Slabbefusk

Okay, what should I fill the hole(s) with?

I used the small 3-4 mm holes as a guide for my ferrule-holes so they don't align either. It's f-ugly. Therefore, I will make a coverplate that keeps them out of my sight whenever I'm not changing strings. Luckily all other holes that are to be drilled are much bigger so the bits shouldn't wander on those. Thanks for the input guys!

Update: I drilled the stringthrough-holes today and f****d up, but I don't know why. When I looked at the top all the holes aligned properly but when I looked at the back one was off and it annoys me like crazy. The sole fact that I was using a drill press and it still didn't come out straight is just lame. Must be the drill press that flunked out on me in someway because everything was fastened. I think I will make a cavity just deep enough to house a coverplate so I won't have the the crooked bushings staring at me everytime I pick it up. Didn't do anymore work after those holes because I was just pissed. EDIT: I've also made a new template for the neckpocket. It is much tighter than the first one, lucky thing I did the testpiece.

I made a template for the neckpocket today. The neck fit nice and pretty tight in the template so I decided to do some routing on the testpiece. It came out really good.

It's an insane guitar. I mean look at the sides! It looks like blueish fire and the top is like a giant cozy ocean! The cocobolo just makes me want to eat it.

Well, the important thing in this project isn't how deep you write about the theory behind. It is all about the end product and HOW you got there. I have to keep a log on everything I do when working on this guitar; what, how, why and when I did what and how did it go? That's what the teachers are going to look at when giving me my grade. It would of course be sort of icing on the cake if I had some well explained theory too back up all things I've done.

Bodies everywhere!

Houston...we have a visual... The 2-piece body of ash on top is mine, the one under is like 8-piece and is going back to the guy who sent both when I've made a telebody out of both; as a means of payment.

Don't worry, I will restore her to life as soon as I get my wire.

What have I done!? It all happened so fast and now I'm here all alone, wondering what to do with the body....

That page is in finnish so I can't find out how to order from them. If the wire is thinner shouldn't I be able to get more turns rather than less turns around the bobbin?

Thanks!

Can I use this kind of copper wire to wind pickups? I'm going to wind a neck and bridge pickup for a Tele. The one I can find is fairly cheap at rouhly 22 USD / 5400 m from ELFA. The diameter is 0,05 mm. If this one doesn't work I'll have to buy wire from gmf.se, a shop with lame pricing on ALL of their stuff. GMF's wire costs 70 USD per 7600 metres of wire but it is pickup wire. Ordering from outside Sweden is sadly not an option for me.

Okay! Tomorrow we will recieve some information concerning our projects etc. I have located a nice piece of American Ash that is already roughed out for a Telecaster shape (2 piece body). My only concern is that its only 1,5" thick while my Ibanez RG is 1,75" . It weighs in at about 2 kgs unrouted. My idea with this project was to build a really clean telecaster with (hopefully) lots of fat tone. How much "fatness" would I loose if I went with this 1,5" thick piece versus a 1,75"? Does anyone know how thick the early Teles were? Would a thinner body affect the stability of the neck joint in a bad way? The pickups will of course influence the tone as well, but I'm just wondering. I will also buy a neck for this project. I have absolutely no tools at home and I'm not sure if my school has all the necessary ones either. Maybe I should check that out . EDIT: Do I ask too many or too dumb questions?

Hows the tuning stability with the trem that high up?

Those are some tasty bursts there man!

I like the inlay!

I think the pickguard is just right, a tortoise or pearl pickguard would just look gaudy IMO.

Should come out a bit Hannemanesque when your done, cool!

Looks really clean . Were you from Sweden or Finland?

Your links don't work.

Did I ever tell you that you build insanely good looking guitars? O_O

Yeah that is what I had in mind but what profile do guys think would give me a meaty but comfortable neck? What are your preferences? V-shape? C? Slim 60's? What radius would be good for a sort of compromise between being able to play chords comfortably and still being able to pull of some faster stuff? Would a compound radius be too steep of a learning curve?

That was just so hot!

Looks really nice!