mistermikev

I just liked the $#1T outta both of you. Just saying... I liked you better than you liked me... wait

just went on a like spree... now that's more LIKE it (see wut I did there?)! seriously tho... nice work.

well, I would say I do ocassionally run out but I've been a bit absent lately. I have noticed that sometimes the issue is I just need to log out and back in (tsk... I freq leave my session open - I know!). Sometimes it's just - I run out and have to talk to folks (ew).

ecosystem... hehe, cracked me up. bartolini... there is a schematic out there for it... have a pcb built for one but need to order some chokes from mouser and just haven't gotten around to it. Lotta fun to build yer own. I have the darkglass in my axefx and i can see why folks like it for bass... has a nice snarl. I'm sure you'll eventually be able to find the schem on freestompboxes if it isn't already up there. lmk if I can be of any help in that dept. cheers

lot of ways it could be done... I think looking at the example and the fact that there doesn't seem to be any seams where the detail bends at the 90deg... and how deep it is inset... you'd want to make a template to do a channel. Just a straight edge and the right sized bit. as mentioned it would be a bit time consuming. getting the channel the right width would be a bit of a challenge.

at first... I wasn't sure you were real... as your work area seemed impossibly tidy... but then I saw a pile of wood shaving on the floor in this last shot... and now I can confirm you are not a robot. your drawing are really fantastic. multilam blank looking 'right on'. looking fwd to seeing the build. afa preamp... one of my all time favs is bartolini ntmb, the ntmb+ being the 3 band version. . just has a growl to it that I love. There are a number of diy solutions if you've considered that route... specifically looking fwd to trying the cort/spector/ken-smith haz lab preamp with the mids add-on. Have always loved the sound of spector, and at least some of that has to be attributed to the pre. You can find the schem for that one on the net in case you are comfy with that prospect. those would get my vote anyway.

right on. took me a minute to realize those weren't frets. v nice. I was thinking in my head... that it must have been some kind of rabbit cut along the edge, and inserting 3 layers of binding or something. def storing the idea away for 'sometime'! thanks for the elaboration.

wow, that is perhaps one of the most beautiful/simple designs I've seen.

I'm totally stealing the 'found what I was looking for line' - cracked me up. I have a walmart cheap buffer... I don't think it's 'great' but I just use it to get close then follow up with my elbow grinder (hehe).

should have just went with "I totally meant to do that". It does look deliberate and has an air of 'how did he?".

funny, I worked so hard to get those kind of checks on one of my builds. It took sessions of in the freezer vs heat gun vs cold air blast from air duster... then you get them accidentally. Honestly, you could totally leave them and it'd look great but I'd understand the desire to get rid of them. I was just looking at a tutorial on stew mac regarding this. There was a gal there who was using lacquer retarder and a fine paint brush to melt 'deep scratches'. Might be worth a look, just thought I'd mention.

hehe, I was secretly hoping you'd give up a trick or two you might have used for balance. figured you must have done something... not disappointed.

well i just assumed... it's on the back there where you have a sharp line on bottom side and softer transition from the burst on the top(neck) side. It's such a definite line I assumed you sanded but now that I look at it the burst creeps in on the edge of that line. Looks great.

thank you sir. I figure now is the time since I just got the last coat on saturday so... if I'm going to do something it'd be idea now as either way she'll sit for 3-4wks. yes... that burst just dissapears! it'll probably be worse one it is wet sanded too so... probably should have gone darker knowing that.. but I almost stopped earlier cause I wanted it very light. live and learn. you can def see it in person anyway!

guitar is beautiful, lot of nice details there. one that stands out to me is the saddle. looks great, great idea, and bet it will sound great. nice work.

noice, have always wanted to try a pair of those... see what interesting split combos might sound like. Guitar is looking amazing. really brought the wood to life. excellent work. how is it for neck dive?

that's a nice touch with the burst and then sand back. looks pretty cool. also, the glue... again looks pretty cool rough and I can't help but wonder if there is a way to make a pattern in the glue and leave it like that. Storing away for later. I'm sorry to always be liking your stuff at the halfway mark! Looks even better at the 100% line. u r so good even you unfinished work is awesome!

hasn't been wet sanded yet... and I may have to repair a few scratches I did while scraping the binding... but we're getting there. funny how in the below two pictures... the burst is barely visible in one and invisible in the other. It's a very light burst but not as light as these pics would have you believe. and in this one the burst looks kinda dark... this grain really played with my head because when you look at it from certain angles the edge grain of the carve top makes the finish look the sm hue as the bursted areas. any suggestion afa fixing scratches? I'm not sure how deep they are and I'm not sure I want to find out after wet sanding. given it's lacquer and I haven't wet sanded yet... I was thinking of taking a paintbrush and acetone to them to try to melt them down a little before I sand. I could paint in a little lacquer too... how would you do it? I've only got about 4 coats of lacquer over the burst so...

i had a similar issue with a carvin neck thru I owned a few years back. when not under tension you could get the frets/fretboard perfectly straight... then when under tension the first 3 frets of the neck would bow back. It wasn't a huge change so barely perceptible to the eye, but you'd def know it by the action. Had brought it to an expensive luthier in LA and had him put it in his 'steam box' and try all sorts of things... he ended up giving it back to me 'no charge' because he couldn't do anything with it. I experimented on it myself a few years later in a number of ways and I could get the thing to be perfectly straight under tension... for about a week. then it would always just meander back to having a back bow at the first three frets. Guitar had crazy low action but the first 3 frets were a bit 'soupy'. I just compensated for it when it wasn't under tension and filed the frets lower everywhere else. It played great at that point but I would bet any luthier would struggle with a fret level on that one. Sometimes wood just does what it wants. seems like in the end you too decided to stop fighting it and I think that's all you can do in that situation. glad it all worked out.

not that hand tools are inexpensive... but I have seen many hear make amazing geetars with no electricity... so I figure I've got it pretty good by contrast!

not knocking expensive tools... but nothing I have is expensive. I try to buy from craigslist and such... and I don't even have a lot... jigsaw/bandsaw/router/sander/drillpress/planer and that's all I really need. that said... wish I had a big drum sander a cnc setup a spraygun and about 50 other things! Until I get there I'll just make do with what I have an substitute time for machinery!

i won't be held responsible for the demons you summon playing this! you have been warned.

wait stop!!! pretty sure putting a tele bridge on a jackson dinky esque body with jackson style headstock... it'll explode the first time you hit a low e. I mean... look what happened to mick mars? totally kidding of course. at first I thought you were going to make an mdf guitar for a sec... and then you whipped out the lima... and man what a nice piece of limba. That is going to pair very well with the ebony fretboard and black hardware. drooling. great scott that's a great starter build. right on.

well, you could try to lay down a sheet of paper on either side and carefully spray in some black, or use a bendable ruler to allow you to do a black magic marker line... and I think if you first hit it with some acrylic clear followed by lacquer you'd probably be ok... or you could just replace that section with a new piece and try to blend the joins with acetone/melted-binding... but in all honestly I think this would be a complete 'redo' for me. Binding isn't ever really 'fun' but it's not all that hard. It looks like that is on the top side... and I would look at it every time I play the guitar... and it would get under my skin.

well see there... you DO... because you correctly identified it as a sequence of random characters! haHA!