Lex Luthier

I've always heard from people how tung oil does nothing to protect the wood, though tung oil is what I use on all of my instruments. Me too.

Are you going to leave it as bare metal? Or do you have the ability to plate it in chrome, nickel, gold, or finish it in black?

I've noticed with mine it tends to file more at the starting point of my stroke, and I have to watch and make sure to take more passes in the other area to even it out.

I was wondering about those too, and found some here: http://www.leevalley.com And here are countersink washers: http://www.leevalley.com I'm not 100% sure the screws are compatable with the washers, if I decide to use them, I will go check them out at the store to be sure. I'm sure there are other places that have them.

Here's one place, they also sell the "indie" bridges to make a customized spacing, I've used them and I think the minimum spacing you could get if there was no gap between them was 15mm, but I might be wrong, I can't remember exactly. If your spacing is too narrow it could end up being hard to play.

I don't see how the fretboard call 'fall'...I have a turn of the century neopalitan mandolin and it's fingerboard is concave...it must have been made that way. The fingerboard could cup, but I would think you would then see a gap around the edges where it meets the neck. I was once told by a bass player that fretless players prefer the fingerboards to be slightly concave, because it follows the shape of the finger better, I then told this to a professional luthier friend of mine, and he had no idea what I was talking about.

Try the MIMF for info. I built one from the StewMac kit, seen here: http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=6189 I've attemped to build one from scratch, but it wasn't coming along too well and I never finished it. The neck came out nice though, I put a dragon head on it instead of a scroll. I would recommend the kit, it's great for the money. The plates are carved, but only by a machine, so you could graduate a tap tone them, etc...you could even get the kit to use as a guide for building one from scratch, also. StewMac Kit

Entering my from scratch bass again. Click the headstock for more pics See this instrument being built Specs Two piece Walnut body Black Mahogany dye stain with 25% sheen lacquer on body Five piece Maple/Merbau/Maple/Merbau/Maple neck Hot Rod truss rod Ebony fingerboard Brass side dots to match gold hardware Polimerized tung oil on neck Bolt-on neck w\ ferrules Bridge from Custom Shop Parts All other hardware from Allparts Allparts humbucker pickup Volume/treble boost push/pull, tone, series/split/parallel mini switch Tusq nut

A picture would REALLY help.

I voted for CGHbuilder86's acoustic. Very nice.

I see, very informative D~s, but if you didn't understand all that camcool, the gentleman in this video explains it all in laymen's terms: Grounding Wires

I've tung oiled EIR before. It would give the guitar a nice natural look and feel.

camcool, maybe you didn't see this yet: http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=11229 Everyone knows about your little "custom guitar builder" escapade.

I don't have experience with their tuners, but a bridge. The service was great, and so was the bridge, especially for the price. That's all I got.

When I made my own one of those a few years ago, I folded a piece of 220grit sandpaper around the portion of the file that went in the slot to hold it, and it has held it in the slot since I made it 3 or 4 years ago.

Where can you get American or European Alder? I think I've only ever seen it as"Alder". Fender probably uses American, because it would be cheaper than shipping it in from Europe.

You're ? I'm in BC, where you at? I'm in Alberta, was just in Princeton BC over the weekend flying jets though We used to have 5 acres of property up in the sticks in Princeton. We had a trailor on it, and would go up there and camp. I remember one night after the bond fire had died down and my dad and I were about to go into the trailor and retire for the night, I looked up at the sky and saw the most amazing thing...STARS...ALL OF THEM! It was the first time I had ever seen the night sky totally undisturbed by light pollution. The Milky Way looked like this big blob of light that stretched across the entire length of the sky. It was amazing, and I'll never forget it... You mean RC jets? Me and my dad used to fly RC planes, well mostly my dad did. He had two planes, a trainer that he regularly flew and a fancy looking scale version of a real plane. He bought me a sweet looking trainer, looked like a sport plane, and a glider. The only one that ever flew was his trainer, none of the other ones were ever finished being built, because we relocated from Ontario to BC, then my parents got divorced. Basically all our planes have been in his crawl space for over 9 years, and will probably stay there.

You're ? I'm in BC, where you at?

That's exactly it. When I worked for a luthier bracing the tops and backs was my job. The back/top is placed in a hollow form, and the braces, which have the same radiused shape as the hollow form, are glued in place one at a time and clamped with go-bars. The frame, or side assembly of the guitar also has the arching sanded into it.

From what I've heard they're horrible. Everyone hates that at the harmony central forums, and there are also reviews at harmony central, maybe look at those. I've basically heard they are complete garbage. On a side note, someone at the harmony central forums is pretending to be Esteban, including having the user name, "Esteban", some of the threads are kind of funny. Here's a link.

Quilted maple is also rarer.

Same here. Right now I'm waiting to get a thickness sander, so I haven't built anything since finishing my last project in February.

What, the neck angle? The neck angle depends on the bridge.

Other - Esteban's GENUINE WOOD guitars.

this will cut a body So will this LOL!!!!!