mistermikev

right on. that is an item on my "when I've got too much money hanging round" list lol. looks like it makes for some great results tho. keep doin' what yer doin'!

noice. looking pretty good. that buffer seems to do quite a nice job.

thanks for reply. vollute - I have a design completed... so volute is pretty settled but due to the limitations of my working area I have to revisit and split into 3 parts (boo) so might revisit it. my stock is about 1" so technically as is the volute would be ltd to 1/4" which is prob fine but on a 5 string 35" scale... can always use a lil' more. tend to agree... that at least on the purpleheart version there is something there I'm not crazy about with the lam neck stock meeting the plain headstock. It might look better once it's shaped but that's the trick... trying to see the future. I get the feeling a 3/8" thick piece of flamed maple might go a long way there. thanks for the input.

well... finally used the 10 deg scarf jig this weekend. It went very smooth but I'll fully admit -my ass cheeks were sufficiently puckered with 3" of saw blade sticking out of the saw and spinning around. It is hard having the patience in that scenario... to not rush the cut - rushing will flex the saw blade a bit and you end up with a rounded edge. Go too slow and you'll burnish the surface and glue won't hold well there. no burnish issues for me but clearly I rushed just a little bit at the start. all things considered... I'm pretty satisfied with the join. these shots are with a lot of flash cause I wanted to sit and look at the join... "don't it make my purple heart brown?" Wanted to step back a moment and decide if I should stick some a piece of mahog/purpleheart-or-maple in between the headstock pieces to allow for A) less obvious transition and B ) more of a vallute. If you have an opinion I would love to hear it.

noice and noice-er. those are about as heavy duty as I've ever seen.

idk what kind of wood it is but my guestimate would be fir. really should consider somehow preserving and incorporating that label... just so cool... but perhaps late for that. really just came in here to ask: "really? no one else gonna address the elephant in the room? I'm the only one who noticed the most epic clamps in clamp history? those bloody things look like they would take effort to lift!" hehe NICE CLAMPS!

I never could make thumb picks work for me... have had some for years but I can't get used to how far away from the thumb the picking action is. I spose I could cut one down... but just using fingers feels natural to me at this point. I had no idea you were into that sort of thing - good for you. afa picks... I prefer stubby which is super thick... altho if playing acoustic I like the dava picks because they are thick and if you hold them at the tip they are rigid but if you hold them at the base they are good for strumming. it's all good. picks are such a personal choice thing.

thank you biz.

thank you sir!!

coming together nicely.

thank you Nicco. got another one done this weekend... baby steps!

nice... first few nibbles... you are just building the anticipation over there!

sounds pretty good. lot of bass. some nice playing too. look at you and your right hand style. nice work.

very much appreciate ya sayin' so brother!

maple scratch plate... well i figure if you are gonna cover up the wood... do it with another piece of lovely wood. tele neck pu - well you can buy a topless pickup cover for it and place wood there... it's what I did on my last tele build. i guess I'm just into wood more than plastic but nothing wrong with a pickguard either. that said a tele neck pickup is such a dark sound... just changing to an open cover makes a world of dif afa sound too. just thoughts.

is a really lovely piece of ash. if it were me... (and it's not) I like when things match. it'd be cool to have a pick guard from the sm wood as the neck... or perhaps if you could make a veneer-thin piece of that neck wood and glue to the top of the pickup covers... might tie the room together nice. ymmv... and just a thought.

thank you sir. i came in here and looked at it 3 or 4 times yesterday and daydreamed about how I'd use it... so worth every penny at this point lol.

nice... looking fwd to hearing it.

so needed a little therapy at lunch yesterday... so off to my local spot... "I haven't bought any wood in a while... why shouldn't I?" despite a garage full of great wood. that said... hard to pass on some flamed maple at reg maple prices. Just thought y'all might need some wood therapy too hehe.

thank you sir, very much means the world to me coming from you. giant pita but this is territory I really want to expand into so... grab the scuba gear and dive!

right on. you might consider... there may be a freeware app for recording video games/screen-audio-capture that could work to capture from rocksmith. just a thought. that said... hoping for a nice bass amp in your future!!

wow, you made a lot of progress in a short time... good for you. looks great. wood grain really came to life with some clear. hope you'll let us hear it (no pressure). rawk on.

nice save.

yes good point... however it sidesteps the idea that one can simply eat the popcorn and continue looking for the maple lol. nom nom nom.

stretching my patience muscles this morn... kept the suausage fingers in the picture for reference lol. takes about 2hrs to cut all the pieces for this... then took about 2 hrs to get this far (still have to finish the eye and several little dots along the spine). NOTE TO SELF: in future, vacuum room right before you mess with anything this small or you'll end up looking like a crack head sifting through the random bits of leftover popcorn and other crumbs wondering... is this the piece that just went flying?