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if i were you i would keep the nut straight, and angle the bridge. The 25.5 and 24.75 looks a little extreme to me. When you get into angling the nut, and the bridge, and then measuring for frets, it could be very tough to do. Why not use some intermediate scale lengths. Could you do 25 4/16 and 24 9/16? I think that might give you enough 'fan' effect to hear more clarity and distinction as described, but not so much as to make you angle the nut and bridge. well good luck and i cant wait to see how it turns out. -alex

i had an old black ibanez and decided to try and strip it. i put a coat of kutzit stripper on and waited 15 minutes (as directed) and scraped. nothing happened, finish was still intact. i noticed that the paint inside the routed holes for pickups was turned to sludge. i think because there were places for the finish remover to pool up, it soaked into the wood and did its job. sure enough, i lifted that finish with one scrape. i decided to heavily apply the stripper to the rest of the body, to see if it would puddle up. i did this, scraped, a bit came off. i reapplied and scraped 3 or 4 times, and more and more finish came off each time. i'm still in this process. the wood is stained in some areas (black) but some areas show wood. i was wondering if i could just use a small paint tray and submurge the body in stripper there. i think it would do the job well, i'm just not sure if it would damage the wood. any ideas would help. if worse comes to worse i can use that airline stripper from home depot. thanks

anyone ever built an effects box into their guitar?

like a credit card? ive got a scraper

alright thanks a lot. i'm definately going to mod the strat.

hey guys. i didn't get your posts in time and was at the hardware store, so i picked up some stripper and such. here's what ive got....... Liquid Kutzit. THe label says "removes paint, varnish, lacquer, and shellac. for all furniture and fine woods. Penetrates crevices and carved detail" It says to apply it, wait 15 minutes, then scrape away the paint with a brush or scraper. It also said to use deglosser or paint thinnger to get all the residue off. So I got some five star paint thinner. I bought some brushes and such to take the finish off. Do you think this stuff will work or should I go and get that aircraft stripper? Thanks

i want to do the quiteint the beast and s-tastic mod. it could make a killer strat

come on, please someone just give me a good brand name for paint stripper. thank you.

hey silvertonessuckbutigotone, what type of laquer and poly did you use? how much did you apply? thanks

yeah i think i'll get a used squier to try it on first.

what? awesome?

hey, could you tell me which product to use. i type 'paint strip' or 'strip ease' into search engines and get the weirdest results. any good brand names? thanks

how do you make custom donuts?

alright, thanks a lot. i am in the U.S. so i'll check those guys out. edit: i might just buy a strat replacement body and paint the thing myself. seems like stripping isnt too easy, and this ones dinged up, etc.

what did you shave the neck with?

has anyone heard of or tried mods from this site? i remember hearing good things and i think i want to try out some of the stuff on my strat.

hey i just posted this over in the solid bass and guitar chat. sorry for posting twice but i think i'll probably get more answers in here...... basically, i want to refinish a strat body. its black. how do i do this. more info and pics, check here, thanks

hey. i just bought a used '57 reissue strat. i couldnt pass it up, the deal was great. it retails for 1250, i got it for 375, and its got some good replacement pickups in already. that said, it isnt in awesome shape. aside from it needing a setup, the body doesnt look too great. the wear on it is not wear that adds character, it just looks shitty. there is duct tape residue, scratches, excessive fingerprints that arent coming off. on top of this it smells like weed, very strongly. i'm going to replace the trem and change the wiring up a bit to give me some more pickup selecting options, but i also want to refinish the body. how would i go about doing this? i read somewhere that you can scrape off finish with steel wool, i was wonding if i should do that, paint it, and refininsh. i know next to nothing about painting and finishing guitars. how hard is this to do, how much will it cost? and could i make an attempt at sunburst even though its already black (of course i'd put the red or yellow or whatever down and then another coat of black. anyway, any tips or full blown descriptions of how to do this would be appreciated. thanks

my friends got this on his bass, but is there any way to wire 2 pickups so that instead of definately selecting one, two, or both at the same time, you can turn a knob that distributes the output ot them. like, the know fully to one side has one pickup 100% on, and the other one not selected. then when you turn it it a bit 90% of the output comes from one pickup and 10% from the other.

alright, i think ill go with a walnut body, maple neck, ebony fretboard. i like to keep my necks short, so it'll probably be 24 and 3/4 with a 1 5/8 nut width. as i said i was going to put P-90s in it. i like the feeling of natural wood for my necks, so i wanted to not finish it. i heard that maple gets really dirty though, can i do an oil finish and still have it feel natural? i think ill put in a non-locking trem, what are your favorites? thanks

yeah thats a pretty sweet guitar. im not building a guitar per se, but putting one together rather from warmoth parts. i dont have the skills, time, patience, or reason to make anything by hand as well as some of the guitars on here are made. i'm making it because i want another guitar to play that sounds somewhat uniqe. so again, ill just sort of say, im looking for a dark tone with good sustain for minor blues and blues infused rock. its going to have those huge single coils in it which will help. any reccomendations appreciated.

i want to build a guitar this summer, and had some questions on wood selection and such. i know that some woods go together well, and some work better for certain sounds or other. could you just tell me if im headed in the right direction with this guitar. im hoping to use this guitar for blues and the bluesier side of rock (not upbeat happy blues either). im putting p-90s in it (those really fat single coils). the body is going to be a mockingbird shape. for wood i was thinking an ebony fretboard with maple neck (unfinished), and then i was debating the body wood. possibles are maple, walnut, mahogany, or maybe ash if i want to be boring. what do you think about body wood? i want something dark with good sustain. other than that theres not much else to know. its going to have a string through body, possibly a trem (probably blocked). i was hoping to do some cool stuff with the electronics (phase shifting), but we'll see when i get there. thanks

before i get into this, how much money are tools going to cost me? and can you eventually make guitars that are better than stock guitars? how long!? thanks

JFC, you did that with pain cans?

Hey. I know next to nothing about the actual wood, and how to craft the wood, of guitars. I knwo a pretty good deal about the parts, specs, that sort of stuff. But I can't tell one tool from the next. Are there any books you guys could reccomend? Thanks. And also, things like glueing wood together, sanding, making fretboards, everything. im clueless