mistermikev

wow, nicely done. I like how the lam made a lil shark tooth by the headstock. worked out cool. in one of the pics, it looks like that body is super thick... is it 1.75 body with 3/4 top? might just be the lines from the lams making it look fat. your blue turned out beautiful, I have more respect for that now having done a blue! harder than it looks! that guitar is def photogenic from the 'straight on" angle on the top. the back is equally photogenic. you must be very proud.

I concur... looks awfully high to me... but then I like my strings extremely low... unless I'm playin' slide.

BTW - just wanted to say thanks to you all for the info and support on this thread. I bought the exact respirator above and it is working great. nice to not have to take a breath, run in spray, run out and breath! Should have bought that ages ago! Thank you all again! Can't promise it will improve my finishing skill tho!

i guess... loosely.

tis a good trick and something to keep in mind... but honestly if a neck blank was bowed... more than say 1/16... think I'd just use it in a lam or not use it at all. not sure I'd trust that it would'nt become a problem later. I've built enough cabinets to know that fighting with what wood wants to do... well the wood is gonna win it's just a question of when!

nice trick adding the ebony dust to the glue... storing that away for later. top is 2 die for.

You english folks sure do have some nice ash! This is "figured english ash" or "blister ash" i got from Gilmer Wood Co. Had a bit of a fiasco as the prominent blister on the right there has a bit of a tearout on it that wasn't disclosed but Gilmer was going to allow me to return it... but I don't know...such a beautiful piece, might just have to buy another! Anywho, there's my confession!

that was my initial guess... perhaps the bent style diamonds. good call. sidenote: def using art deco font for headstock so thanks for that push!

interesting... must be subconscious art deco influence on my part... I am a huge fan of that era of guitars and the modern resurgence of that motif in design. above guitars are beauty. I was uncertain if you were saying my design looked "art deco" as there isn't anything in specific I could point to that is overtly that style... but I like the idea it might invoke that anyway!

some good info again - thank you! I don't have issues with snipe at all - locking head and input/output tables so it doesn't seem to have that issue. I am getting a 'rib' in the middle of my piece but it's easy to sand out. afa bow, I know what you mean. it will take out bow if it's going in sideways if that makes any sense... but obviously will follow the bow on a long piece. easily managed with router sled at that pt. I've worked on a table saw - big professional delta... had to do cut lists from 4x8 malamine all the time... had to put laminate through one (talk about risky... laminate will cut you like a razor so you have to fear that AND the table saw - unrolloing the laminate into the blade!). Tablesaw is about the most versatile tool in the shop... and there may be a correlation between that and it's reputation for being the most dangerous. it would make sense that given it's multiple uses it would be more likely to be involved in accidents. that said... those big heavy delta saws with a 10' table are a lot safer than anything I can afford. If at some point I find I can't work without one... I'll likely get one. until then, I'm better off without. sm for jointer. jack stands... makes me kind of nervous just thinking about them. Fortunately I have no auto/mech skills! thank you again for all the invaluable info!

also... just noticed you have two jacks?

wow, that is a 10. particularly I love your end grain... something really attractive about it. how do you like that stabilizer? got a link?

not entirely sure what you mean... please elaborate!

dang you got robot skillz. envious!

I like what you did with the f hole... it's a hair big, but there's something there. thank you both for the inspiration. Sometimes just a little push and we're off to the races trying some dif things!

right on. I guess the first thing to figure out is if you are flat mounting or counter sinking... which at this point will be determined by your neck height/depth. afa setup... not sure how much you know but that's always a fun step - to float a floyd you really have to stretch the strings as you tune them. I think of it like tuning a guitar 15 times in a row. I tune all 6, stretch them vigorously, tune all 6 again. I've learned over the years to go ahead and overtune them about a 1/2 step up and progressively less and less overtune as I get closer and closer to A440. all the while keeping an eye on the angle that the trem base sits at compared to the body. if I start to see that take on an angle, I flip the guitar and tighten the trem claw screws... then stretch and tune some more. just a thought. I play a lot with my fingers sort of knopfler style... but usually when i go for the trem I'm doing 'pick style'. I like to think it's like different styles of kung fu - "dirty chicken style vs hunt and picken' style"

hmm, interesting and good to know. I'd give you a thanks but I'm all out... again! i guess I must thank people more than avg?!

I was actually thinking of just routing the entire area around them down to 1/8" but I like the idea of following the cutout more closely. I think I'm going to take that idea (thanks for that) but do it with my bowl bit or even a 1/4" bull nose bit. that said... the really delicate bit would be the edges around the diamond. they would probably only be 1/8"... would probably want to reinforce them with a toothpick or something assuming I could cut them without blowout!

I was thinking delicate cutout but i'm not entirely sure about it as is. would probably want to leave at least 1/8" material there and perhaps even reinforce it. Other thought was to inlay some pearloid pickguard while making the other two parts a cutout.

funny, I had tried using the sm swoop as a single f hole... but couldn't get happy with it. had tried to add it to the top of the pickguard but couldn't get happy there either.! thanks for the push. thank you AD. going to play with it some more tonight... I hope to reconcile the two.

so my next project is going to be a tele... have been playing with the design and have a number of questions in different directions so here goes... 1) not satisfied with the cohesive lack in the below. def going with diamond inlay, def pearloid binding and pickguard, def an ash top that will be died black and def a trem king. wanted to echo the diamonds in the f hole but not really satisfied. maybe a diamond cutout in the pickguard? love the corvette style swoop on the headstock but it seems like it doesn't match w the rest. almost feel like the entire headstock belongs on a dif design. just wondering what your honest thoughts are. push me in some direction. tho it might be painful, your true gut feelings are appreciated. 2) trem king? what say you? too late I bought one. want a bigsby, but have never been happy with how they don't stay in tune and ltd range of motion. hoping this might have the same style 'feel' ie 'sleepwalk vibrato'... but more range. any experience?

What kind of robot do you have?

Those pickup Rings look great, how did you do them, with CNC?

right the smaller mags I used work ok, but I get the impression that if you really shook the guitar (perhaps if you play "you shook me all night long" by acdc) you could knock them off! thanks for the reply!

what was it you didn't like? my other possibility is to slightly countersink my magnets and rely more on proximity to hold the covers in. in my first go... they are not countersunk, and as such had issues getting the covers to sit even.