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klik sandwich

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  1. I thought about this for a minute and came up with what I think is a cool solution. I realize that the experienced people here are probably looking at this and going WTF ? its only a simple pickguard, but I haven't made one in about 30 years, so its a little foreign to me. Anyway, here's a picture showing what I came up with. What you are seeing is the guitar with the Precision pickguard printed out (the white part) taped onto the guitar. Over that, I have also taped on a 8-1/2" x 11" transparency - this works really well. I have used some tacks and put one through each screw hole (all the holes that must have held the original pickguard in place). You can see where I've traced the shape that I want onto the transparency with a sharpie. I still have to tweak it a bit. The close ups show where the mounting holes would have been on a real Fender - you can see that they are way off on this copy. So now I'm going to move my final shape lines around a bit until I'm happy with it, and then cut it out along my marked up lines. Anywhere that I'm in doubt , I'll just have to leave a little extra and take my time making it to the final shape. I've marked in the pickup holes, but I'm not going to do those today, because I don't have the pickups yet. And, The strings are loose, because I'm cutting a new nut.
  2. OK, so I printed out an outline for a Precision pickguard, (which went ok, once I used a later version of Adobe Reader) and I found out that it doesn't fit the bass I have. Although they look the same, the lower part of the pickguard is a little different, and the overall length is off. This bass is a "Series A", which is a Korean copy of a Precision - I'll attach a picture of a "Series A" below. So now I have a new question to ask. If you had to make a pickguard for a guitar, but couldn't get a sample or template to use to trace it, how would you go about getting the shape ? I was thinking of stripping everything from the body, and taking it to a nearby place, and having them make me a photocopy of the body on 11 x 17 paper. Then I would use that photocopy to draw out where the pickguard needs to go. I'm not looking forward to doing that though, because I didn't really want to take the guitar apart.
  3. I figured out what the problem is. Curtis, you hit it when you listed what versions you had. Part of my problem was that the troubleshooting info from Adobe is contradictory (it says that Reader 9 doesn't allow tiled printing, which suggests that other versions do). The same article also states that versions 9 and below do not support tiled printing, so that's the problem. I have version 8. I guess its time to search for the ones you are using.
  4. OK - I wasn't sure if I should be posting about this, because its not guitar related and its kind of a dumbass problem. Anyway, I have a brand new printer. So far, the only thing I've tried to print on it is a full scale pdf of this pickguard. Here's what's happening - So, I downloaded and installed Adobe Reader. I open it, select the pdf that I want to print, and set my parameters to print full scale (100% size, full scale with 11 x 17 tiled output). All of that is what you see in the background of the attachment. If you open the attachment, you can see the window from Adobe that I'm talking about. Then when I hit the print icon expecting it to print (while in the Adobe Reader window), I get another window from my printer that appears over the Adobe window. I've attached a screen shot showing what I'm talking about. It's not giving me the option to print out as a tiled 11 x 17. The Adobe window is in the background and is now mostly obscured by the HP print window. No matter what I do, all I can get out of this is a scaled down drawing on 8-1/2 x 11. paper. There is no option here to print full size. Hope I've described this properly. I'm thinking I'll need to ask someone at HP or Adobe about this. I haven't tried opening my CAD program to see if I could print straight from there, yet. I don't think I could handle the frustration right now, so I'll try it tomorrow morning. what I see when I go to print the pdf in adobe reader.odt
  5. Hey Curtis - Thanks for the info. I downloaded adobe reader, but I'm still having problems. Can I PM you ?
  6. Hi everyone - I have just watched episodes 1 and 2 of Megan's excellent kit build, videos where she is assembling an SG from a kit. Her videos were great, but are there any more in this series ? She shows a few problems that she had with neck fitment, body/neck differences, and fret positions, etc, so I wanted to see how these would be overcome. Has Megan (@M3521) released any more after these ?
  7. Hi everyone - I'm attempting to make a pickguard for a Fender Precision bass (its actually a copy that I have), that I inherited. The guitar is missing the pickguard and whatever else was mounted to it. So far, I have found a pdf of the Precision bass pickguard shape. When I try to print it, I cannot print the pdf as a full size drawing using tiled output (the printer doesn't give me that option). I have a copy of Draftsight (free CAD software, and Open Office), which might help, but so far I haven't been able to do this. Does anyone know of a method that will work to print full size and allow me to tape the pages together ? The shape I want to print out is shown here - https://www.terrapinisland.com/2011/pdf/Fender Deluxe P-Bass.pdf
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