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  1. Tjensen
    Im no expert but, the way the burst-edge-color is all the way to the center of the guitar, in the "soft wood" part of the grain, makes me think that it IS stained the dark blue, and sanded back. In a picture it is hard to see what gets lost by the sand back. I person, I really dont prefer one over the other, they are just differant. Though I will say in photos, the stain and sand back thing always looks better.
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    Not a big jump to "stain blue, sand back" I have no doubt you will nail it Drak.
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    Double sided tape. That machine is so accurate it can cut right down to the tape and leave it on the table. Its pretty dang cool.
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    I am a begginer at burnishing a scrapper myself but. I can get one to cut. The thing that I do differantly than you is use a burnisher. It really makes a differance. A screw driver isnt hard enough to draw an edge.
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    Thats cool...but I would suggest routing the neck pocket, and probably the pickups, with a jig instead. Just to make sure they come out perfect.
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    I fail to get what part of that is any good at all. Oh well enjoy or suffer? I guess.
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    I dont think cutting up the original shape does a thing for it. I would just leave it as is. To each his own? I like the idea of adding a single coil though.
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    Wow. I dont usually like guitars that go to far form the norm. That thing is just sexy. Nicely done!
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    The truss adjustment is at the other end of the neck, under the pick gaurd. Given your background, I suggest you take it apart and have a look. There is plenty of info on the web about doing setups, read them, then do it yourself.
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    Really tho, I was looking for the resolution of the steps but it never says. At least not that I could find. And a .023" cutter is very fragile. I've broken many 1/32 cutters which is .030" so I'd hate to see anything smaller. Also feed rates come into question. Is it adjustable? One would probably be better served with a small cnc mill. But I'd like to see a review of this machine before totally tossing the idea. Somewhere on the site itt says that it makes passes at .006 inch. That is probably cool for frets? I havent really thought it out, but it sounds more accurate than me I haven checked out the software, but if you cant control the feed rate, it aint gonna work for guitar building. At least not for me.
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    It is pretty cool but, I wonder if it is acurate enough for fret slots ( assumming you can get a small enough bit)
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    Oh my thats cleaver! I going to build one of them tomorrow
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    I have 100 year old furniture with many crossed grains of differant angles. Sitting on some right now. I cant see a problem.
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    There is a Heatly built out of Rosewood out there. They just got a forum up, I bet the owner is there and you could get some feed back on tone. My guess is alot of clear high mid. My Thorn has an IRW neck with an Ebony board. I love it, it resonates in your hand and has a very clear ringing high end. Not exactly what you would call warm. The bottom end is huge too. Its like putting a loudness bottun on your guitar.
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    I aint buying one.
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    Dimarzio VVblues. Really nice.
  17. Tjensen
    I put th GFS dream 90 in my EPI les paul. Try that first
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    No tone control is not going to sound the same as the tone control on 10. There is still some high frequency lost to the tone circut. This might be a good thing. You can alway put in a dummy circut with no actual pot though.
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    I have a Virtual Vintage blues (Duncan i think?)stacked hum in the neck of my Strat. It is more Strat like, than my other Strat with a single coil. Wierd but true. I highly recomend it. It is by far my favorite strat tone.
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    The mid Pup is a single coil, dont split it. Use two, 2pole switches. Split the pups before they go to the 5 way. Just wire it like any other three pick up guitar and it will do all of the above...plus you left out SSH
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    You could use a Forstner bit in the drill. and clean up the area with a sharp chisel. Its slow and a good way to ruin your wood but if your careful it will work. Oh yea......buy a router.
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    It takes years of explaining....but eventualy she will understand (or give up )
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    sign me up! nice work
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    I searched and found a free cad drawing. Then a searched and found a free DFX reading program. It wouldnt print so I used a screen capture, then I used the measuring tool in the free program to triangulate the obviuos points on the tele shape. It worked really well and took about a half hour. If you had a DFX or DWG program that would print to scale it would be alot eaiser. I know ther are some out there, if you know where to look.
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    Hey Ron, Very cool for you to give out advice here. You rock as always. Todd
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