iskim86

yeah solid color or a burst

so a black on the outside, and a different color of your choice inside. i think you should stain it for the inside so it shows the grain

how's the rustoleum specialty lacquer?

http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=109

I bought a few cans for $3.97, seemed like a reasonable price. they shouldn't be all that bad, right?

I need 7 for the top and 7 for the bottom.... no one sells these individually! they're all in sixes, and I need some for my 7-string!

if anyone has any I'll take some.... thanks.

i record music, if that counts.

what finish cures the quickest?

you can get a used musicman, take the neck off, and then sell the parts individually. musicman electronics and bodies seem to be up pretty rarely on ebay, they might fetch you pretty penny too

www.powertabs.net

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i read two weeks in another thread, but the can indicates far less than that....

please be more specific

i love them!!!

how do you do a paintjob like that?

i'm guessing it involves green paint, black paint, and a sheet of cloth.

Im learning how to use all of this in my Materials Science Technology class and next year I wanted to start off by hopefully having part of a guitar drawn out on mastercam for when school starts back up again I'm hoping to figure out how to do this guitar I just dont even know where to begin I don't really care about the difficulty as I see it as learning

Thats the guitar I want to try and build and since ive neevr done it before I want to do as much research on building guitars as I can throughout the summer

well, you can start by reading all the tutorials on the projectguitar.com website

Mostly I'd be worried about snapping them off if bumped too hard.

It's pretty enough, but it is fragile.

i bet i can just snap it right off.

and it'll make a good home for a spider.

cool paint job though!

so I'm thinking about NOT sending it back. i looked at the dent again and it's really really shallow. it will probably disappear when I sand the sealer down and the pickup ring will cover it.

but when i called they said go ahead and send the body back (just the body) and they'll send me a new body. they gave me their UPS account number to use so it's free to send it back. HOWEVER, when they receive the body they're gonna contact Saga about it to see if THEY can get a refund for the body, and if they can't, they'll probably charge my credit card again. not to mention it's a shipping error so there's no chance in hell Saga's gonna refund them the money.

what should i do........

A guitar is not really a guitar until it has a history in the form of nicks, dents, and scratches. It's character, not a defect.

i would say the same if it's a play wear, but this chip is a result of my own clumsiness.

You can either glue or bolt in the neck, just like a PRS.

wow. freaking sweet. since this is my first kit guitar, i'll practice on the saga first before moving up.

i don't see a neck plate for the grizzly kits. are they set-neck???

That's the Famous Torres Customer Service for ya. They're great if you go to their store in person and buy their crap, but I've heard about stuff like this going on when they ship anything out. Technically, they aren't responsible for shipping damage, but they don't seem to care whether they securely pack the product to begin with.

Send it back, get your money back for the guitar, and buy a Grizzly Heirloom kit. A lot better guitar than the Saga for about the same price--and Grizzly will actually pack it decently.

um that one's about $200 more...

there's a dent on the front right where the bridge pickup route is - the sealer dented and cracked but no chunks are missing. there's also a long crack in the sealer connecting the two pickup cavities.

totally lame. when i received it, the guitar was shifted all the way to one side of the box and I can clearly see where something heavy came down on the top of the box; there's a rip.

I was thinking it doesn't matter since i'll take the sealer off and stain it anyway, but I figured, the dent probably went through the flame maple veneer too. so if I sanded it down to the sealer, either there will be a stop when I can't reach (because the veneer sunk in), or I will sand deep to reach that sunken area and sand right through the veneer. it sucks how the maple cap isn't flamed.

I called Torres today, and they said they can send me a new one at no cost but I will have to send it back at my expenses. it's not their fault, but I think they could've double boxed it or something.

so what should I do? I should probably send it back and get my money's worth, right? or should I go ahead and sand down to the veneer?

thanks

well, since it bumped into a the edge of a tune-o-matic bridge, it's not a big sink, but a small deep trench-like dent. I'm gonna try applying a single drop of polyurethane on it and wiping of the excess so it fills the "trench"

is the guitar painted or staind....... if its an solid color just fill the spot with some kind of body filler...even bondo like for cars will work...then sand it and paint it...

if its a clear or varnish its tricky... ive seen it done but never attempted this myself so instead of giving bad advise ill tell you that i would look to someone else for knowlage on that....

good luck

stained.

http://bloodyvelvet.com/pics/mh400nt.jpg

in the back corner. god i'm still pissed.

i'm so pissed.

I was done practicing so I went to my guitar stand to put it down, and as I was putting it down, it hit the bridge of the guitar right next to it, and it dinged a corner. the poly finish cracked and chipped off, but no wood is exposed. how do I hide this? I treat all my guitars like babies, a small dent REALLY pisses me off. I care about the condition of my guitars to the extent that if they get beat up, I sell them and get a new one. would filling it with polyurethane and sanding it down be good?

I am Charols,And i hear from all the other guitar players on this forum or other forums, but who are your guitar heroes? I'm 28 years old and i have played guitar almost 10 years. When I was first learning, it was Mark Knopfler, Joe Satriani and Eddie Van Halen who really inspired me. And now i like steve vai very much,How about you,who is your guitar hero ?

God knows I have so many, but here's my top 10 in no particular order.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughan

2. Jimi Hendrix

3. Larry Carlton

4. Eric Johnson

5. Robben Ford

6. Danny Gatton

7. Wes Montgomery

8. Duke Robillard

9. Roy Buchanan

10. Grant Green

you don't like paul gilbert?

Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit made me pick up the guitar around 6 years ago. that was when i was an angry teenager playing nu-metal. now, i' really love Jeff Loomis's works with Nevermore. such an awesome guitarist.

like this?

i'm assuming it's thin black coat -> white coat -> sand??

or black stain -> white coat -> sand?

???

for some reason I avoid basswood like a plague. I know many expensive guitar has them, but when I see a guitar with a basswood body, a part of my brain screams "CHEAP!!!"

for this reason I avoid most Ibanez guitars and many bodies on eBay.

I haven't found out why I've come to dislike basswood so much. I don't know if it's just me, or if it's a common thing. many bodies on eBay are basswood, and avoiding it just limits my options so much.

can someone come up with an explanation? and perhaps pursuade me another direction?

thanks