Devon Headen

Maybe it's just me, but I can't see any of the pictures :-/

Dan Erlewin (I know that's not correctly spelled) has that tip in one of his books

Gaa...Wes beat me to it

Just get him to sign (I'm assuming it IS a he) it, and then mess with what will work on scrap later.

Brace yourselves...dumb question time. What is a roundover bit?

That my friends is an awesome machine...you could turn out guitars so much easier! After someone builds one you have to tell us whether it works...just cause I don't have 170 bucks to waste.

Now it would be nice if I could drive at all...

How do you use a router to shape the neck? I'm trying to picture this and I'm having some trouble. Thanks

I wish I had a crap neck to refret. Anybody know where to get a really cheap neck? Thanks

Not at all...That's how I do it. Well, I hope it's not strange . Sometimes I use an electric tuner, but mine isn't as accurate as my ear.

10. Well, actually when I was like 8, but I got serious around 10.

not to mention the neck looks warped at the joint too

I've seen a classical guitarist that used 8-strings. I'd give the site, but we just reformatted, so I don't have it...he did flight of the bumble bees..that was interesting

COME ON!!!!!

Hey...anyone else planning on dropping off "piece-of-junk" guitars e-mail me for directions to my house

Sweet I WANT ONE!!! How did you get the piezos so balanced?

Here's the instruction manual fronts for the tool I have. I'm looking at the digital dremel tool on stewmac. What do ya'll think? You can use that for routing cavities right? It'd be stupid if it was on StewMac and you couldn't . Also, the instructions for the one I have says only to use rotozip attatchments on it...could I use other ones? Like for Dremel? Thanks

Thanks, you guys. I think I'm gonna go for it, just need to finish getting info, and choose a wood. Here come the real questions. How do you shape the neck? is there a tutorial anywhere you guys know of? When I build a neck, it'll probably be a gibson/prs style...leaning towards the PRS style angled headstock with straight string pull-back. How do you do this? I saw the tutorial on the guitarbuild.com website, but does anyone have any other ideas? Do I need a truss rod jig for my router? Do I rout before or after the neck shaping? How is the truss rod installed? on my strat there is a piece of wood (I'm assuming rosewood) that covers the truss rod cavity. How exactly is this installed? Glue in seems near impossible. How do I figure the neck angle. How do I make the neck angle what it needs to be? I'd like an attached (glued) neck for sustains sake. How do I carve the end of the neck/neck insert into the body? Wow...I think that's enough questions for now more later

That's awsome!! Thanks!!

are you serious? cheapest ive ever seen is $50. I love that smiley!!

GAAA...it doesn't work, and just when I need it. I'm still trying to figure out why it won't work when I host on my geocities account

Other thread would be "Stewmac radius sanding block". I asked that question at the bottom, and nobody has replied so I just figured this thread made sense to post it in too. Thanks alot for the info guys. I want to built from scratch, but I'm a perfectionist, so I'm scared to do it because I know the first guitar won't meet my standards. I guess I just gotta do it anyway.

ok...don't think my questions gonna get answered on the other thread so I'll post it here. How do you go about shaping the fretboard? Do you leave it level, and just sand it all the way down to the radius you want? Or is there shaping done with a chisel or something like that?

BAHAHAHAHAHA . Everyone run while you can before the burning precious metals and diamonds crash into this thread!!

dag...you're fast. What are those other routers like in comparison to the one I have? Plunge or standard. I think what I have might be "standard"...I'll see if I can find a pic later...I gotta run right now though. Thanks for the help