Dave Hiwatt

I went ahead and bit the bullet on the EMG David Gilmour set on a hard tail strat I made recently. And I must say I found it was worth it.

Thanks to all for your input. Dave

Shreve, Ohio (north central Ohio) Living among the biggest population of Amish in Ohio.

I'm in north central ohio so it's not too far from home!

I have been considering getting a HVLP system. I’m using a cheap jam gun. It works ok but the thought of less over spray sounds good. I have been using waterborne lacquer. Anybody have any experience with these?

Here is a link to a fret calculator. All you need is scale length and number of frets. http://www.dougsparling.com/cgi-bin/fretcalc.cgi Dave

Yea, I think so. It just says made in USA on it. It's been around for quite a while. I got that in 79 shortly after graduation from high school. It's a great overdrive. It doesn’t color the tone just brings out some crunch. Don't want sell it. I have used it for so long, I'd be lost without it!

Guitars and basses 66 stratocaster 86 mij stratocaster 65 mustang 73 telecaster custom 81 bullet bass 75 precision bass 77 F-360S-12 12 string acoustic 70's cort 12-6 doubleneck 61 gibson melody maker 85 ovation ultra 6 string acoustic 00 taylor 415 01 taylor baby BKR 02 taylor 414 "cherrycaster" made this one myself, modeled on my 66 strat, Cherry body, cherry neck with maple "slab" board, hardtail, with EMG David Gilmour pickups and pearl pickgaurd amps 79 deluxe reverb 83 Hiwatt DR-103 custom bass with two1-15 cabs 84 Hiwatt DR-103 lead with 4-12 cab 81 randall RB-60 with 1-15 cab early 50's gibson T-1000 amp 61? gibson hawk RVT-35 Pignose stomp boxes and other crap tubeworks real tube ART MR-1 reverb yamaha spx-90 digtech rds-1900 76 E-H small stone 76 E-H talk box 76 E-H big muff dod fx 50 overdrive De Armond square wave

Greetings Steve, I have been building electrics and acoustics for a few years now. I would recommend getting a band saw, at least 14” with a riser block. I have a grizzly 14” with a 4” riser. It gives me 10 ½” under the guides. This is ok for resawing but really not near big eneough. But it is a great size for rough cutting bodies and necks and other smaller work. I would also recommend getting the band saw book and learn how to properly set your saw up. A good set up makes all the difference. Here is how I cutout my electric bodies. I have made templates for all the parts I mark the centerline, align the template and mark the outline. I then rough cut the body on the band saw out the rough shape, leaving about 1/16” proud of the scribed line, then attach the template with double stick tape and use a router with flush cut bit to get to the final size. I made my templates by tracing the outline of a body on paper and then transfer it to a piece of MDF.