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OK Neil, seeing as you asked: 1)...if you have the Stew Mac routing template - chuck it in the bin. I don't know who came up with that but chances are they had modifying a standard Strat in mind, it's fiddly, confusing, not very well thought out and urges you to take more wood out than you need to. 2)...buy a Kahler if you play like a pansy. If you're used to a Floyd a Kahler gives the same feel as deleted by mod OK, from the image you posted it would sort of work but i'd not make the ledge quite as wide as you can get the base plate hitting it before the fine tuners are at their f

I'm with you, i never used them so invariably don't put one on unless the guy ask's for one.

Well, i don't know about the guitar version but every bass player i've met who has the bass version (which they've been making for years) say it's the absolute dogs nuts and most have retired any basses that don't have one.

I don't like turbo fan compressors one little bit and i've never seen anyone in the automotive trade ever touch one with a 10 foot pole. For that sort of coin i'd lean more towards a decent gun like a Devilbiis Sri or a Sata Minijet and a normal compressor, it'll be a lot more versitile and give you better results in the long run. Oh, and as for painting your house i'd follow Maggotbrain's advice and do it the normal way, it'd be much quicker. And one last thing, if you do decide on buying a pro spec gun do not, in any circumstances, put household paint through it. The pigments and carri

I'll chuck in my feelings here: Firstly what are you planning to do with the top bearing bit ? I mainly use mine for the final finishing of cavities so this makes the shorter bit the sensible choice for me as some of the cavities are barely an inch deep if that. If you are thinking of using the bit for the final shaping bodies against a template then the deeper bit is the obvious choice. To be honest i've got a 1/2" and an 1" one and if you can afford it i'd say get both - both have their uses and merits. As for the drawknife. I have no experience with one as stuff like that scares the *

Yep old thread indeed but, to put you right, the confusion is because what American's call Sycamore is a completely different species of tree to what we call Sycamore.

A git of a job and a chance of real disaster if you've never done any inlaying. Suggestion: Get some scrap and have a few attempts at trying to inlay what you want to do. As a rule inlaying into a built neck will almost always call for the frets to be pulled out so something else to consider if you've never done that before either.

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Hmmm....seems a bit quiet after last month's landslide of entries so i'll put this up for the shredders amoungst you....you may want to turn your monitor's brightness down for this one ! Nocturne NC1-KD Body: Alder 2pc Neck: 3pc rock maple / R2 nut Fingerboad: Birdseye Inlay: Tahitian pearl Finish: Yellow metalflake in nitro Hardware: Schaller all the way Pickups: Specially wound by Steve Blucher at Dimarzio for the owner Kevin Dillard And the owner with his new toy: Jem

I use a 1/4" surface trimmer With wings ! - mighty big fun and gets it done fast and smooth. Jem

I have reasonably little experience with flake but have just completed my second 'flaked' guitar so i offer this only from my experience and readings. Firstly i'm assuming that you are looking for a full (or virtually full) coverage of flake or are you looking for a 'dusting' (some flake) finish ?... just clarify as your post says "purple with metalflakes". If you are looking to have full coverage then the base colour will only effect the reflectiveness of the flake - it will not change it's reflective colour as such....if you wanted a mixture of purple and blue you could mix some purp

Yes....not that i've ever tried (enamel's really not an instrument finish) but i think the nitro will try to burn into the enamel and you'll be left with a gooey mess. Jem

Well, i've already shown this in the finished section but a few of the guys from the UK guitar builders forum recon i should make this my maiden GOTM entry so here we go: (i pressume i'm allowed to do this ?) Nocturne NC1 - Here's the specs: Body: One peice flamed sycamore Neck: Three peice laminated maple, 25.5" scale over 26 frets, ebony board with Dangermouse cartoon inlays, high wide fret wire, flame maple headplate, Wilkinson tuners, magnetic TRC Hardware: Floyd Rose II with an R2 nut, aluminium checkerplate covers Electrics: GFS crunchy PAF and overwound single, sing

Just by chucking 20 odd coats of clear over it will enhance the figure but as people have mentioned, it depends how much you want to pop it out. You could as mentioned add a little amber'ish colour to your clear which would bring it out and subtle it down a bit. As usual, prat around with scrap first until you find something you like. Jem

There's a thread up above you that lists a lot of European suppliers: http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=19579 Jem