bigdguitars

if you have a local woodcraft in your area, they do it. Also call a cabinet shop by you ask them where they take them.

sweet nice color! That ebay quilted maple? looks like a piece I sold a while back...

go to routerbits.com buy from them its what all the professional shops buy from. Go to a wood craft store you will see three lines of bits. Whiteside, CMT, and the cheap house brand bits. Don't waste your cash on cheap bits.

Sister in law has taht amp its really great. you will enjoy it!

I got a dust collector unit off fleabay and need some help rewiring it. Its a dayton dust collection unit that sits atop a 55 gal drum. The wiring has these options: Low Voltage Ungr`d Line P1 Tape these P2 T8 T3 Line T2 T5 T4 high Voltage Ungr`d Line P1 Tape P2 Tape T8 T3 T2 Line T5 T4 My main question is which one is the 220 line? The High Voltage? I am confused, the voltage in the wires stays the same with 110 I have 1 110 line and with 220 I have 2 110 Lines. My father and I didn't know which way to go? I am assuming that high voltage is the 220 line? What are your guys thoughts? Worse comes to worse I will call grainger which stocks the motor. Figure one of you would know. Thanks, Derek

The whiteside bits from routerbits.com by far are some of the nicest bits around, they did a test on router bits a while back, one of the woodworkin rags and whiteside was rated the highest.

for me its concept and execution. all the guitars have thier strong points it just depends on what was done the best.

If you want to see inovation and pushing the limits of what was done before you can only vote for one guitar.... perfectly done, takes guitar building to another level. That should be in every guitar rag.

drill press for sure. You can do a lot more than you think. Sanding, routing, and rough out holes. A good drill press is really a useful tool.

perfect execution. Could have not done it any better. A+

very very odd. neat find.

yea what erik said. We use fishing line at the shop. Its rigid and tapes easily. MAKE sure you ground the varitone properly to a pot or directly to the output jack. It will not work at all if you don't. Depending on whos version of the varitone you bought the different wires mean different things. Any questions post here and I will try to jump in. Also if you are going to drill a hole into your guitar you better make sure you know what you are doing. If you just take a bit to the guitar you will chip and ruin the paint. You need to tape off the pain in the spot that you are going to drill in. Then you can either take a brad point 3/8 bit and go so very very very very slow with as little pressure as possible. OR you can take regular bits start off with the smallest and go larger to 3/8, using every size in between. Even if you are really careful you may still crack the paint. If you are not very careful then take it to a luthier he should know what is going on and all of that. Sorry I am late to my own thread...

I don't think the real pics matter at this point, conceptually in my mind its won the GOTM.... can't wait to see all of them. I like the glimpse of the ormsby headstock, US ARMY font so cool.

they call that gamesmanship...

not to disrespect anyone on this board but his stain work is unreal. I have been a fan since I saw him on the other forum a couple of years ago. whats even better is that he is just as nice as his work. I love his 2nd quilted maple guitar the one that looks like a nuclear bomb went off on it. Thats my favorite color on any guitars. Brown base with that orange tiger flame. This is the coolest one: http://www.mykaguitars.com/instruments/009/default.htm

I have seen it done in floors too they don't have the problem of glueing it up. I would try to do it in 1/4 wedges and then glue it into a 1/2 and then the halfves together. I would make some sort of jig to do it. Also another thing might be to make sure the center of the wood meets at a pickup cavity incase there is some slipage you will remove that section. hope this helps -Derek

how are you going to glue up the top? I have seen that design on a table top. the wedges. wonder how it will look on a smaller scale. I thought tang top meant orange burst or something....

Yea I had the thoughts to build my own and after seeing the amount of time some people put into the home built tool, my time is better off getting sanded what I needed sanded. Just comes down to price vs. time

what I love about these is that yes for some people its better to build than to buy. Personally I don't have a table saw so its hard to get the perfect cuts. I always wonder how much time these guys have to build stuff like this. Pretty neat though.

just get some epoxy glue. fill the nicks marks holes whatever and let the glue sit over night.

lol. My father the executive does the same thing.... Why throw something out when it needs to be cleaned. I think it has to do with the depression and how people were raised. Go looking for some swamp ash........ Hope the clean up goes well. Maybe the local high school will trash thier shop?

I am almost in the shop. I have built my lumber racks, setup all the lighting and outlets. I have an electrcian runnin another box for me for 220. I am walling off the shop and will include most of the tools inside. I will have to have a mongo dust collector or something of the sort. -Derek

looks like a GOTM.

yea my dumb arse has worked on stuff in the basement then left it out in the un-attached garage. Thats not so smart. They way I am going to setup shop will be all the tools that can come inside will. The large routers will stay outside. The shop will be under the living room so now I have to find a way to add some noise buffers. Anyone know of non flameable noise dampers? -Derek

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