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Clamps off. I'll take that. It's looking a bit like a guitar now.

Looking at the weather forecast looks like I can start spraying clear tomorrow. Meanwhile: I got some Z-poxy recently from LMI to try as a pore filler, since the swirl is going onto the neck on the back and everything will be finished with full gloss clearcoat I figured I need to pore-fill the neck and headstock. Testing Z-poxy - rubbed in one coat, sanded back with P400 the following day, then another coat and sandback. Here's coat nr 2 right after application: Also, pickguard. A weird strat needs a weird pickguard: I'll probably use this as a testpiece before I make the proper one out of plexi - there are a few small cosmetic problems with this one.. but I want to have the guitar ready to play it in a show we're doing on July 15th so I'll most likely use this one then. Afterwards I'll see. Here's the hardware in place - I got 7-string singles wound for me by Zbigniew Wróblewski of Merlin Pickups (merlinpickups.com, a boutique Polish pickup company, Polish bands like Riverside and Vader use these for example). The plan is to connect them in series with an in/out-of-phase option, following Brian May's Red Special wiring, here instead of using 6 switches I can get the same set of combinations with 3x on-on-on DPDT switches. I also looked at the Red Special layout and tried to roughly position the pickups in similar spots along the strings to have similar phase cancelation+enhancement effects, for the treble strings I'm pretty close, then I diverge a bit (I didn't want to slant too much). Finally - a mockup:

I've started a thread in the community forums for the software suite....quite likely something like this will be a bounty coding job. I've asked the question, so let's see how much traction it gains with other perturbed site admins....

The belt does not appear to be on correctly. I should not be overhanging the pulley? Also a blade that size is a very large blade for the saw. Did you check wheels for coplaner? Also do they have wobble in them? As suggested I would replace the blade with something like a Timberwolf. 1/4" , 4 to 6 TPI would work well ( I have even used 12 TPI for clean resaw of maple). It seems also that your blade is not running true on the wheels. The crown of your tires may be part of the problem as well. I know others have suggested a 3/8" blade. Sorry Guys A well tuned saw and a 1/4" is all that is needed. I have been using one for resawing Hard maple for many years to get bookmatched tops. I have a 14" with 6" riser 105" blade. I get consistent 1/16" slices if I want. I have tuned many saws over the years for Woodcraft customers as well as Laguna and Jet Customers. I was also offered the job to be the Jet onsite repair for Texas. I turned that down. MK

coat #1 is on!

Ha ha. Put a dab of compound on a clean cloth (I used an old 100% cotton T-shirt), then rub it in small overlapping circles, over & over again. When the solvent dries off a bit, wipe the residue away with a clean microfibre cloth. Repeat many times, working on a small area until it's shiny before moving onto the next. The super-specs (see avatar) are very useful, as is having light coming from one side, preferably ambient daylight I can take some photos if you want... Edit: To give some sort of clue as to duration, the whole top took about 7 hours to do

Not sure what the changes to the TOS was but I find that lately theres so much advertisement fodder that I can hardly navigate through through the site.

So the Quilted Silver Boro guitar got a huge share of true testing this weekend in the hands of Steve Raz, the lucky guy that gets to virtually own it. He played three shows with it (all sets, each show), and won't use his Les Paul Studio if my guitar is there - real nice gesture, too nice, yet he and the two separate seasoned sound guys had the same interesting comments - that it cuts through the mix better with crisper note distinction. I initially just thought that they were just giving nice complements, since the guitar looks so cool, but after last nights show where the sound guy showed me the output graph, and explained it a bit, I am starting to think that maybe the scatterwound custom humbuckers are making the difference. Read a lot more about them this morning. What are your experiences with hand wounds? The big show was Escape - the best Journey Tribute band, so lots of screaming Neil Schon solos. Not going to dis Les Pauls (all hail king Gibson), but its good to see this as Steve's preferred guitar. Of course one could make a great case for Les Pauls saying that it requires months of hand labor with the top custom hardware to make a guitar that barely eclipses a stock Gibson.