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  1. mistermikev
    just occurred to me... what the heck kind of singles are going in there? lace sensors?
  2. mistermikev
    wow, that looks.... well..... superB!
  3. mistermikev
    i kind of liked it with both pieces, dissapointed u r'ent using that but looks good..
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    wow... I need to improve a lot in that area. I tip my hat to you. I say programmer but really I just save the world from badly formatted data... rearranging strings... a code monkey if you will! There are no wrong answers.
  5. mistermikev
    nuno bettencort model from washburn... has a unique bolt on neck. so the drop top would stop at the neck area... revealing the body wood at your extra support area? if so, I like it. if not, I like it. @ScottR inconceivable!
  6. mistermikev
    pretty cool - as all your designs are. is this going to be a bolt sort of like the n2?
  7. mistermikev
    btw @Dmitry Sushkov sorry for hijacking your thread. Your builds are amazing and your mop work is out of this world. when you said before that you did that sig by hand... you mean you routed it by hand? how in the world did you do that? I'm just curious for my own understanding... did you use a number of templates or do you really mean 'by hand'?
  8. mistermikev
    at the end of the day as long as your own style comes thru I'm not sure it matters how you do it.
  9. mistermikev
    I've often thought about this. I'm a programmer and have had some experience with cad a long time ago... so I would guess I might have a leg up afa figuring that out... perhaps not. Either way I dunno... if I was going that route I'd want to be able to cut guitars... and since I likely won't ever repeat the sm guitar twice... seems like I'd just be substituting router time with cad design time. I suspect there wouldn't be a 1:1 ratio either. Obviously there are some things you can't do by hand that you can do on a router, and the precision is def not possible... but the up front investment in time/money... I'm not sure it really makes sense for someone just making one-offs. all this would apply to inlay and anything else you might do with it. def on the 'someday' list for me.
  10. mistermikev
    wow, you are a mop warrior. Nice work.
  11. mistermikev
    not anything I have any experience with... but it'd be light and beautiful... so hope you try this!
  12. mistermikev
    I think he may have glued this neck in no? either way... looks pretty close... could loosen trem screws and try to gain some leeway there and/or move the nut L/R. If it isn't glued in then... what he said^!
  13. mistermikev
    looks great! Its official.
  14. mistermikev
    right on. cheers
  15. mistermikev
    just throwing this out there... I built my jig using steel rails and bolts/nuts from home depot + two layers of mdf. The nice thing about this jig is you can adjust the height at the four corners... which makes it work to give you the taper on the back of the neck, or any other taper you need. it also is nice for allowing you to do thinner or thicker jobs. not all that hard to build either... drill four holes in steel rails, drill 4 holes at corners of a piece of mdf. then I just built an mdf slat to go across it... two L rails to keep the router in place, and two pieces of mdf to keep the router on the steel rails. lots of other good ideas and all have their benefits afa ease of setup, simplicity, complexity and usefulness so I'd suggest having a look at some threads to find the one that will work best for you.
  16. mistermikev
    this tyranny that is the limited supply of reactions must not stand! I'm a big fan of all things fleck... wood fleck, bela fleck... it's all good.
  17. mistermikev
    looks good... very smooth. nice work!
  18. mistermikev
    have yet to do a multilam myself but there is def one in my future. afa tops... I've had good luck cutting both sides at the sm time with a router... lot less work anyway. not sure what one does with multilam. run it through the planer? I am not sure I would do that with figured wood. I guess that leaves my router planer... would be a lot of work to plane down several boards for a multilam. If it means hand sanding the whole way... I just as soon not do multilams! I think I'm going to have to buy a jointer b4 I do that!
  19. mistermikev
    shucks... I was looking fwd to giving you a hard time all "a prs with actual binding... tsk tsk", now you've ruined my fun! should have known a true prs expert wouldn't do that. shame on me! that red against white/natural looks great.
  20. mistermikev
    totally thought this was regular binding... but read that it is faux (prs style)? Can't believe it. looks like white binding. looking good!
  21. mistermikev
    beautiful wood. that is going to be an interesting one. what material for the cross inlays? looks very gothic, nice work.
  22. mistermikev
    I think everyone struggles with this on some level... I know I did. I am just now getting to the pt where I feel like "I got this". For everyone it's different, but for me there were a few game changers... 1 - checking depth on my fret slot, using a triangle file to hit the edges so the fret would seat 97% perfectly flat (still working on that 3%!) 2 - switching to using a long bar and forgetting about the radius blocks. I kept hearing folks suggest this but thought it wouldn't be good and that I'd screw up the radius... but the fact is I wish I'd have tried it before.
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    I suspect, that like anything else it's a learning curve and fine tuning your recipe. I have often thought of it myself but just have so little time at the end of the day. With that in mind, I'd really like to try and support little builders. I figure: I build guitars and I like to think that what I can build - even when taking into account a reasonable wage for my labor... is better than what I could buy. I would assume this would be true for pickups as well. Don't get me wrong, I think you can buy a fine guitar or pickup that is mass mfg... and def more consistent, I just think it's the love that we put into building something with our own hands that makes them more unique, more special, and often better tuned in to the player we are.
  24. mistermikev
    looks great! I think once you start putting clear on it it will really come alive. I rather like how it accentuates the carve. Nice work!
  25. mistermikev
    looks like a nice seam but hard to tell from the pics... can't wait to see it sanded up!
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