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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.
  15. In design, we strive for that absolute minimum to get the strongest idea across. Doesn’t matter if we are doing a photo shoot, making a logo, or laying out a design. You want to have it so that if you take only one element away, it fails. The utmost clarity. I always think of The Beatles and their strength in songwriting economy. It looks SO simple, but it’s the most complex in it’s simplicity.
  16. Totally agree. The figured wood habit is a hard one to break, and while it can be stunning less can most definitely be more ( Yngwie).
  17. MWU MWU MWU MWU pew pew pew MWUH MWHU pew pew pew pew MWU MWU MWU pew MWU MWU pew pew pew
  18. I love the tenacity. Fixing stuff becomes a puzzle, and you just can’t stop until it’s solved to what you have in your mind’s eye. I bet this ends up as your #1.
  19. Haha that's awesome. I've lost count of how many times I've seen them. I do remember Powerslave and Piece of Mind were the coolest tours! My band in high school was pretty much a Maiden clone band. We did Charlotte, Ides/Wrathchild, Innocent Exile, Killers, Acacia Ave, Powerslave, Losfer Words, Ancient Mariner, Trooper, and To Tame a Land. Other stuff: Rush, Zep, Kansas, Pat Travers, Dokken, Queensryche, Triumph, YES, BOC, Dio, Ozzy, Sabbath, April Wine. We had this spectacular drummer who could do the most amazing stuff, but his basic time would drift, usually faster as he got excited. LOL Try playing a Queensryche solo pulling behind the beat to rein in your dopey drummer. Good Times. Back to the build!
  20. Holy cow you've been busy. I have to know, if that an original concert shirt? I saw that show from the 10th row center. I'd listened to Killers for a long time, but Bruce was new and he ripped my head clean off.
  21. Love everything about this! I just want to grab it and see how it feels with the lap test, and hear what it sounds like.
  22. Wow sorry I missed this, I've been consumed by work. This is a good question. Looking back in my emails, it looks like I bought it off of Ebay. The user name is: sierrachemicalco And, it looks they are still there. Search for "2-Butoxyethanol - Butyl Cellosolve - Technical Grade". One pint is about $25. I tried progressively different solvents working up to acetone, and nothing worked like this stuff did. I found it very forgiving also. I used disposable droppers and an xacto in the process, scoring the area with the xacto, then dropping in the Cellosolve. Give it a chance to work, and then come back and poke little areas where it may not have fully dissolved through. You do need to be careful if you are going down to the wood, the solvent will mess with the dye and make it discolor a small area if you poke into the wood. Yours is fairly similar in 'darkness' and probably won't give you trouble.
  23. Hmm. Where was Wally at the time of the incident? Not sure if you have any on hand, but the Cellosolve works wonders if you end up with any little areas that don't want to blend. It couldn't be in any more capable hands.
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