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Hi guys Saw this in the stew mac catalogue. any one tried it out? safe T planer Travis

Thanks guys , that makes my life a lot easier. Sorry about my dodgey explanation. Wicked Travis

Hi guys I ws routing out the truss rod and it ripped a chunk out the end of the neck where the adjusment knob of the truss will be. The chunk effectively opened up the end and made the rod exposed along its whole length. In all the pictures I have seen of truss rods this end is usually covered by wood. My question is will I have issue with the truss rod have the nut of the truss exposed to the finger board? I am thinking of making a cover of wood to fill the top of it if necessary. Comments ? Thanks a bunch Travis

Hey thanks Guys RGGR - didn't take it as a flame at all, in fact it sparked me thinking more. I don't have my head around the how yet, so I am just lacking in confidence to do it. I have already lost a weeks worth of work to a severe tear out, so I am just doubting myself. Thanks for all the posts guy, I am going to take all the measurements and cad it then print and use that as my shaping guide. I will find one that I think I can copy with my dodgy woodwork skills. Big ups Travis

Hi RGGR I live in South Africa, and the store in my town don't have any tele's.. The only decent guitar here are epiphone Lp. All the other are knock of copies. I am just scared of making it too thin or too thick, after all the neck it where you spend most of your time. I do prefer a thicker neck like the 59 round back as I have big hands. I am just really looking for a bit of comfirmation that I am thinking on the right kind of lines in terms of strength in the relevant places Ie neck pocket and nut. Don't want it to break on me. Thanks for the response Travis

Hi Guys After many hours of searching here and on google around I am stumped on my first neck build. I am busy with a thinline tele, got the chambered body out of Kiaat (type of african rosewood) with a Jacaranda cap. That all went smoothly. The neck on the other hand has got me doubting myself. I have searched the forums and only found some dimensions on the Jem wizard neck. I am using a dual action hot rod truss and those dimensions seem a little thin. I read that it is advisable to keep around 5-6 mm of wood behind the truss rod and the jem dimension will be a little too close for my liking and skill. Does anyone have some insite into the Tele neck thickness at nut,12th fret and heel? or a neck plan of some kind so that I can make sure it is right before I toast another piece of wood. Thanks Travis

Thanks for the input guys. The metal box is sounding like the the best solution at the moment. I know I can get hold of something workable. I have to look hard to find some shielding paint out here, and ordering from Stu mac is an exspensive 'cos of the shipping. ( I am in South africa). Thanks a lot Travis

Hi Doug thanks for that. I will make a box and house all the goodies in there then. Is copper the best for shielding? Regards Travis

Hi all I have already posted this in the electronics area to no avail. I am building a thin line tele and am almost ready to glue the cap on. My question is do I need to shield the cavity that will house electronics. Being chambered do I have to shiled the whole thing ? Thanks Guys Travis

Have you thought about making a electric drum set. I played around with some a while back using Piezo element from those buzzers. wire them into a jack plug. Really simple to make the pad itself. Just a round disk of mdf , a metal plate and a rubber top ( i used a practise pad rubber, like the ones you fit over your set to keep the noise down) Only thing is you need a drum box, which is fairly pricy but loads of second hand one around. once you have these you can do what you like, easier to transport, and you can make your own drum sounds, and even hook it up to your computer sampler etc... Travis Ps just found this link piezo drum link

Hi guys I am busy with ha thinline Tele and I am getting close to guiing the top on and so I am trying to get everything that needs to be done finnished before I close the lid on it and have to do everything through the back covers. Do I need to shield the whole cavity that the wiring will go in? How do you guys do it? Thanks for your help Travis

Thanks for the info guys ! I guess I will go with the stew mac option seems to be the easiest. I tend to get carried away with elaborate ideas that can be done more effectivly with half the effort ... hehehehe Travis

I was thinking about cnc machines, looking at crankorgan.com and thought it might be fun to use a roller bearing and a bit of pipe to guide the dremel. It should ensure a straight cut. But my concerns were more along the line of how much play there is in the dremel collet. TRavis

Hi all I saw site somewhere where the guy was using a cnc milling machine to do his fretting. Got me thinking about using a dremel and a straight edge to do the fretting. Would this work? unfortunately I don't have a dremel to test it with yet, it is in my budget though Thanks Travis

Give this a look : Myka guitars it is how to make a neck pocket jig from Myka Hope this helps