Johnny Foreigner

awesome. looks like velvet.

I think that just means we're all cheapskates.

oh, yeah, sorry, misread the op.

if it's removing the nibs on the binding, I'd go scraper.

MINERAL-STREAKED POPLAR

I dream of growing a tache that good..

*bump*

wait... what.. these are still for sale? 2 years later?

A quick and hopefully easy question:

i know that for a piezo preamp the correct volume pot would be a 25k.

but what would the upshot be if i used a 250k instead?

neck and pup routes in:

making that topography template finally pays off:

and the horrific looking rough topography. I started doing this with the router then switched to the safe-t-planer - much easier (props to Chris V's video).

YAY! It looks almost like a guitar!

more annoyingly, another stupid bit of tearout which the carve will not entirely deal with (kinda difficult to see with the flash, better photos to follow):

my transtint dye arrived so I did some test runs on scraps of the mahogany and the maple:

then the maple sanded back (did i sand back too much here?? Drak?):

and the end result. drooooooooool.

i\'ve been home alone all weekend while the missus is at SXSW, so managed to get a fair bit done.

cutting out the slots for the combined side and front fret markers:

and in they go - just bits of white abs binding chopped up.

and cut flush:

the top routed flush with the mahogany:

bit of tearout (operator stupidity) on the bottom which, thankfully, is shallow enough to disappear in the carve

update:

just spent 10 minutes using my ibex planes.

HOLY CRAP

worth every single solitary penny. thanks for the recommendations, all.

Could be under a railway arch....

linky

good god, Hull is grim. I lived in York for four years (uni plus one year) and thankfully only had cause to go to Hull once in that entire time.

Just passing on some advice i was given by a person in the spraying industry to the fella who asked about the Stew Mac guns.

Chad.

and it's much appreciated!

care to share the secret of your gorgeous neck/body join?

is your shop in an air raid shelter?

personally i think games on the iphone are a waste of time. I played the rock band demo, i played the COD zombies one, and they all boil down to the same problem that a touchscreen doesn't give you the physical feedback that gamers are used to from traditional controllers.

the rock band demo in particular just *ignored* some of my button presses - I know I hit the note, I know my timing was there, but still I got the kerchunk sound.

while we're on the subject, the whole reason I stopped playing guitar hero (apart from the really really really awful song selection, which it looks like this game is falling foul of as well - how many people have you ever met that are into playing guitar *and* below-average girl pop?) was that the game continually screwed me - particularly on songs I knew well - well enough to know that the timing isn't always 100% spot on, no matter how much the programmers would like it to be. So you have the choice of playing the 'note' as it actually sounds on the song, or playing it as it appears on the grid.

[/rant]

I suspect the carve around my horns is too tight for the angle grinder approach. plus it worked for me doing the topography and planing from there, so I don't want to mess with a streak.

welcome Hedley.

You'll find this forum fascinating 50% of the time, annoying 10%, educational 70%, but useful 100% of the time. enjoy.

looking good.

I love to see resurrections almost as much as new builds.

keep those pics coming.

I have a 12" bandsaw and often wish it was larger.

You could probably get by with that although you would be repositioning a lot and making multiple cuts.

+1

I had one of these I got it for $40 used, wish I had saved my money. I bought a 14" with a riser on it. You will regret spending the money on that put it towards something bigger.

Trust me you don't what to waste time thinking of interesting ways to cut out a body blank when you can just cut it out without stopping and turning the blank around. besides the HP sucks on them no balls and no book match cutting either.

Just my 2 cents spend $150 more and get something that can do everything you need it to.

what $350 bandsaw can do everything? I was under the impression that the grizzly 14" at $395 + $70 for the extension block was about the baseline.

This is where a multimeter is worth it's weight in gold...

Splash out and get a $10 one.

sounds like a plan.

you might have to explain what I do with it - I don't think I've used one since 3rd form physics with Mr Aspden.

I personally would have cut it the other way around and had the animals on the front. Then again I love weird **** like that.

+1

so to clarify, if I'm planning on dyeing my entire body, neck and headstock (basically everything except the fretboard) black, then sanding back the headstock and top to dye blue, roughly how much finished solution should i be making up of the black and the blue?

thanks

Tom

Try this Tom.

Pour a couple ounces of water (mineral spirits, alcohol) into a container and wipe down the parts you are going to dye--twice. Let it dry between coats. One coat for the black and one for the blue. This will give you a real good idea of how you are going to use and you will likely be amazed at how little it actually takes.

SR

that's one of those so simple yet so brilliant ideas. perfect!

I recently bought the cheapest set of pickups I could find:

http://www.guitarpartsonline.com/product_i...products_id=185

they are 4 conductor and come with the instructions that the green is hot, black is ground. red and white are twisted together.

however - and despite repeated emails to Ken at GPO - I don't know which of the red and white corresponds to which coil. which, I think, leaves me at a loss when trying to wire them up using a dpdt for series/parallel switching.

or does it make bugger all difference?

just buy these....

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Finishing_supp...amp;tgtiid=3881

while we're kind of on the subject, does anyone have any experience using the stewmac gun (http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Finishing_supplies/Equipment:_Spray_equipment/Spray_Guns.html)? I assume it sucks compared to the ones that people always recommend (techline?) but I'd love to know why (if that's not too annoying)

cheers

tom