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JimmyHetfield

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  • Birthday 10/31/1977

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    Playing and listening to Metal. And of course dabbling in guitar building and such. :o)

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  1. Hello there, well i've finally got the to stage where I'm about 96% finished and would like to logo my guitar, I've tried the Decal method on a few test pieces without success as it just looked like.... well a decal stuck on, because I'm using a satin finish you can see where theoutline of where the logo has been cut. So thought if I used a stencil and sprayed it on it would yield much cleaner results. and due to it's size it's very fiddly to cut wondered if anyone has done a headstock this way or knows of any places that offer a stencil cutting service? Cheers
  2. Absoloutley dreadfull, I think the wah and the feel they went for works with "That was just your life" and "My Apocolypse", but everything else is just awfull, there not thought out and are just wah drenched ramblings, pasted together in pro tools, watching the Making of DVD with lars there saying "that was awesom dude" I couldn't believe it, it's like are you listening to the same stuff we are? There are certain harmony parts I like, but the wah solos are dreadfull. I think he needs to go and give Joe Satriani a call again and get some more lessons from him. Is good to have the Mighty Het back on form again, some nice lyrics and riffs. The album is far from classic material, but has some damn catchy tunes on it. I dig it but not for the solos
  3. I just routed my second Ash body on my home made router table with crappy router. The first body I did, I sanded it right down to get rid of most of the excess bar a couple of mm, used a brand new 38mm Depth template cutter, and in various parts it ripped the hell out of it causing me to have to redesign certain areas. A few days ago I bout a new 12.7mm depth cutter, to route half of the body all the way round and then take of the template and do the rest. Didn't get even the slightest chip or tear out, and had left a fair bit on after the rough cutting too. So for me now I'd prefer to use a smaller depth cutter nibble away a bit and take my time. worked for me like a charm, I'd reccomend taking as much excess of first tho to be on the safe side and for the health of the cutter
  4. You can Download PDF files from Floyd Rose website of Various Trems, they print out full size, plus have all the measurments in metric and imperial I've used them for mine just printed em out and transfered em to some wood etc, and they worked out ok, hope they do for you http://www.floydrose.com/instructions.html
  5. ok not to condesend anynone but their is a button usualy on the right hand portion of the keyboard that is lettered "PrtScn" if this is pressed while holding down Ctrl it will take a snapshot of whatever is on screen at that time essentially saving it to clipboard. the easiest way to vioew what you have copied is to thw go to "paint" "edit" and then "paste" which should paste in teh image you have copied on screen please forgive the spelling mistakes as I am rather Drunk :o) merry xmas to one and ALL
  6. if you hold down Ctrl and then Prtint Screen, it will copy what ever is on the screen, then just open up Paint or another image editor and then paste it Then you can crop it or do what ever u want with it
  7. OOOHH Bargain I'll have 2 thank you very much.
  8. Axminster do a pin routing system thats really cheap i was toying with the idea a while back but with one thing or another I never got round to it. don't know if the ship abroad or not but pehaps there is and alternative where you are? here's the link http://www.axminster.co.uk/product-Axminst...ystem-23010.htm maybe you can get an idea from it for your own?
  9. Hello well I recently got my cast off yay after having broken my arm 4 months ago, and was so excited about being able to do stuff again i jumped back in and started doing what I'd been planing all these months, cracking on with my explorer build. But lets just say my arm isn't what it used to be just yet and my accuracy in using chisels is a bit lacking so the neck and body join result is far from nice has anyone used the PRS tenon using the Myka jig to do a Explorer style guitar? I'm just worried about if there will be enough would at the sides of the pocket if you get my drift. Or if there is an easier way of making a Gibson style tenon using a jig? If anyone has some pictures of a Explorer build using the PRS style tenon that would be cool to see I'd post a picture of the join but it's so bad I'm embarrassed, the next build will be good tho......I hope Cheers Andy
  10. I think it was Schecter guitars.... not 100% sure, that used a similar roller knob scheme on some of their older guitars, try checking them out and it might give u more ideas??
  11. I used to have that exact same model, the eerie dess swirl. I waited months for it. Paid a mint for it too as this was before the Fender take over and all the prices were almost halved and have to say it looked really cool but the guitar itself had some of the worst finishing and quality control ever. The case didn't support the guitar so it banged about inside when you were carrying it. The paint chipped off in numerouse places, the lacquer on the neck was put on that thin that I actually wore spots off it and the neck tuirned green in parts....all this within 4 months. It came with pickup surrounds screwed down too tight that they broke and cracked the surrounds, and the electrics kept cutting out due to a dodgy pot. so all in all it was a piece off poo that looked nice from a distance. Tried to get my money back but was told I couldn't because of the recent take over and all prices have dropped. So I ended up looseing a few hundred pounds and the staff at Shite Control in Manchester the Salford branch were about as useful and helpful as a bunch of monkeys in a banana factory. Anyway that was a few years ago but like the murphys I'm not bitter but yeah cool paint job if it stays on the guitar long enough
  12. Yeah I checked out that stew mac guide before hand. I just thought it may turn out cool.. or maybe not. And see if anyone had done similar with good or bad results or had any ideas of there own on a better way of enhancing the grain. I've done a few guitars before stained and solid but like I said that was a few years ago and alot has been forgoten since then thanks for the suggestions Sand Paper.
  13. Hello one and all, it's been a while since my last post as many things have happened since i was last on here, such as moving house and more recently broken limbs broken arm to be exact check out the snaptastic x ray and cast on my other post Anyway back to the topic in hand I've got a V that will be finished pretty soon when I'm back in action and am going for a translucent finish as the grain looks pretty cool. I'd like to have the grain really dark in contrast to the red I'm going to use. And seeing as it's been a few years since I painted or stained anything I just thought I'd post this to maske sure I'm on the right track. When I was back in college I'm sure there was a lad who stained his guitar black, (actually by mistake I think) he then wiped off most of the excess black and later sanded it back so the main grain was still dark. and then put on a red stain. Which made the grain stand out against the red. I think that was the way anyway like i said it's been a few years since then. So what I'm after is the best way to enhance the grain on my Ash V so that it's really dark against the the red which I'm going to finish it off with as I think it will look cool with all the black hardware. here a pick off the suspect in question http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Dir...cksonStyleV.jpg It's just setup to check everything at the mo, it will have either two vols and a switch or Vol and tone thanks for comments or suggestions
  14. well I'll hopefully make the order this coming week, and Axminster are usually pretty speedy with there delivery, and I should also be going to Craft Supplies in Buxton aswell, to get some wood for 2 new projects. so will endeaver try to make up a photo review and such. Hey racer have you checked out any night schools or colleges that run guitar building courses in your area? thats how I got into it, it's only my hobby but it's a damn fun one. It is pretty exspensive at times, I just try and put a bit asside each week or month and save up for the main tools such as router and piller drill, the other stuff like router tables, work bench etc I made from bit's of wood I found and scrounged off friends. The main problem for me is getting them sprayed at the moment as I have 1 waiting and another well on it's way but am gonna contact the local college and see if they can help me out at all. no problem about the vids by the way, if i find anymore I'll put up a post about them
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