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Dakhahn

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  1. You said there is a Gibson dealership near the "luthier" that did the repair. What if the dealership had a look at your guitar and documented for your insurance company what is wrong with the repair and what it would take to make it right. It also wouldn't hurt to have some photo's of similar repairs the dealership has done to show the insurance company how it should look. If they are anything like my old insurance company they will make a fuss about it, just stay on them until it is right. I wish you luck with this, it's sad to see someone messing up one of your instruments.

  2. I use a Korg Chromatic CA-30 tuner. Set at std. 440hz. I use it to set both the open strings and intonation.

    When I tune, I don't look at initial reading but will give it a sec to settle. The initial reading is always sharp no matter what I plug into it.

    Are you using the harmonic at the 12th fret or just fretting the 12th fret?

  3. This is a little too late but what do you think about rosewood rings to match the fretboard??? Or even rosewood pickup covers with the black rings? I was a little disappointed to see that the "ebonizing" didn't work but the black looks great also. All in all this is a great looking instrument and should definitely by put up for GOTM.

  4. Hello friends

    This is the uglyest guitar i ever seen. Its builded wrong to the first steps.The European oak is not the same whit red or white american oak and is not good for building guitars. Second it is builded like to the foot. And its ugly.The tunomatic is in wrong pozition.And the hand work its krapy. The neck hell its wrong make it and the neck is on air.

    So the guitar is an mess. This is not an guitar this is an pcs of wood for make house work around .

    Its look like crapy.

    Wow.... I can't believe I saw this on the PG forum. Usually the people that post here are so helpful and supportive. Don't let this get you down sthell. Even though some mistakes were made on your build you took the constructive advice of the people on this forum and did what you could with the tools you had. I think that this guitar shows a great amount of determination on your part and a deep love of the instrument itself. I congratulate you on a job well done and hope that you continue to build instruments.

  5. I'm going to start routing my own bodies with templates. My question is about the cutting diameters for pattern cutting bits for routers. Should I be using certain diameters for different parts of the templates? I.e, neck pocket, pickups, control cavities. Or is this more a matter of personal taste? Should I use smaller diameters to help avoid tear out? I have been looking at some bits that have a cutting diameter ranging from 1/2" to 1 1/8". I realize that the smaller diameters will remove more wood from the corners of neck pockets and such but does anyone have preferences to certain sizes and why? Thanks in advance to anyone willing to give me some info.

  6. I have never chipped a guitar in almost 20 years of playing....and I have a king v,a kxk v,a home built beast,I had a mustaine king v,etc...

    Key word...straplocks...don't be so clutzy

    Only damage I have ever done to a guitar is a stage light falling on one. It just seems that the used King V's and similar style instruments I see for sale have the same type of damage or wear to them. I suppose most of that can be attributed to the target market of that style of instrument.

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