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The Tele is awesome. Looks like you do great work.
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Love it. And about 90% of the Tele's I see have the maple fretboards. So I always like a Tele with a rosewood or dark wood fretboard. And Tele's look great in natural wood tones (not painted). Me likey.
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Saga Ht-10 - Why Not Just Reveneer It?
X1TX replied to Malakai's topic in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat
Burned mine in a few spots too. But all in all it came out okay. -
Saga Ht-10 - Why Not Just Reveneer It?
X1TX replied to Malakai's topic in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat
I think I used just about anything short of a thermonuclear device. A heat gun also works wonders. I don't know what it is they use to 'seal' those Saga bodies, but it's hard as a rock. Pretty darn thick too. They must dip the bodies in that stuff. It can come off, just don't expect it to be easy. The wood underneath was okay. Not fantastic, but okay. -
Saga Ht-10 - Why Not Just Reveneer It?
X1TX replied to Malakai's topic in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat
I did a SAGA kit. I wanted a natural finish (I'm just odd that way). I got the Strat kit, and it took FOREVER to get the old finish off that thing. It's quite thick and plenty hard. But, it was cheap and it gave me lots of time to spend in the shop working on it. It can be taken off, it's just not easy to do. The wood looks okay, not great. But I wanted something that looked weathered and beaten so a good, shiny finish wasn't important. The necks on those kits are horrible though. I could take one finger and thumb and visibly bend it without much effort. It's okay as a wall hanger (mine sits in the shop hanging on the wall) and it can be played. But you can likely pick up a cheapo guitar at a pawn shop that would play better. -
I'd say go for it and mod it the way you want. Better to learn on something that doesn't have a lot of value and make your mistakes with it. If you mess up, you've learned a lesson for only $100. If you start out right off the bat scratch building a custom, it could be a much more expensive lesson. I've puttered around with a few cheap guitars, made some mistakes, and will likely make a few more before I dive in and start cutting away at a truly beautiful (and expen$ive) piece of wood. Best to learn on something you don't mind messing up. But that's just MO.
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We just bought some stuff from Sears and they gave me a 10% off coupon for tools. Wondering if Craftsman made a decent router for using to route a guitar project. Anyone have any recommendations or a particular model they've used with success?
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Well, this one is a beauty.
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Actually, I'm in the Houston area. So by 'close' that's kind of a relative term. Certainly closer than Perth. That guitar is beautiful. That's kind of along the lines of my vision (just not that body shape). Use of wood grains is what I'm looking at. Your Craigslist ad has been removed.
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That's kind of what I was thinking myself. To me it just seems like a Saga kit, just built a heckuva lot better (not a high bar to hurdle). I was looking for a bit more out of the instruction though.
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The weather, no problem. The flight is another issue though. Wouldn't mind going back to Oz though. I was a teenage banana bender.
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Was browsing the other day and saw this 'two day seminar' to build a guitar. Build Seminar Looks like they spend two days building (assembling) a Carvin kit. I was wondering if there is anyone else doing this? Not sure I'd want to leave my 'day job' and take a 3 month (or more) Luthier class. But I was wondering if anyone did something about a week long that might be a good learning experience and be more in depth than this thing appears to be.
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Well, I'm not looking to build a tube amp now because I'm not that good at soldering nor guitar playing. But over time as that changes I'll head in that direction. But a small, solid state amp might be good because it's portable and cheap to build. Good learning project. And once my skills on the frets improves to the point I can actually play something I want to hear I should be far enough along to do a tuber. I'm just not there yet.
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Then there's always the Noisy Cricket....... Noisy Cricket
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Thanks. But mostly I'm doing the Altoids amp as just a tinker project. I'll probably do a Ruby next. I have an old Fender Frontman that died and I may use that to house the Ruby later on. Though I kind of like to make a smaller amp I can carry around so I don't have to drag out the amp and cables somethimes when I just want to mess around. Not trying to build a Marshall clone or anything, I just enjoy the tinkering and this one will cost me nothing but a few hours time (that I wanted to spend tinkering anyway).
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That's why I'm going to start on something simple like the Altoids can amp, then maybe a Rudy. If I still enjoy doing that perhaps a tube amp. But that's a year off at least.
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Just thought it would be a cheap-o headphone amp to use when I'm not at home. Like I said, I have all the stuff laying around except for the Altoids can. So I figured it would make a cheap and fun little tinker session.
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Altoids amp is here: Altoids amp I think a few folks on here have built them.
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So the ground for the battery would be the second lug on the input jack? When the jack is inserted it makes the ground path for the circuit. That what you're saying? Yeah, my next after trying the Altoids amp (since I pretty much have all the stuff laying around) would be a Ruby or possibly a Little Gem. Just figured I'd do this one first since it's so simple and I already have everything to do it.
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Anyone have a schematic or a link to one showing how I can make a mini-amp (like one of those Altoids can amps) power up when I plug the jack in? I know it can be doe as some of those other mini amps do that to eliminate the power switch.
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Thought it might be something that simple, but I was thinking otherwise because of the coating on the inserts. They're black, though that's likely just anodizing.
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Schaller Bridge Post Inserts / Bushings
X1TX replied to Gemil's topic in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat
'Superglue' also doesn't withstand moisture very well. So if you sweat when you play it will eventually cause it to fail. -
Okay, I'm working a string-thru and I'm a noob on this. But I'm trying to figure out how to ground the bridge. I have a hole to get a wire to the post hole for the 'Tuna-matic' bridge, but I'm wondering how I connect the ground to the post as there's no lug. And I doubt I'm gonna solder onto the post and still get it down the hole. Or am I just too dense on something here.
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Making me jealous. As much as I hate to repeat myself (though I am good at doing so) I'd love to see a one week (intense) class like this in the It would be way kewl and I'd take a week off to do it.
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Great. I'd really like it if someone would do that in the USA I for one wouldn't mind taking a week off for something like this. Closest I ever came to Freemantle was just West of Brisbane.