Disputoman
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Last year, I made the decision to build a guitar after I accompanied my friend on a visit to a local luthier in my hometown. After aquiring a majority of the luthier's knowledge, I realized that my dream guitar is a Les Paul style with hallowed out cavities and a glued-in neck. However, I think that might be too formiddable a task for my first guitar because much of the books I have read suggest making a bolt-on neck guitar. Is making a glue-in neck guitar too hard for a beginning guitar? Also, my dad has two huge pieces of black walnut and maple(4'x0.5') that he said I could use for a guitar, therefore unlocking the possibilty of a neck-through body. Is a neck-through harder too make than the other two? Thanks
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Is there a way to calculate a fretboard's radius? I looked at Don MacRostie's "Cone Head" formula, to find the radius at any given point on the board, but that doesn't apply to me because you must already know the radius at the nut in order to determine the radius at other points on the board. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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I recently decided to embark on the ever-so-dangerous, or so I've been told, voyage of refretting. Of course, I am doing this first on my old Samick cheapo strat copy guitar before I touch my Ibanez RG. I thought I had all of the supplies for the job but when I tested out the end nippers, they didn't seem to grab the fret the way I had imagined. The pair of pliers I bought were made by "Channel Lock" and I believe they didn't work as expected because they were slightly rounded at the tip. So my question is this: do I need to have a pair of end nippers that are ground flush or can I grind my current pair of end nippers flat? Thanks, Brett