Tezifon Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 i got a basswood strato S-pool routed and was wondering the best method to convert it to rear routed and hardtail, is pretty the same like the fr to ht tutorial, i got some questions i got spare pieces of beech wood, is a good election to fill?? some friend suggested me to put a top piece in the guitar, it can result fine with basswood? the internal routings are bad ones so blocks of wood dont fill fine, whats best, use shims of some other wood or re-rout? im open to sintetic materials and cheap ones, i have 1 mm aluminium sheets that i can use i will install a humbucker in bridge and maybe a rail pickup in neck, the guitar is going to be use to trash and death metal so the tone is not fundamental in this one and thanks for the sustainer scheme¡¡ i im going to do it in this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo328 Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 I believe in the tutorial that brian sugested re-routing the swimming pool to match your new wood as close as possilbe. That way less filler or wood is used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezifon Posted January 31, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 i will fill the pickup zone with balsa wood remated with laminate, the trem pool hand the bridge zone with hard wood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 Balsa is way to soft of a wood unless your going to have a thick hard laminate over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAI6 Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 Wouldn't it be alot easier to just add a top instead? A 1/8" top wouldn't change things too much. You'll get nice clean pu routes in the top, so the previous route make no difference. Of course, the trem route has to be filled to hold the new bridge securely. It sounds like alot of work to fill all the routes with wood... You would probably have to re-route them first, to clean them up. (You did mention that they were pretty crappy...) But what do I know...... Not much, that's for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezifon Posted February 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 the pickup zone is now routed so i will beging now to fill that part with balsa + laminate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renablistic Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 are you gonna do a solid color over this? Cause you're gonna be able to see the difference in wood. Also, i think you really shoulb go with a top, or at least a really nice veneer, I mean, the point of rear-routing is to be able to see more of the top, and whats the point without a sexy top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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