westhemann

look up the video to "war is my shepard" watch it all the waythrough,leads and everything...it is on that "launch" video site...then you wil at least be able to see who i am talking about

AACCCHHHH!!!!!

that is GARY HOLT,man......gary holt...one of the godfathers of thrash.....one of the absolute best,tightest,all time ass kickinest guitarists to ever grace the stage... the man is a rythm guitarists hero...if you have not heard exodus...you NEED to get "tempo of the damned"(the newest cd) i realize you are joking...but it's freakin GARY HOLT man!!!! i know you are young...but the guy is ...well,there is no guitarist of that caliber in metal to compare him to today....

i think for old style truss rods and "vintage" necks,it is probably a must have... all of my necks are new,often 3 piece,and always dual action hot rod...i set them up with zero relief...so i do not need a jig...

i shape,then fret.....

by memory....he uses "hot stuff"(red?)and he spreads it out with a playing card... drak can tell me if i am wrong i use business cards and i use stew mac ca

i don't know who jed is...but gary holt of exodus has a rico v...it is awesome...i have pics

mogami....that is the cablesi use...best cables EVER...

you know the quicksand things are crushed glass,right?i think they are supposed to be hard yeah...i really want a good set of hand cut rasps....that will be essential for my shop...

i would ALWAYS worry about blowng up... but i am so smokin' hot i catch everything on fire....but seriously...worry

one of those littletubes when combined and mixed does one thin coat.if you cut it with a little acetone(which you need to do to not have air pockets.) do not ever try to mix up part of the little tube...the 2 parts do not come out evenly,so you MUST mix the entire tube at once...if the mix is not right it will not cure...ever empty the entire tube in a paper bowl...take a plastic spoon and mix it very,very well....then add the acetone until it is fairly thin(like spray paint) then spread it on with a card of some sort...i use business cards because they are free from www.vistaprint.com and i have alot of them... when you run out,make another tube..

i have never worked with spalt..but i think by far ca would be the way to go...it is thin enough that it just goes all the way through everything...i think it would penetrate spalt easily... but yes,drak is the man on toughening up punky wood...and i am 90-100% sure he uses ca to do it...that man looooves the super glue

i visited the link...i'm sorry but that neck is unuseable...the horrible join between the fretboard and neck combined with the smashed frets and twisted neck have pretty much gauranteed that you need to start over from scratch...there is no luthier in the world that can level those frets...they would not even touch it... the difference between the body and neck is astounding...what happened?the body looks pretty good,even after recessing the knob to cover up your tearout... dude...you HAVE to get your glue joins better than that...not only is it seriously weak with joins that poor,but you just turned the neck into one big dead spot tonally...i can't stress enough that you should not pair that neck with that body...i would buy a neck from carvin or warmoth first and get graded on the body alone... seriously...see if you can finish the body and get graded on it...it is still not due yet,right?

i wish they would have shown more of the other booths...i was interested in what kxk would have had

if it makes you feel any better greg i agree with you(i say,knowing the thought of agreeeing with me on anything will throw greg straight into a mid-life crisis)

http://www.goearthstone.com/quik_sand.asp hmm....anybody ever use this?seems like it may be a stepping stone before sandpaper http://www.traditionalwoodworker.com/default.php?cPath=38 nice rasps here... i am looking for a rasp that would have a handle on both ends,and have the teeth cut sideways so that you would drag ot like a drawknife...i think that woulds be useful...anyone know of anything like that?

yeah...stuff happens. thhe thing is,like soapbar said,guys like matt get too busy once things kick off for them to spend the vast amounts of time they used to spend maintaining that stuff.if his pics are no longer on his hosting site,the chances of you finding them somewhere else are slim...you should take the advice you were given and study the original.... pfft...toughen up...if you think that is harsh then i guess we have different definitions of that word...you guys have too many feelings...

thanks...i never knew that was there..and it is much closer to my house than the one way down south i have been going to. i recently found a shop that does custom milling on large pieces for $85 per hour....they did a good job ripping and thickness sanding my bubinga...

well..believe me when i tell you the delta is the best of the 9" bandsaws i have tried the ryobi 9" in particular is a useless pile of crap...i was looking at a 14" delta at lowes the other day...that is a much finer machine...but four times as expensive.

well that's the problem i had...but i do have that little incense burner stewmac markets as an inlay support table...it helps

well...the 9" delta is the cheapo of the delta line...it is made to be affordable. having said that though...that is exactly what i have,and i have had no problems...i think you may have had the blade tension too high or something...or maybe it was just already cracked during assembly

well..not on this guitar (explorer) but the next 5,i am planning on starting inlay work...but as slow as i build,that may be the year 3010... but in 3010,you better watch your butt!

i think alot of inlay artists probably use scroll saws at least for larger pieces...that makes it no less "cut by hand" as long as it isn't cnc,it is cut by hand.now don't get mewrong...i think tiny,tiny pieces would not work out well....but i bet there are many instances where a scroll saw would come in handy. i did my first inlay cutting a while back...cut out a demon head...did a very poor job of it...but a scroll saw would have done it easily as it was a fairly large piece

you tried walking in the park lately?between rabid squirrels,dog doo,and fat kids running at full speed with no idea where they are going,it's no easy feat..