Guitaraxz
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All finished, I could never get a good angle for the pics. She looks much better live. I used no cover for the springs, the reason is that mwny of us always take it off. IMO it's better that way. Thanx for watching!
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Yeah, next time I'll use masking tape!
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Yeah, i've thought about not using CA. The mess occurs when I have to clean up the glue, but I don't want a fret to pop up one day.
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Ha ha! I know it sounds dumb, but my wife just sprayed the middle, nothing on the edges. Here's a better view...
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Some body work, cutting the neck pocket, I lost the pics of gluing the birds eye top, sorry got the electronics, Floyd and belly cut built the ax before going to the finish room, made sure it all clicked. These are Duncan Blackouts, they are so silent that even without soldering the ground wire it made no noise. And of she goes to the finish room, that's my wifes' job, making some kinda antiburst
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Nope, not CA, on this ocation I tried Gorrila Glue. Absolute garbagge! Don't bother trying, it swells up and f%&s up yor fret levelling. After this stunt I went back to CA.
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gave the fretboard 20" radius and sanded it down to 2000 grit. I still have the problem that after the frets are installed I lose all the shine. How do you guys do it? Used Stewmacs Jaws 2 to install the frets, with some CA Fret Leveling....... ........and crowning
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Ha Ha, well I aint got no machine! Any sugestions to a good planner are welcome!...........I guess I should try using my router....dumb dumb
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Thank you for your comments! nah aint the first build, although it is the first time I took photos. This was 2 years ago, all finished, just thought I'd share the photos. Some of how I made the neck: gluing an "ear" to the headstock a veneer of chen chen gluing Birds Eye meassuring the tuner holes some fret markers
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Another Les Tele Thing.......Heheheh-Mine!
Guitaraxz replied to ScottR's topic in In Progress and Finished Work
Oh that neck looks waaaaaay better (access!) than any Fender or Les Paul! -
I can see why, for medical reasons, I have been forbiden to drink or smoke haha!
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Sorry, got the wrong pics up there. shouldve been theese: Planning A buddy of mine helps by holding the wood whilst I rough cut it
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Forgot to mention the woods: Body; Korina Top; Birds Eye maple Neck; Caobilla arm, Ceder headstock, Granadillo Fretboard. Here gluing the korina Planning A buddy of mine helps by holding the wood whilst I rough cut it Then some routing and a small sheet of Chen Chen
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......well kinda, I've browsed here a lot but have never posted. Thought I should introduce myself with pics of a build, so I hope I manage to get the Photobucket thing correctly.