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anyone have a good outline drawing of the LP DC/LP Junior?? I have 2 nice chunks of black korina and i'm going to build a set of LP Jr twins. one with 2 p90s and one with 2 humbuckers.

when did all the close minded assholes show up? I dig your design, and I think the hockey stick headstock is much better than the pointy headstock would look. my opinion tho.

It's from tree incest!

8/4 is 2 inches =)

I'm not abig fan of basswood. I'd opt for the mahogany or a good piece of ash.

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Bill Lawrence L500XL is pretty fat on the bottom. super high output tho, I'm not a fan of that. I like low output 'buckers.

you also have to worry about the neck pickup. it would be a bit tricky to mount a single coil, and probably near impossible with a humbucker unless you used a slightly thicker body and maybe some well-measured screws. I've been kicking around the idea something like that of a reverse half neck-thru set neck type design.

heh, I always put everything together and play it and let it sit around for a couple weeks before finishing it.

I've always cut the bodies out first. just find your center line and work from there. There is also a product on the market, I think from 3M, that is a foam/neoprene type mesh that you lay on any table and it grips the piece from the bottom. This worked great until I spilled some thinner on it. =) Otherwise, I just use my carpet-top bench.

I have a sketch of my body shape I want, but it's of course, small. Anyone have a good way to transfer a small design to a full scale size. I'm thinking of maybe tryin to rig a home brew overhead projector and just taping a piece of poster size paper to the wall and tracing. Just looking for ideas here.

definitly use super glue. the thinner the better.

oak was used in alot of old fender lap and pedal steel guitars. I'm currently building a lap steel out of white oak, and while for the most part it's easy to work with, it likes to split when you go across the grain with a file or router. so just be mindful of that and i think you'd be fine.

when I do setups, sometimes the frets loosen up, and it really kills sustain. if you run your fingers down the frets, and it kinda sounds "hollow" then you need to apply a little bit of super thin superglue (model airplane glue) to each side and then just usa a SHARP razor blade and clean it up. Works Wonders.

best bridge I ever played with floyd's name on it was the fender/floyd vintage style locking bridge. I loved my strat with that on it. Wish I could get a 7 string version. =/