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Looking pretty good. From my own personal experience however I would have placed the alignment pins outside of the neck profile. If the holes can be filled with sawdust and glue they might turn invisible however I would prefer to be able to just cut those holes away when I trim down my neck.

Looks good so far. What are you planning to fill that dragon with?

need more sleep. . .

Que paso amigo.........super long super cold winter getting to you?

Did you brew a stout just for these conditions?

SR

Thankfully I already had a nice oatmeal stout brewed and on hand. I did however brew a Pliny The Elder clone this weekend. There are so many hops in this thing I am actually scare of the outcome.

need more sleep. . .

Just remember to bring your towel. . . . always bring your towel. . . .

I am reasonably sure that my dogs would try to eat me when I die as well. Granted the dogs would make much quicker work of me.

Why not take a stab at making it yourself. This guy did it and then used it to make a handle for a knife.

That is a nice looking Rhoads. You do great clean work but I think you really excel at the pointy guitars.

Looking good.

so I have a hard time watching this guy due to his delivery but here is an interesting solution for finding a centerline on a drill press.

I think that the bridge I have is quite low-profile anyway, and I put in the 3mm fillet under the fretboard heel too. I drew it all out full-size and it fitted with a conservatively low action and a bit of room for error under the bridge.

I've seen some other posts on the web which put 1.5* as a lower bound without recessing, so I thought I must be in around the right ballpark for a partially recessed TOM(?). You've got me worried now!

I guess I'll see this week once the frets are in and I can test it with a straightedge...

An LP with a TOM uses a neck angle of approximately 4 degrees. I would suggest drawing out your neck and bridge and confirming before going to far.

You sure you fed that cat? It sure doesn't look happy.

SR

What he said.

From my experience, people are more likely to comment if you share your build experience with them. Showing a finished product might gain you a "good job" or two but the process is what is interesting to most of us. It does look as if you have created a very nice guitar.

That looks like a nice big space to set up shop.

Just in the last year I have started getting interested in CNC. Here is a site that has a lot of information.

http://www.cnczone.com

I have heard that rubbing an item down with a fabric softener sheet will repel dust. Have not tried it myself so ymmv.

Congrats Doug. It looks great. Hope the space works well for you.

Really enjoying this one.

All excellent entries again this month. Very hard to decide but I ended up going with Madhattr. The concept and execution are amazing.

I just blew through the Peter Criss book last week in about 24 hours. Very disjointed story and it somehow makes me hate Gene Simmons even more if that is possible. I came out of this read thinking that Peter Criss is a pig and is way too interested in other guys junk.

It has been worth the wait. Congrats on a beautiful project.

always been a YJM fan but never been a huge strat fan. Interested in where this goes.

Hehe. . My wife had some minor surgery on Thursday so she has pretty much been sleeping about 80% of the time since. I kinda like the quiet to do what I want to do. That might sound worse than I mean it but I find it hard to get "me" time very often.

I really like the laminated top... that line between the red top and natural back is very sharp. With all the self defeating coments I thought that the end result was going to be a hack job, but they are very nice looking guitars

I do have to say iluvteles, you are very hard on yourself as an artist/craftsman. Step back a bit, share some photos, and let the rest of us give you a critique. I learned this in art school and it is pretty hard to do however, it will help you in the long run. Trust me.