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LK, I just got the upgrade kit for the ACME FF 2000 ! It includes the DEDHRS ver 7.081. Installed it on my laptop and absolutely SCREAMS on dial-up!! Thought you would want to know.

I forgot to say, get the dumasPROelim upgrade, while you are at it. Makes the system run much faster but does NOT support Windows Open. Tried it and they just fell shut again.

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Dude, no more caffeine. Please.

We played the Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts today.

I don't know if it was stage fright or what, but I was almost dreading this deal. We got a 40 minute slot with 20 minutes to get on and 20 to get off (thank goodness they provide the PA), but last year was a nightmare. The sound guys knocked Susan's keyboard module in the pond so she played without her good sounds, they went way over in sound check, blah blah blah. They ended up cutting us off about 2/3 through our set. We were smoked.

Today, we unloaded and got ready for our 20 minute setup and sound check while this acoustic act went way over time. Then they proceeded to take 10 minutes to break down (acoustics) and talk to everyone around, including us while we were trying to set up around them.

The acoustic guy who wasn't leaving says, "Hey, who's the guitar player?" So I turned and said, "Uh, me and that guy." He held out a brand new Keeley Compressor and said, "Ever seen one of these?"

I said, "Uh, yeah."

He went on for who knows how long about how they're hand wired and built by a guy right here in Oklahoma and this and that and yadayadayada.

I said, "Yeah, he lives a couple miles fom me."

So he shut up and went away. Finally.

Then after dodging sound guys, finding places to plug in the amps, pedalboards, keyboards, et al. we finally got started. Ten minutes late. While the sound guy was finding more mikes for the drums.

Anyway, long story short, the set went almost without a hitch and we drew a big crowd and we even got to finish our set this time.

The down side: a) I hate playing just one short set. By the time we're done I'm just getting warmed up. 2) I really felt sorry for that acoustic act that followed us, because when we finished, everyone left.

But hey, I got a free T-shirt.

And who could forget the ever-popular "vocal vibrato, especially an excessive or poorly controlled one."

Dictionary.com

Yeah. Makes you want to drive in Edmond traffic.

But hey, now you can get those biscuits frozen. Not as good nuked as fresh, but better than nothing. (Handy tip: I take them apart and put them in the toaster oven for 6-8 minutes. Everything gets nice and brown and not at all soggy.)

Braum's, Vern.

I could be wrong, but didn't PRS do something like that with their bolt-ons? It looked like a set-in but there's a plate with screws. Did I dream that?

Looks good, but I would never use clothes dye, I rather spend a bit more and get the Stew Mac ones, I know some of them work fine, but Stews did such a great job on my guitra, from the get go, that I'm sold on them.

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Yeah, I'm using TransTint. Easy to use, and a little goes a long way. It was $16.99 for a 2 ounce bottle, but that's gonna be enough to do a boatload of guitars.

I've seen this one for cheap.

Testors Custom Decal System

I thought the pickup was just cocked a bit the way Ed likes it.

Wondering out loud ...

If you attached a piezo to the trem block on a Strat would the spring vibration cause it to feed back? You probably wouldn't want to use the trem with the piezo on, I'm thinking, because of the spring noise. I don't know, just wondering.

Any thoughts?

I just got the CD Saturday. Man, I wish I'd ponied up and gone to the Dallas show.

Well, maybe next year.

Get some brass (that is brass, right?) screws and epoxy them in the holes. Then cut/grind the excess threads off the back and use the double stick tape thing. It'll look screwed in but be totally removeable.

When you use the waterbased dyes like that,  Can you cover up what you didn't use and save it?  Or is it a just mix up what you need kind of situation?

P.S.  Cudbucket, your guitar is looking sweet.

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I'm using pint Mason jars to keep my extra diluted dyes.

Probably gonna have a sausage biscuit from Braum's* this morning.

*If you don't have a Braum's in your part of the world, you seriously don't know what you're missing.

I was just gonna say I like thee 22 fret better because the 21 fret squier one doesnt come in the white wood I want with the blue.

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Here you go. Inexpensive and very serviceable.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...7315657348&rd=1

This guy is easy to work with, too. I've bought 2 from him and no problems.

As for paint, try Guitar Reranch.

There's nothing wrong with the 21 fret neck is there? Except it only has 21 frets? How often do you play higher than that?

I work with volcanic gases as a living

What on earth do you do?

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Washroom attendant.

Yeah, a song needs a guitar solo to break the monotony of the vocals.

This thing is coming right along. I put on another coat of amber dye, then when it was good and dry I pulled the tape off the binding. I was really expecting the worst, but there were only a few spots where the brown and amber had seeped through.

I scraped and sanded the binding to start to round over the edge and show the lighter color outline, then I masked it again and dyed the sides and back with the same mix as the dark color on the top.

There's still plenty of sanding left to do before I can even think about doing the clear, but I'm pretty jazzed about the results so far.

It's been done before. I can't remember what company, but I know I've seen it somewhere.

Not to discourage you or anything.

Ok, after sanding back to 320 I put on a coat of Honey Amber TransTint. Actually it was more like 3 or 4 coats because I started off way too light. Anyway, I took this pic just a few minutes ago while it was still wet.

It's already started to lighten up a bit, so we're keeping our fingers crossed.

Thanks guys i tried all of them! an i have all of em as well!

Is there a way to edit posts i can put them up as links?? Would that be better as this topic seems to be more about the size of the pics rather than what the picture is showing??

mattw

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To edit your posts, click the "Edit" button.

Then instead of using the tag, click on the "http://" button. Insert the URL, click OK, insert the description, click OK. Then you'll have this:

Link to Biga$$ Pic of My Guitar

If you need help resizing your pics to fit the forum's rules, don't hesitate to ask. I'm sure someone here would be glad to help.

Now, back to building guitars.

Do you have Photoshop? If you re-size them in there they wont loose quality.

If you dont have PS you can down load a trial version at adobe.com

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Or try IrfanView. It's not for image manipulation, but it'll resize/resample the hell out of anything you throw at it. Also good for thumbnail galleries and such.

Best of all, it's FREE.

Check this out:

Neckthrough SG

I think he tells how he got his cherry finish somewhere in there.

Yes the traveller is MDF at the mo and will continue to be!  It will have oak inserts like a brian may guitar. Planning to be finished soon hopefully! Oh and btw... the neck is gunna be held on by one bolt and 2 screws, just not put the screws in yet!

And about pictures, never saw that in the rulz! Any way i can post bigger if you like as these are half size already, and i can tell how big there gunna be!

And i for got to post a pic of the traveller lookin a bit different!

Traveller open pic............

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If you could please make your pics smaller it would greatly reduce the number of grumpy guitar builders around here.

Thanks.

I don't have the tools yet to do a scratchbuild. Derek (bigdguitars) was building a bunch of teles and had one he didn't want, so I bought it from him.

The rest of the parts I'm getting mostly from ebay sellers I've dealt with before.

I got the water/alcohol soluble aniline dyes from the local Woodcraft store. The final finish will be Deft rattlecan lacquer.

A lot of this is a first time for me, so we'll see what happens.

About halfway through the sandback.

Plenty of sanding left.