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3 hours ago, ADFinlayson said:

Epic, even the nut has a bound throne 

All in the details!

4 hours ago, ScottR said:

Serious porn, Luis--pure filth!

SR

I always appreciate your encouragement Scotty!

11 hours ago, Bizman62 said:

Anyone with a fat wallet can buy all those fancy figured woods and cut the outlines to look like a guitar. But it takes a true craftsman to glue and carve a multi laminate neck with a strip in the scarf joint! Your necks are pure art, a pleasure for the eyes. They please at first glance, and when taking a closer look one can see the harmony in the proportions of the strips. And the scarf joints! There's no continuity issues whatsoever, it looks like you've just magically inlaid the extension piece! Even the X figure is perfectly symmetric to the smallest detail where the centre strip peeks through. I'm in awe!

Thanks man! Ive gotten to the point where thats how i want my builds to be. Where they look great at a glance, but the longer you look, the more detail you see.

Despite the issues, I have started building necks again after 5 months. The new fret leveling guy is awesome! 

Also got this amazing abalone block inlay board from doug.

4 hours ago, mistermikev said:

jeez, wrong at every turn here.  It would seem that more vibration = better... but if it's rattling that much... how does that even happen?  Do you use dual action truss?  Is your neck carve super thin/thick?  is your nut cut with a sharp angle?  I'll quit poking but just dumbfounded.

This one is thicker than my standard. .82 at the first fret, .89 at the 12th.
Dual action rod.

13* headstock angle, graphtech nut

2 hours ago, mistermikev said:

jeebus, would not have guessed that.  have to wonder what any other guitar looks like comparatively.  that one - just looks like an awful lot of movement.  My guess is that neck must be ridgid as all f and the vibration has no where to go but the string?

 

Maybe? This one isnt a multi piece neck, just maple with an ebony fretboard.

3 hours ago, mistermikev said:

wtf?  if you had set out to do that... it'd be awesome!

perhaps put some massive strings on it?  r u using .008's??

Haha whats interesting is that Is a 54 

55 minutes ago, Drak said:

You've completely exhausted the physical possibilities, time to go metaphysical.

Look for an energy healer in your area, you've got some sort of energetic disturbance going on.

In the part of the country where you live, the place is crawling with them.

You could probably throw a rock from where you stand and hit one in the head.

Although that would not be a very kind thing to do...

Haha, time for some crystals?

59 minutes ago, Bizman62 said:

That's unbelievable! You aren't even hitting the string, just releasing it! I had to test that with some of my guitars just to check how much the string moves and can I make it buzz.

Well, the low E seems to buzz more or less on most of my guitars (both self and factory built), not from the very start but for a little while after a second or three, cleaning again. The one with the lowest action buzzes a bit up to the fourth fret or so. That one also has the most flexible neck of the six. 

Yeah man, when i saw in in that slow motion vid i couldnt believe it. how is that even happening?

Here is a little update.
I found a local guy who does fantastic fretwork. He used to work for jackson and some other companies.

Interestingly enough, his master fretwork still ends up having the same issue.
Check out this video. When i pluck a string firmly, you can see how the whole string vibrates so much it hits all of the frets.

So no actual discovery on the fret buzz..

So I've been sticking to making bodies.  

Finished a couple of long term builds too. 

Your builds are great, man. You build exactly like how i would do it.

did you seal it first or is that on raw wood?

fantastic stuff!

4 hours ago, Drak said:

Sorry, no one here will allow you to buy a Warmoth neck Luis.

I'm going to call Warmoth and tell them about you and to refuse all your orders!

And if I have to, I'll call Pimentel & Sons and set up an appointment FOR you.

Don't make me go all Daddy Drak on you...

Haha daddy drak!

I'll call Pimentel this week sometime.

So somebody pointed out something to me on one of my guitars. I dont think its true, because i dont see it, but allegedly its the cause of the buzzing on all my guitars.
I wont post it here, but if you are curious, message me.

So another update.
Ive decided to stop making necks all together. I still never found out the buzz issue.
I also had a retun and and also had to cancel a build half way through this week, which totalled 3100$, most of which was out of pocket.

From now on i'll only be building body blanks and warmoth builds.

You kind of answered your own question on the neck angle. It depends on which bridge. Ones with tune o matic bridges do, ones with floyds and evertune dont.

I think you definitely need a locking nut if you are going to be using the trem.

13 hours ago, Bizman62 said:

You've obviously done your homework well! The article was published on paper back in 1999, telling that the carving is not a new invention but it's rarely seen outside bespoke instruments built by highly experienced luthiers.

Is it possible that you've started overdoing the carving? A bug crap having drawn an extra decimal dot in the wrong place or something similar?

I mean its possible. I usually add the relief that would normally be created by using the truss rod

15 hours ago, Bizman62 said:

I've read an article where they discussed carving a relief to the actual fingerboard to get the most uniform playability along with the lowest action. It even read that the carve can be deeper on the bass side. Unfortunately the article is in Finnish only.

I have actually done that exact thing for around 6 years

13 hours ago, KeithHowell said:

Are you using a Conical/Compound radius on the fretboard?

no, never have

10 hours ago, curtisa said:

I've asked before, but is there any possibility you're making necks so stiff that they're hard to control where the relief is in them when they're under tension? Carbon fibre reinforcement and multilam necks made from all sorts of exotic and hard species might look the biz, but if they're so rigid they end up straight as an arrow for most of their length it might be exacerbating the issue.

I can definitely put relief into them. Most of my necks are thin, .8" at the first fret, .85 at the 12th.

with the notched straight edge, i can see even relief develop and disappear, when adjusting the truss rod.

There is a possibility that maybe it isnt creating relief evenly? My only option left is to level under string tension

23 minutes ago, mistermikev said:

so... when you used the straight edge... strings were on?

i do both. Check before stringing up, then after.

19 minutes ago, mistermikev said:

man... what a frustrating mess.  all one can do is keep trying things.  perhaps under tension you should take a notched straight edge and see what's happening with the curvature?  maybe it has something to do with neck profile - have you tried some thicker profiles at all?  just spitballing.  u r a great guitar maker... you just have to get out of this pit.  think of how good you'll feel when you conquer.  I feel like you just need to do something to push yourself in a different direction... maybe build a bass or do an extended scale baritone or fretless?  maybe add carbon fibre... just anything to jump out of the rut you are in.  most importantly... chin up. 

I always set up with a notched straight edge. I can get it perfectly straight with no gaps anywhere, using the straight edge. Then i ad just a sliver of relief in.

I also did carbon fiber on 2 of the necks, same result.