot to say that it requires practice...

Looks very nice! Congratulations!

Now it's more interesting... I like it!

I've always been of the opinion that quality matters. Junk hardware makes for a more junkier instrument. That said, there's a lot to be said about perception.

That's precisely what the experiment tries to clarify, through scientific procedures... no perceptions are allowed in the geek area. XD

I think the difference in quality of materials will not derive directly in the quality of the sound in an quick experiment, but on durability through daily use... so what is important in this case is to know how long the good sound stays before get worse due to material degradation of components, in a long term.

Of course the steel bridge is always the best option because it will keep the consistence of the whole instrument more time than the one made with plastic saddles (and probably will sound much better) but cheap does not always mean low quality.

I was wondering about the strings... do you use a new set for every test?

I already know the results: a cheaper bridge does the job.

Voted for the Workhorse!... clean design and 100% functionality. Love the neck-thru with no wood stripes.

Clean work! I only can say... sunburst!

I'm almost a year without smelling woods... it's killing me slowly.

Looking forward to that acoustic.

Congratz!... finally you did it. That top does not look so rounded as I thought, the plate fits very well.

Sadly, after cleaning up after the mess did i make quite a chip in the side of the neck where it's glued with the wings.. What in the world should i do to fix it??

That chip should not be a problem... you can square it and glue a piece of wood, then clean up the remain. If you make it right, nobody will notice it.

I like it!

I considered that and wondered if the small pieces of double sided tape would be enough to hold the smaller pieces in place.

There are some double side tapes which are almost impossible to unstick with hands, but anyway, the MDF is very easy to cut with the router, the lateral force needed is minimal.

That body break was totally awful, sorry... i guess that ridiculous clamping is not the one you've used... I mean, you probably took off the other 20 clamps to take the pic, right?... or should I call the police?

Love the electronics cavity... very cool idea.

Can't wait to see that carve...

Recently i found a new way that seems more accurate. I run some pieces of 1/4" MDF on the jointer then cut them up into the lengths i need and use them to make a template for my template.

That's the system I use:

me too!

Glad you have the problem controlled... I think I didn't understand, still not sure about the direction of the bending, but if the fret slots are too narrow, you should get a kind of convex neck, right?... or I'm missing something.

Installing the frets in a carved neck is not a problem, maybe it helps to you in the future.

Carving the neck left me with a problem since the neck went into a backbow .. I tried correcting it with the truss rod but after turning the thing a bit it gets stuck, I don't know why, whether its the thread or simply the force from the wood, but I'm afraid to push it further by force (I already used quite a bit of force).

I think it's better if you let the neck to stabilize a couple of weeks after carving the back... for me, it means that the fretboard radius has to be done after that, so I can check if it needs some extra levelling before giving radius and installing the frets... at the end, it almost will not need any trussrod adjustment (just a little bit)...

Love that veneer in the back!...

My typical undesired opinion about the finish: a tobacco sunburst + natural binding would be an option for the top... XD

BTW, can I ask why do you cover the entire guitar?

If you are thinking on carving the top, the best option probably would be avoiding the control plate... but that's only my opinion because I'm not fan of experiment too much...

Love the fret dressing!