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  1. killemall8
    Yeah, it is really hard when i try to stop building for a while. I feel like i am not doing anything productive. And i have so much invested in it, its like i am just wasting everything i spent money on. I bought it from a veneer supply store online. It was huge. IT was around 40" long by 20" wide. I got 3 sheets of it.
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    Its been a long time coming. This july will be 10 years that i have been at it. Over 110 guitars that i have built entirely from scratch. I get burnt out easily on things.
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    Thanks Drak. Its always a pick me up when you drop in an comment.
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    Interesting. Why do the finish before all the routs/ holes are drilled?
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    I have never understood why people do the scarf that way, with the joint in the middle of the headstock instead of the other way around where hte scarf is on the back instead.
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    Nah, i dont blame him. With a custom guitar people expect it to be immaculate. He found the 2 flaws on the entire thing. Been taking it easy. I really love cutting wood and planing wood so i have been making a bunch of neck blanks and laminates out of what i have left. Along with a few bodies. I almost feel like i can make more and quicker money selling bodies, and it is way more fun.
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    Havnt been doing much real guitar building lately. I started hating it again and running into a million problems, so i am back to wanting to quit. The black one looks like a 50$ paint job even though i tried as hard as i could on it. It is just sitting there unstrung for now since i keep messing up when i try to make a nut for it. Also, the customer for the macassar ebony EXP wasnt too happy with it. I think my best guitars are behind me. i havnt made a great instrument in about 7 guitars.
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    These ones are gone, but i am about to make a new batch of a bunch of different kinds. let me know what you are interested in.
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    Will the EMGs line up while angled?
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    Thanks scott. That mahogany was awesome, i should have bought the whole pallet of it. Here is a sneak peek of a personal guitar i am building. Paint has a few blems, but still by far the best painted guitar i have done.
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    At the figures he's mentioning, he's not a business he's a hobby and he shouldn't be needing to pay tax. Which brings it back to the same thing everyine is saying - get an accountant. hmm. Well i am definitely not going to get an accountant, so i guess i will just suck it up and deal with the way it is going.
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    So along with being out of state twice in the past 2 weeks and a ton of other little problems, I finally got this one done. It is a slightly down tuned instrument. The new owner wanted a D standard/ drop c tuning for it. So i strung it with 11-56 strings and it feels and sounds massive. Duncan SH5 custom and 59, both coil tapped.
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    NM has a lot of taxes other states dont. I dont know of any other tax breaks that i could get as a business. NM is also one of the only states that taxes off gross income for small businesses as well.
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    I am really starting to wonder how building as a career is possible in any way. I pay taxes 3 times a year, and none of my writeoffs are ever enough to reduce taxes to a point where i actually make a profit. Along with my expenses (around 3000$ last year) I paid about 800 in state taxes. When i just filed my federal taxes i had to pay 2100$. My gross profit was about 8600 for the year. So that leaves about 3000 of profit, which doesnt even cover a few months of supplies at a time. I really dont get it. How is it possible? The more i charge the more taxes i pay, and the less business i get.
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    I use a smaller HVLP, but have done it with a full sized one. I just turn the air and volume almost all the way down on both.
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    Thanks scott. Bursts have always come natural to me for some reason. Olive ash is its own species, from what i understand. It just happens to have a lot of figure and burl most of the time.
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    you would think they would be willing, most of my customers wont even pay an extra 75$ for flame maple binding and the extra work that goes into it.
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    Nah, no reason to. I would just be paying 4X as much to not make any more profit on it. Plus with a thicker top the bevel wouldnt look good, since the top would end in about the middle of the bevel. No point in spending hundreds on just one piece for a top. I am going broke building guitars as it is.
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    Thanks scott. The macassar has an awesome texture and look in person. It looks a lot like a boa skin. Got some finish work done on the olive ash. Might have to shoot a few more coats, but looking good so far.
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    I would make the neck in its entirety before you rout the body. I only build set neck guitars and have found this is the best order of operations. Just leave some of the heel uncarved so you can carve it into the heel after you glue it.
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    Thanks man. I dont hand carve them, i use a bevel/ chamfer bit in my router table. Sanding them on the other hand... that is another story.
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    And here is the newest work, Olive ash veneer.
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    Got the macassar ebony exp pretty much done. I havnt taken pics since i assembled it. I still dont get how the string spacing of a hipshot is the same as a TOM, but it needs an F spaced bridge pickup?
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    no real set "formula" I would do a full sized tenon under the neck pickup. that woudl give you plenty.
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