Dave Hiwatt
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Thanks to all for your input.
Dave
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Shreve, Ohio (north central Ohio)
Living among the biggest population of Amish in Ohio.
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I'm in north central ohio so it's not too far from home!
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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?
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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
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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!
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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
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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.
Mid-boosts
in Electronics Chat
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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.