DC Ross

Sweet, we must be on the same wavelength... I'm in the process of designing a 25.5 - 28" scale baritone (quite literally, I'm just taking a break & checking out the forum).

That's some really red wenge, much moreso than I've seen before, but it looks really nice. Looking forward to seeing your progress!

Not my style, but good on you for following it through to the end!

My current build will have an 80's Kahler (that I pilfered from my old Kramer V ) and Sperzels as well.

You most definitely can

I recently set up a BEAD bass. All it needed after installing the heavier gauge strings was a minor truss rod adjustment. As for widening the string slots in the nut, that depends on your nut.

The string tension is fine, not extremely floppy & not extremely tight. This is on a Tobias Killer B.

Really nice work! The redwood looks very classy & the ebony PU covers should really set it off.

Could you expound on the bridge a bit?

Nice! You can see him playing it here:

Thanks for the replies, guys. I used some kiln-dried Maple that I've had for a couple of years. It's flat sawn & I thought it had stabilized enough when I started. I have a couple other guitars (> 20 years old) that also have flat-sawn Maple necks that haven't had any issues, so I figured "why not?"

I built this particular neck last September, so I think it's settled as much as it's going to.

At any rate, I'll definitely take the advice & pull the frets then see where we're at. Hopefully I'll be able to give the fretboard a good leveling & all will be peachy

I built a neck & attached the fretboard after making certain everything was flat & true. I then shaped the neck & fretted (again, after verifying everything was good to go). I came back to it today after a couple of weeks, and went to level the frets when I noticed that the neck has twisted a bit & there are a couple of humps in it around the 5th & 12th frets, so it's kind of wavy. It's not like it's a pretzel, but it is noticable and I don't think leveling will be enough to take care of it. Are there any other options than pulling the frets, re-leveling the board, then refretting?

thx,

-dc

Looks nice! I'm a bit unclear as to the purpose of the notch at the bottom of the neck. Maybe you explained it & I just missed it?

-dcr

I never liked the pipettes myself. I've always used these. Well, not exactly these, but something very similar. You can find them at almost any hobby shop.

Sweet, here's the site: http://www.nwmusicalinstrumentshow.org/

My band (Custom) is playing across the river at the 15th St. Pub in Vancouver, WA on Saturday night & I'll be staying down there instead of trekking back up to Seattle. I'm going to try to make it to the show early afternoon on Sunday.

Thanks for the heads-up, Rich!

-d

Rich, thanks for the heads-up on that show. By pure chance, my band is playing at the 15th St. Pub in Vancouver on Saturday the 19th, so I'll be down that way. I'm definitely going to have to check it out.

I love my flat sole spokeshave, but for the life of me, I can't get the hang of the curved sole spokeshave.

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Sorry to hijack the thread, but Rich & Marty, what show is this?

Speaking of string tension, as an experiment I just put a custom set onto my Strat (9, 12, 17, 32, 44, 54), and the tension is very even between the strings. I think next time I'd go with a thicker 2nd and 3rd and thinner 4th, 5th and 6th. Maybe 9, 13, 19, 30, 42, 52.

A floyd will likely *change* the tone of a guitar, and it could certainly be that you won't like the change, but you could just as easily like the change.

I've been messing around with my old '90 'never made it to final assembly' Kramer, and it's pretty hard not to sound like a Steve Vai wannabe half the time I wiggle that stick. But maybe what I hate more than that, is the pokey "spike" on the locking nut, between high E slot and edge of nut. Although I don't have the clamps on the nut, so maybe that makes me feel that spike more.

Funny you should mention that, I still have a scar on my index finger from that damn nut that was on my crappy plywood '80s Kramer.

I've been playing Floyd equipped guitars for more than 20 years and I've never seen or heard of the locking nut being spikey or dangerous.

But then again, I've only ever used real Floyds and/or Ibanez Edge trems. Maybe the cheap knock offs are different

No, I was just a showy teenager at the time (late '80s - early '90s) and was jumping around on the stage. My left hand slipped down the neck at about 150 miles an hour, catching my index finger. OUCH! The audience liked the blood though. Sadists.

A floyd will likely *change* the tone of a guitar, and it could certainly be that you won't like the change, but you could just as easily like the change.

I've been messing around with my old '90 'never made it to final assembly' Kramer, and it's pretty hard not to sound like a Steve Vai wannabe half the time I wiggle that stick. But maybe what I hate more than that, is the pokey "spike" on the locking nut, between high E slot and edge of nut. Although I don't have the clamps on the nut, so maybe that makes me feel that spike more.

Funny you should mention that, I still have a scar on my index finger from that damn nut that was on my crappy plywood '80s Kramer.

Rich - any suggestions on a cheap-ish moisture meter?

There's this one

and

this one for a less-expensive option

Since I work in such a limited space (1/2 of a 2 car garage), I went with a Shopsmith Mk 5. While it's not the best at any one thing, it is definitely good enough for a lot of projects. Between that, a $250 garage-sale Craftsman 14" bandsaw, and a Porter-Cable router, I've pretty much got all of my bases covered. If you're on a budget (both $$$ and space-wise), check it out.

Nice guit-box Setch, but geez man, trim those strings!

...If you use a kahler, you don't have to have any neck angle with the carvin neck blanks.

Maybe that's a function of the Carvin blanks, but the two guits I have with Kahlers (not sure of the model, the original ones from the 80s), both require a slight neck angle - about 1.5-2 degrees if I remember correctly.

I have the white knobs w/ gold lettering on a strat. With use, the gold turns black (or, rather, dirt and sweat and crud fills in the lettering)

I n'th the motion to mod the gold lettered knobs.

Maybe I'm missing something, but yours looks like the diagram, just curved. All 8 "knobs" are still there.