guitar_player

yeah, they dont make rods for the face dots. you just have to get the pre cut ones. thats all.

I remember seeing them in some guitar making books or online or something but I guess I can't get any so I'll just get the precut ones. I like no position markers but the guy I'm making a guitar for wants them.

prices???

I am trying to find white plastic position marker rods like these http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bindings,_trim..._Materials.html except I need them bigger for the front of the fingerboard anyone know where I can find them. I would prefer that they are the rods I find them easier to use.

the really fast way of doing it. for me, would be to mark where the truss rod is, and make 2 cuts on the neck lengthwise (with a bandsaw), giving a lot of room not to hit the truss rod. and then use a chisel and hammer between the FB and the neck wood, to get to the truss rod cavity.

That's what I did when a truss rod broke, now that I read this I guess I sisn't do the iron thing long enough, but after I got thetruss rod out I attached a piece of wood to the back of the neck and ran it through a planer no problems at all.

You've got to be kidding me.....

.....you mean to tell me that in all the years that this forum has been going, NO ONE has grabbed the name "guitar_player" yet?!?!?!

guess not and also I just donated $10 to this site yesterday and I got access to the plans and stuff the ebay ones might be good if you don't have auto cad but there's a lot more here

I only bought it for the plans but the pdf book is good too and it has a fret caculator pogram that will print out templates for different scale lengths and number of frets for $11.50 you get all of it. The only thing I don't like is you have to print out the plans one part at a time for the whole thing, it would be better if it was cad files but for the price I can't complain. this probably sounds like I'm trying to sell it but I just figured people building guitars on here would be interested if one of the ones there building is in there's a link http://cgi.ebay.com/Guitar-plans-Telecaste...1QQcmdZViewItem

I just routed my second Ash body on my home made router table with crappy router.

The first body I did, I sanded it right down to get rid of most of the excess bar a couple of mm, used a brand new 38mm Depth template cutter, and in various parts it ripped the hell out of it

causing me to have to redesign certain areas.

A few days ago I bout a new 12.7mm depth cutter, to route half of the body all the way round and then take of the template and do the rest. Didn't get even the slightest chip or tear out, and had left a fair bit on after the rough cutting too.

So for me now I'd prefer to use a smaller depth cutter nibble away a bit and take my time. worked for me like a charm, I'd reccomend taking as much excess of first tho to be on the safe side and for the health of the cutter

thanks everyone I've got good bits and was already going to remove most the wood so I this is how I was going to do it

I just joined this forum so here's a link to it on another forum

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2079859

For my last 3 builds I have rough cut and sanded the body shape but I'm not happy with how it isn't very exact. I have ordered a strat and tele template set and am planning on making complete templates for custom guitars. It would be a lot easier to just rough cut it sticky tape the template on and rout it. The thing I'm worried about is if the router bit bites and blows out the wood. Also would it be better to do it with a hand held router or a router table both are just as easy for me?