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i didnt think offering to paint the guitar for free was breaking any rules

if you switched to polyester you would cut your schedule down to a 1/4 of all that...polyester rules

check the links page on this site, i think gilmer is listed

now, i dont know this for myself, but, ive heard a lot of people say some bad things about walnut tone wise.....like it robs the harmonics and high ends.....kinda like a sponge....also be careful...black walnut can be deadly, wear a resperator

yeah i saw that guitar at namm a couple years ago....they got it from gilmer........those little bench top planers seem to do a nicer job on smaller objects, so you may be ok.....one trick to smooth planing when you experience a lot of tear out is to wet the surface you are planing......only the wet area gets taken off.....(hint for all you figured wood people)

well if you like heavy, i have a heavy heavy one piece mahogany san dimas type body.......

send it to me, ill paint it for you

i know gilmer woods has snakewood, as do a few others.....its about 100 bucks a fretboard and pretty hard to handle

other than adding the buzz feiten tuning system, there isnt anything you can do.....short scale necks are harder to intonate and are known for this.....you could try to go up a gauge in strings.....

if IT and the OTHERS were READY to paint, they would have been done in this batch.....i did not have time to finish YOUR sanding to get them in on time

strunz and farah check them out if you want to see 2 of the fastest guitarist around.....and they are acoustic

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go for it and be sure to post pics

another cool wood to use is snakewood....but its expensive and tough to work with

i thought i saw some prs plans somewhere on the net...ill have to think about that one

i am about to template a prs bolt on, if thats any help

just some goofing around today, i thought id take a pic

thats called a billet.....its pretty much standard size......its meant to be resawed into book match sets..........any size thickness you need.....i like buying these, rather than the allready sized pieces, because its cheaper and i can get 4 or 5 tops out of one billet...but, you are going to need a resaw bandsaw, planer, and a drum sander to make it work

you can do whatever you want really....there arent too many hardfast rules...try it and see how it works for you....plenty of exotics make great fingerboards

the problem is that mahogany is an open grain wood....it has to be sealed or you will be subject to swelling and cracking.....thats why you use rosewood, ebony and maple for fingerboards, they all have closed grains....maple is about at the bottom of the spectrum.....i dont think mahogany is any harder than rosewood or ebony for sure

ive never heard of anyone using elm on a guitar.....if its a soft wood i wouldnt bother with it.....poplar and basswood are considered hard woods

yeah, pink is my color too

ok, what you want to do at this point is let it completely dry.....now sand it until its all level and nice....now go back to painting and just do some light tack coats.....in other words, just barely mist the guitar with paint....try keeping the guitar back as far as possible from your paint can or whatever your using......keep doing this until you build up enough to cover nicely...in other words, go slowly...then clear, which is a lot harder

or you find a shop thats just taken an interest in building exact ibanez replicas and is willing to do some early work cheap

using a retainer bar will help...thats basically what peavey does to get around the angle issue on the wolfgangs, which have almost no natural angle

you dont have to angle the headstock....you just have to have some angle between the nut and tuners which most guitars have around 5-10 %

is that the blue maui thin lam stuff? if so, how do you like working with it....im kinda afraid to use it

availability is the issue....it is getting harder and harder to get nice wood thats big enough to make a guitar without gluing....maple, mahagony and poplar are about it for the common tone woods.....i have never ever been able to score a 1 piece alder board....and right now, alder is getting almost impossible to find

sorry, i missed your email....i try to answer them twice a day....it may have been lost in the swarm of spam i get

email me again and we'll talk