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i'm going to take a wild stab in the dark here and say he's thinking of wiring up a speedometer of sorts controlled by output voltage

i defretted an old epiphone strat i had lying around and filled in the slots. since i'm finishing the back of the neck and headstock with tung oil, i was wondering if i could do this on the fretboard as well? as its just a fun little project i'm not really intending to do the whole epoxy coating on the fretboard, maybe just a poly clear on top of it. what are the pros and cons of unfinished/finished boards? more sustain? less wear on the board? i've got the board sanded down to 1200grit right now and i love the way it feels..

except that it has dot inlays,not sharktooth inlays....

my bad,i didnt notice the binding in the pic,thought it was a shadow. i thought the volume knob placement was a little off though. as for radiuses not having AANJs, here are some pics of my friend's still-unidentified radius. http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b228/unsane666/radius1.jpg http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b228/unsane666/radius2.jpg http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b228/unsane666/radius3.jpg http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b228/unsane666/radius4.jpg 540RLTD perhaps?

for what its worth, thats definately a radius. my friend has a similar if not identical ibanez radius in the same color,pickup config and AANJ. i'm wondering if its a prototype or japanese-only model because i've been trying to identify it for her with no success. i've been through every single ibanez catalog and i cant find it. might be able to post some pics if anyone's interested.

i'm looking for another point of view as to what pickups i should get in my new project guitar. the guitar in question is an 80's yamaha neckthrough with a maple neck (mahogany/bubinga strips) and alder wings. the fretboard is ebony. bridge is a floating floyd rose variant,but it will be blocked off. H/S/H configuration. i'm looking for a thick rhythm tone with a good degree of articulation,but with the option of nice bright cleans if i so desire. the body is already routed for a miniswitch so i'll probably be throwing one in for series/parallel switching. no ultra high output/distortion pickups for this one..and given the combination of body woods i'm more inclined towards darker sounding pickups. no duncan JBs as well because i already have a few in other guitars and i'm looking for something new. I was thinking about a dimarzio dual sound in the bridge, and an airzone in the neck. no ideas for the middle single coil yet though,i've always been a HB guy,but i was thinking of something that could get fender cleanish jangly tones. i'm picking up the airzone in a few days,does anyone know how it would sound in the bridge? oh i heard dimarzio breeds would fit what i'm looking for,though the impression i always had of them was that they were similar to evolutions..maybe its the vai association. how about a duncan hot stack for the middle pickup? i'm open to suggestions though...any recommendations?

are most pickup mounting rings a standard size? i may have routed the pickup cavitys on my project guitar slightly too big,when i placed the mounting ring on the resulting cavity, there was worringly little clearance between the screw holes and the cavity itself. are there any bigger mounting rings i could get?

whoah...looks like i triggered off a nice little debate here heh.. i got the body back from routing today and started sanding.. *drumroll* its a veneer. i can see how the pic i originally posted was misleading,some of the grain lines actually did seem to match but once i examined it closely it was pretty obvious.. in any case,a few hours of sanding later...its gone! it looks pretty damn good right now IMHO..here's a pic,sorry about the poor lighting though. i'm liking the grain on it even though its nothing really special.. does anyone know exactly what wood the wings are made of? i was under the impression it was alder.... thanks for all the help..you guys rock. i love this place.

You're looking at two totally different grain patterns on those woods. I guarantee with 99% certainty that there is a veneer on that top(which you have now sanded through). I assume the company put the veneer on all of that model, whether it was to be painted or not, for ease of production. Veneer doesn't have to be an exotic, figured wood. ← i'm beginning to see what you mean..so the top flat areas of the body are the areas that are veneered,and the contoured areas are the body wood itself, and thats the reason for the weird outline? if that's the case sanding the rest of the veneer off should get rid of the lines right? i was actually thinking of putting a new veneer on,but the contours i have on the guitar would make that a rather daunting option and i would rather not go down that road, i'm intending to use this as a backup guitar..after all,the body only cost me the equivalent of US$60 heh. the idea i have for semi-hiding the epoxy lines would be to scrape out some of the epoxy and fill it with wood filler,it probably wont get rid of the line entirely but it would be less obvious i guess.

thanks for the quick reply man. you left me pretty confused,i'm absolutely certain that guy doesnt have a veneer top. that doesn't look like a veneer at all (for one its pretty plain) and the original finish was some metallic sparkly opague gold. i've been reading the forum quite abit as well as the one on reranch.com but i didnt see anything about the problem i have.. only thing i found was the use of oxalic acid crystals to remove water stains,but i'm not sure what i have on the control area is a water stain in the first place

hey guys. i recently acquired an 80's MIJ neck through yamaha guitar which someone had refinished using spray cans over the original finish. i've already sanded the body down to the bare wood and its looking much better, there are a couple of problems though. as you can see from the pic,there are some rather obvious lines where the contours are. although the contours are pretty smooth and rounded, it looks as if the top has been flattened off (i hope you get what im trying to say). the lines aren't raised, they're smooth. i already tried sanding it further but to no avail. is there anything i can do to get rid of these lines? i'm intending on doing a transparent stain over the body and it probably wont look very good with the lines. also,the control area on the lower bout appears to be stained in some way,water damage perhaps? is there any way i can get rid of this? lastly,the L shaped line at the lower bout of the guitar is where a piece of the wood broke off and the previous owner epoxied back on (behind it is the jack area,which is cut out of the body). is there any way i could cover this up? thanks for any help in advance..this is my first ever refinishing project and i dont really know much yet...always trying to learn though.