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Looks good and its nice to see another teenager on this forum.

IF thats the Gibson faded series then all it is is they painted it but didn't use grain filler before so the grain from the mahogany.

I removed a lot of neon paint from a strat pickguard once and used paint thinner. I took a lot of elbow grease but I did the job and didn't damage the plastic.

I read in a book, it might have been melvyn's, something about older martin's not having any truss rods in them and you could use wider frets to straighten the bend? Has anyone heard about that?

Hey SDgr and welcome to the forum. As far as sanding wood away I don't know why you would do that. But I believe in one of dan erlewine's books he talk about loosening the truss rod and using clamps to put the neck in it's place and then tightening the truss rod again. That might help you with your problem.

I never thought i'd say this about a guitar but that inlay is breathtaking. Is that a double neck guitar?

looks awesome! I prefer bubbalicious though.

If you did necks right, they would be much more accurate than handmade ones.

Your guitar is beautiful. I've never seen someone creative enough to make a neck through strat

do you remeber how much they were?

I know this has definately been talked about before, but does anyone know a good website where i can get treaded inserts for th heel of a bolt on neck. Possibly cheap? thanks

I really like that design. Is that an original?

I ordered some blowout strat pickups for 17.00 and they sound awesome. So I've only had good experiences with Guitarfetish.

Most of the knowledge about how a guitar is taken apart and put back together is learned when you just try and take it apart. I had no Idea what was in my first guitar when I got it. Also, I'm almost positive that thats plywood seeing as how i used to have one almost exactly like it. So it will probably look like $#!& if you just sand it down to bare wood.

Raw Linseed oil will darken and condition it

I bought a fender-like paddle head neck on a ebay to put on a strat and when I assembled the body, the heel of the neck was way to high. So I Doweled up the neck holew (because they were predrilled) and I carefully sanded the heel down with a belt sander and after some truss rod adjustment, my axe has great action.

Hey blwheppner, and welcome to the forum. As far as de-fretting the neck, I've had success with just getting a tool that is small enough and prying the fret up from the sides of the freboard and making sure that I didn't tear the wood up. Re-fretting is going to be a little bit harder, especially if using the same frets. You should check out the tutorial on this site about fretting. And as far as finishing goes. If it's rosewood, it doesn't need to be finished (just oiled) and if it's maple, so lacquer or nitro would work. Happy refurbishing!

Sorry but i don't know where to put this so i guess ill put it here. A member of the styx (mr roboto) lives a couple of towns away from me and at the great big festival we have in our town, the played, last night. Yes, the solos were awsome and the drums were sweet, but what caught my eye was the fact that to the left of the drummer, there were 4 8x10 ampegcabs with 4 ampeg svtclassics (ithink) and to the right there were 4 marshall full stacks, all with plexi heads. I don't know if you know but that is crazy, and come to find out that there was another row of ampeg cabs and amp behind them.! any comments?

Apparently It's similar to a saga neck but it works fine. You can heard some buzz with out it plugged in but once you plug it in, you can't hear any buzz.

I dunno what kinda wood BB Kings guitar is made of but im thinkin it might be a maple top, but i like ash and mahogany.

So, yes, i have done it. I built a strat for around 50 or so dollars and seeing as it's my first project I thought I'd put it up. Well, It started when a guy was selling an allparts strat body on ebay for really cheap because he was going to turn it into an Eric Clapton strat but the person that machined the battery compartment out, screwed up and it would not be conciled by the back trem plate so I got it for 20.00. Since I had to the body I decided, since im only 16 and don't run into money that often, to keep with the theme and try and get the neck for cheap. I got a neck from some off brand manufacturer for 12.50 and That came. After I had the neck I realized that it would not fit into the pocket and I was going to have to fit it and that took awhile because I had to narrow the heel down, dowl the holes (because they were crooked), and decrease the thickness of the heel, but eventually I got it in and realized that the neck had a large bow in it. So finally I adjusted the truss rod and finished of the neck. With the neck fitted, I installed all the hardware and electronics which I had from my first electric guitar ($100) which was a strat knock off. After the guitar was strung up It took it to where my amp was (1973 Fender Super Six Reverb Oh yeah) and in spite of the $5.00 PU's it sounded sweet and I end up using this guitar more than I use me epipphone sg LP jr (I'm still a P-90 man tho). Well, here is the end result for $50. Still need to do: Cut and paint the headstock(same as body so it looks like a 1995 Strat) Get the body laquered Buy Schaller Tuners Get some fender noiseless PU's front Body Head Back Back of Body Any Comments

Well, This may sound kinda like too much but my father has a 1967 Harmony rocket with 3 single coils and it has a volume and tone for each PU. That means that I can set eat PU to Low, Mid, or High and the adjust the volumes to what I want and I like it a lot.

If you loosened the nut and and left the strings tightened then the neck should remedy itself