Lex Luthier

Constructive criticism: The whole body is off center.

Great tip. I actually use that stuff at work - blue, red and green. Definately use the blue, or equivalent, it'll hold your threads, but you can easily loosen the nut when needed.

No pics of the actual process, but I use the idle drum of a stationary beltsander.

I have a selection of trem, body, neck, pickup cavity, control cavity, pickguard templates adding up to 24, all made out of 1/4" MDF. There will soon be a few more for a neck-thru bass I wanna do.

No they came like that, Im sure HomeDepot and the like would have them.

I've used spade bits that have a rounded edge, instead of the pointed scoring tips. Gave a nice rounded look to the recess, and just hand sanded the transition of the top edge.

First to vote!!!!!! Looks like a good month, good luck and great instruments everybody.

Something else valuable, "ALWAYS CHECK THE EXPIRATION DATE" with ANY type of glue. I know for a fact titebond wood glue goes bad, as does a carpenter's glue Lee Valley sells, usually 6months - 1 year. Sometimes you can tell by the smell...

Jeff reminds me of a guitar builder 'round here in BC, (I won't say any names, but I was told of him by a local professional lutheir who know's him personally) these guys both have the drive and want to be building guitars, but they (much more so Jeff) lack the actually skills needed to execute the construction of a quality instrument, like maybe they are missing some natural ability you can never learn. I've never said anything on Jeff's forum because I didn't want to be mean.

I'm not sure, but you could just buy pre-polimerized oil. Here, just the headstock is painted. Here, this one was played for a few years buy the owner before I could get it back for these pics, a good example of how oil wears. The body of this is a Danish Oil. Here, the body is lacquered. All these. All these instruments are finished with THIS and THIS, except where otherwise noted.

Here is an artical from a recent issue of a woodworking magazine. I don't have a scanner so I took a BIG picture. Oil finishing artical - very large.

I once used pure tung oil by "bear" or some brand back in high school to finish a clock I made and it sucked. The stuff I use now is much nicer, I have the ability to spray poly and nitro but don't because I find it much easier to finish with oil and I like the results.

Well said. All the guitars I've built except a solid wood body for my plywood body Strat have been original designs. Bingo, there's no reason to go after someone like us, we're not a threat, just don't rip-off logos.

My original idea proved to work OK, but too much fine sanding dust from the edgesander would get through, so I decided to redo it when I got my thickness sander. Hooked up to edgesander. Hooked up to edgesander again. Hooked up to bandsaw. Blast gates and Y of the out take. Aircleaner as filter. Ducting coming from thickness sander. Ducting at thickness sander. Hooked up to thickness sander.

I have changed the layout of it since I got a thickness sander. I now hook it up to each tool individually for maximum suck.