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Erico

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  1. Gorgeous guitar. I love the flamed maple binding along the fretboard, very classy!
  2. ...sand the entire truck... Jeez, and I thought sanding a guitar was a tedious process! Great job!
  3. Whoa, that´s one great finish! Great work, mate!
  4. Hi, First of all, I've read your tutorial and it's awesome. Problem is, I live in Norway, and the cost of getting a template from guitarbuildingtemplates.com would be pretty high, if they even ship to Norway. Therefore, I have to do the planning myself, which is why I don't have the guts to start building a neck for my first project. But, rather than ordering a neck, I've unscrewed my Squier neck from my old cheapocaster, and I will use that one for the first guitar. Perhaps I'll build a neck of my own later. (I have to say, it wasn't a large width difference! Only about 2mm!)
  5. Hi, I'm in the designing phase of my first guitar now, and I have a small question about the neck pocket. Is the neck pocket slightly wider at the body end of the pocket compared to the neck end? If so, does anyone know the exact measurements? I'm building a Strat-ish guitar, and I will probably be using an ordered neck. Thanks, - Erico
  6. Wonderful! Eruption! Eruption! Eruption!
  7. Yeah, I do. Scroll down a bit on this page: http://www.dritfetegitarer.com/ Nice bass, really. The one on the site sells for approx. $1.800 used.
  8. I've wanted to do the same thing, only with my Squier strat. Thanks for the links! About the apostraphy, I'll answer for the guy. In the Norwegian language we use apostraphies in word-situations like that. It can be easy to forget sometimes. Pretty stupid explanation, but it'll do - Erico
  9. Nice bass. Nicer car Anyway, great bass, mate. Carvin rocks.
  10. Aye, thanks a lot, guys! Actually, I own and I have read Melvyn Hiscock's excellent book on guitarbuilding. It is a great book, but I missed a chapter on what's vital and what can be experimented with on a guitar. Therefore, I asked you guys (I smell a lot of knowledge in these forums) Thank you, Drak, for providing me with a post of that caliber, it answered me questions and also some words of wisdom. I hope not to be marked as a copying llama rear, but I wanted to know certain things about positioning and stuff before I begin with my first guitar. I've been playing for a while, so I know what different pickup placements can do, but then again I wanted to be sure they couldn't be placed in some awkward way so...um...SOMETHING would screw up Finally, one more question... Is a steady hand and a long ruler the only tools you use when sketching up the pickups and bridge to be parallel with the neck? Thanks for all the help, you guys are great!
  11. WELL, Quite a while ago, I realized that if I wanted the perfect guitar, I'd have to build it myself. And that's what I'm intending to do, at least after a first project to learn and get confident to a certain degree. I am very sure that I will be bothering you with quite a lot of questions in the future, but for now I'll try to restrict myself to only a couple. My main problem is how to make the plans of my guitar. I want a standard shape on the first one, and decided to go for the Stratocaster-shape. I have a Strat-copy here at home, I guess the smartest thing to do would be to put it on a large sheet of paper and sketch around with a pencil. But, the Strat has rounded edges, and therefore the drawing gets incorrect. Life (er...guitarbuilding) ain't easy... Are there any basic rules that I should know about when sketching down a body shape? F.ex. some standard lengths that has to be correct, stuff like that? Second, I've got large problems figuring out how to exactly draw in things like pick-ups and bridge! Say I want a H-H setup. How far should the neck pickup be from the neck pocket? How far should the bridge pickup be from the neck pickup? How far should the bridge be from the bottom strap screw? If anyone has got a tutorial on how to sketch up the plans for a guitar or can answer my questions, I would be forever thankful. - Erico
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