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3DogNate

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  1. As a player that meanders around the upper fret area when soloing, that guitar looks very uncomfortable to play beyond the 15th fret... And the use of an actual strat pickguard on a not really a strat body is not working for me. And I can't say much for the neck since its a Warmoth. I say go ahead and take it down closer to the strat shape at least around the lower horn side of the pickguard. Not a fan yet, sorry. The lines on the bass side of the body look good.

  2. Nice.... I've been itching to do a batch build. I'm about to do an original prototype that I've got drawn up in CAD. We'll see what kind of response I get. If it's positive I'll probably give batch tooling setups a swing.

    A Paduak neck is on my list of things to try soon. Love working with it I've used it on one acoustic and body parts of a few electrics now.

    Love watching your build threads keep it up.

  3. Wasn't Drak always saying that sanding sealer was basically lacquer with soap or some sort of additive in it? I misremember exactly....something about it being softer than lacquer as well. IThat would scare me, but you know the lacquer will burn in fine.

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    Sanding Sealer is usually a high solid content though and since he is going to fill the gap the and put more clear on top I would not worry so much. However if it was filling in the final coat I would not use Sanding Sealer but use the finish lacquer.

    The problem with using finish lacquer is it is very thin (even before you thin it for a gun) so it will take a long time to fill.

    I'd fill it with thick/medium CA or even epoxy... filling it with lacquer is just gonna shrink back over time (not that much of it either.)

  4. Tell you what... I'm so f'n done with waterbourne finishes...its crap all crap...

    I decided that I liked the satin finish that was getting straight off the gun... looked a lot like the Fender Highway series finishes. So I went to install the String ferrules. and teh finish cracked around it so I said screw it I'm relicing the body. That's the last time I'm doing waterbourne, I've got an acoustic build that I started with it, I'm going to let that cure for a couple of weeks and consider that as a sealer coat and spray that with Nitro...

    The waterbornes are just too brittle. I'll post a pic later today. >^|

  5. The Wenge wasn't too hard to carve, I'd put it about as difficult as Indian Rosewood... I mainly used a micro plane and a stewmac dragon rasp. It went pretty quick. No we're near as difficult as another rosewood like pau ferro or cocobolo would be. I've got a set neck I started a while back made of Cumaru... Now that **** is hard. I fully dread carving that one.

    Nice. Wenge looks great. How did it carve? I recently carved a neck with rosewood chunks in it and it really sucked.

  6. After a round of Tele styled guitars for comissioners I decided that I'd take some of the leftovers and build a Tele style guitar for myself since I don't have a straight up tele of my own. I have not been very dilligent taking pics, but I've got some and I'm in the finishing phase right now. Thought I'd toss out a few in progress shots before putting a finished one out.

    Specs.

    Body: Swamp Ash

    Finish: Mary Kaye White (Target EM6000 Waterbourne Lacquer)

    Neck: Wenge

    Fingerboard: Wenge

    Fretwire: StewMac #149

    Inlay: Mother of pearl face and side dots and mother of pearl Logo

    Bridge: Joe Barden Vintage Tele

    Tuning Machines: Sperzel Locking

    Pickups: Dimarzio Area-T (DP418 - Bridge, DP417 Neck)

    Pickguard: Tortoise

    Jack: Electrosocket

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  7. Wow... I´m making a red, maple topped tele too and I hope it´s going to look as good as yours :D

    Did you seal also the maple on the sides or you just carefuly dyed the top?

    Yeah, I'd like to know too.

    Dyes tend to creep into the wood and on the side view, you can see that, usually. Perhaps if the sides were sealed 1st, you wouldn't have this problem.

    Easy... yep, I sealed the sides and back with shellac then final sanded the top to make sure the top had no shellac. Then I dyed the top with denatured alcohol and Transtint dye. (I don't do water based dyes when there is bare wood involved.) and scraped and sanded the eage to break the sharp edge and expose a little more maple. Spray another coat of shellac over the whole thing again to seal in the top. After that is dry I mask off the Maple binding with 3M Pinstriping tape (Vinyl not Crepe) and masked off the top then I was able to shoot a toner coat over the back and sides. The shellac sealer makes for nice crisp tape lines and no bleed.

  8. I built this guitar for a smooth jazz player in Peoria, IL (Dexter O'Neal), Dexter named her Jessica (after Jessica Rabbit)

    Specs:

    1 Piece Honduras Mahogany back (Chambered, not full thinline)

    Bookmatched Flame Maple top with traditional thinline F-hole

    Flame Maple Neck

    Medium EVO Gold fretwire

    Color Matched headstock with MOP logo

    Ebony fingerboard W/ "Faith" inlay in MOP

    MOP Side Dots

    Wilkinson VG300 Tremolo

    Schaller locking tuners

    Graphite Nut

    Electrosocket Jack

    Dimarzio Air Classic Pickups

    Les Paul style controls

    CTS Pots

    Build thread:

    http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&section=findpost&pid=493067

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    I delayed entering this one in GOTM because I thought I was getting some nice studio spics of her but that doesn't look like its going to happen.

  9. Ok, one more pic. Tomorrow is delivery day. A bit nervous, this is my first electric that wasn't for myself or my son. It's going to a pretty hard working musician that plays with a bunch of high level players. The guitar's new owner is married to a photographer so I'm hoping to get some really pro pics shortly. Hopefully this build starts a chain of commissions. I've got a couple of original designs tucked back I hope to bring out soon.

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  10. The pickups arrived today, Dimarzio Air Classics DP190/DP191, I got the wiring all sorted out. The guy that this is being built for requested that I set it up for Flatwound 11's, those should be here tomorrow... I'll then get it setup and tweaked over the next few days. I'm hoping that everything gets sorted by the weekend so that can get it delivered. I'll have to break out the good camera and get some good beauty shots.

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