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  1. Why buy when you can DIY for 5x more? I try not to go back and add up because it's always way more than I thought it was. Having a wood stash that you feed from time to time certainly helps with the illusion of economy, but it's also is the cause of many unintended builds. The build looks like it's going to be another great one Ash!
  2. The Blush Eraser from Behlen works like magic if you can get that there. You just spray a little, and it disappears.
  3. Any tips for inlaying into maple? At some point, I'll be putting something into the roasted pieces I have and am acutely aware that I won't have the ebony/CA fill trick to fall back on.
  4. Only semi-related but while we're at it... a couple days ago I tried to twist the spray nozzle on my pressure washer while I was using it to orient the spray pattern. Of course I know how much pressure is there, but still don't really equate it with a table saw blade or anything. Sort of like how a weed eater/string trimmer can bounce off your shoe so you don't have that fear of death, but still wonder if it could cut your arm off. Turns out that a pressure washer can quite efficiently (and quickly) leave a large jagged wound, like a drunken squirrel may have done.
  5. The 8-string I built uses the Tosin Abasi Fluence, though I imagine they are all somewhat similar in regards to how the voicing works. One voice is a kind of modern full range sound, the other is a vintage voice which rolls off the highs somewhat. Then there’s a single coil mode. All of them are highly useful, more so than any pickup I’ve ever played, but they are also active which does most of the heavy lifting.
  6. LOL. It looks like Gary Bucy.
  7. On that control cavity oops, couldn't you just route down .5 mil and then run the whole damn shebang through the planer and take off a .5 mil? It'd save weight! I use a flap disc for the initial 3/4 of the carve also. Stolen from @Drak and it has served me well.
  8. I just got a roasted fret board and know what you mean. Interesting stuff.
  9. Very nice. Roasted not liking routing is new to me, that's a bit of a head scratcher. The oversized piece I ordered is not in hand yet, and the design is still in flux so I'm not sure what neck(s) will be pulled from it. I enjoyed your clients distinct tastes, esp. finish "if at all" and hating figured woods. I've realized that the guitars that really tweak my senses are all plain-ish without figured woods. I've been trying forever to design/create something that doesn't revolve around exotic woods but it always sucks me back in because I've got these wicked pieces of wood and feel some obligation to make those into guitars.
  10. I've also got some Hades roasted on the way. I'll watch what you do first, so I don't screw mine up!
  11. Yet there's nothing quite like obsessing over a nice piece on ebay and making a real late night drunken purchase. oops.
  12. I've got some excellent cherry and oak that was used in a barn (as a barn? lol). The oak pieces are beams that look just awful, but when planed is some of the nicest white oak I've seen. I'm not typically an oak fan, unless it's toasted and used for aging bourbon.
  13. One clarification. I was speaking of graphic design on a professional level, where iteration isn’t usually versions of the same thing. Rather, it’s a whole bunch of divergent versions/ideas/looks (additive), where each may then may be iterated on (additive), and then refined (subtractive), and only the best are chosen to share (subtractive). Often, this is only the first stage. It may be repeated over and over. Sometimes in our office when you have left it all on the table - blood, sweat, and tears - feedback may be “that’s a good start…”. And it’s back to the well for all new fresh work of the same thing. And, this is all pre-client. Clients are brutal in their ignorance. “that’s it?”
  14. Ah. There are lots of creative processes, but to use design again two things are very typical. Iteration, and what I like to think of as respiration. By respiration, I mean a long process of iteration where it is an additive phase, and then a subtractive phase. Many times over and over as you refine to get to the cleanest and strongest versions that communicate your original idea. We usually begin with a long process of discovery (distillation) to find that singular idea(s), that then use that as a North star in the whole process. It really helps to have many minds on the same problem, as each will bring new things to the table which will often trigger new ideas and help to eliminate lesser ideas. Most anything you see, packaging, billboards, tv commercials, everything has probably been through this process or very similar. It's usually the bad ones that you can tell hasn't been.
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