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.