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fidgec94

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  1. Thanks for help, i'll give 'em a browse. I noticed a couple shops in town, one an art supply store and the other a sort-of craft shop. Worth a shot i guess!
  2. Naturally, but most places around here only sell the more natural colours
  3. Hi guys, can anyone in the UK give me some inspiration where to find bright red wood stain? Found a couple of sites and a 250ml bottle is about £5-£6 but i begrudge paying the £6-£7 p&p! Shipping from american just for one thing isnt really economical. Thought i'd to see if anyone knows of a place i havent tried. Cheers Chris
  4. The first Gotoh hardtail bridge at the top of this page looks about right for my project. The little schemtic shows the string spacing is 52.5mm E to e and then the description says "bridge tailpeice assembly for single size pickup". I cant find any other hardtails with a narrower spacing so i'm inclined to think this will be fine to use with humbuckers as well.....anyone disagree? If the spacing is slightly too wide, i guess i can always place the bridge humbucker slightly further away from the bridge to help the pole pieces to line up(?)
  5. Good point, thanks a bunch. I'll give then both a whirl and see what happens!
  6. Can any explain why combining the outer coils of two humbuckers would sound any different from the inner coils? I thought i'd add a bit of versatility to a basic bridge/bridge&neck/neck setup but wondered if there was any point having both these splitting combinations - i cant imagine what the difference in sound would be. Cheers
  7. Has anyone have experience with or an opinion on these? There's also this one i've found: (4th from bottom of this page) I want to buy a neck and I've been window shopping for a while now, I can't afford loads but obviously I need to spend a reasonable amount to get something worth having. I'm trying to find necks that are made well AND preferably under £90 (I know I won't find top quality for that price but I don't want a POS either). One of the necks on the Carvin website is rather nice but the distributers in the UK say they can import one for about £130, which is a little too much, as are the paddle headstock necks that WDmusic sell. Thought I'd ask for a bit of help..... Grazie
  8. A funitnure place in Reading will plane a body blank for £35 Another place in Reading quoted £60 A bit cha-ching! I assume those two places would do it by hand. A person with a surface planer would probably charge less but i have no idea what a 'reasonable' price is.
  9. For what its worth.... Commodity code for Guitar/Instrument parts: 9209940000 Duty expected to be paid on such items: 2.7% I don't know whether it can be extended to complete guitars or just specifically parts. I was pricing some things up and thought i'd better know exactly what i'd get charged this end. Don't forget, duty is added to the cost of the goods PLUS shipping and then VAT goes on top of that. I understand that there can be a third charge; this is a brokerage surcharge imposed by the postal service that take the item(s) through customs. This seems to be a bit more hit and miss - out of 14 feedback responses on the Warmoth site only one person was charge (£10).
  10. I've noticed that some TOM bridges have un-notched saddles. How does the string locate correctly? I thought perhaps you file the notches yourself but that cant be right.
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