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  1. chemical_ali
    7-strings make me want to vomit. no offence, that guitar has a beautiful body...
  2. chemical_ali
    what's a baritone scale guitar?
  3. chemical_ali
    i want to scallop my mexican tele but can't find the link to the tutorial i once saw on projectguitar.com. could someone post it please? is it a good idea to get new frets installed before i scallop b/c my frets show considerable wear and i think it would be close to impossible to get it refretted once scalloped... your opinions would be appreciated! thanks!
  4. chemical_ali
    i hope you understand what a truss rod does before you start abitrarily moving it LOL
  5. chemical_ali
    i fail to see how chipping wood and paint off the body of the guitar would not affect the tone. there's more to a guitar than just the strings, wes.
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    i think i'll look into it. i probably didn't see it before b/c the website is so slow! errrgggghhhhh!!!
  7. chemical_ali
    Just wanted to say: Why am I an idiot???? Some people paint their guitars shokking pink or put spycho splatter and that gallactic puke stuff all over their guitars! What's so different between that or this relic? I didn't cut out whole pieces of wood or something, so the sound stays the same. It's just a kind of finish. A very well worn finish doesn't mean the guitar isn't playable or it doesn't sound good anymore you think that you can beat the crap out of a guitar and the tone will stay the same? are you out of your mind?!?!
  8. chemical_ali
    oh yeah, brian, make sure you're saving all the pics as jpegs. they are much smaller and thus easier to download. the only thing gifs are good for are animations.
  9. chemical_ali
    i think the page loading problem has to do with the slow server. the pages don't seem that big!
  10. chemical_ali
    yes! my mexican telecaster has a maple neck and fretboard all in one! i think they put it in through the back although i'm not sure.
  11. chemical_ali
    can someone post a picture of a jig in action?!?!
  12. chemical_ali
    only problem is, i don't have a "local wood shop!" would the stemac neck blanks need to be planned? also, couldn't you cut a fender type headstock out of them? aren't they thick and long enough?
  13. chemical_ali
    i still don't get how you can be tracing the jig (template) with the end of the router bit when the router bit is cutting wood?!?!?
  14. chemical_ali
    ALEX YOU IDIOT!!! THAT WAS A BRAND NEW GUITAR!!!! ERRRRRRRGHHH!!!! i wish i had money like you...
  15. chemical_ali
    who is "we"?
  16. chemical_ali
    the neck blanks stewmac.com is selling here measure 13/16" x 4" x 27". i'm wondering if 13/16" is deep enough to make a structurally sound neck. i measured my mexican telecaster's neck and at the body joint (thickest part) it is 15/16". i'm planning on doing a bolt on guitar with a fingerboard (my tele does not have a separate finger board). are the stew mac neck blanks big enough for what i'm doing? has anyone used these neck blanks with success?
  17. chemical_ali
    yes i have a broadband internet connection too and it still doesn't load!!
  18. chemical_ali
    brian, i absolutely love your website. the only problem is that it's incredibly slow! half the time i cant get half the pictures to load because of the lack of bandwith your server seems to have. is anyone else having the same problem?
  19. chemical_ali
    i was reading melvyn hiscock's make your own electric guitar and stumbled onto some woodworking jargon. what is a jig and what is it used for? also, how does this relate to the "roller bearing" attached to the shank of the router bit?
  20. chemical_ali
    so how are you planning on relicing the hardware?
  21. chemical_ali
    setch, i just got the book today. wow, does it clear a lot of things up!! thanks for the great advice man!! everybody should have this book!!!
  22. chemical_ali
    direct mount man!! it's easier and it looks better too! paul gilbert and john petrucci play direct mount. i don't know anybody in the world who prefers rings!
  23. chemical_ali
    ok i'll think i'll buy that book. thanks for the help!
  24. chemical_ali
    i think that if you were going for the **** "relic" look the body would have looked better if you kept it how it was when you posted your first pics. the sanded down look just doesn't look like natural wear... anyways... :ph34r: an idea i had for relicing the hardware (metal parts like bridge, tuners, phone jack, etc...) was to put them in a boiling pot of very strong black coffee for hours at a time. maybe after 24 total hours of boiling in coffee they would get that desired look (and smell like coffee too ). then again it might not do anything at all but at least it would be fun to boil stuff!!!
  25. chemical_ali
    i want to build a gibson style guitar (SG or Firebird). the joining of the neck and the body really concerns me b/c i know from my brother's SG that the neck is angled. how determine and set the angle of the neck when joining it to the body? also, how are the neck and body joined exactly? i know that it is not bolt-on but i'm having trouble understanding the difference between neck-thru and "set." is "set" just bolt on style with glue instead of bolts? any help would be appreciated.
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