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    That's great - thanks!
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    Matthew Paul, my boy - I have to play 6 string while he plays "bass tar"...
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    Oddly enough, Brian, I was just looking at those kits again. Tell me, in the photos the bodies looked part finished? Are they or is my bad eyesight in need of a check again?
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    I'm in Wales, which is part of the United Kingdom. England's a separate part of the UK... Cymru am Byth!
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    Hi guys. I tried the iron on transfer method, and it wouldn't work for me at all. How long do you keep the steam iron on there (presumably moving it about to stop it burning?) to get a reliable transfer?
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    The biggest problem your going to run into is leveling the inlays themselve's, which is near impossible unless you have plenty of time and patience. Thanks Brian. I think it might be one for a new instrument then, rather than this strat. While I've no gigs on this month, it's needed again the beginning of next, and my tele ain't got the nice piezo bridge p/ups. Hmmm.
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    Hi chaps - some nice ideas here. Tell me, as an aside, what are your collective views on the notion of retro-fitting such inlays to an already existing neck - my strat is what I have in mind - rosewood fingerboard, and quite unoriginal already. I quite like the weird idea of PRS birds on a strat actually, although the fleur-de-lys are also quite appealing. I don't want to refret the instrument as it plays fine. I'm just wondering the advisability of trying this as a first attempt, any potential snags that might make me change my ideas or not do it at all..
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    reminds me of a guitar my mother bought me from Woolworths here in the UK, Audition the brand was. Only difference is headstock shape. Body shape was sort of like a Guild solid, but only about an inch of plywood (yes...) for the body. 1 single soapbar and a trem very similar to the hardware by the neck in the pix. Looks like there's a spring missing from the back of the unit. Never seen another trem like it anywhere. It's very reminiscent of some of the dreadful European instruments from the 60s..
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    PaulNeeds replied to Brian's topic in Players Corner

    Never heard of any such band, but always liked "Elbow Presnogg and the Seed Humper Jug Band".
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    That is gorgeous, with no reservations at all! I have to say, it's such wonderful work like this that almost puts me off having a go - I could never get to that standard!
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    Further on this, has anyone heard of teak oil being used over there in the USA, on either necks or bodies?
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    and by the way, the volume pot on the strat has one of those little circuits across it which keeps the treble up when you turn the volume down. The middle pot is a mid cut/boost now, while the rear tone pot is now the volume control for the piezo. I've got the mini switch (a DPDT as mentioned earlier in this thread) between the p/u selctor and volume pot. With hindsight, it's a little too easy to flick when grabbing the volume , so I'd move it further back should I ever change the pickguard.
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    I've the probs with the 'noise' as well, exactly as you say. I roll the bottom off to get rid of some of it. Mine's on a 3-way micro switch, so I can any combination of electric, both and acoustic. I gigged the guitar tonight actually, and you're dead right about the added dimension it adds to the electric sound - it makes the strat almost more stratty on some tones, while on others it gives a really credible Rickenbacker 330 sound! Lot cheaper too... On the neck pocket idea, I'm sure I read a Zappa article many years ago, in which he was talking about the ex-Hendrix Strat that his son is hawking around auctions. I'm 99% certain he said that at one time he had fitted a Barcus Berry contact piezo ansducer into the neck..
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    Interesting thread this. I experimented with a couple of under saddle piezo strips, as used on electro acoustics, but had little joy. In the end for my strat, I plumped for the Graph Tech saddles with piezos and preamps, wired to a stereo jack so my mag pickups go to the guitar amp, while the piezo output goes to the mixer. Bit fiddly - had to rout a little more room in the control cavity for the preamp, plus a hole for a battery box behind the bridge on the reverse. Apart from having to use a custome cable, and also wanting the same on my tele, it's wonderful. Even with time included, it cost me less that the powerbridge equivalent and sounds as good. This project is closer to my original idea, so keeping an eye on it for the tele in a few months!
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    Thank you gentleman - I'd not heard of the inserts over this side of the water (I'm in the UK), but it does strike me as an excellent idea!
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    Hi, I'm hoping someone may be able to advise me here. I've a 1990 Fender USA Standard Tele, which has had a somewhat chequered history. I turned up at a gig a few years back, to find the neck had split at the heel, and when the case was opened the strings simply pulled the neck up as well. Well screwed. I managed to effect a usable if not aesthetically pleasing repair by cutting away the splintered wood, and adding a fillet of maple, glued and clamped, then subsequently reshaped. But now, I find that after all my messing around, the screw holes in the neck heel have stripped, so that the screws will no longer hold the neck tightly. So what I'm wondering is this - should I plug the holes with some glued dowelling, then mark and re-drill, or what? Any advice will be very gratefully received.
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