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Yup I am a viking age norse reenactor as well... Not really shure I know what that is...

what about cutting it something like this... 3 humbuckers...with studs around them...isn't that gonna look way crowded?

Is that some viking words of wisdom in your sig?

neck scarfjointed neck being glued

Got lot's of stuff done this weekend.. Scarf-jointed the headstock, routed the trussrod cavity, glued the fretboard on after thicknessing it. Neck was routed to shape.

I thought they looked kinda like a mirrored scott french with a parkerish headstock..

You're getting a masters degree in mechanical engineering....I guess that makes two of us on this forum...

Of course, all prices in Aussie dollars. Standard Series base price $1950 (genuine Floyd Rose, Gotoh tuners and Seymour Duncan/EMG pickups). Gets you one of seven different body shapes, one of five different body woods (ash, alder, mahogany, poplar, basswood), 1 of 2 different neck woods (maple, mahogany), 1 of 2 different fretboards (maple, rosewood), your choice of body colours (any clear, tinted clear, sunburst, metallic, or solid colour), two different neck profiles, inlays limited to pearl or plastic dots (or none). Options for this particular guitar: AAAAA birdseye maple: $200 Vortex Candy paint: $300 24 fret neck: $50 Total $2500 (thats 25% cheaper than a black Jackson SL1, in Australia, via an online discount music store... or half the price of a Charvel EVH... for comparison) These prices are Australian dollars. Everything i import attracts 30% (roughly) taxes and duties, plus shipping/insurance costs. I pay more for the shipping of one body blank, than i do for the actual wood. At this price these guitars are priced very well, for what they are, but cant compare to international prices (especially when shipping is added to the guitar). So, unless someone is insanely keen, i dont ever intend to sell these outside of Australia. Ebony fretboards are more, as is birdseye, flame maple, etc etc. Walnut bodies and necks, and limba/korina bodies extra, etc. Sharkfin style inlays are extra, but i wont do them in anything other than pearloid (real pearl reserved for full CustomShop models). Pretty much, you choose the woods and paint, but you cant go nuts with inlays, unique body shapes, etc etc. Its a 'cut down custom', or maybe a 'production guitar with more freedom'? If you want set/through necks, or a carved top, then thats a CustomShop order. If you want a different neck heel, CustomShop. Inlay of a tiger wrestling with a goat, CustomShop. Ive basically streamlined production of these to a very strict routine, and too many options can more than double the build time. The CustomShop guitars are 'anything goes', so if you want something outside of the Standard Series limits, you'll have to go with one of those (and be patient waiting ). I just know someone who hasn't even built their first guitar will use this post as an example of what THEY can 'quote' for their guitars when they go from a 'total newb who hasnt any experience', straight to a 'pro'. : Hopefully some newb (like myself) will reason the other way and realize what you have to live up for to charge people for a guitar. IMO that is a GREAT price (to bad the American dollar is extremely weak at the moment)...makes me wanna get one (if I manage to get the spare cash while going to uni )...but who knows, on one of my annual visits to Australia...

Finally got started in the schools' workshop, that I can now access pretty much whenever. this is one view of the shop. Bandsaw fitted the nut and planed the neck blank, I'm gonna scarf-joint it later this week. fretboard

Don't worry about building a neck being hard....I wasn't planning on building the neck on my first build. But I screwed something up (I think I kinda forgot to make a heel) and that forced me to make a set neck. Best mistake I ever did, I was chocked at how easy it was to make the neck.

Anyone ordered from them, I was thinking of buying a tree of life inlaid neck...

Oh crap, I just realized I wrote that I bought a neck. I bought a piece of wood for a neck and a separarate slotted ebony board.

I'd like a shorter scale neck I think, and fretmarkers wouldn't be a problem since I haven't put any in yet.

i don't think i understand your question....it seems as if you think chopping off the 24th fret will somehow shorten the scale from 25.5 to something less than that...that's not how it works,buddy....the scale is based on ALL the frets placement...22,24,or 93 frets is not going to change that in any way...your bridge will still need to be 25.5" from the nut....no less it would allow you more space for pickups...but that's it No...not the 24th, the first, moving the nut closer to the twelft. But I'm worried it might be too short...anyone tried?

Bought some stuff of a gold coast luthier today, a slightly flamed maple neck, and an ebony fretboard 25.5" 24 frets. I'm thinking of cutting of the first fret making it a shorter scale, anyone tried this?

A typical rattlecan paintjob would take me roughly 6-8 months to do. Most of those paintjobs were my own personal projects, but for those that weren't, I would wait a full year for the paint to cure before making it available for sale because I was always concerned about it getting damaged in shipping. So at that pace, you can probably figure out on your own exactly how many Krylon paintjobs (or guitars) were actually sold ... not many. I've had no complaints from anybody I've done work for so far. I've always been honest about the paint I use, good or bad, but if someone purchased a guitar or paintjob that I did with Krylon and would like a full refund, please contact me and I will arrange it. I'm not sure why you feel the need to personally attack me, my business, or my work aidlook, but I hope I answered your question. I might have come off a bit harsh and that was certainly not my intention. The thing is that in the old thread you come of as bragging about how good the rattlecan is and how many satisfied customers you have. And now you're totally flaming everything that comes out of a gun. I feel no need to personally attack you, your business, or your work, but when someone is telling everyone how crappy something is, while having charged other people for the exact same thing, curiosity leads one to ask the question. As for attacking your work, I don't really see where I did that, you did that indirectly yourself. And since your where indirectly critizising your own work so much, one thinks that you might have had a bad conciense about having charged people for something that you yourself find so terribly bad. Anyway, looks like you're very skilled with a spraycan, and it's better than anything I ever painted.

After reading that "other thread" dino, and now this one as well...My question is, did you refund all those paintjobs you did with rattlecans for other people and charged them for ....Now that you know how unbelievably crappy it is.

I'm in Australia over the holidays and had nothing to do...so I decided to make a template.

I've never seen coloured transparents in rattlecans before.... but then again I haven't really been looking very hard.

to get those 15 pounds of pressure per square inch would be a bitch Maybe not. 15 psi is actually the same pressure normal air has. Its exerted in all directions, at all times. By REMOVING air from the bag, the atmosphere exerts pressure onto the objects. Actually, its not 15 psi, i think its 14.7 (1 BAR). Id say a space bag may very well work, but ive only ever seen the informercials, never seen the bags myself. The vacuum bag i have works off a venturi connected to the air compressor. If the vacuum you use on the space bag was strong enough, there is not reason why it wouldnt work. Even 10 psi is lots. Actually, maybe not... http://www.joewoodworker.com/veneering/faq.htm#VB5 However, its amazing to see this thing work. Here is a video from joewoodworker.com http://www.joewoodworker.com/catalog/video/duramaxelite.wmv Maybe you're right...I'm not very good with non-metric measurements...I should know this stuff though since I just had a Thermodynamics exam. Anyway...If you could get a tight connection by the bag, and as long as the bag is good enough quality you'd probably be able to do it.

the molotov premium transparent shure looks interesting

to get those 15 pounds of pressure per square inch would be a bitch

why was it impossible? getting it even to the fretboard?

Swedish god of thunder kicking finland's ass....

Aidlook, surely you know the loudest Finnish words like vittu and jumalauta? of course i know vittu..and perkelle... My grandparents speak finnish btw....since they're born far north close to the finnish border. Is pekelle really the god of thunder?...I bet our god of thunder (Thor) would kick your ones ass....allthough it's probably the same guy