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CudBucket

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  1. Don't give up. Take a breath and try again. Althought two things jump out at me from your post: 1) I don't know how others do it, but to me, a bandsaw is not a precision tool and probably shouldn't be used to make what is supposed to be a precision cut like the headstock angle. 2) I'd never eye-ball one of the most important elements of an electric guitar: the bridge posts.
  2. If I haven't already said so, that is a thing of beauty. Dave
  3. I always do the neck pocket first than work off that too make sure everything lines up. Sure if I do need too shift stuff around it will look like crap but at least it will play. ← That's how I did it Godin so I was fairly confident that it would be OK. Still it feels much better knowing for sure. Dave
  4. Q-Tips work for getting into small spaces. ← I'm slapping my open palm to my stupid forehead.
  5. You're a gentleman, Drak. Thank you! That shade is Homestead's Transfast water soluble Turquoise Blue. It looks greener on the Mahogany so there's a nice, although completely accidental, color change from front to back. Thanks again, Drak. You're comments mean alot to me. Dave
  6. Guess what? Today I test fitted the bridge and neck for the first time! Yeah I know. Until today, I didn't know if my string alignment from nut to saddle was good or not. Well now I do but it was touch and go for a while. The pic shows the sealed body sanded to 400. I'm ready to shoot clear nitro now.
  7. I've gotta go with Perry on the "Ragas As Pro" issue. The site "implies" that you're a pro builder. Whether you make money or not is not the issue. You charge money. You should be ranked as a pro. Now there are good pros and bad pros. Which one you are is up to your customers I suppose. I see a screen name like RagasGuitars and I think "Hey, this is must be a pro builder" not "Hey, what a coincidence! The guy likes guitars and his last name is Guitars! Wow!" And as for the grain filling... Yes, I agree, I've seen expensive and well built guitars without it. However, I've never seen a "metal" or "evil" guitar in anything but a filled, glossy, usually black finish. That's just me since I don't like those designs anyway. Be that as it may, for those of us who are really amateurs, something like grain filling is a thing we take time to learn and do well. So when I see a guitar without it, I do tend to think, "that finish didn't take as much work as the beautiful glass like finish on so-and-so's guitar". And when someone has that opinion, you can't complain about it. Ok, so let's see who have I guaranteed a no-vote from when I enter my guitar for the GOTM, um there's Drak, Ragas, and at least 5 of their friends on the forum...
  8. For the record, I don't want to change anything. I just made a suggestion. I'm not a complete moron after all, I've seen how the voting has gone in the past and I've seen the comments. So, I know some folks get handicapped and I've seen the best guitar, IMO, lose. It seemed, in this thread, that the issue had been raised before I ever posted in it. So I thought I could add my opinion without it being a big deal.
  9. Maiden, that's cool. All I did was make a suggestion. I'm cool with it the way it is. It was Drak who went off the deep end. He lumped me in with other folks who may be complaining. I'm not complaining. I haven't been a member that long and didn't know other folks have made the same suggestion. Leave it the way it is. Hiding the votes till the end is probably a good idea. But remember you can't look at the votes without either voting or forfeiting your vote. The problem is that you can read the comments before you vote and get an idea who is winning.
  10. rhoads56, I get your point. And I don't know how exactly you would classify someone as a pro or not but if you're at NAMM or posting pics here of "a guitar I made for one of my clients", you surely are no amateur. So in that respect, why would a pro want to compete in a GOTM at PG? Wouldn't there be loftier goals for those guys? I know if I was a pro, I'd surely aim higher. On the other hand, as a hobbyist, I certainly look forward to putting my guitars up against pro guitars and and any guitar made by someone better than me, just to see where I stack up. It's the only real guage I have by which I can measure my progress. You make a great point though, regarding guys who call themselves pros when they really aren't. Don't we see enough of them. The other side of that coin are the supremely talented amateurs that do awesome work on this forum. Now for the record, is Ragas a pro builder? The only reason I ask is that if he/she is, wouldn't there have been better pictures of the product? In a contest like this, having great pics can help you win by emphasising (spelling?) the strengths of the execution, desing, finish, etc. By my own timetable, my guitar will be finished by the of July. I know, I know, that'll put me at about 10 months! But I've got a day job and a family so I don't get to work on it every weekend. In any case, I may be ready for GOTM for August. God help me. Dave
  11. These are tough to vote for because we chat with each other every day. I also don't like to reveal my vote because I don't want the others to feel bad. I certainly don't like to critique the other guitars for the same reason. That said, I think this monthly thing should have a couple of basic rules applied. I don't think pros should be allowed. Or at least, there should be a separate Pro Class for them. Secondly, to enter, your guitar should be totally scratch built. That includes the neck. Crap, how can you grade a guitar that is totally scratch built against one that has a purchased or salvaged neck? Maybe there should be a Scratch Built Class and a Project Class for the guitars that have parts that were not built by the contestant. I know, I know. It's already too complicated. It's just something I've been thinking for a long time and thought I'd finally voice it. Other than that, congratulations to all you four entered guitars, for starting and finishing your projects. That's the main thing. Dave
  12. That thing is really coming together man. Good job. I just don't like the headstock. I think there is wood to be removed there. It's not sleak enough for that body.
  13. Nice job! But if it's a traveller, why is it as big as the May guitar?
  14. I'm not sure what you're asking but those "stripes" you show in the pic are part of the body. It's not a veneer that's glued onto the body. It is the body.
  15. Dude, sounds like you need to do some reading. Use the search function and buy some good books. These are some very basic questions you're asking.
  16. I've used titebond 2 with no problem. It dries plenty hard. I wouldn't say a neck through is all that much easier to make. If you throw in a neck angle, then it's a different set of issues to deal with.
  17. I found the same exact thing to be true. I'll be doing my fourth sealer coat today.
  18. That's just beautiful. I hope to get my dye jobs to that level someday. Dave
  19. This weekend I sanded and then applied the 3rd coat of sanding sealer. I'm going to put on one more to get it perfectly sealed and leveled. The 3rd coat could have been the last but I layed it flat a little too soon and got a small indent on the soft sealer. I couldn't sand it out so I need another coat to finish it. I've used about 1 full can already. I believe this is more than usual but I do have mahogany cavity covers to seal and the first two coats just didn't seal as well as I'd have liked. When the sanding sealer is finished, I'll post some pics.
  20. Thanks. I'm going to spray some more tonight.
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