mistermikev

"meep meep".

OK, so it's def NOT that you are pinching her cheeks and well, um....... nevermind.

tru dat

so... n.o.s. chinese fender knecks.... nice. hehe

hehe, nos guitar necks - I'm told they are all the rage... very "in" right now!!

I must say... she has HUGE..................................feet. also, looking great! I noticed that suspiciously there is a lot of petina in certain areas. while I think this looks really cool... can't help but wonder how it got that way.

the "Best" way is the way that makes sense to you. I do lots of things in ways that would not be the best for others... but are def the best for me. that said, I've actually done similar to this before. in my case it was replacing a pre with a new bigger pre. what worked for me then... was to carefully inspect the inside of the guitar to make sure I was going to avoid braces... and then used a dremel cutoff wheel to cut it. if I had to do from scratch, I'd drill 4 corner holes first, then use the dremel. I would avoid leaving corners that are not rounded. there's my 2 cents.

looks good.

right on... need to work more oak into my building. it just smells so wonderful! makes me want to get drunk!!

when I was 15 I worked at the local cabinet shop. there was a guy who built sinks... whom I had the pleasure of working with. he had worked there for several years... and wore a respirator... but everybody in the place would say he was slow. super nice guy... anywho my point is: don't breath anything other than air. even if you take your reg vacuum cleaner and mount the hose near you on the workbench using a cheap u clamp (i do that w my shop vac all the time). finish/paint is among the worst esp if you are sanding it. you can get very fine and very harmful dust. afa safety: have been watching youtube videos a lot lately.. I can tell you that is NOT a place to find safety info!! all sorts of folks doing things that make me cringe. I would advise that for any tool... you go watch some videos of accidents... helps remind you how easy it is and of the common things that cost fingers. my other advice would be - do not do anything with small pieces. 99.9% of accidents are from small pieces! I'm always thinking ahead three steps so that the last thing I have to do for a small piece is make one cut to separate it from a bigger piece... then it needs to be done!! anywho, hope there was SOMETHING useful in my thoughts. cheers

i was gonna say the sm thing. also... oak neck - love it.

lovely as always sir. bet them p90s sound fat and mean. chop chop on the video!!

can't see any of yer pics fyi.

looking above... at some of the inspirational talk... I can't help but want to put in a few of my own: "find a job you love and you'll never work another day... " (and this is my part) "make something you love your job... and it'll become WORK!" also "once, my uncle told me 'mike, you can be anything you want, as long as you just believe'... he believed himself into a job as an insurance salesman" I guess these are pretty dark... but they come from my heart... because it broke learning them!

thanks mr r... very much appreciate it!

it is possible that this was pushing back... but it really didn't feel like that to me. I was going much slower than I'd go with reg 3/4 stock... and yet my purpleheart didn't burn (it is notorious for that). it was sort of a 'rub' vibration. the blade did get slowed by the wood... it's only a 1hp or 1.5hp motor... but it didn't feel like it was 'choking' or anything.

really cool that yer a yungun and interested in building. there might be hope for your generation after all (hehe). wish I had tried a scratch build when I was your age... one of my lifes biggest regrets. I like that you are gung ho about building a neck (most folks are afraid of that), and I don't want to discourage you from that at all, but I also know it can be challenging and would hate to see your zest for building get dampened by a rough "first time". With that in mind, I would humbly suggest that you start by building a body. It's much easier... and if you get that right... then go on to build a neck. I would think the experience of building a body would get you a lot of skills that would help you successfully build a neck. remember - you can spell success without SUCC hehe! If you go fwd with the neck - great. It might be a bit stressful but with help you should be able to come out ok. to build either a neck or a guitar... unless you plan to do it all with chisels (ouch!) you are going to need a router. You could do almost every step of that with a router. the one thing I would say to look out for afa putting a new radius on an existing neck... going flatter you are going to take off a fair amount of wood. generally the finished dimension on a neck is 1/4" thick at the center... and if you take say a 9" radius and drop it down to a 16" radius... you might remove enough wood that it compromises the stability of the neck, or makes the action impossible to get low enough. things to think about anyway! truly hope for the absolute best result for you and am happy to help all I can. cheers

so I'm not a newbie on the tablesaw... but until I recently got one I hadn't used one in maybe 15 years. At one point I worked on one daily... but never much more than typical 3/4 hardwood and a lot of mdf. I did cut solid surface on them... but absolutely never any figured wood. so, I've been getting along with my new tablesaw fairly well. I bought a freud glue line rip that is designed for 2"+ hardwood. (It works fantastic... I wouldn't have believed that you could cut with a table saw, not sand, and glue up... but it's true.) while running purpleheart/maple/purpleheart thru it... it unnerved me a few times by feeling like it wanted to pull the material into it. I did not like that at all. it is fairly heavily figured purpleheart, and well flamed maple. IDK if it was pulling it in or just vibrating weird but it def got my attention. is this normal on a tablesaw? It felt a LOT like when router wants to take off on figured wood so I'm guessing it's par for the coarse. I was able to hold on to it no problem... but if I had been just using a push stick (not that I would do that on 2" material) I don't know what would have happened.

thank you sir. very much appreciate it!!

really going to have to try a set of those fishmans. they don't really sound like what I typically like for clean tone, but they sound great. thanks for the info.

thank you biz

real nice. the acoustic sound is a stand out for me. what did you use for that amp-wise? gtr looks great. solid timing and (gulp) counting!!

you sir are an amazing builder - and I would be proud to loose to you. your congrats mean a lot to me - thank you so much. election - hehe. I'm backing away slowly from any such comments!! In both situations... we all win because we have awesome guitars, and because we have an awesome country!

3d printer - right on. pretty cool stuff. yes, I'm going to hit the home depot/or lowes this weekend and see if I can find something around 2" thick and suitable. fingers cross but I will def post my results either way.

where did you source that foam? looks pretty rigid and nice... have been trying to think of something to use for upcoming cnc prototyping activity and the best I could think was the pink insulation from lowes. this looks like it takes a bit much better.