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  1. killemall8
    trying to work through this craziness thats been happening! This red one is really hard to photograph. This thing literally glows in person! It has 3 different tints of red and orange on it. I also did my first stainless steel fretting in about 10 years. Not as much of a pain as i remember, but still a pain.
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    been working on other things, as well as not feeling like working on guitars as much. Still been trying to make it happen though.
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    Thanks! I post there every now and then. Seems like that crowd is more interested in BC rich guitars. Thanks Scotty! Yup, that is PME. Super expensive but i do like working with it.
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    Haha, i ca nt not see that now that you mentioned it. Finally got this one finished up. The buyer is going to install hardware himself.
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    I never would have thought of having the magnets between the wood. Genius!
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    Been doing mostly finish work lately. Cant wait to get back to the woodworking side of things ! Made this guitar 7 years ago. It was initially green. The buyer sent it back to me last week to be repainted purple. Great to see this one held up amazing and is in excellent condition! I cleaned it up and sprayed it with house of kolor purple mixed with voodoo violet.
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    worth a shot to try those things! The body is a relatively medium weight piece of african mahogany.
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    I guess that is a possibility, but this is a 5 piece Walnut, purpleheart and maple neck. Should be more than stiff enough to prevent that?
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    I thought about it being the break angle behind the bridge. Its a string through, tune o matic. The distance and break angle behind the bridge is identical to the ones ive made in the past 5 years. I can test it the way you mentioned though to see if for some reason that is the cause of this one.
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    It happens on every fret as well.
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    I have checked all those things multiple times. Re leveled frets, neck is straight. Tried a number of different action heights. It was definitely a little better with the heavier gauge, but still not playable. the vibration and resonation overpowers the clarity of a fretted note. Ive only tried it in standard tuning.
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    Haha, its not hard to see when its basically flopping around
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    I tried a normal 46 and it was worse, which is why i tried a heavier gauge to see if more tension helped.
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    It feels pretty good as a neck wood. Caves nicely. Feels a little soft, but held up just fine for the 7 string.
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    https://www.facebook.com/LEFguitars/
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    So you all know ive built a large amount of guitars. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 250. Ive only had this issue on maybe 2 or 3 of them ever. But i have one that i made last year that i still have, that has this issue to an extreme that ive never experienced. Its a 25" scale explorer. With the action a little higher than what i normally set, and the nut height perfectly, when i pick any string (bass string are MUCH more noticeable) There is so much circular vibration that the string is vibrating in almost 1/8" of an in circles, causing huge fret buzz, because its hitting almost every fret as it vibrates. The low E is so bad it looks like its a physical representation of an audio wave or something. Even with 52 gauge strings it still does it. Any ideas?
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    Thanks! I sell exclusively online. Mainly through my facebook business page. I build to order as well as make stock builds and offer them for sale later. Nothing local.
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    Been working every day all day on these guitars. Somehow still barely making progress. Finally got his one packed up and ready to go. 7 string EXP with ziricote veneer, claro walnut neck, black limba body.
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    Havent updated in a while. had a rough month. Ive ruined 6/8 guitars, including one day with a rare top. Hit a huge wall where no matter how long of a break i take, i come back and make mistakes. Dont know why it always goes in phases like this. I make some great guitars, then out of nowhere i cant even measure a pickup cavity location correctly. hope everybody else's builds are going better.
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    Your planning and methods are always so precise!
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    Scotty, this thing is incredible!
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    Thats exactly what i thought! Pretty much all my work the past week and a half has been finish work. Trying to catch up on these 9 builds i have! Here are a few updates.
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    A few more pics! The Tamo ash one came our really cool. I black grainfilled it first, then sprayed glow orange kandy, a redburst, then a super thin blackburst The blue centered one isnt my style, but its what the buyer wanted. Very skervesen/ mayones esk. .
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    Thanks! I use 5 Start 2 part auto urethane. It sprays super smooth and dries hard.
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    Heres a better representation of the actual colors.
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