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Not much. Just glued that scarf. Nice to not have an agenda... Good luck with that overhang. Worst case you remove the 21st fret, cut the overhang off at the 21st fret slot, attach the top, reattach the overhang.

I too have considered multiscale. Something about a 24.75 - 26 perpendicular at the 9th... then I remember I don't feel like building custom pickups and using single string bridges.

This thing.

Another word on Handscrew Clamps. Use good quality like Dubuque Miro-Moose or Jorgensen. Cheap ones will only make you mad.

I grabbed them cause I was using epoxy and didn't need to crush the joint to the point of starvation. I use the 4inch on the scarf because I can really control the pressure and they don't slip or move when tightening. The good thing about Handscrew Clamps is that you can't really over tighten them by hand. So you don't starve the joint. If you put a pair of channel locks on them you defeat that. Getting even pressure with them is all about the pre glue mock up. Adjust the back of the clamp to be the same space as the items you are clamping. Then adjust the front to match so the jaws are parallel. Back off a half turn and apply your glue, line up and get ready to clamp. Next is the tricky judgement call. Tighten the front to squeeze out the glue. Clean up a bit. Then spread the back of the clamp to really tighten the pressure. I usually only use the first 1 or 1.5inches of the jaws on the material depending on the size of the clamp. The big 12in can really clamp. The 4inch are safe for delicate stuff. All my old Irwin quick clamps are so worn out I can't use them for structural glue ups anymore.

Yes it is.

Sweet!

Oh and wipe on wipe off is a mr miagi bunch of malarky. Pores swallow oil. Don't fill pores with things that may never harden. Vodoo \m/

In general. Never use anything that doesn't harden as a guitar finish. Voodoo. You can't argue cause i will use nonsense no science having superstitions to win the arguement.

Scott!!! Watcha do this weekend?

Watching

Good. Wasn't a fan of the other headstock for the body style. Honestly when doing JR style builds i always stick closer to Gibson convention. This usually means short and dumpy. Sounds silly but there is a gibsonesque perception stigma when it comes to these style builds.

If you were serious you would paint the walls of the pickup cavity black and just seal the floor... The rest is set. I like it.

Using plain old titebond on the scarf because I do not want a glue line. Clamp it up.

Next up line up the stripes. Pins are our friend at this point Remember our cutoff? Well it makes a nice clamping caul.

Let us do a plain old scarf. First we need the old scarf jig. And of course we like to secure it to the table with allens. Next we clamp and cut. Horribly out of practice and it burned a bit. No worries that is what sanding is for.

You probably have until December. The last time I built an SG... fraught with peril?

Not gonna happen until Winter.

You man boiled because raw linseed oil takes forever to dry and always feels sticky. Use boiled.

@komodo has to be one of the coolest handles here.

@avengers63 (John) was always adamant about shellac and boiled linseed oil... Me not so much. Shellac and boiled linseed oil are too soft for my taste. Something, something, this ain't furniture I believe is how the argument would go. I always was trying new finishes until I found that I like Behlens Teak Oil on my personal guitars. Also I am still a lacquer fanatic if I must clear coat. Yeah forgot I built a couple of different sets of pickups for Scott. I miss guitar building but not pickup winding. That became way too much of a science. Not that I would ever put someone else's pickups in one of my guitars mind you. I am still an elitist. How do those P90s sound? Did they settle into the guitar?

+1

Cocobolo darkens up fast in sunlight. The Hand of Doom fretboard features are almost unrecognizable. My main guitar right now is one of the S9 Express I built with a Cocobolo board and Padauk neck is becoming very dark. Not enough UV protection in the finish. The padauk neck is so dark red (like burnt umber) it you wouldn't know it is padauk. I play it alot so it is always out of the case and in use...

+1 And nice choice of colors.

SG respin is the start of slow return. Thought I would drop in on what is going about. Been a while wanted to see how the crowd is coming along.