thegarehanman

Well for not entirely thinking ahead, you did one hell of a job, dave. I still want to see the case with the windows that lure onlookers to steal the guitar.

I did essentially the same thing dave just described. However, I used a deep throated coping saw to do the job. I imagine the coping saw will be much easier for you to control than a dremel, freehand.

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Looking at that seller's other auctions, you can expect that neck to end up going for more than $150. Don't know what your budget is but i figured i should point that out. peace, russ

Your thinking is sound. There really is no time when cutting parallel to the grain is a wise choice unless for some cosmetic reason. However, dowels are traditionally supplied with the grain running parallel to their length, so people unfamiliar with plugs might cut parallel to the grain without giving it a second thought.

Adding to what southpa has said, it probably wouldn't hurt to get yourself a plug cutter and make your own plugs(dowels) for this job. Cutting a plug across the grain rather than parallel to it will give you a stronger repair. peace, russ

dave, how did that case come out?!

I take it you've never seen a jazz box before...or a good chunk of the guitars made by members here for that matter. Done to death, unfortunately.

i'm a bit confused. How is the tuner moving in the hole? It's rotating in the hole?

Do you have the bushings screwed onto the tuners from the top of the peghead and tightened, for that matter? Sounds like the holes in the headstock may be a bit big for the tuners you're using, but snugging up the bushings might be just what you need. If not, you may have to use some sort of spacer to fill in the space between the tuner's stringpost and the inside of the hole or fill and redrill the holes. peace, russ

I thought I had posted on this the other day, but I guess not. Really, I've never been bugged by his guitars. They're ok, not the work of a visionary, but passable none the less. There are people that love them(although how many people that is stands to be seen), so they've got to at least play well and sound good, but the sound part is fairly subjective anyhow. My only quibbles are his marketing methods and his tuners. That is to say, I don't particularly respect that a lot of what's said on his site is not carried out through his guitars on all occasions(ex: he says that removing wood from a body kills tone, yet he drills holes in a guitar for aesthetics). Also, the look of the tuners doesn't bother me. However, typical tuners are designed such that the string tension keeps the tuner's gear pressed firmly against the worm gear so that it's less likely for the string post to turn. Reversed, this effect is lost and the string post can more easily turn, possibly leading to tuning instability. Although that's something that might not show up until a few years of use, if ever. So what I guess I'm getting at is that I'm pretty much indifferent at this point and I also have little better to do on a Sunday evening than post here. On a different note, I sure do wish he'd either put the picture of the cat and mouse back up on the front page or remove my quote, because at the moment it doesn't make much sense. peace, russ

If you're avoiding having to remove material at the headstock since you'll already be removing a lot for the floyd locking nut attachment screws, why not have it heel adjustable but use a spoke type adjustment instead of an allen adjustment so the strings can stay on while adjusting the rod?

listEn, use titeboNd or some other pva wood glue. it dOes not reqUire that there be clearance between the two pieces beinG bonded for proper adHesion. 99% of the threads you see on this bOard are going to show people using your run of the mill white wood glue. there are a Few that make the misTake of using polyurethane glues or epoxies, but tHat's a whole other story. anyhow, If you see people complaining about a film, as you inSist upon calling it, what they really should be saying iS "I can not pLane the mating surfaces of these two boards properly, thus resuLting in a gap that coincIdentally filled with glue when i tried to glue the boards together." what i'm getting at is most of the visible glue liNes you see on this forum arE the reSult of bad joinery, not bad glue. honeStly, it happens. you have to start somewhere, and of course you'll make mistakes along the way. just don't confuse user error for flawed materials. peace, russ

A lot of times when I'm having trouble planing a figured board, dampening the edge to be planed helps heaps.

Can you swing $150 for a 4" electric jointer planer? Because that's a pretty quick and easy fix that's sure to work perfectly...no light table needed!

Rich, I've seen this done before(the sliding pickup attached to a lever). I can't remember where, I think it was an image posted here. It was a pickup attached to the shifter from a jaguar, looked very cool.

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Immediately send the guitar to me, it is HAUNTED! I will do my best to drive the demon out. My dad used to be a minister; I will call him to see if he can walk me through the procedure. If I can not rid the guitar of the specter, then I will have to hold it indefinitely for observation.

your area of expertise, not mine.

Granted you're going with the 1/10v, which is probably not a bad estimate. anyhow, that sin wave problem would be easily remedied with some diodes, in a pinch.

why not just break out a multimeter, open up your guitars, and find out what the average output voltage on all of your pickups is?

Wes, are you planning on leveling the color coat or clearing and then leveling? I ask because in my experience, it's a bad practice to level a transparent color coat. It starts looking noticeably blotchy. I'd recommend clearing then leveling. peace, russ

If you're going through the effort of making your own trem, why not go for bearing style pivots, so they won't wear down as quickly as knife edge floating trems. I've seen this done before, maybe it was an ibanez, but I like the idea. pece, russ

Meh, whatever. Young and hasty and all that jazz. Not that I'm not young now, just more enlightened. peace, russ

Uh oh, here comes the storm again. For what it's worth, I recently was enlightened to the way a string vibrates. It does make a circular pattern, but it's not quite that straightforward. Apparently the string vibrates in an elliptical pattern which spins about its center, thereby forming what looks like circles.