mistermikev

you have a router and a hole cutter?

well... I've since built a work bench that is some 15' long. with benches and jigs... some guys make them pretty but I only have two requirements: longevity and function. after building 15' of very functional bench... I find I use 7' of it and the other 7' is just the place where I place the tools I'm 'gonna use again in a minute'. long story long... probably could have just kept a 7' bench.

wow, pop goes the woodgrain. love it. such a warm sandy feel... then fire.

before seeing this... I had just decided that I want a purpleheart fretboard on my next build... but had I not thought of that before I'm guessing after seeing this it would have been a given as well. looks great. nice work.

lovely build. I would like option 3 please. do a veneer, then a burst. (i am not capable of coloring between the lines... what are lines anyway other than suggestions?)

Def have to keep track of what bottle is what as he goes! one take away for me is filtering the dye. I was going to try this with a t-shirt before I saw this video and seeing him do it kind of give me confidence that it will work. he does use a few powdered dies in there and mixes them with alcohol but doesn't filter them. def a lot of vids from him! some stellar finishes too. appreciate the share.

well... I'm learnin! today was reading about how to take a compressor and use it for an airbrush. by that I mean a shop compressor. it's something I've been thinking about getting anyway... but have held off because in order to run an air sander or a full spray gun... I'm told you need at least a 15 gal. slowly inching it's way up the list. would love to be able to blow things off/out from time to time too!

looks great. body shape - quite fetching.

IDK of any specific model that does that... but both seymour, emg, and a few others do noiseless active pickups that are single coil sized.

and boy do you bring it out! tru dat my friend!

honestly can't blame them. actually, it's kind of boss. "no you can't build those! now build them for us"! honestly gibson gets a bad rap, but one could def argue they earned it. just wish they'd bring back the spirit they had when they came up with the sg90 and the like. that steinberger trem had a ton of potential and those guitars in that series for me, are some of the best looking gibsons ever made. guess I'll have to make my own!

right on. have not see those vids but will watch tonight. I was reading some posts at tdpri where a guy mixes dye powder with denatured alcohol first, lets it sit, then mixes it with thinner, then combines with lacquer. In my mix I easily went as thin as a 50/50 mix between lacquer and thinner and still trouble. perhaps I could go even thinner but I suspect that's not the only problem. it's wierd, if I hold the can upside down it sprays fine indicating the tube and tip are fine... but put the tube back in the lacquer/dye and it won't spray. I too have considered an airbrush. bought a cheap harbor freight one that I haven't even used because I was debating if I should just buy an airbrush compressor. I see a few on evilbay and craigslist for $40ish so was thinking that'd be the max I'd spend before considering spending a lot more than that to get a decent used compressor and real spray gun. I like the idea of the finer mist from an airbrush. should be good for a lot of dif things. anywho, I def appreciate the replies and will check these vids out tonight.

i saw that video too... but what he's doing there is spraying dye with no lacquer... if I'm not mistaken. yeah, his results aren't great as it keeps running. I would think it would be a lot dif to spray actual lacquer. anywho, do you have something you use to shoot something you mixed? I have an airbrush too... and that might be what I try next... but based on my experience the issue was likley that I used keda dye powder instead of liquid. the powder not dissolving fully was clogging the device.

so... got my preval tonight was planning on doing some cherry burst. using watco gloss lacquer. I mixed up about an ounce of thinner with some aniline... swished it around a lot... then added about 5oz of lacquer. damn thing will not spray anything unless I'm sitting there shaking it... and then lacquer is coming out the little v hole. so I thought perhaps it's still to thick and I prgressively added thinner until it was really thin... figured perhaps watco requires no thinner? so I started over with about an oz of original mix and mixed in 5oz of lacquer. still no love. tried a different nozzle, tried a different filter tube. any guess as to what I'm doing wrong?

I am aware... they also do not exist anymore... and that was 'sposed to be the "hehe" part... alas my humor isn't nearly as funny outside my head. it's quite ironic because (and correct me if I'm wrong) gakki is connected to the origins of the ibanez lawsuit era models. so connecting the dots, gibson sued them, then made them produce guitars for gibson, that have become arguably more popular than gibsons.

right on. never hear of orville sueing anyone hehe.

things you might need to know... since it is hsh you'll likely want 2 - 500k log pots. you can search on evilbay. a 5 way switch, a jack... and the pickups. for hsh I would highly recommend you use the ibanez style jem switching. you won't need a push pull... just the 2nd half of the 5 way switch. you wire up your humbuckers like series humbuckers, and each humbucker will have a series link where two wires will be connected together. if you take this link for either and run it to the corresponding lug on the opposite side (ie bridge series link to bridge side lug, neck series link to neck side lug), then wire a ground to the lug opposite the middle pickup... when you switch into pos 2 and pos 4... it will automagically split your humbuckers to give you single coil... which will work to hum cancel with your middle pickup. long story long you'd get 1: humbucker bridge, 2 bridge split + middle, 3 middle, 4: neck split + middle, 5: neck. you'll want to ensure you get a rwrp middle pickup.

i like the black and yellow... but if you do this you might be required to play stryper covers on it (hehe 80's reference). I like carbon fibre. I would say that it'd be nice to tie the carbon fibre in a bit more... what about a headstock overlay too? get a plug cutter and do carbon fibre dot markers? you could get a plastic emg style cover for the humbucker and use single coil covers and put a carbon fiber layer over them. just spitballing here. whatever you do... I'm certain it'll be fun.

right on.

welcome. pickup winding has been on the edge of my interest for a while. nice to see some details of how you are doing it.

right on. 8 guys... so there wasn't much competition then... hehe. I think I see that art lust in your builds.

so that would make you (carry the 1, divide by 13... add 6) 12?

ok, yup... def see that... and now that I think about it there is sort of a 'clock' thing happening with the logo. but yes... no melting going on at all! there is some realism he does too tho... pretty amazing. the skull/girls... ship/bridges... def a fav of mine! idk where I was going with that... but I love to look at his stuff

thank you for the kind words biz. btw... you are 62 then? based on your crimson profile? I have cracked the code! doing that gold might have been easier to inlay. took about 7 million tries. it's all 'checked' if you look at it close which is a happy accident. it's def a bit over the top... and is going to be even more against evo gold frets and all gold hardware... pretty sure someone here is hating this more than any guitar before (who was that again who hates gold? maybe a few)