Supernova9

Disc Sander! (let's see how long we can keep this one going for!)

+1. the guy is a tosser. i notice he "quotes" mattia and russ on his main page, wonder if those guys know?? i for one wouldn't buy a guitar from someone who can't even drill straight for a string through. cheers darren Yeah they know, there was a massive thread about this guy not too long ago. General consensus then was that it was all tone voodoo. I really hope this thread dies soon, he's really not worth the posts.

What are you talking about??? The ears would have very very very little effect on how hard/easy it is to make those cuts on a bandsaw.

No, the demo video someone posted round here a while back was ridiculously bad, the thing wouldn't stay in tune, was laughable. Most of his philosophies are ridiculous unscientific crap at best.

I have a question - do you have access to a laser cutter then? Is that through a firm or do you work with them? Would you be at all interested in cutting me some custom templates?

When will people learn?? It's no good complaining about Gibson's pricing, it's not their fault idiots will by the BJA LP Junior, or the LP BFG. If someone said to you guys "Hey, write this guy's name on your guitar and you can sell it for double!", would you say no? They can only charge what people will pay, or they go out of business. Pure and simple. People buy them, so they sell them. Why do you all get bent out of shape about it? Yes, they're about profit, but pretty much any business in the world is. If I were them I'd be laughing all the way to the bank (and I believe they are, every day).

My vote went for Perry's axe. I'm not normally one for flame/metallic paint jobs, but that's the guitar out of all of those that I'd most like to own!

You know, the more and more I hear this kind of debate (and it's very very often the maple/mahogany one), I'm more tempted to try and build two identical guitars (except for the change you listed) for this very reason. Purely for my own learning, I don't think there's an exact answer, but one of the things that gets me most excited about building guitars is the opportunity to try and test new things. Like how an LP would sound if you used a Wenge cap instead of maple, or making a strat with a bocote neck/ziricote board instead of the usual maple/rosewood or maple/maple. Luthierie isn't a science, I think it's an art. Yes, some elements require precise dimensions etc, but the constantly varying nature of construction materials (wood), means that you can't analyse it down to percentages. Kind of like cooking, there's no one recipe for a great-tasting dish (or great sounding guitar), but the most fun I have cooking is when I experiment with new ingredients and see what happens. Ok, there may be some times when it doesn't quite taste right, but using my past experience making food, I know what flavours can work together to try and save it by say adding a few herbs. I reckon it can be the same for guitar building, building up experience, and building on tried and true guitar recipes (like the old Maple/Hog body, Hog neck Gibson recipe!). I know that's pretty much repeating Drak and Rich, but figured I'd throw down anyway Hmm, after my semi-related food comments, I'm hungry...

Buy him socks. You won't fix a neck bent like that without a truss rod. It's the reason they're put in guitars. Edit: Or listen to Setch. Far more knowledgeable than I is he.

I really doubt it - you'll get decent enough coin for the circuitry/bridge, but you won't sell many, plus variax replacement bodies aren't really in demand - no-one wants that much routing without the circuitry that you've just sold to someone else. And as for the neck, they're the first thing most people change (and where Warmoth started doing their variax business), so I don't think many would buy them.

Most of the advice you've been given in this thread is pretty good, just please don't go out and make your first router purchase one that locks on. That's just asking for a newbie to lose fingers

I remember that, it was a 'jigsaw' bass, the fretboard inlay was puzzle pieces if I'm thinking about the same one....

I live in London you idiot. Taxes and Duty are just a part of importing. Sure we'd all love 50% savings, but 29.1% savings is more than good enough for me.

While I agree with your sentiments around the price of the dollar, and there is no better time than now to buy from the US, I would question the fact that you are inciting fraud. Yes, we'd all love not to pay tax or import duty, but that is the law. Anything else is illegal, and I really wouldn't start suggesting it on a public messageboard.

I think this goes to show that alongside a ruler, one of the most essential tools is a moisture-content measuring device.

Use a bloodwood top and fretboard would be the easy answer, or you could use stabilised dyed wood (Larry at Gallery Hardwoods can do that for you).

I think you're worrying too much. If it's stable enough for a neck through/deep-set, then it'll be stable enough with a standard strat-trem rout. As for the tonal effect of removing the trem wood, I don't think it'll have that great an effect either.

Well, www.axminster.co.uk are located in this country and stock titebond......don't think you looked too hard.

Lol, massacre? I think you mean Macassar Ebony! CMA Listen...................hear that? That was the airplane flying right over your head.

Very nice, I like the body style and the choice of woods! Just one question - is it me or is there a little 'bump' on the butt of the body on the first one?

It's a perfect curve, how would you make it flow more???

I hope you're referring to your crown jewels as being 3' off the floor....

You should have lurked more.

Would possibly work, but then the groove would only be in the right place for that one time, and every time you glued wood of different widths you'd have to cut another groove or make new bars. Seems way more complicated than just putting a couple of layers of parcel tape down, or gluing on a set of plastic covers....

Look at this picture: You can't run the glue line along the clamps - the clamps wouldn't put pressure on the joint holding it together that way. You method just won't work.