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I am doing sort of a honey burst and put the general honey color (its wood stain, pecan color I think) and then a black border which goes into a dark red and then it fades into the honey! I have to thin the paint cause its oil and its thick so I have to thin it with isopropyl alcohol and we can start staining! Here is the guitar so far: Staining my kit! https://imgur.com/gallery/OfWo3mP

They have people for specific needs, but I feel like doing one thing for 8 hours a day, 40 a week would just make me hate it. My eye doctor has a nephew who works at PRS and he's a sander and she says he loves it. I still gotta look around

The guy who started .Strandberg* guitars started on here!?!?!? Wow!

I got some stain (just one simple color, I think brown) and I'm gonna go over it with tung oil and then I have to solder everything and put everything together and boom! First guitar kit!

This really reminds me of a quote from Paul Reed Smith of PRS guitars where he said "Everything that touches the string is god" and that was from a ted talk of his and everything has an effect on the way things sound. Overseas and import guitars use cheaper materials and pot metals. The nut on your import guitar is probably the same material your PVC pipes that connect to your sump pump are made of! I noticed that import guitars use lighter materials like zinc and other cheap pot metals just don't add anything, they subtract. Paul also said guitars are subtractive instruments, when we add something that we think will subtract what was bad before, we are actually adding to the subtractive-ness. Put 6 in and 5.9 out. Guitars are just wires and wood and physics, it's you that puts the soul into it!

I received a LOT of tools from stew mac this morning and the fret scale template is a charm to work with. My actual neck shaping template is a tiny bit short ('62 strat neck template) and I wanted 24 frets so I measured from the nut with my template and ruler and I can have 24 frets!

I am torn between either luthiery just being a hobby or making it into a career. I could work at PRS guitars since I live 45 minutes away from it, but I want to make money so I can thrive in life. What is my best path?

Unlike with acoustic guitars with bracings and sound bars and bass bars and sound posts, there isn't much like that on an electric guitar. However, I go by Paul Reed Smith's logic and evidence of how wood affects tone in reference to electric guitars. His 21 rules of tone really interest me and I crafted my own little list (21 or 23 rules I think) and it goes along his lines. I believe that there are factors like the dryness of the wood and how resonant it is and how vibrations are transferred throughout the instrument. However I have this contradictory feeling about how there are pickups and the wood isn't doing anything to it, it's just the pickups and the magnets picking up the vibration of the strings. Yet guitars resonate, whether it be acoustic or electric. I picked up the guitar I now own (a PRS SE Custom 24) and this thing resonated very well!! It sustained so much and it just vibrated. Does something like the density or thickness and weight of the wood affect the way it sounds?

I am mainly asking for tools which I asked to be ordered for my neck build. So excited for it!

I've tried so many places but Covid has prevented it! I live in Maryland and PRS guitars are manufactured 45 minutes from my house and I tried asking them for an apprenticeship at PTC (PRS tech center) or an informational interview and they said they can't let anyone from the public accept factory employee's in! I would LOVE to become an apprentice but I don't know where to look. Advice on what I do? I want to pursue luthiery but I also want to be able to make money when I am older.

Hey y'all, I am interested for the future in building either a ukulele or full acoustic and I was wondering about what wood pairings are good for acoustic stringed instruments? My local shop has a bunch of figured Pomelle Makore and Mahogany back pairs ranging for 35-45 dollars USD. I wouldn't use something like Zricote which I would love to do but this would be my first acoustic build. Now when selecting wood for a hollow stringed and fretted instrument, what would be good for a first time build? What are good woods to use for soundbars and bracings and bass bars and sound posts and stuff like that? I am merely an amateur with no wood working experience. I know some things but I don't have much time in my belt. I am working a guitar kit build (LP style from the fretwire) and and I am refinishing my squire strat, and I am building an actual guitar neck, and that's where I have the most money in right now. Glues, clamps, books, fret wire, saw's, radiusing blocks, files and much more. I have a template for my guitar neck and I have all the necessary tools (I still need to pick up a 9 inch band saw from Ryobi) and I have a basic plan on what to do. Advice? Thanks!

I've been interested in acoustics and how acoustic physics works and how bracings affect the tone. I really can't test that and make something that will have acoustic properties that will affect tone outside of building an actual acoustic. Acoustics are just interesting because they are so interestingly built! I've dabbled in making blue prints for a semi hollow electric and I figure you can still have an X bracing, but smaller in size and still have all your sound bars. But if I could just get a top and a set of sides and a back set and some bracings I could start experimenting! I would build a ukulele first just because I am more familiar with the structure of one of those due to recently rescrewing and regluing the neck in.

Is this one good to buy? I really don't want to build another tool but is this any good?

Well lucky I have PLENTY of spare skateboard bearings!

I've looked around at some specific tools like a fret slotting jig, almost 300 dollars, a fret bender 150 dollars. I got a miter box and a fret saw and that was about 140-170 dollars cheaper than buying an actual fret slotting jog. I'm still trying to find a schematic and guide on how you build your own fret bender but still, what is worth building instead of buying?

I'm feeling good and my temp has been normal since yesterday

Welp I guess this gives me ample time to start my build! I may have been exposed to someone who tested positive at school and one of my classmates is in his grade and around him and we carpool every morning so we both got tested yesterday morning. School is virtual for the rest of the week, and luckily enough this is my last week before break! I guess I have time now to get my project going, I just need a bandsaw shipped to the house and I'm set! I'll keep y'all updated on myself and the build!

I'm looking for a set of good chisels in ranging sizes (30 - 50 dollars USD) and I found these on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/8-Piece-Wood-Chisel-Set/dp/B087CXTK8K/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?crid=LF0QRPHMSH9R&dchild=1&keywords=chisel+for+woodworking&qid=1607899006&s=hi&sprefix=chisel+for+%2Ctools%2C157&sr=1-3-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFIT0dFMEVXNllUVFomZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAzOTM0OThORk5DTzJENEdGSUkmZW5jcnlwdGVkQWRJZD1BMDc0MjI3ODFUOTZGT0xGR1JTTzQmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl and I am into these but what are good wood working chisels?

So a few months ago I accidentally sat on a cheapey ukulele because I didn't see it in the dark on my chair. So the neck crack. I sawed off the neck yesterday and the dove tail broke. So today I have been making a replacement dovetail and my saw blade broke (coping saw) so I had to chisel the whole thing out, tap it with a hammer and I still have to HAND SAND IT DOWN. Just the joys of repairing instruments! I have to make so dowels and drill some holes for said dowels and then reglue the whole thing but I need to strip it first. Did I mention the whole thing is plastic? I think there is just one plastic coating around it and then actual wood. Ugh.

Hey y'all, so I recently, around August got a kit guitar and it spiraled into getting a lot of tools for this. I got most inspired by Paul Reed Smith (as a Marylander why not!?) and watching a lot of stew mac videos. My dad has a lot of tools and is pretty handy himself. So I got a LP kit from the fret wire, not the most high end kit but I got upgraded parts (seymour duncan mayhem distortions, CTS pots and switch and jack, hipshot locking tuners) and all that was around 3-400 bucks. I decided if I am going to make a kit, why not get some better parts? So that is in the works at the moment. My next project I decided I am going to re fret my squire strat. I thought why not? The thing is all sorts of beat up, dents, dings, divots in the fret wire. So my first time ever dissecting a guitar was in my bedroom! Not the best place right? So I knew the basic construction of a strat and knew it was bolt on and how all that worked. So I took the neck off and all the electronics and hardware. My first time taking off frets was quite disastrous. I knew you needed heat and a pair of fret pullers or something similar. So I didn't have a soldering iron at the moment. I used razor blades, tiny screw drivers and a hammer. The chips were somewhat large but I filled them. So I keep doing that process for a little bit and then I just pull them out regularly. So I thought next, "Why don't I build my own actual guitar neck?" I bring the idea to my dad and he thinks it would be something for me to do. So after waiting for a few weeks we eventually go to the wood shop. I did my research prior and the store offered for musical instrument woods white limba necks and Honduran rosewood fingerboards. The white limba was a god send for me because it was only 5 or 6 bucks for a blank. The rosewood was 16 for the board. 22 bucks in total for all of it. So we go to choose and I got some nice rosewood with some awesome streakiness in it. So I already asked for a set up kit and a set of radiusing blocks and sandpaper. Black friday rolls around and I go to guitar center the day after. Not the best experience in my opinion from my past visits. So we go to harbor freight which is right next to GC and I got a file, a hand planer and a moisture gauge. Stew Mac also had a sale and I ordered a neck template, a neck shaping tool and a truss rod. Most recently, I made a big order, fret wire, hide glue, super glue, fret saw, depth stop for that saw, both trade secrets books and a fret scale template! This is one expensive hobby!

Hey Y'all, so I am kind of concerned about how I wear my mask. I wear an N95 mask that I reuse and I don't have many issues with it. I can smell somethings sometimes like if I am sanding out paint or soldering. I am concerned I am hurting my lungs because even though I am wearing it, I am not wearing it correctly. I do check because I can't blow out of it and my breath doesn't escape it. However when I wear glasses, my glasses fog up sometimes. Is that normal when wearing an N95 mask that is properly over the nose and mouth?

I have N95 masks but I reuse them a lot which I know is bad. But I haven't been having breathing issues because I always wear them when working whether it be for sanding, scraping and all that sort of stuff. I know they are a hot commodity because corona but can you even still get them because I don't want to result to the big heavy duty respirators meant for painting but I don't want to waste.

So I am going to draw out my template (using a template) from stew mac on my already planed wood and then find the center line, cut a route for the truss rod, ream it, then cut to rough shape the outline of the neck. Next I am going to use a japanese fret saw and a miter box and a 25 inch scale template and cut it to scale. I am going to then dry fit it on the fretboard to where it's even on each side, and then drill some tiny holes in the fret slots at one end (one at the first and 23rd fret) to keep the fretboard in place (I am gonna put some toothpicks in there) and then glue everything.

So I got everything accept a bandsaw (which I am getting for christmas among many other things) and I am so excited! I got an email from stew mac saying that the truss rod I got (low profile 2 way truss rod) can but installed at the nut so I don't have to build a bolt on! I am so excited for all this!

I'm mostly filing, sanding, scraping, and that sort of stuff. I have a high powered fan going while I am doing this. I wear an N95 mask and can smell some certain things when I am wearing the mask. I know there are some things when working and building guitars where you don't need a mask, but where is a mask needed and not needed?