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Where was that dog's eye & respiratory protection? Come on guys - be safe!

Is this guitar not gonna get a volume control?

I've read Eric Clapton's - interesting read - didn't realise just how close he came to binning his career thru addiction, also Steven Tylers is also quite a cynical read. I've read pat Benetar's too - a bit slow going but still quite interesting.

Best one's I've read - I Am Ozzy & Steven Adler's "Appetite For Destruction"

Other interesting AB's - especially for peeps in the UK - are Spike Milligans books of his war-time memories (for people overseas Spike was a very popular comedian who actually started out as a musician & was conscripted into the Army during WW2 - in between battles he and his comrades started a Jazz trio & went about entertaining the troops - where he met Harry Secombe & Peter Sellers & they formed "The Goon Show" a popular Post-War radio comedy show)

Try setting light to it - if it's plastic or cellulose it'll burn, if it's shell it will scorch

I have a story to tell. Most of you should know it well.

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I didn't even fix it. I just went to bed.

I am only laughing because you have just written my biography! This happens to me all the time & it makes me so fing and .... it's even more frustrating because I am, by trade, a DIAGNOSTIC Electronics Technician so I'm supposed to be good at this fault-finding **** - right? So with guitars, why does it take me forever to find the fault? Give me a hi-tech Millimetre Wave High Modulation-Rate Mobile Phone Base-station Transceiver & I can find the fault in a crack - give me a faulty guitar....... And it's always the part that you look at and say "It can't be that!" so you start looking at what you "hope" it's not....

The worst one was a Daisy Rock guitar of my neice's - it had intermittent drop outs - ie sound one minute - nothing the next, completely random, either pick-up, any volume or tone position, could work fine for a day & then do it 3x in 5 mins. I changed out everything over a six-month period - even tried different pups - in the end I just gave her it back..... .

Apparently to add insult to injury it just stopped happening a couple of months later..... if only I'd hung on a little longer I could have told her "I'd fixed it!"

No Fjords in Finland??!!! Obviously not designed by Zlartibartfarst!

But there must be Fjords in Sweden tho' surely? Bjergen Kjergen from Kneurgen near the Joergen Fjords said there was...

Wayne: Hi, uh we're here to see Handsome Dan. My name is Wayne Campbell
Bjergen Kjergen: Yah, I know. We've been expecting you, Vane Campbell. I am Bjergen Kjergen.
Wayne: Wow I love your accent, where are you from?
Bjergen Kjergen: I am from Sveden.
Wayne: Oh really? Whereabouts in Sweden?
Bjergen Kjergen: Kneurgen, near the Joergen Fjords.
Wayne: Well, nice to meet you, Bjergen Kjergen, from Kneurgen, near the Joergen Fjords. Hmm. Kneurgen, that's in the Klargen Province, near the Biburgen River.
Bjergen Kjergen: Yah hah.
Wayne: Now correct me if I'm wrong. Your annual rainfall varies from about 40 inches in the winter to about 200 inches in the summer, and your chief export is modular furniture. I did a report on Sweden in the eighth grade.
Bjergen Kjergen: Well I am impressed with your quest for knowledge. Educated men are rare.
Wayne: It was really hard, I stayed all night on it. Then the next day, in gym class I was on the minitramp and I got diarrhea. I really wish I hadn't told you that.

I wonder if there is a simple way of drawing airborne particles to one side of the room where a simple air scrubber is located, ie. using some kind of electrostatic generator?

Run an ioniser for a couple of hours before hand/overnight - this will charge the dust in the air & cause it to cling to stuff - you can aso get air purifers too that feature Ionisers - my late father used to have one as he had emphesema & my folks bought a combined fan/humidifier/ioniser to keep the air in the house clean as he was prone to chest infections due to his condition.

here's one on amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Ioniser-Purifier-Revitaliser-Freshener/dp/B005EM24Y4 - the one my father had was bigger than this tho'.

Digging the black plughole. Awesome.

He already said he didn't do GOLD hardware - so what colour were you expecting? Now sit up straight & take notice boy! lol

"As you can see R4-D5 is doing something. I call it R4-D5 because I never know when it is going to blow a motivator." ooops!

Good looking bass ;-)

100mm?? Thats 10cm or ~4" - doesn't look like that on your drawing(??)

I had that idea 1st!!!! - I've done it on 2 piece bodies too. Just pre-rout a channel before gluing the 2 halves....

Here's a couple of close ups.....

Managed to get an hour today so I had a little play with some wood dyes on some scrap pieces of maple veneer......

sounds awesome!!!

Realized I want a tool that doesnt exist. A very small, handheld power sander. Thinking 1-2" discs Very small and light, used for detail sanding work in tight areas that block sanding will take too long to do, and more accurate then a dremel disk. That said, I DO have a few spare dremels in my shop, I'll take one apart and see what I can come up with.

they already make one.... its called a rotary toothbrush!

Just cut the bristles off & stick your sandpaper on!

looks like you can get it from amazon....

I've been looking for that tape for ages and it is just one of those things hiding in plain sight. I'll never find it!

It's called "Glass tape" - I used to work for a well know white goods company making microwave ovens - they used it to tape the doors shut for transit. I "liberated" a few rolls before I left! Down to my last roll now.....

Get that shoelace tied before you trip!

Other than that keep up the good work!

headless Schenker! cool..

Am I the only one missing something here? - You want your logo in white? And you've already proved your inlaying capabilities?

Mother Of Pearl is white-ish!

INLAY THAT SUCKER!

Nice!

Congrats on the build thusfar! It's lookin real nice, the HS veneer is a nice touch.

Yeah thx - I nearly didn't go with it - I struggled to get a veneer with grain good enough to match. I asked a guy I was buying some other veneer from if he had any figured maple I could buy and he threw me some really nice maple veneer in as a freebie with the rest of my order!

thx Muzz - just wish I could find the time to get it finished

Well, got her strung up for a test. Decided to try the Seymour Duncan Custom. She sounds massive! The neck was a little thick & club-like so i've ripped off about 2.5mm from the back of the neck - definately better but still may need another mm off. She plays great no dead spots on the neck & only needs the action at the nut reducing by about 0.5mm at the bass side & about 0.25 mm at the treble side to be perfect.

Here's a couple of shots....

Liked!

Queue Jack Black - "This guitar didn't sound anything like that guitar - coz this is just a Tribute!"...

going well so far.