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  1. selmac
    you could do it with woodfiller but I would recomend at least using a sawdust glue mixture or little peices of wood because woodfiller is usaully very soft and your repair job would look bad quickly
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    well I was setting the intonation on my guitar and I noticed a screw right behind the trem bar hole when you dive the trem. I took a gamblr and tightened it and the trem bar stays where I put it now but you have to loosen it to take the bar out. that works for a fender deluxe locking trem but I don't know about any others
  3. selmac
    id just add rosewood onto the body of the guitar and fret that. id do like a U around the neck pocket or some kind of bracing out of rosewood and than cut out a section of the pickguard and do that so its a 20 whatever fret instrument using a 21 fret neck
  4. selmac
    he means the seperate parts of the inlay aren't made of the same peice of pearl
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    I got my spoke shave from house of tools, they're not that rare of tools you can find them alot of places. mine is flat bottom which is the most common. there's also convex in one or two planes and concave bottom ones.
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    isn't a gibson L6S kinda like what your talking about, A maple bodied guitar shaped like a LP ( except flat top) and capable of splitting the humbuckers? I'd do some thing like the L6S except with single coils to make a strat-paul but thats just me
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    its supposed to swing free? I didn't know that. don't regular strats have a spring so the trem bar stays in place? hmmmm I could be mistake though
  8. selmac
    when I get fiber optics for models I just go to wal mart and buy one of those cheap fiber optic lamps that look kinda like an explosion from a black base, not sure if that would work on a guitar though as the fiber optic strands aren't that long
  9. selmac
    I have an american deluxe strat with deluxe locking trem (not floyd rose, kinda a combo floyd rose/normal trem). the trem bar is pop in. when you put it in it just swings down towards the tone controls. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to make it stay pointing towards the neck? its pop in not screw in like a normal strat thanx
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    I've been working on a flanger and I foolishly did not look up all the chips before starting I was wondering if anyone had or knew where to get either a mn3007 bucket brigade analog delay line, or a tda2107 either would work fine thanx
  11. selmac
    ok that clarifies that thanx. yah I don't see how hanging free could cause a guitar to go flat
  12. selmac
    so when you are all doing your tests are the guitars just hanging or are they hanging and leaning against the wall? I could see a minute possibility of problems if they're leaning on the wall but not so much if it is just hanging straight down. if it was leaning against the wall I could see that leading to the strings going flat, turn a straigt guitar into a more C shape so the strings have less tension. sorry if that made no sense but clarification on the wall leaning thing would be nice, thanx
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    ok IMO strats are far better. I despise the gibson neck, LP's feel funny on my body, I do like a standard LP's sound better than a standard strat but the thing is an LP has limited choices as far as stock pickups go I mean sure there are a variety of humbuckers or you could get P90's but a strat can be SSS HSS or HH stock plus if you wanted you could go HHH or HSH or SHS. I got an american deluxe strat HSS with S-1 switching. I can get the single coil twang or the fuller bodied sound of humbuckers. (the S-1 can wire the 2 singles as a humbucker type sound and the bridge humbucker can be split and used as a single coil) I vote strat b/c it feels better and is much more versatile
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    wow that one hijacked thread but anyways I think that the routing looks funny because the picture isn't taken head on, its at an angle. I think if we had a direct head on view it would look much nicer
  15. selmac
    try looking around at a few pawn shops I've gotten parts guitars for as little as $35 cnd with SD pickups. if u look enough im sure you'll find a 22 fret neck with no overhang
  16. selmac
    I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas for a design on a black quest atak 1 I've already done a LP copy with a starfield and have a fender bullet with a cheatah print pickguard. any Ideas would be nice as I'm drawing a blank. I should have a pick of the guitar up soon if that would help you help me thanx
  17. selmac
    yeah that neck joint looks weak, looks like you had a neck pocket planned but didn't use it, also it doesn't look like you put in a truss rod, and its usually easier to drill headstock holes before you attach the neck
  18. selmac
    now that u say that it sounds familiar. which book?
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    I have an old fender bullet and when you look at the body finish it looks like plastic. I may just be crazy but is the finish on most new guitars some kind of plastic or is it just tons of paint and varnish? and does anyone know how to give a body that "factory" look?
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