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  1. westhemann
    that's it...back in the days of the slam thread.
  2. westhemann
    there ya go...thanks for the life of me I can't remember your old net handle...
  3. westhemann
    Well that came out really well,didn't it? Next time though you MUST make your own neck....you will be amazed at how much better a well made handmade neck will play compared to the storebought blank...I built my first with the same neckthrough blank and although I loved it at the time,my very first neck played much better...it looks like you have the talent required for sure...so dive in. The only thing I buy premade noiw is the fretboard...because lmii has such good quality preslotted boards to any scale I want...and I hate slotting and radiusing fretboards. I like your paint rig...I am planning one of my own that is much the same,except it will connect to the strap pin at the one end of the guitar,and hook through a tuner hole at the other end,and allow me to rotate the guitar as I spray.
  4. westhemann
    I have a maple wizard neck...I prefer the wizard II But the major component of the wizard is the thinner fretboard....do not rearmount the locking nut(topmount it)and incorporate a whachacallit...I can't think of the word for some reason...the lump where the headstock meets the neck that increases the strength of that weakest area... It will not get in the way if you make it right and it really helps
  5. westhemann
    well,once or twice a year I drive 5 hours to Port Aransas to visit my sister...I leave in the morning and drive back the same day...but I dn't enjoy the drive back.
  6. westhemann
    I have one of those warmoth mahogany necks on a sabre...works fine...it is certainly stiffer than the wizard neck I replced with it.
  7. westhemann
    "Standard" baritone tuning is B on the 7th string...but alot tune from A
  8. westhemann
    You mean like the Tony Danza tapd dance Extravaganza? I find that band to have no direction
  9. westhemann
    When I first started here,there were only a very few in Texas,and none in Austin...now there are at least a dozen within driving distance(in Texas,under 3 hours is driving distance)
  10. westhemann
    You should be able to sell it easily enough,I would think.
  11. westhemann
    I agree...at first I thought you could do without the neck angle...and I did make mine work fine without it...but I have since learned it is not so great to do so...I think on my next one I will create an angle....I am not wild about recessing it.but more to the point,I think the fixed bridge has all of the same dimensions as the trem...I am not home to check that though.
  12. westhemann
    I am sorry...I just cross posted with you...so $1500 or so is what you consider a valuable Gibson?Or am I misunderstanding you?That price is really nothing out of the ordinary...I got $1000 cash from Guitar Center(notorious lowballers) for a 2000 explorer in very played condition... Gibsons hold their original value fairly well is what I am getting at....I thought you meant you had one in the $10,000 plus range.a $1500 gibson you could play,refinish,or do whatever with...it's not all that unusual.
  13. westhemann
    I think I would start here http://www.gibson.com/relations/forum/index.asp Also...I don't think you should even consider "restoring" it if you are going to sell it...chances are you would only hurt the value...
  14. westhemann
    I have the kahler fixed bridge,but I have not yet installed it.It needs no routing,and the main thing is it is adjustable in every direction just as the 7300 is...I assume the tone will be just as kick ass as the 7300 as well,because it is a solid piece of machinery.
  15. westhemann
    I also had a japanese soloist...it was very good quality,but I don't like jackson's continued use of poplar...kind of ruined the tone for me.
  16. westhemann
    You guys should really take into consideration that ya'll are talking about the cheap import jacksons...The USA models are the flagships...as far as I am concerned,the imports from every company are just subbed out to the lowest bidder and then have a name slapped on...
  17. westhemann
    greg...your avatar looks like a homeless man walking through the desert behind a dog he is soon to molest.I liked the finger wielding grimace better... It's like the end of an era. to the original poster...have you ;looked at the kahler 7300?much simpler to install and set up,and it stays in tune as well as a floyd or better
  18. westhemann
    I think the original poster may be talking about Budman68's site....www.fretsonthenet.com or maybe not.
  19. westhemann
    The actual grain may not be as wild as you think it is,fry...on Bubinga,it very often is not.you need to look at the piece in person and make the decision
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    I have bubinga exactly like that....yes it is perfectly suited for a neck.The thing that most of these guys don't know is that Bubinge,unlike maple,has the exact same figer all the way around the board...My piece was quiltedlike that(that is actually a flame...Bubinga has super wide flames that look like quilting)AND mine was also quartersawn....So if you get that piece in hand,look at it,it may very well be quartersawn,and probably is. Anyway,that is what I gathered from my bubinga exploder
  21. westhemann
    not about bandwidth,about load time...again.gawd I hate that discussion...
  22. westhemann
    Thank YOU for the blatant massive pic overload....after 2 years I believe you are familiar with the rules.
  23. westhemann
    I always forget that not everybody laminates necks like I do....
  24. westhemann
    Walnut's biggest tonal charachteristic in my opinion is a "smoothness" of tone.I don't find it bright at all...rather it is "creamy" to my ears...makes the notes very fluid and silky... I like to use it in guitars with alot of bright woods,because it balances it out and takes away the harshness of maple.
  25. westhemann
    the stewmac rods "grain" is running lengthwise,pretty much....but graphite is not wood,the physical properties are much different. dead spots are caused more by poor construction than type of neck...I stopped using carbon fibre long ago,and still have no problem.I believe it to be more about tight fits and good glue spread.
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