joshvegas

Nice guitar,

If you want to you can make a thread in the work in progress thread with photos and tell us a bit about it.

For general chat, good or bad, 'the misc stuff' about life thread is a hoot.

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Guten tag!

My german writing is significantly worse than my spoken which is terrible, sorry

Wilkommen

I love a cold coke but now mostly drink it only with bourban. Will drink a beer instead though! Please don't say anything bad about beer!

Its full of calories and gives you horrendous eyesight where ladies are concerned... I hope by 'beer' you don't mean budweiser because thats a soda in all but name!

you mean my random thoughts where accurate?

Not necessary and might make it impossible to get enough relief(though not likely), especially on a Maple neck.

You might use them in a non-maple, baritone, or super thin neck.

thats what i meant by lack of mass keegan having i've still to try my bamboo laminate reinforcement rods!

I think, but don't quote me on this, the rods make up for lack of mass in a neck the thinner you want it the more flexible it becomes so you add the rods to stiffen it up the trussrod is an adjustment for any bow in the neck.

Lol I kinda made that up on the spot can you tell?

You could buy a new one and replace the neck plate and sell the original to subsidise the cost!

I think what wes is trying to say what makes that particular guitar is special is the neck. Would you buy a ferrari sans engine and replace it with a 4 cylinder fiat engine just because the body was cheap? I bet more people would have a stab at sticking a ferrari engine in a cruddy fiat!

Is the Ed Roman thing a joke? if it is...

Weight doesn't mean sustain all on its own there are other factors! Its definately the enemy though not being able to play the guitar because it hurts I would class as a serious design flaw.

I personally think that those screaming blue pickups are asking for another screaming blue thing... perhaps blue LED fretboard inlays/position markers?

All inlayed into a blue fretboard!

These are really nice spoke, But my definate favourite is the completed prototype thats pure class.

yellow body blue pickups and.... blue fretboard with black binding?

That's what the clip on a tape measure is for!

Let me know when you are having one in glasgow!

Possibly because the market for teak is for furniture so the importers ship in the heavy/harder end of the spectrum?

Tectona grandis is Tectona grandis . . . there is no difference between the trees in any SE Asia country - as I said I can't fathom it out!

Thats no what I meant I meant perhaps the importers import the higher quality harder heavier timber as it meets the requirments of the market.

Possibly because the market for teak is for furniture so the importers ship in the heavy/harder end of the spectrum?

I once got unmatching 3+3 side gotoh tuners packed by allparts. I feel your pain!

and another thing, I think it would still look pretty good as a paint job if not better (sometimes using all wood is NOT the way to go).

Or another possibility would be a bit of veneering just like you were veneering a chess board rather than all the inlaying you had planned.

Very wise

Although people have been doing intricate work with wood long before CNC machines

Rough it with the router and tidy it with charp chisels

And I think you could possible rotate it 90 degrees the curve of the knight could be made to follow the curve of the guitar...

teak guitar? will that not be a touch heavy?

welcome

you're such a rock snob!

I quite like heavy metal, lead in particular.

Where is the 'actual rock' option?

I'm into granite and felsite in a big way. I can cope with a bit of limestone occasionally but I think chalk sold out a long time ago. I also take alot of time to 'slate' slate its just to flakey yet it gets all the top jobs.

I voted for dayvo on the principal of 'which one would i take'

I don´t mean to hijack your thread John, but I was wondering about a tool which I think could be used for the truss rod channel. I know this crowd uses the router for many things including this task, but I was wondering who has experience with router planes at all, and especially for routing the truss rod channel. I´ve read its mainly used for inlaying and marquetry, but could it be used for this or other tasks?

Sorry to butt in but alternatively you could use a plough plane which does it all in one go (mine hase two blades that cut the side of the channel first the link doesn't appear to have them) it also works on narrow pieces where i think a router plane may start to wobble?

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Der...es/LVplough.jpg