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  2. The Vihta

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    Thanks guys :D

    Did you finish the back of the cover too?

    I'd guess that it's bowed because it's absorbing more moisture through the back than the front, which means the back expands more than the front, and forces the piece to bend. Try placing it somewhere dry (like a sealed box with a pack of solica gel in it) which may help it return to flat, then finish the back to balance the moisture absorbtion.

    Oh, and by the way - *beautiful* piece of work, very impressive, doubly so considering it's only your second.

    Thank you for the reply.

    Yep, I brushed the back of the cover too. One coat of lacquer. Thought it had been dry after a week from staining.

    Should I sand it back to wood before placing to dry?

    How's that birch sounding?

    It's somewhere between maple and alder.

    I had to change that Full Shred to Duncan Custom to get warmer, more humbucker sound.

    So I would say it's pretty bright too.

    Beautiful! Looks like a lot of hours have gone into this beauty.

    What's with the birch overseas there?

    I started a year ago. Have done it mostly on weekends. This have been my "learning to use a chiesel and scrapers" project.

    It's much nicer to work without that router noise. :D

    I have heard many different opinions about birch as a tonewood, it's cheap and grows on trees here where I live, so I wanted to try it myself.

  3. The Vihta

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    My second guitar is almost done. This one is mostly made of birch, only neck is maple.

    Pickups are Duncan Custom at bridge and Vintage Rails at neck. Both have some mid boost too.

    I also transplanted Variax circuits into it. Control knobs aren't ready yet, but they will be made of birch. :D

    And I should somehow get that trem all golden.

    Frets: Dunlop 6000

    Trem: Schaller Vintage tremolo with Variax piezo saddles

    24_Etupuoli.jpg

    More pics: (sorry about bad quality)

    http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b249/kapt/kitara/

    I have a problem with neck pickup cover. I brushed 10 coats of nitro, in two weeks, and let it cure about four weeks.

    Now its bowed.

    pic:

    http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b249/kap...ikkikotelo3.jpg

    Is there any way I could bend it back without damaging lacquer?

  7. My First

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    Hello I am a newbie to the form and I was wondering what were the measurements for the wood  because  I want to build one at the end of the year thanks. :D

    Hi. If I remember right measurements were: Maple 200x15x4cm, Alder 200x18x3cm and Ebony 54x7x0.8cm. Alder board wasn't thick enough so I had to glue both wings out of two pieces.

  8. My First

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    Could you post more-detailed pictures of the guitar's finish? For my V, I will be staining it, with a black/gray and then applying a satin clear coat with a brush... I just want to see how a brush finish turns out...

    Lets see... if I can get camera. But this is not good example of brush finish. I have not paint alot. I think that if you know what you are doing you can make it as good as any other finish. I had to do this in rush and I didn't sand or polish it. I hope I find place and can do it again.

  10. My First

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    The pictures of the guitar look great, however the pictures are way too bad to judge the finish or anything, so I know what you are talking about when you say the details arent  that pretty. But the way it looks on the pictures is very cool.

    I simply dont get it. COB is one of my favorite bands ever and Alexi is an excellent guitarist. However what is wrong with HCDR? To me it is the best album of the band, containst awesome riffs (bodom beach terror for example) and the songs are structured and composed a little better/more mature than the older stuff. I mean if you don like AYDY(pretty different sound) I understand that, but how can anyone like FTR and not HCDR?!?!? And why is it so common that people loose respect for certain bands/players only because they do different new stuff? Does that make the old stuff worthless?

    Thank you. Yes, sorry that picture.

    Sorry I might said that wrong. I haven't lost my respect for Bodom. I still think that Laiho is exellent guitarist and HCDR is good album but Follow The Reaper is my favorite. I just like those songs and guitar sounds. :D And that guitar hero thing... you know... it changes.

  13. My First

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    Hi. I have been reading these great sites couple years and finally finished my first guitar. This is also pretty much my first woodwork project.

    Randy Rhoads style guitar

    Neck-thru-body

    Wings: Alder

    Bridge: Floyd Rose Original

    Pickup: EMG-81

    Neck wood: 3pc laminated hard maple

    Scale: 25/5

    Fretboard: Ebony, 24 frets Dunlop 6000 (jumbo)last five frets are scalloped

    Body starts at 21th fret

    Neck dimensions:

    Width at nut: 43mm

    Width at last fret: 57mm

    Thickness at 3th: 22mm

    Thickness at 12th: 22mm

    Radius: 15"

    Sorry, bad picture.

    5.jpg

    http://photobucket.com/albums/b249/kapt/

    It doesn't look very good. Paint job didn't go well. I will have to do it again later if I get place. You can see brush marks in some places and there is no clear laquer on it so I think those silver bevels will wear out. Binding... there is about 1mm gap. Tremolo is almost 1cm too close neck but can be set up corretly. (I made some really stupid mistake there. I measured it three times)

    but...

    I was really surprised when I played it first time. I thought that I would have like 1cm string action or way too thick neck but I can get string height lower than my Ibanez RG770. Neck profile is good. It fits just right into my hand.

    And it's now my main guitar.

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