westhemann

I don't know about paduak,but I never worried about discoloration on my maple before.I just clean thouroughly with denatured alcohol after I finish sanding.

That's how I have done mine.I have some necks that have been in use a few years now,and I have never had a problem.I would never use riftsawn in a one piece neck though.

I prefer flatsawn laminated necks.They feel stiffer,and to my ears they sound crisper and a bit more lively. I have also been known to use riftsawn wood,I just use it on the outer laminates and oppose them.

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The reason a les paul should be thicker than other guitars is because of the balance issue.It does not have an upper horn,so without that mass the neck takes a dive to the floor. You could use denser woods to make up for that...I reccomend bubinga

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I like it...It isn't practical,but I like the sheer hugeness of it all.

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...22201&st=15 read the guidelines.you are trying my patience.believe me,i am being as polite about this as i can,but there is too much of this going on right now,and i WILL make it so the rules and guidlines are followed. would you like me to respond to your sarcasm and fit pitching with my own?because i assure you i am quite good at it.

i always think about tool layout...pretty much constantly,and having enough space around everything is second nature to me. i do the same when i arrange my furniture in the house.i map it all out in my head.same thing with guitar building,i think about it all obsessively for days before i get to actually doing it.

my straitedge is stainless...i think that is the way to go,really. my hand tools are just regular hardened steel,but i keep them inside the house in my desk,and i only take them out when i am ready to use them(the guitar tools anyway...my mechanic tools stay in a tool box in the garage,but they are always covered in enough oil and grease to keep them from rusting)

sanding between frets is definately tedious...that is why if i am using a finish with good "burn in" between coats,i will spray the final coat on the fretboard with it laying flat,so i can make the coat "wetter" and it will self level without sagging.it is possible to get the coat level enough to only need buffing even with the guitar hanging,but i am not that good yet.

no,i don't live anywhere near you.i live in central texas but i travel a little bit for work. the auto parts store was about 3? years ago...i was only there for a few days...the restaurant was right across from the college,in a tiny litlle shopping center.the building was pretty old,but i have no idea if the restaurant is still there. i also worked on the Dillards in that mall in Mcallen about 8 or 10 years ago or so. dude,on another topic,i can't understand your posts very well.the words are too small and the lack of punctuation is killing me... look,i don't want to be a jerk about this,but until the typing is cleared up between you new guys,most of us don't even know what the question is,and i doubt anyone with any real knowledge is going to bother wading through all of that.

there are alot of 8 strings being built in the "progress section",plus i am considering an 8 string explorer style soon.plus these topics have been discussed quite a bit...i guess you were just elsewhere at that time. i built an auto parts store in edinburg a few years ago...ya'll have a good asian restaurant down by campus...the waitress was extremely cute as well.

lef...you are WRONG...flat out.orange peel is completely different from fisheyes and pinholes.

320 is plenty fine...but i think you most likely did not move through the grits properly...or did not sand with the grain i sanded my exploder board to 220,and there are no visible scratches at all.

glad you corrected all of that silicoln stuff,garehanman... thickness of the coat is really critical to avoid orange peel with a spray can...i have never been able to lay it on as perfectly as that tele out of a spraycan though... but like was said,orange peel is not the end of the world...i just consider it a minor nuisance because it is so easy to level out..especially with micromesh. but i always spray the entire guitar at once,because they are all neck through or set neck at my house...and it is REALLY tough to get proper lighting around the entire guitar while it is hanging from the headstock.i need to make a hanging apparatus where i can spin,raise,and lower the guitar while spraying.

the link does not work. but my guess is that you are looking at some of those colored wax products that temporarily fill in fine scratches in your car's paint...white means it is for a white car... i used to use the red on my red truck.it's like using makeup to fill in wrinkles on an old woman's face...but it has no place with guitars.try to stick with guitar stuff if you don't know what you are looking for.

you guys ask really strange things sometimes... 2 1/4" at the 24th fret is a standard size...and your bridge and nut determine the neck taper.

not really greg...those guitars are almost literally a dime a dozen,especially missing anything at all. even brand new those guitars are pretty damn cheap.i work on alot of those for friends...they are a beginner guitar in my view

don't let it fool you crafty,this topic is years in the past.alot of newbs are just dredging up old crap right now. hehe...you would think a "crafty" guy like you would have noticed...har-de har-har

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that is what i do

irked or not,the hz is an inferior pickup in terms of output and signal to noise....don't think just because they say emg that they are automatically good. in my experience,most people that claim the hz line is a good line of pups have never played the actives for any length of time.after playing the actives for years,i can't stand the hz pickups.they have an underlying hiss and hum which destroys the enjoyment for me. if i use passives,i use duncans...never emg passives. misunderstood?that's just silly...they are not Don Imus,they are pickups. by the way i played with hz pickups before i converted to actives years ago...at low volumes and lower gain settings it is not nearly as noticeable...but turn those puppies up and try them out. and it iis not gear snob-ism to say that the actives are better than the passives in the emg line.it is just the plain ole simple truth

wood selection and build quality... i make all my neck from 3 1" pieces of straight grained wood laminated side by side in complementary grain orientations,making sure to get good glue spread and tight tolerances on all the laminates and the fretboard,i don't rout out any more than necessary for the truss rod,and i always use a good solid 2 way truss(i use the stewmac hot rod) i really don't know how much any single thing affects the end product...wood selection and tight joins are most likely the most important,but the last 4 necks or so that i have made are really excellent tonally.