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Roasted ash is brittle. Not sure I am a fan. So because I am too careful sometimes and I am always looking for a reason to use my pull saws I cut the top tremolo hole by hand with a pull saw and a rasp. Savage.

The rest was done with conventional means... drill press, etc...

2 hours ago, curtisa said:

A collection of your favourite opening lines for use at bars and nightclubs? Nice!

Ohhhhhhhhh. The other kind of 'pickup'!

One page reads...

Scott R PAF Customs

Neck  A4 42 Enamel

5000 (5011) Screw

5000 (5018) Slug

7.25 k 

Some cryptic voodoo indeed.

Look what I found... 

Good thing too cause I thought I lost it.

6 hours ago, Mr Natural said:

thanks for sharing the tool tip Rad- one day I will get there with PUs. 

Those bass PUs are looking pretty bad arse. 

on a side note- you know that roasted ash and GOLD hardware go together right? 

(where is that rim shot emoji when you need it)

 

 

 

No FING gold hardware EVER!

Looking for things  to send to @ScottR

Here is the tool you didn't know you needed. A polepiece setter is simply a .25" thick piece of ABS with a .187" hole on one side for strat magnets and .195" on the other for Tele magnets (mine is actually a .25" for Fat Poles or Quarter Pounders as Seymour Duncan calls them). It lets you hold the magnet square and wack it with a hammer without hitting your fingers or setting it crooked. I used to just use my bench vice to do this but using the setter is way faster.

1 minute ago, ScottR said:

You do realize you are making those of us lucky enough to have a set or two of your pick-ups quite jealous, right?

SR

You notice I didn't show the side of the spacer with the actual measurements on it, right? Pickups are still voodoo. 

And I am pretty sure this set will be like the set I built for you... if I can find my little black book with all the details... 

Warmoth Strat for my friend. It is roasted ash. I am trying to figure out if I like the tuners slanted or straight. (If it was mine slanted) 

BTB Pickup bobbin/baseplates done. I think I am going to make nice wood covers for them.

Finally I am starting on a Hot Rodded Strat Set for a friends guitar. I am just building the pickups and assembling it . 

A good use for an old cutting board. When you are trying t o line up the magnets use the hole... 

And here is an Actual set of J Bass pickups for my brothers J.

For the BTB I am designing my own pickups. I decided on a J Bass like humbucker in the neck and a Blade Humbucker for the bridge. I am going to wind the JBass bobbins traditional so at least one of the pickups won't suck.

Input Jack and neck holes for the BTB

Fit well enough I was able to use it with the stock back plate from the ESP. Nothing wasted.

I have been busy lately with life things. Here is a few weeks worth of an hour here and an hour there type work. 

I haven't routed a rear cover by hand in years... so I made a template on Robo RAD and used it

Turned out well enough.

Save the bits. Burn the rest. It will taunt you if you don’t.

1 hour ago, ScottR said:

You keep this up and that will look like an intentional build instead of a rescue build.

SR

My brother forgave me for cutting it up. He is not getting it back...

Extras

Trying to get an angle that shows the top in at its best.

Back is so nice I should have done it purple heart on the top as well

Worked pretty well. The seem is as close as if I had clamped it with 100 clamps.

The seem on the front is fine. The join line is very visible but I don't really care on this one.

Back in the day I was always inspired by @Drak

Here are a few pictures i found.  These are not my guitars. I am pretty sure the 2 teles are built by @Drak 

The blue one is definitely from the forum but not sure if it belongs to @Drak 

I like the Iommi machine as well. But I came to see the steerhead Teles. 

8 hours ago, ScottR said:

Cheers Brett!

 

Thanks Mike.

Unfortunately it looks like I'm going to have to re-do it. I was tweaking the regulator whilst spraying the first layer of lacquer over the burst and accidentally sent a stream of pure lacquer out of the gun that caught an edge of the guitar and caused the tint to run. I knocked the runs back with sandpaper and re-tinted, which caused that area to go a bit darker than I originally wanted.....but not too bad. After several more coats of clear, I see that I can still see the tint runs,if I try hard enough. At first I thought screw it, this is just a rescue top and and leftover wood build, no big deal.

I'm also fighting blush, big time. Now I know, you guys are thinking I'm spraying nitro in January, of course I'm fighting blush. But the days I've sprayed have been in the mid 70's (F) and 65% humidity. I should be able to spray cleanly to my heart's desire. I think the culprit may be my compressor tank collecting moisture. I'm going to put a moisture trap on it and try again....the next time the conditions are right. could be next weekend, could be a couple of months.

In the meantime I'm going to remove some blushed up  clear coat and re-burst the top.

Yay.

SR

Been there done that hated it shoulda sanded it back and started over.

I have had success with Mohawk and Behlen blush removers.