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Your inlay cavities look great. WAAAAYYYY better than mine. I need to remember to do that primer thing.

Your fretwire is huge! Or maybe it's just the picture, I don't know. But those frets look massive!

Micheal, thanks, fretwire is just normal jumbo size

Holy cow I checked out your inlays, total respect for how insanely fiddly that must have been

Realy nice inlay work man.

Cheers Paulie, how it turns out half a cool as your lefty

Looks great. Inlays turned out great.

That fingerboard timber is stunning.

thanks

Neck angle at 4 deg

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pocket cut

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everyones fav neck test

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Does it get to the stage where the neck pocket is too tight for the glue?

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cheers

Chucking it down with rain again today, so thought I'd do a bit more

Heres hoping..

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phew

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Is it in the right place?

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Wilkinson wraparound bridge - went on the stewmac site scale calc & it said 25.006" or what ever to the centre of the posts, but luckily I noticed that they changed the design from this bridge to the newer one. This one, the saddle ends are 6mm further forward than where the centre of the posts would be.

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I found a cad drawing of DC that I updated to SC with a Tremonti as reference. I also found drawings of the "version 1" birds. Use as you wish.

I think I have it as 24 fret version as well.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33083441/PG/Tremonti%2022_v2.pdf

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33083441/PG/Tremonti%2022_v2.dwg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33083441/PG/Tremonti%2022_v2.dxf

Edit:

Added links for dwg and dfg as well

/Kenneth

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Cheers allFound the birds on ebay while searching for side dots, last min purchase otherwise I wouldn't have attempted my first inlay on a board that was already glued on, bound and radiused

Roughed out the carve today with the angle grinder

Marked it out

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cutouts with a drum sander in the piller drill

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started smoothing out

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It's always scary drilling the hole for the pickup wires to get into the control cavity. I've done it on an old Kramer that I put a neck pup in. I missed the bridge pickup cavity with the drill bit and ended up coming out into the spot where the tremolo springs are anchored, so I fed the wires through the hole the ground wire goes through *act casual* :D

Looking good. I was wondering if you were planning on leaving it with just one pickup, which is pretty atypical for a PRS, but it could be cool :D

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Zebra pickups were a good choice. Too many people hate on Zebra and I can't figure out why.

rolleyes.gif not decided yet

That is a very tasty stain job.

Amazing that you are able to be the greatest swirl engineer I have ever seen (your Jem swirls are amazing) and you are great at stains and other things. It is not fair.

cheers rad

Levelled & recrowned the frets, stung it up for a test

Still no finish, waiting for some 2K supplies to turn up

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Jewellers saw turned up from ebay, so had a go cutting out a logo, need more practice so sticker for this one

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Got a bought nut in at the mo, started making a bone one, never made a nut before!cry.gif was just bodging it from whatever files I had.

Any recomendations for proper nut files, the ones I've been looking at a like a hundred quid a set?

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