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  1. aidlook
    GMF carries rosewood fretboards. But their prices are never humane. Where are you getting the hardware? if you're thinking of placing an order from StewMac's just order the fretboard from them as well. Every time i've ordered from them I've received my goods in less than 3 days. I could also recommend guitarfetish for hardware, since they're cheap and fast (och jag har aldrig åkt på tull med dom).' Oh and Swedish Luthier would you perhaps be intrested in purchasing some wood for me if you're going to Holm's. I'm thinking of placing an order but would like someone to handpick a couple of good pieces.
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    Hi Erik I spent 12 years in jönköping, however that was before I started building guitars. I know of a wholesaler here in Gothenburg where I've purchased some nice ash that has turned into guitar bodies. I've found out from a guy at school (seriously good wood-turner) of a company in västerås called Bröderna Holms that has a wide range of woods.
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    That would be by putting opposite currents through the paint and the body of the guitar IF it was metal. It would work if you gave the paint a negative charge as it came out of the can causing each drop of paint to repel the other spreading out more. But it would also require the guitar to be made of metal to attract the paint, and have a positive charge. I think I'm right? What about a layer of conductive paint applied before the colour layer?
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    ...making the ability to cough up £1000 even less likely
  5. aidlook
    Man! you must be old....The first computers where around in the 30's/40's.
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    I've powdercoated a tele bridgeplate, string trees, control plate, and tuners....All white, it's definately doable, the cost might be the issue though.
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    I don't think you're getting the point here... The measurements you want are not critical in any way. If you read up on the subject a bit you will realise what ihocky is really trying to say. The measurement from the nut to the end of the fretboard doesn't matter if it's off by 1,2,3 or 5 mm The measurement from the nut to the last fret is way more critical. Same with the measurement between the end of the fretboard and the bridge, this doesn't really matter. The thing that does matter however is the distance from the nut to the saddles. Alles klar
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    At first I read that as Brian May have them in his inventory.... Brian May changed the tuners on his original Red Special to the schaller locking tuners, and that ought to tell you something. I have a set myself and I can say nothing but positive stuff about them, top quality stuff.
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    Sound travels even faster through water than air... And if it's air-tight, the best thing to do would be to suck out all the air inside, leaving a vacuum
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    Full front body
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    Well... here's my first GOTM entry Specs: Woods: Ash Body finished in nitro. Flatsawn maple neck, scarfjointed headstock at 14 degrees. 25,5" scale Ebony fretboard Hardware: Licensed Floyd Rose tremolo Wilkinson EZ-lock tuners beveled plastic knobs Hot rod truss rod Electronics: Neck: Gfs Lil killer Bridge: PAF style humbucker Two push/pull knobs for splitting coils, and selecting north/south coil. 3-way selector switch neck/both/brigde Missing cavity covers in the pics...
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    what happened at the bottom right half of the drumshell?
  13. aidlook
    But then we're missing out on the fun part....
  14. aidlook
    Instead of the 400$ refret you could probably get a new neck, like a warmoth, for roughly the same price.
  15. aidlook
    For Fender plans I found this link very useful http://www.fender.com/support/diagrams/pdfs/ There are layout diagrams like this of pretty much every Fender guitar. They are all vector based and can be scaled to full-size without loosing quality. It's all in layers as well, so with a program like adobe illustrator all the arrows and such can be removed
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    Is the screamer back in stock now?
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    I've been to sydney 3 or 4 times
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    Wich one of the tune-o-matics do you have? It would definately work with the schaller since it's got adjustable string spacing.
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    +1
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    I can't really take credit for the choice of pickguard or knobs, since that's just the way the deluxes looked like. The GFS split humbuckers are "standard" humbucker-size, and therefore somewhat smaller than the original Fender ones...
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    I used a straight bit with a bearing (on the bottom), and just changed the bearing to a smaller size. Luckily a smaller bearing from one of my other bits was just the rigt size.
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    Ok. So I've been building this guitar for the past couple of weeks while putting a finish on the second build. Specs: Maple Neck Maple Fretboard Medium/Medium fretwire GraphTech nut Ash body Wilkinson Kluson-style tuners Vintage style tremolo GFS Split Humbuckers It's bound in white both front and back and will be finished in black nitro.
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    started finishing... Grainfiller tinted dark brown, finished with Nitro. Still have a lot of clear+sanding to do to get it nice and even though
  24. aidlook
    Slash John Frusciante Brian May ...no particular order
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    I use the stewmac as a maste template to make templates out of MDF or Plywood as well(learned not to use the plexi one the hard way...). But a tip is to use the transparent template to mark out the positions of the routs, and then use the wooden ones for the actual routing
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