pauliemc

PM me with your email info. I will send you some drawings to help you figure out what you are going to be up against. If you are familiar with working details (being a furniature maker Id say you are) these should be a great help. Let me know if you want CAD or PDF aswell.

Christ, wouldnt have a clue about that. Maby the guys on jemsite or ibanezrules could help you. unless some acoustic guru on here has an idea

Who soes your decals. Im gona change my supplier as the last batch were not up to scratch

Rustins Plasticoat. Sprays on, Brushes on, wipes on, sponges on, Iv even dipped bodies and necks in it. Dries good enough to polish in 24 hours. Not that it always needs a polish. Hard wearing, solvent & alcohol resistant. Cant realy go wrong if your stuck for cash & lack funky finishing equipment, Or, A little more pricey, But Behlen wipe on urethane is excellent.

Glad you like it man. Ash does some freaky things when you carve it. One of my fave timbers, even bog standard stuff has more funky grain than some figured exoctic woods. & if you half ass the finish in strategic places it ages realy nice with a little encouragment. great for relic strats & teles & the like. Hard as fook though, kills yer tools after a while

I use option 3. If I had a decent scroll saw id use that. But the coping saw works fine, just make sure its a good blade. I was taught to always use it so that the down stroke cuts, you would be amazed at how many people I see with it cutting on the push stroke

Looking good. I use a similar bracing pattern in my acoustics (when i build them - which is very rare just now) My braces are a little lighter & have more bridge points in them (you refered to them as holes above) But it does make for a very ridgid sound board with next to no warping from the pull on the bridge. You should get some nice volume from this when its done.

I find it works well for a neck. Although you do have to be sure its well dried out, So it sits for over a year here before it gets sliced up for necks. it gets a nice texture on it after its cleared, if you dont bother to try pore fill it. Fender used it on a few gitirs But I cant remember the models. Im sure Wezv would know, Or some other wealth of production model knowledge. We use ash over here in Ireland for all sorts as it grows like grass, all over the place. Particularly good example would be hurleys. Iv seen those last for years on end with little or no finish on them, in sun & rain. Those things get some unreal punishment & stay nice n strait. I still have my little sisters at home, it must be 20 years old now. with no finish on it, stored in an outside shed with no real protection from the elements - pin straight - strong as an ox. For those that dont know, hurley's are used in a game called hurling, hurling is basicly rugby, except that its much faster paced, cross bread with murder & played by the kinds of lunatics that a rancor would run a mile from. then for good measure, the ball is much smaller & hard as a stone, The players are all armed with hurley's (basicly a big stylised simitar sword carved from ash) & from the spectators point of view, there dont seem to be any rules against trying to kill the oposing players. Great stuff

Indeed. It truely sucks when your guitar comes out of the dishwasher & the binding has come loose. I used a hardware baught loctite CA a few years back for binding, But it stained the crap outa the timber in the top. So I went back to good old melty binding in acetone.

OK. A little more on one of these. I have not had much time to play around with personal projects like this latley so they are taking longer than hoped. But hey, wotcha gona do. Anyway, this one is now black-ish. & one hanging just outside the finish room. I have a light coat of clear on here to seal the black. The bindings will get cleaned up & the control cavity finished over the next few days.

37 celcius holy ninja's thats hot. I rekon id keel over & die in that heat. Its -2 celcius here just now.

No problems, I got that yesterday. The shop tech is correct, I dont generally do refinishes & change out hardware for free But I prefer not to do business on the forum. You can follow your build here, but contact me thru the mailing details info from the site.

Yea 50 is a little high. But then maby 10 is a bit low aswell. Id go for maby 20-25. but then 50 would keep away trollers. Screw it, go for 50.

Happened to me a few years back. Is there much of a bow along the lenght of the neck ? & is the truss chanel wider in the middle than the ends ?

+1000,000 to that. Usually I take about 200 piks to end up with 20 I can use. & then maby 8-10 of them are good enough to get onto the site or a catalogue. Anything red suks to photo, Massive high gloss & Quilt suck aswell. Still, savage guitar. It reminds me of a big mass of cherry toffee or ice cream with lots of syrip poured all over it. Always good when a finish gets me thinkin of food

OH thats nice. You jammy bstrd.

You got it right Sir! No disrespect at all. Just some thoughts and some appreciations of a very nice build. As you noticed I often shoot for originality and this is all meant to be some comments that explain why I vote as I do. When commenting all nice builds here (not including my own…) I try to stay away from rants and then the short comment might come out in a way that needs a friendly interpretation. It’s not easy to be precise in a language that’s not your native. Honestly, I would never have taught that you were not a native english speaker. Your command of the language far exceeds some people I know who speak it every day . Your comments on the guitar are well noted & appreciated, I used to give my opinions on the entries but stopped doing it as it does seem to tick some people off when you point out issues with their builds. Even if there is no malice intended. Personally, I find this forum to be an invaluable source of information on building guitars. If people stopped pointing out things they did not like, or making comments on things they are having problems understanding, it would be a much less interesting place. The encyclopedic vault of everything guitar would suffer. So I say bring on the comments. even the bad ones, I can only learn from negative feedback. Anyway. rant over. Love your guitars man

I would use a 10 degree angle with a graphtech nut. But to be honest I dont think that the extra 3 degrees would hurt too much, so long as the nut is cut correctly. I have used a locking nut with a bigsby on request from the client. that worked well even with the zero fret. Are you goint to use locking tuners ?

No there has not been much progress on these. Just a little sanding & binding. Not realy worth posting piks of just yet. This forum is not realy for doing business, If you PM me I can send you details of the store they are going to. Or use the contact page on my Website. These are all earmarked for a local dealer, but Im sure he will sort you out if you want the ash omega.

Some other manufacturers charge a big wad-o-cash for covers like that. So you are so damned right. Jump on the fashion wagon. Cool lookin covers BTW. I like the 12 hole thing more so than the staining. but still cool man

I doubt he means any disrespect by it Red. Just that it is a standard model shape with typical hardware appointments, that can be gotten from a large manufacturer. Although my JS is thicker than the Ibanez with a different neck profile, it is still easily recognisable as a custom version of a Satriani model. Just look at what he has entered, conventional is not exactly swedishluthiers thing. & then he did say "Pauliemc JS, great build and finish." Considering the gitirs he makes I take that as a major compliment.

Pick a builder who's work you like here, PM them & see what can be done.

Looking good man. I dig the hell outa this thing. Ambrosia is excellent lookin stuff. Just cant seem to find any here in Ireland thats woth a damn.

COOL ! I rekon this should make for some groovey viewing.

Being a tribute does not mean you have to stick to the spec of the production model too closely. Just stick to the original design concept - & then do what ever you feel like doing from there. I mean this is supposed to be a JS http://www.aeolianguitars.com/flamed-satch-lotus-asl10 But the production models are nothing along the construction involved here. I say do the inlay, Go nuts man