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mistermikev

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  1. what a loss to the guitar community. we've spoke a lot about health issues and altho this isn't a business for me, in the back of my mind there is a clock ticking and the ever present question of "how long... how many guitars do I even have left in me?" That was in the back of my mind creating this thread... reminding myself to organize so I know what is important. it is my sincere wish that whatever those things are/were for you've achieved them (I'm sure you have).
  2. hehe, well truth be told I started out thinking I was gonna do two... a 59 burst replica vs a more modern take with weight relief and curved truss channel... and the first one here was just supposed to sort of be a test to ensure my process was bug free before I move on to expensive wood. as I get into it... well I've got enough wood to do many guitars... so why not cut a few, pick my favs, and finish the rest somewhere down the road. I dunno... keep finding myself thinking... well a bigsby les paul would be nice... and one with p90s... and that's all I need... maybe one with mini humbuckers too... gotta have one of those... but that's ALL i need... altho it would be nice to have a gold top... but that's ALL I need hehe.
  3. so... joined some tops yesterday... right off the tablesaw. the first one - this is what i'll use for the 59burst. the second... i dunno... it's got some darkening from heartwood so I think doing any sort of light color is not in the cards... might have to go dark blue or something... anywho... I'm going to start processing another body today... after I finish laundry lol! so...
  4. well looks like some nice mahog. rosewood isn't illegal to own... just not legal to transport in/out of the us. at least... not without a cites doc. so I take it your wood that was to become a run of pseudo mass produced guitars is now going to become "to hell with efficiency i'm going to build with no budget in mind and just build dream guitars?" hope so!!
  5. quite the all out jamboree there... I enjoyed it. guitar looks great - nice work.
  6. I'd say... when you are dealing with frets you are dealing with very small differences in heights. in your pic... that gap there could easily account for that much more off the fret. just one aholes o. look at the fret behind it... you can just make out a little gap on the end and guess what - when you flat filed it there are flat spots on the ends. all that said... I wouldn't redo this... just more crown work... s/b fine.
  7. hehe, just gave up on autofocus... I do it manually all the time now. world of dif.
  8. worked my but off today.... was at it from 9:11am to 2:47pm. Had to iron out a number of oversights in my plan... but finally got a body completed anyway...
  9. can't take too much credit there... that's std gibson... but thank you all the sm!
  10. I guess this is why I am doing this practice run... to iron out the things I didn't anticipate... it occurred to me that once I have a carved top I don't want to have to flip the guitar and process the back (possible, but an irregular top would complicate). So I decided to process my backside. anywho, starting to look like a guitar.
  11. i've only ever used jescar... but have not found this to be the case. it has been my experience that using a $50 straight edge and getting things perfectly flat before fretting... along with getting the right fret depth, cleaning the slots, bending my fret wire myself to a very close radius, and using a triangle file on the edges before pressing... i hardly have to take anything off to get rid of the marker on every fret. I've also become sensitive to not making the mistake of bringing my wood inside just before fretting, or fretting in proximity to when it has rained. seems like every little humidity change makes a big dif in that regard. ymmv.
  12. so... found a cool "more local" option for .06" gold mop. the "duke of pearl". $20/oz... 2 oz(10 pieces) shown here... I got all huge pieces and all of them nice and figured... ordered on friday and delivered monday. Just wanted to pass it on in case anyone looking.
  13. now that you said that I can't unsee it lol! lot of extra effort (almost 2hrs) for what I imagine is very little additional weight relief... and something no one will ever see... exactly my style!
  14. not enough time in the weekend to start the body-base... but got the backside of the top done anyway...
  15. hard to really capture in the photos... and not the tightest grained rosewood I have worked, but there are all variety of pink, purple, orange in there... this is what was sold to me as "old growth purple indian rosewood"... think I'm going to buy some more because good lord is it pretty in person. anywho... just a fretboard! after half hour google search cause I deleted my emails... thought I might put this here so I'll remember when I go to buy more: https://www.vikwood.com/
  16. i stand corrected... looking at orig schem I was seeing a std booster with a 2nd input for 'buffered bypass'... or so I thought.
  17. well no expert here... but I can relay what I've read, and that is that the emg version of a difference amp actually is running the two coils of a humbucker into sep inputs... then dropping voltage for anything they have in common, and amplifying anything they don't have in common. This keeps the noise floor really low. it requires some really underwound singles. the schematic you linked to... that's just a garden variety booster. anything at the input is being boosted -noise included. Just like a pedal running after the guitar. Nothing wrong w that... just isn't anything like what is going on in an emg pickup (not being critical here... just observation). you could, essentially take any booster circuit and put it in a guitar. I've done it with micro booster, linear power booster, mid boosters, sho boost... and enjoyed it quite a bit. IMO it's a very useful and cool thing to do.
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