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  1. It's been a rough road and you spent some time on it, so congrats for finishing a playable instrument! It is not quite my type of thing, but I do appreciate your use of reclaimed materials. I bet you can get some swampy blues going with it! Or that's the impression I get at least.
  2. Why not? I have no idea what people are afraid of with installing them. In my experience they are easier as they are harder and keep their shape better while whacking them in. Or whatever method you use. Anyway I don’t care much about them. There is a cold feel in stainless steel as material. Probably just a mental image in my head, but I just prefer nickel silver. Daddario?
  3. Good to hear that nothing more severe happened! They are more dangerous and thus scarier. There’s more surface speed on a larger diameter bit. And if the bit grabs it has more leverage than a shank sized bit. And they are more prone to balancing issues.
  4. Fitting and shaping. The bottom wing has an angle adjustment feature. Also neck position will be adjustable in relation to the body. Likely one time adjustments, but they are easy to implement in this type of jig saw puzzle.
  5. Right, although there are those cases when it really should have been the plan A.
  6. This one then. I wasn’t going to work on this today but there was this piece of apple tree trunk taking space in my work shop. Has been there for a couple of years. I thought about squaring it a bit to see what I can do with it. Nicely spalted and cracked. My first thought was make wings for this guitar out of it, but I hesitated splitting it. I may do that some day but for now I let it be and wait if I can find some other use for it. This guitar still in my mind I ended up sawing wing halves from an old furniture prototype I did decades ago. It is straight board glued from strips of European ash and painted black. Color will be gone after shaping these. Depending on how they look in the end I will decide how to finish them. Or heat sauna with them if I don’t like how they turn out. We’ll see.
  7. Scratch that. I don’t know what happened. I just somehow managed to drill one tuner hole in wrong place on the front side of the headstock (backside is fine). It’s not a biggie because the front side is going to be painted and it won’t be visible. But, it is one of those mistakes I like to blame myself for a long time.
  8. Ok, I said funky too early Keep on it!
  9. For a moment I thought you really shouldn’t go that route but, I realized you must mean Illustrator and not the AI that gets a lot of press these days
  10. My bass has “a tiny intonation problem” so I first thought about fixing it, but realized it may not be worth it. So I started looking at available commercial alternatives but, the cheap short scale Ibanez basses I like are out of stock in Finland. And because there are strikes going on, parcels are not moving from Central Europe either. So I designed myself a bass… but came to senses. I guess I can live a little longer without one and finish this guitar first instead. We’ll see, maybe I build that bass someday but I guess I just buy one, once they are available. Made a headstock plate and glued it.
  11. 25,5 is the typical scale for Fender guitars. 24,75 is more of a Gibson thing.
  12. So is Floyd Rose Special Which is the cheap alternative from the maker.
  13. I know the symptom. Happens sometimes. I've never bothered figuring out whether it is one of the guitars, a certain pedal or certain amp that picks up the buzz. It is so rare that I've just moved the phone further away and haven't thought more about it. I guess I should isolate the problem next time it happens.
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