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  1. Considering ordering some templates from guitarbuilding templates.com and was looking for some feedback from people in the uk. Interested in peoples overall experience aswell as total cost (including shipping and duty etc) How long you waited for your templates? aswell as anything else you might think is useful. Cheers guys
  2. Just a quick bump, Still looking but will probably order one on friday if there is no news from anyone. Just to repeat looking for a strat template to buy, or loan for a few days. Location Wallington, Surrey.
  3. Looking for guitar templates, ideally a strat template but anything really as i plan to build several guitars. Cheers
  4. cheers idch, I like the last idea a lot, I might give that a try someday. Still looking for a strat template if anyone is willing to part with one.
  5. cheers for the reply and suggestions, i have as you have suggested made several attempts at building templates and although they are progressively better with each attempt, i wouldn’t be happy or confident to use them on my guitar and would rather invest in properly made templates. However i would say I have learnt a great deal building them and it was nice to put reading into practice, but I dont think I would be happy with the end product and hence i am still hoping.
  6. Hey everyone, I have recently got into guitar building and am still a complete newbie, on my first project, looking for a bit of help. I’m currently building 2 strats and I was just off to buy a strat template from guitarbuidlingtemplates.com but having just spent £450 on parts and tools I was hoping to save a little cash and see if there was anyone on here thinking of selling a strat template, or maybe even better willing to let me borrow one for a day or two to make a workman’s template. I live in Wallington, Surrey willing to pickup and deliver back leave a deposit whatever. I Know its a long shot and a big ask, but I thought it couldn’t hurt to ask. Cheers guys for considering. Iain
  7. cheers guys thats exactly what i was after.
  8. Cheers had a look but still £40-60 a pickup. RIP off britain strikes again. If anyone has any other suggestions or good experience importing pls let me know.
  9. Heya guys did a quick search and could not find any recommendation for places to order pickups in UK. Was looking at a set of fender noiseless but £110 seems a bit steep when you can import them from around £85 or so. Happy to consider other pickups, dont really have much of a clue about pickups so all suggestions are welcome. If people could share their recommendations for retailers uk or otherwise who they have had good experience with that would be great. Cheers Iain
  10. Well, I just got back from having the wood put through the jointer and it did make a big difference compared to how it was. I was sanding with a 16" stew mac fret leveller and I think the problem was mostly just my lack of experience and just really not knowing exactly what I should be aiming for, after I’ve finished building this guitar I think I’m just going to spend some time practicing on scrap before I do the next one. Maybe if I’d stuck at it I would of got it flush. It only took lee 2 minutes to run it through, he didn’t charge me anything and gave me a load of great advice. He also gave me some names of good local timber yards (and who to avoid) and has some nice short pieces of black American walnut which he is checking if he can do a deal on. He is also happy to sort out cutting out the body and neck and thickness everything so I am more than happy with my mornings work. Iain
  11. Just found a cabinet maker down the road said he would do it for £5-£10 some time tommorow. Just so its on the board, the guys name is Lee from Wood and pencil designs in Carshalton, Surrey.
  12. yes its american alder and was £35 before vat and delivery. cant remember how much delivery was as i ordered a load of other stuff from him at the same time.
  13. david dykes, www.luthierssupplies.co.uk. the website really isnt very helpfull but give them a ring and they will sort you out. They know what they are talking about and the guy i spoke to on the phone was very helpful.
  14. will a jointer actually leave it perfectly flush? i was under the impression a jointer would still not be perfect. Fair enough if it does, just dont know. You live and you learn i suppose. Cheers guys.
  15. Okay so today i started building my guitar, and spent the morning hand sanding the two edges to be joined, man i wish i had a jointer. I've got the two pieces to join together (not glued ) with about 0.5mm gap and so i was just wondering if this is fairly decent attempt, or could it be better. pictures can be found here. http://photobucket.com/albums/b2/whats_this123/. First three pics are the side i plan to use as the front.
  16. very cool, where about in glasgow, going to be up there in a couple of weeks for my cousins wedding. small world. I have already bought the stew mac slotted and compound radiused board so have no problem there, was just wondering as i half remember reading a post suggesting you should change the neck shape to adjust for the difference in radius. Although to be fair i was looking for 98 london road yesterday (which doesnt exist) when i had been told 4 times to look for no 78, so probably my memory playing tricks on me.
  17. Thanks for all the responses guys, has cleared things up alot in my mind. So now then does anyone know if a compound radius fretboard should change the shape of the neck, or is it just not an issue?
  18. cheers thanks for clearing that up, i was going to sand it down by hand but that has definatly now changed. Sorry mate i made a mistake i got my wood from david dyke, luthierssupplies.co.uk. Another newbie question. Do you add a ball bearing to a roundover bit or do you have to buy a special roundover bit with ball bearing if you want to try and avoid burn marks.
  19. Another great link and idea. When i need some more clamps i will defiantly give that a go. Got my wood from David dyke, luthierssupplies.co.uk/. Very good quality, £35 for two piece American alder but that’s before vat and delivery. Would defiantly recommend them as the quality of the wood is very good. They also know what they are talking about and are very helpful. Have already made my template, and taking it over to my friends tomorrow for a last double check that its as perfect as possible Supernova 9 You have kind of confused me though as I thought a flush trim bit was completely different to a roundover bit and would create a completely different shape. I though a flush trim bit was used to create the type of edge typically found on a flying V rather than a strat. Are you saying i should use the flush trim bit first and then the roundover bit?
  20. Cheers guys for all the replies, and thanks Byronblack for the link to the router, will probably order one on Monday. Looking at the 12 piece silverline sets he also sells which includes these Rounding Over Bit 6.35xR6.3mm, 6.35xR9.5mm sizes. Are they suitable for doing the roundover on a strat and are the other bits suitable for truss rod etc? or should i get something else, if you bought another set of bits could you specify where you get them from. cheers. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRAND-NEW-30-Pce-Sil...5QQcmdZViewItem I choose not to go with the stew mac truss rod because of having to buy their router bit to do it properly, along with mixed reviews on the forum about them, and it would of added considerably to my shipping. I also had seen several uk outlets advertising dual action rods to however find out later they were all out of stock. All my wood has now arrived and just waiting for some large clamps to arrive. Getting rather excited now.
  21. Hey everyone. I started out a couple of months ago with the goal to build my own guitar and quickly realised it was going to be more difficult than i first thought. having read Melvyn Hiscock book and spent a lot of time researching and finalising my project I’ve learnt a lot and am now just about ready to begin. After bugging a lot of people to let me play their different guitars I’ve completely u turned from a les Paul to a strat (more specifically my friends custom shop strat . . . cheers Tom) I feel happy with most things now and all though my word working skills probably are not quite up to scratch I’ve got a couple of pieces of scrap i can practice on. I’ve decided on a two piece alder body, rock maple neck, (stew mac) Indian rosewood compound radius fretboard, (stew mac) fretwire and dot markers, single action gotoh truss rod (can not source a dual action). Which leads me to my first question. Should the compound radius effect my neck shape or should I build it the same as if it had a normal radius? I was planning to go for a modern c shape (as fender describe it) and I was wondering if someone knows the difference between a the fender modern c shape and the normal c shape. My major concern though is tools. I live in Wallington, surrey, and have no access to a bandsaw, jointer, router or thicknesser. I have already spent a fair bit on clamps, hand plane, orbital sander, shed loads of sandpaper, rasp, stew mac 16" fret leveller which I plan to double up as a sanding block and cant reasonably spend too much more. I should probably buy a router, round over bit and flute bit (is that the right bit for cavities cant remember) I really don’t know what type of router I need or where to look for one. Had a quick look in B&Q and didn’t get very far. If someone could point me in the right direction to source one in the uk + round over bit preferably for between £30-50. I’m going to go ring around locally and see if anyone I know/local wood shops have access to a bandsaw and jointer and see if they can run the body through, but if anyone has any suggestion of places they knew that would be great. Finally I was wondering, although unlikely, if there is maybe someone who lives reasonably locally who is experienced who could maybe check my work, give me some advice, maybe lend me some tools or any of the above. A bit of a stretch I know but no harm in asking. Cheers in advance Iain
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