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  1. It definately is sweet stuff...but if I want to attend Year 2 of university, I bet be selling it, and fast!
  2. Well, just now I decided to try print off the decal I made. It has the Fender logo, with black STRATOCASTER and MADE IN CANADA (instead of USA hehe), then I have a small pot leaf in between them, which is a basic dark green and black. I left the outline of the Fender logo and kept the inside blank to color in with a paint pen. Trouble is with an inkjet...it comes out in pools of ink, instead of a nice detailed picture. The letters are 'decent' and the outline of the Fender logo is acceptable, but the green in the leaf is a pool. It's a nice epson, the photo 820, but still lacks the absolute precision of a laser jet. To town I go with a floppy disk and $15 I guess....
  3. Well, thats the tricky part. I used spray adhesive to shield my cavity, but that stuff is so hard to get off unless you heat it really well with a soldering gun......but I don't want it to damage my Les Paul. I was thinking just the wood glue i was going to use on the nut in the first place would hold it in place.......i am probably wrong though Perhaps I'll try very thin piece of wood, and ill paint it black so it blends with the black neck.
  4. Well, i decided to try something else. I had just finished shielding my strat with copper about .10" in thickness. My clearance at the first fret was about .04" at the low E when i am looking for about .15". So I used the copper foil, folded it three times and flattened it really well so it looks like one sheet. It fits perfectly, but i haven't glued it in yet. You think this is a good idea? The only downside is a bit of copper shows out the side.....but its no big deal Right now its at abut .22" clearance, and ill just file the nut to the right size.
  5. Hey guys, I had a hell of a time removing the nut from my les paul studio.....and has to saw down the middle and collapse the nut, then take 20 minutes to carefully chip away the remaining shards of nut. My strat took 30 seconds!! Anyway, I filed and polished a new graph-tech trem nut, and when i strung up and tested for clearance at the first fret.....i would astounded to find the nut wasn;t high enough!! I didn't lower the nut, just smoothed the edges so it would fit....it just doesn't. So my repair manual says to add a shim, but doesn't say how or with what. Any ideas? I was thinking masking tape or a hard plastic might work......anything soft would make the nut kinda bounce and shift under string tension
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