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The result looks great! Could you pleas reveal how you did the routing for the binding? Specially how you did it on the neck joint area.

I found this one from the net a while ago. Drum sander Don't know if it is any good, but I was planning to give it a go as soon as I find some time to get the project started.

I've been using Le Tonkinois on my current Les Paul Project. I'm trying to do a burst on the top, but I have had lots of problems with the finish. I stained the birch top with orange water based stain. Then I brushed 4 layers of Le Tonkinois on the stain. Sanded the biggest bumbs on the surface between the layers. After this I mixed some red pigment on the pinene turpentine. Then I mixed it with a bit of le tonkinois. This mix i spraryed on the edges with spray gun i borrowed from my father. On this i brushed again few layers of Le Tonkinois. This I have now done twice. First time i managed to sand through the burst and i really was not happy with the color gradient of the burst. Yesterday i ended up sanding the top clean the second time. I have faux binding on the guitar. I just was not happy how the border where the wood color and red came together. There was also some unevenness on the finish. I really love how Le Tonkinois tones the woods and colors. And i am going to use it to finish my guitar. I think I am not going to use spraygun on anything else than doing the burst on the guitar. The varnish evens it self quite nicely when using brush. And to be honest i am quite bad using the spray gun I could try to get some shots of the back of the guitar so you could see how it tones brings out the grain of the mahoganny. I just need to to fix up some things on the guitar before I dare to show it here

I'm now building a Les Paul model guitar with flamy birch top. I guess that bich would also work as body material. I think that it has pretty bright tone, a bit like maple.

Hello! I tried to do a search on "african blackwood" to all of the projectGuitar forums. I filled in the search criteria and pushed "perform search" button. After some time of waiting my browser offered me to downlad the index.php -page. After few attempts i decided to downloaded and looked inside the php -script. It was empty. Edit: Fixed some typos

Yes I have thought about that choice too. But the over-reaching is quite much. I guess it's almost 5 mm at the bridge end. Ofcourse I could move the TOM a bit more down so that the over-reaching is about 2.5 mm on both sides and then adjust the ee-strings so that they come on the fretboard and then space the strings evenly.. Does anybody know how much the strings can be adjusted sideways on that bridge?

I don't think changing the whole neck would be less work. First I would need to remove the fretboard to get access to the thruss rod. And then I would need to cut off the the neck and then route the new neck pocket. The I'd need to build the whole neck from the scratch. If doing as I planned ( and frank described ) I just need to route the sides of the neck sides and add some wood. Then I just need to re-shape and fix the fretboard and so on..

New neck is not so good option, because removing the neck completly would require to take away the top from the body. The neck heel goes as deep as to the back pickup cavity. if I first try to fix the neck and it does not work, then i try to route a standard les paul neck pocket and leave the remaining part of the heel inside the body. I did the measurements, but i guess I somehow managed to mess up with the centerline or something.. I am not very sure what is the reason for this mistake.

Hello! I Really managed to mess up with my LP project. I have built the guitar from scratch and the guitar is almost finished: Neck and top are glued together, body is stained and lacquered. Yesterday I was fretting the guitar and checking that everythin was ok and then I realized that the lower e -string went out of the fretboard really badly. The neck is straight, but it is not symmethric, so changing the position of tom will not help in this situation. Neck is made from maple and it has a rosewood fingerboard on it. Now I am planning to fix this problem by removing the fretboard and sawing a slice off the lower e-string -side of the neck. Then i need to sand the remaining neck side flat and glue a new thicker slice on it. Then i need to reshape the neck, fix the fretboard and glue them together. I was planning to fix the fretboard by reshaping it to be symmethric and adding wide maple bindings on the side of the fretboard. I guess roswood fingerboard with maple binding would even look quite nice. I need opinnions if my plan is good and if there is something i could do better / easier. I have chatted about this problem in my native language forum and i got some good suggestions, but I still would like to hear your opinnion about how to fix this. ...And yes all this would not have happened if I had had good plans and templates in first place. This apparently was a lesson i seemingly needed to have

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The solo on the song is hilarious. Maybe one of the worst guitar solos ever! I have really enjoyed the new Black Label Society album.. I've been a fan of ozzy from my teenyears, but I never got into BLS before mafia. But allways i hear this song it makes me laugh.. That solo really sucks! It has nothing to do with the rest of the song.

Thanks for the advice Matt, but motherbucker does not have adjustable poles in it as you can see in the picture below.

Thanks Matt! I just came up from my basement workshop. I made the thrusrod cover. It turned out pretty nice.. But guess what. I managed to mess it up AGAIN When drilling the screw holes to it, the drill split a small piece out of the rosewood... Luckily a bit of glue and some sanding will fix this mistake About the pick-ups. I was actually planning to put the covers on, butt the salesman told me that it was not possible to put covers on a motherbucker.. So I'll have to think again if i put a cover on the neck pick-up.

Last nite i finally put strings on my first guitar that I self had built. The guitar is not finished yet, electronics are missing, nut is still lose and the coating needs to be cleaned. I just could not resist trying how the guitar sounds and if it would play at all.. And yes it did play! I am more than happy how the guitar sounded without pickups. I have been building this and a Les Paul shaped guitar for about 8 months now in my small basement workshop. Since myy budget is running very low, i decided to finnish this one first and wait to next autumn. I have messed up many times with this project, but everytime i have managed somehow to minimize the damage. Almost every possible stage has been done twice. I glued the fretboard indings twice, I needed to paint the guitar twice and so on.. I think the painting now looks pretty wild since I first stained the mahoganny body with gray stain. Then I filled the grains with red colour and sanded the filling away. By accident i sanded through the filling, acquer and stain. I thought it looked nice and decided to sand the edges of the body through to wood. Here's the guitar: Here is picture of the guitar body when the filling was put on. Heres the guitar from the back when sanding away the first paint: Neck Joint. As I already said, I still have lots of work to do with the guitar, but now I can be pretty confident, that the guitar will be quite fine. I decided to try to do the pick-Up rings of mahoganny and do some wild shaping on them. The thrus rod cover on the head stock will be done f the rosewood that was left over from the fretboard. For the bridge pick-up I have bought a Kent Armstrong Mothrebucker, and as the neck pick-up I decided to use an old dimarzio pick-up I had in my drawer. I have thouht to put a second 3-way switch to the guitar which is used to controll the KA pick-up. On this case I would really appreciate if someone could help me. The wiring instructions that came with the pick-up showed a situation where the motherbucker only needed 3 switches! Guitar full of switches is not cool! I would like to control the motherbucker so that when the 3-way switch is in back position, both of the two humbuckers in motherbucker would be active. When in center position only the front humbucker would be active and when in front position, only on half of the front humbucker would be active.. Can anyone say if this is even possible, or even better could anyone give me the wiring instructions on this kind of setup? Thanks to everyone who has been writing to this forum. I have been here almost everyday since I found this forum and gained lots of valuable information about building guitars and guitars in general. Without this forum i would propably not begun my guitarbuilding hobby.

I go with litle children ;-P ..coffee and rye bread is my choice of breakfast..

I really don't know how this would affect tone, and propably is a bad ideal, but I became to think that you could drill small holes on the back of the body and filling the holes with some heavy material.

It seems that the guitar does not have locking nut like usually used with floyd rose. So I guess there's no a Floyd rose bridge

I usually hide my tats under the clothes when I meet people for the first few times (job interviws, visits @ customers, bank, you name it ). Usually when people get to know me they usually accept me with my tattoos.. If they do not accept me because of tats.. then I could not care less. When applying the job where i am now, i had a t-shirt on me that showed some parts of my tattoos to the interviewer.. Anyway I got the job It is not so unusal that people have tattoos. Now even my mom has thought of getting tattoo at her 50th birthday ( which she won't do, hopefully. since they are now in a holiday at Thailand, and her bd is during the trip ). I have actually planed to pay her tattoo here at home if she still want's to take one. Last time when i was at the tattoo shop taking a tattoo. The guy who does pearchigs in the shop told me about this elderly farmer who came in to take a pearcing to his spam . He had no tattoos or pearcings earlier. I think that is pretty cool, that even older poeple dare to do something concerned a bit "extreme".

My advice would be to think well what to get for your first tattoo.. I got that small tribal bird head with a locet in its spout - thing in my left shoulder. The tat was not ugly or anything but i feel that it spoilded my arm pretty badly later when i decided to take more tattoos. So i had to get a cover up for it.. You can see the tattoo before and after the cover-up work earlier in this page. I wish I had a pic of the current situation. It looks so much better now. [EDIT] And even more important would be _where_ you take the tattoo. I'd go only to a well known artist who is known to use steril needles. Don't risk your health!

I hope my tattoo count will decrease in the future.. At last I hope I just have one.. a very big one

Tattoos ROCK! and yes I have "few" tattoos.. On my rigth shoulder I have a Frankensteins monster face and below it the is a sad clown face. These are black and grey tattoos Left arm is covered with a big red carp, few dragon-flies, water and a seahorse-lizard tribal. And back of my arm is somekind of lionfigure. Here is a picture of my arm few years ago before filling it up with dragonflies and water: The arm looks totally different nowdays than in the picture =) My left breast has a buggs designed lizzard head. In the future i am planning to tattoo sleevees to both my arms and maybe I'll tattoo my two pet iguanas to my back in real size.

I have always enjoyen woodworking. And ever since i started playing guitar at the age of 13 I have been dreaming of building a guitar. I had a few years pause in playing recently since moving to country side and here you can not find anyone to play with. Now last early autumn I found out a musicants forum that had a instrument building section on it.. After reading it a few months I realized that now i have almost proper working place in my houses basement.. But the most biggest thing to get me started was after reading these forums and really understanding that guitar building is not rocket science.. Only very thorough woodworking.. And I can do that. Now after building my first two guitars, I have begun to play lots of more..

Hello.. Few years ago I bought Telecaster that had Fender tele neck on it. I somehow liked the feeling of the instrument, but now after years i decided to give it a new life. I suppose that the neck is from '78 ( found matching serials series somewhere in the net ). It is in quite good shape although i guess some of the previous owners have changed the tuners on it. Now the neck has fender tuners, but I am not very sure if they are the original ( propably not ). Some pics of the neck here: Tuners back, Headstock Front, Neck The pproblem is the body of the guitar.. Previous owner has decided to change picups on this instrument. The neck pickup was a Jackson J-90 and bridge pick-up was dimarzio dp-103. Because of the pick-up changes the pup cavities for them were done bigger and the tailpeach had been changed.. Here is a picture of the body without any hardware on it: Now I'd like to make this guitar better. I want to get rid of thos humbuckers. This leads to situation, that the pickup cavities are far too big. I could propably route the cavities even bigger and symmetric and then fill the holes with proper wood. After that I could again route the pickup holes matching the pickups and other hw i decide to buy. Ofcourse the body will be fully sanded and repainted later. Or my second option would be to get rid of the body and rebuild a new one. Matching to the neck I have. What do you think? - ARi [edit]: I just need to add that the body is not original. on the neck pocket I can find text TELE and year 1992.. And that is about all the text i can find on the body

Nah.. That is only partly the truth.. Windows is also badly designed. One gigantic system with everything packed into one system, where everything is dependent on every other patrs in the system. It is much more easy to keep on track and fix systems if the system is consisted of small parts which can interact with each other. When keeping things simple there is not so much room for mistakes. Even if firefox and mozilla have some security issues they are probably not as serious as issues in IE. That is because IE is integrated to the core of the M$ Windows and ff is not. So holes in IE may let the hacker more easilly to take over the whole system Linux is like a wigwam. No Windows, no Gates - Apache inside =)

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