ToneMonkey

Oooh, they sound like Tramadol, I've got a load of them at home. It's probably not a good idea that I tell you this but they go down well with a can of stella But you're an inteligent kid so I trust you not to do it. After one of my knee operations I split the stiches inside of my knee and it filled with blood (to the point that you couldn't see the knee cap anymore). Yeah man, it's not plesant. Stay on your backside for a while and try to keep it raised. Oh, if the pain killers are dihydrocodine (not tramadol) make sure you take them with food as they're the little buggers that messed up my stomach (although I was on them for a couple of years). Good luck little man, hope it gets better soon, just do what the physio says and make sure that you do your exercises. Kaj

They're all fantastic. I had Maidens down as my favorite (it's gorgeous) but then I got to the bottom and saw metal carvers. Not my favorite shape that he's done, but it's still awesome, I love his work and I want one of his guitars. Oh, and I like the Wix axe of doom. Original and looks evil, if it was made of metal it'd probably have my vote. Well done all entries, a tough month to enter.

Evertime I hear surf and guitar together I always think of DanElectro. Dunno why but I'm sure there's a reason behind it.

Well you could buy 4 Behringer delays, plug them all together and then you could have 5.2 seconds of delay for the same price of the boss 3 second

I'll have a price on that too. Can you include for shipping to the UK?

Wooden dowls? Getting someone to turn some blanks down on a lathe shouldn't cost much although the side dots might be hard.

Hey Sambo, my bros a student in Cardiff (I gather that's where you are). If you see a 30 year old student with a pair of roller blades and receeding black hair, knock him off his blades

Used tea bags are supposed to be good for that too. Dunno if it's true or if it's just a wives tail. Just wanted to ask a quick question, are A1 organic filters any good for sawdust or just organic compounds? I also understand what you are all on about thinking that you were indestructable when you were a teen. My potential basketball career is no more, so is my potential standing up without falling over career Should have listened to the doctor Stupid kid.

Not that I know 100%, but I can tell you that my fingerboard is 3 pieces glued together (I cut the fingerboard blank from the laminated neck blank) lengthways and it seemed rather likely that these could come unglued, especially as they were at the edge of the blank so I don't think that they got the right amount of pressure when glueing (probably a good job I ballsed up the inlay and introduced it to the wall of death, Drak style ). What I thought about doing (before I knackered the inlay) was to route out a shape in the back roughly 5mm from each edge than the fretboard and glue in a solid plate and sand it smooth. But hey, that was just my thoughts, I never tried it so I can't say if it would be any good or not

When routing over a knot, be carefull that it doesn't get spat out and hit you somewhere painful (or indeed give you a funny shape pup route)

Nah, not my birthday for another 6 months (well 6 months and a day to be exact)

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Hey dude, I haven't got you any of the pints that I owe you so HAPPY BIRTHDAY instead Well, now I've got an excuse to have a beer tonight

I know some people up here in the Midlands that normally do bike tanks, but I'll see if they have recommendations for someone in the big smoke. You could pray Setch sees this, he's down there but I think I've only seen dyes from that camp. Good luck dude and if you're ever in a Leicester/Birmingham direction come round for a pint Kaj

Well I live between spam drug councilors (both of them) and a telephone exchange

And with a bit of a fiddle, you could use the frets as long polepieces

Got a Burberry cap on? I'm doing a job not a million miles away from you. I'm occassionally down in West Thurrock, if you know where that is. Welcome to the forum dude and BEWARE - guitar building is highly adictive. It won't be long and your missus will be threatening to leave, if you even do so much as mention quilted maple. I know mine came out with the classic "Do we always have to talk about *insert expletive* wood" but admittedly that was about making a snooker cue. Her fault for asking me what I was thinking about Anyway, good luck with the project. Kaj

No worries. Where abouts in the UK are you? Kaj

Just a quick one on the supplier questions: David Dyke - Quite expensive, but you get what you pay for. Personally not used them myself but heard good things Touchstone Tonewoods - Good bloke on the end of the phone, quick and easy ordering. Fast delivery, I've used them 3 or 4 times now and no problems as of yet (except for me ordering 1 less dot marker than I needed ). www.axesrus.co.uk - Cheap. Never order from them but no doubt I will, they seem quite good. Craft Supplies - No online luthier stuff (that I know of) but phone them up and they'll send you the Tonewood Catalogue. Quite cheap and I've used them prety much exclusively (gonna use them more because my mate plays bass in the bosses band - so hopefully sooner or later I'll be able to blag some free stuff ) I think that's your major ones, just shove the names into google. ****I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE IN THIS, SO GET IT CONFIRMED FIRST**** We'll as noone else has replied, I'll offer my bit on the dot markers... ... Remark the position of the hole and drill it WITH A HAND DRILL. The depth of the markers are only a couple of mm's.

I always clamp a block to the back of what I am drilling. That way when the drill bit passes through, the wood around the edges has can't move so as to splinter. You can also drill from one side and then the other, but personally I'm not too keen on doing this. HANDY HINT FROM MY OLD MAN (along the same lines): If you are cutting wood with a jigsaw, the blade cuts on an upward stroke. If you're cutting plywood, it'll splinter all over the place. Stick tape down over the area you want to cut, make the outline on top of the tape and cut round it. It won't completly stop it but it will certainly be better

Happy birthday everyone Especially you Brian. Hope you all have a great day. Brian, as I can't get over there to buy you a birthday beer, I'll just say cheers for the site, you've given the internet some use (with the exception of porn obviously ) and me something to do at work. I'll raise a pint for you in the pub tonight

A good business idea.

If you were Ed Roman, you'd have told everyone that our tatoos are crap and that you could do us a far superior tatoo for just a little bit more money. Someone would believe you, go to Ed's shop and come out with biro drawing of a god damn ugly guitar on their forehead and be about $1200 out of pocket mmmm, i can't actually remember what I was going to say now....errr....oh yeah. What are tatoo's like when they go over a scar? None of mine currently do, but as I want to get a bigger one on my back, it would be impossible to avoid them. I have about 10 scars, about 10mm wide running accross the whole width of my back from a rather bad tempered rugger match (I guess it serves me right for trying to drown someone in a puddle ) Kaj

Don't listen to them, you need a square router bit

Got a tribal design on my left shoulder and a big thing between my shoulder blades. Plan on getting 1 BIG one for the rest of my back (incorporating the old one), arms and a bit round the front. Think: Funky Dusk Till Dawn style. Kaj