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if you feel confident enough you could use a dremel with the fret slot bits from stewmac as well.. i have the dremel base from stew mac and i measure the depth, of the slot currently, then adjust the bit until i have just a bit more than i would need to to make clearence for the slot, and as stated earlier, being careful of not cutting through the board or binding.. (ps, this works great and way faster than anything else as far as i know, but practice it on some scraps. cut a fretslot if you can in some scrap, then draw a line ontop of the wood and pretend that line is where the binding is, practice getting close to it, but not going into it. then cut some of the tang away to compensate for the wood you didnt hit up with the dremel..)

Hi guys, I'm an amatuer builder and I've only had experience building bolt on guitars. I'm hoping to tackle a neckthru for my next build and I was wondering if there was anything different from building a bolt on that i should take into consideration when building a neck thru guitar.. I know how to draft out my scale length, intonation line for the bridge and all of that stuff that came standard with bolt on, but im wondering if there was anything tricky that i may not know about when drafting plans and designing my future neck thru build. Any help is greatly appreciated! =) Also, i just got the trial version of autocad 2009 and im running through some of the tutorials right now that are in the help menu, but i was wondering if anybody knew of any tutorials for autocad that were more relevant to guitar design.. thanks! -Mike

im planning on painting my current build with spray cans, though i have never used rattle cans as far painting a guitar, i would personally prefer to use a polyurethane based spray can for a nice solid orange, with a white pinstrip going down the body and a clear coat on the back of the neck, but orange on the headplate... anybody mind helping me out with finding a good brand of paint can to use? or would anyone i could find in a hardware store work? ive been looking around a bit and been mostly finding stuff on laquer cans, not sure if theres a faq on polyurethane cans, if there is sorry i missed it =(

dont know the exact measurements to be honest, i pretty much just routed out the neck pocked once my neck was done, then popped in the neck, moved my hand around like i was playing that high up, and drew out the basic shape of where my thumb would be and move around back there, then evened it out for good cosmetics and started removing material away slowely with an angle grinder to help get the nice flatness, then shaped the rest with chisels.

yeah I had ended up going to an urgent care clinic once i started sneezing up blood =(

Hey everyone, I've been lurking around these forums randomly and finally decided to register and start learning more from plethora of knowledge here. Anyways I recently graduated from the Guitar Craft Academy program at Musician's institute I've been trying to get my own side business started doing repairs, setups, refrets, etc... for the local music scene where I live. So far work has been steady but slow, I've only been getting 2-3 guitars a week. Anyways heres my first build I'm pretty happy with this build, i realized there was alot i could have done better once i finished the guitar, but im pretty happy nonetheless. indian rosewood fretboard, mahogony neck and body. Heres my second build which I have not finished yet, but so far im pretty thrilled with it. these pics are a bit outdated, as of right now this guitar is done being shaped and and i am final sanding everything and prepping it for painting. The body is basswood, with a multilamnete maple neck.. its hard to see in any of the pictures but the neck has a slight flame to it. the fretboard is cocobola which i unfortunatly learned that i was allergic to in the process of building this guitar (it gave me a sinus infection =L). The guitar has 24 frets, the body design was kind of based of the gibson blues hawk, just without the f-holes. im planning on putting on a schaller hartail bridge with the rolling saddles, grover mini rotomatic tuners, a humbucker from hell in the neck and a tonezone in the bridge. theres going to be one vol pot, and a 3 way toggle switch.