FireFly Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Did you brush on this finish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted September 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Did you brush on this finish? What a silly question. Y'all would have known about it had I bought a spray setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireFly Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Did you brush on this finish? What a silly question. Y'all would have known about it had I bought a spray setup. Just making sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Did you brush on this finish? What a silly question. Y'all would have known about it had I bought a spray setup. Just making sure Silly? You did buy a spray set up and you did tell us all about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted September 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Good one Muzz. Given that the Rhoads ia basically a big slab with beveled edges - no roundovers, belly cuts, or anything else curvy like that - I decided to use a brush. I've ALWAYS been able to get extremely good results with a brush... until this one time. Application wise, brushing is a lot easier and faster than the Misto. Fret not. Misto will make more appearances in the future. As for this ax, I still haven't been able to get back to it. Too much going on this week. Between the Firebird, last night's dinner party, and today's having to get a tetanus shot because of the nail I stepped on last night, it's been pushed aside for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted October 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 That's better. Tomorrow is assembly & wiring of this beast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted October 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2010 Almost there..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted October 9, 2010 Report Share Posted October 9, 2010 Looking fantastic, it was a good call to put the single coil in there, as well as looking cool you can get some beautiful bluesy sounds with an sc in that posi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted January 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I finally got off my lazy azz and fixed the wiring. I ended up having to yank the DiMarzio pups. The bridge was pencil thin no matter what I did to it. It was a toss-up between some brand new Epiphones and some brand new "Powered by Lace". I went with the Lace. The sound isn't bad, but it's a little bland. I was expecting the bridge to have a few more highs, but it isn't unplayable. Now I just need to make the c/c cover. Maybe it'll be done before 2012. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juntunen Guitars Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I finally got off my lazy azz and fixed the wiring. I ended up having to yank the DiMarzio pups. The bridge was pencil thin no matter what I did to it. It was a toss-up between some brand new Epiphones and some brand new "Powered by Lace". I went with the Lace. The sound isn't bad, but it's a little bland. I was expecting the bridge to have a few more highs, but it isn't unplayable. Now I just need to make the c/c cover. Maybe it'll be done before 2012. Maybe by that time I will have the paperwork submited to Seymour Duncan and I will be a dealer for them and you can get some decent pups for that guitar I have been meaning to get that paperwork in for a few months but I've been too busy with other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RestorationAD Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I finally got off my lazy azz and fixed the wiring. I ended up having to yank the DiMarzio pups. The bridge was pencil thin no matter what I did to it. It was a toss-up between some brand new Epiphones and some brand new "Powered by Lace". I went with the Lace. The sound isn't bad, but it's a little bland. I was expecting the bridge to have a few more highs, but it isn't unplayable. Now I just need to make the c/c cover. Maybe it'll be done before 2012. Hmmm... wonder what is the prob? If you want send them to me and I will take a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted January 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 There's a brand new issue. There's an unbelievable amount of "lack of clearance" past the 12th fret. It's like there's a really high fret, but there isn't. I took the neck off, adjusted the tension on the truss rod so that it was as close to straight as possible, then re-leveled the frets. As the issue is with the upper register,I gave some extra attention to them. Believe me - they are NOT higher than the lower ones. But when I put it all back together, almost everything frets out past the 12th-14th fret. OK.... what do I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar2005 Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Both of those necks are very nice. Good work! That's too bad that under tension, you loose clearance in the higher registers. If you put a straight edge along the neck while under tension, can you measure (with a feeler gauge) 1) relief at the 7-8th fret 2) check that the higher frets are not coming up towards the strings 3) chek the nut slot depths. When you fret at the second fret, what is the clearance between the 1st fret and the bottom of the string? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osorio Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 I put, a few years ago, a Fender Custom Shop 69 set in my strato. CS69´s are a vintage low gain pups, to compense this I put all pups higher that I can. The results sounds great till 10th fret, at this point to the end of scale, in all strings, when played sounds the main note and a ghost note, like a bad octave was conected to the guitar. I disassembly the guitar about 4 times, leveling the frets twice, remake the eletrical conections one time and nothing change: the ghost note was always there. And may clearance gone to hell, this ghost note dirt completly the sound. When I decide to remove the pups I begin to down then, thinking "this not gona happen" so I plug the guitar with pups completly down and for my surprise the sound was perfectly! The final setup was made with the neck position completly down, the middle a little bit higher and the bridge position completly high. Well all this to ask you if you don´t try do drop the neck position pup. In my case the alnico magnets was to strong that causes this deformation in the sound. Lucky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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