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I might be interested in some. Just let me know when you have some more up on the site.

Don't worry, just keep going at it and you'll be done in no time. Don't stop until you're happy and you'll never regret it. Finishing is one of the most frustrating things for me in building, but it's one of the most rewarding as well.

I think that guitar has come up 3 or so times since I've been here. Always with mixed opinions. Wasn't that an ER guitar?

It's called metalflake if you want to do a search.

StewMac is fast. I ordered from them on Monday of this week, and it was here Wed morning, too. LOL, what a co-inkidink.

Recently I ordered the ultimate 14" bandsaw from Grizzly, but seeing how I live in the middle of nowhere, 3/4 of a mile from the nearest house, I didn't want to get a tractor trailer stuck out here. I had it delivered to a friend's furniture shop in town. One of the guys that works for Eric signed for the packages without throughly inspecting them. When we got the saw home, and looked it over, part of the frame casting had broken off....uh-oh. So we call Grizzly customer service not really expecting them to be able to help since the waiver had been signed. We explained the problem, and the woman said we'd hear back from them in 72 hours with an answer about what they'd do. 3 days later I got I phone call that said they would replace the bandsaw at a TOTAL loss to them. Hello. The freight company called the next day to set up a pickup time. The bandsaw was picked up two days later. The very day after the bandsaw was picked up, the new one was delivered. That's what I call fast, reliable, top-notch customer service. Not to mention that the saw is absolutely killer . As long as Grizzly is carrying power tools that I need, I'll never order from anyone else again.

I got the ultimate 14" grizzly saw and love it. With the riser block it'll resaw 8 inch rock maple without much problem.

Match up the lines. I can't see buying a template unless I'm planning a production run or something, where a lot of guitars will have the same scale length. Plus it only takes like 5 minutes to mark the fretboard.

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So I finally broke down and bought the StewMac tablesaw fret slotting blade with my last order. Pricy? A little, but I'm not regretting this purchase. I built a quick jig for it yesterday in probably 15-20 minutes, After scribing all the fret slots on, I had the whole thing slotted in less than 2 minutes. All with uniform depth cut perfectly square. If you can puch it into your building budget, just do it.

If you can build a guitar you can build a mitre box. Trust me on this one. I'll bet if you put a little thought into it all will be revealed.

Except they'd be domestic there . You want to find a hardwood place, not your run of the mill building supplies retailer. Also, if you can get your hands on a copy of Melvyn Hiscock's "Make Your Own Electric Guitar". That's required reading for anyone who wants to start building.

I think that's the best so far, but I still don't see the point. Boggs built a guitar similar to that, but he had the ugly shape for ergonomics. That makes sense. This whole design is unbalanced and only looks ugly for the sake of being original.

His problem isn't the full barre, it's just getting the e and b strings to ring out. I had the same problem when I tried that chord. Practice, practice, practice is the only thing that will get you there. That or lower action if you have an aweful 'beginner' guitar.

And no, you can't replicate that with mahogany. I'm guessing you know what mahogany looks like? Obviously the grain is absolutely nothing like that. Looks a bit like maccassar ebony to me.

Thank you Drak for speaking what was on my mind the whole time I was reading. I was getting a little tired of the PC replies.

It's a really cool design on the 3x3 methinks. This is gonna look real good.

Well, thoroughly tested the glue joint this morning, and it is not coming apart any time soon . Apparently it WAS the glue's fault. While I was out in the shop the FedEx man brought me a lovely package from cousin Stew, that after a Grizzly package arrived day before yesterday. Christmas in May

I play with my thumb on the low E. I know, I know bad technique but it's too late for me now, and it works just fine. So I play like Greg only with my thumb hitting the F on the Low E.

Also, this should be moved to Player's corner.

I like the 3x3 better, but since it's a tele, I'd be more likely to lean for the 6 inline.

I'm a bit late for this thread I think, but I'd either go for soft maple or alder.

I've never used the lmii glue, but I'm fairly certain it's not an aliphatic resin glue. Sounds like some sort of organic stuff maybe from their website.

Yeah, I got a limba blank. I think I might get a couple pics of this one in progress. I cleaned up and reglued the scarf this morning, so all will be revealed in the morning. If all goes well (I don't see why it wouldn't), I'll only lose about an hour of work.

That could be a problem. I'd think anything above 320 would be risky. Once you get an area peeling it won't stick very well anyway.

So I've been working on a new build the last couple've days (yes, I was the first with the limba/ziricote combo thanks ). Last night I was levelling the scarfed section of the fretboard plane with the plank. I'm putting a little pressure on the headstock surface, because I switched to truing it up. I hear 'CRACK' and think '#$%$, what was that?!?!'. I give the scarf a little tug and it pulls free from the rear headstock veneer. 'So now I have a scarfed headstock veneer on the neck shaft. Oh well, at least that joint is good. Let's test it to make sure.....' CRACK'. "#%$^" and then a fist fight with the wall ensued. Somehow the wall always wins without throwing a punch . So after stewing over what the problem; 'I know the surface prep was perfect, and I've never had a glue joint fail, what is the stinking deal?!,' it occurred to me; my glue had been in the shop all winter. I wasn't sure whether it had frozen or not, but apparently it did, because I KNOW that surface was perfect. I think I might be able to salvage the neck still, but only time will tell. Lessons learned:

1. Don't leave your glue in freezing weather

2. When in doubt (I was), buy new glue

3. Test your glue joints. Luckilly this all happened when I only had maybe 5 or 6 hours in the neck, and like I said I might be able to salvage materials.

I don't post many problems that I had here, because most of them have been covered 8 or 10 times. I only remember reading that freezing screws up glue once way back in the mimf archives, so I thought I'd bring this issue a little attention. Has anyone else had this problem?