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I will have to refinish the body because I finished it not very good. 1.Nitrocellulose - high gloss 5 layers, 2.400grit sandpaper, 3.Acrylic can spray That´s all... I did only 3 layers of acryl because there was no money... But even that it has nice full tone almost like some hollow body. Oh by the way...the humbuckers are all the same

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

didn't someone arround here do a finnish similar to that? isn't the process a case of painting it white then black then sanding back so the white shows through and the black is left in the pores if the wood?

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.

Thanks, I will try a small section first on the backplate and if it works well I will keeo on trucking!

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?

Hi everyone,

Im new to this forum and found it by surfing the web. I have a few questions about a warped neck.

The neck is off a Japanese 570 made in 1988. I read the tutorial on fixing a warped neck and it looks more time consuming than difficult.

The warp starts about the 9th fret and continues all the way to the end where it bolts to the body. I was thinking of clamping it with the neck bowed back. (maybe I just need to leave it for about a month or 2 in the clamps and hope for the best.)

If not how much of the maple can I remove before the neck is to weak and becomes useless? It looks like I might have to romove 1/8" to 1/4". It is a rosewood fingerboard on hard rock maple.

Any advice will be helpful.

Live in Las Vegas,

David

P.S. anyway to measure how much will be sanded away?

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?

Here is the rough cut of the guitar body with the neck wood to get an idea of what it will look like once the edges of the body are routed. I used a bandsaw to cut the body out and then sanded the edges a little. Once I get some clamps and double sided tape I will put the templates on top of the sides of the body and use a router to make it perfect.

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

Thanks for the suggestion.

I did go with the top location.

I am glad. It was the best spot.

How do I make the picture smaller?

Mike

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

Ok here's the deal. I'm building a Jazz bass using parts from Warmoth and Gregg Rogers (I know, but don't go there).

I started assembling everything and noticed right off the bat the strings were on top of the frets. No problem, just raise the bridge saddles. Well I did the 6/64" bass and 5/64" treble side string height at the 17th fret. Still fretting out. Oh and by the way, there is no tension on the truss rod.

So my 4th string buzzes behind the nut but goes away when I place pressure on the string behind the nut (I'm sure the string tree installation will take care of that).

Now my bridge saddles are raised to the point of almost coming off the adjustment screws, just to get the fretting out eliminated.

Can someone provide a check list of what to problem solve in case there's something I've forgotten to check? I feel straightening out the neck will just bring the strings closer to the neck. Frets are perfectly level so that's not the problem. I'm wondering if maybe the neck pocket is too shallow. There is no paint build up in the pocket. It's a vintage version so I'm using the bridge and neck chrome pickup covers and the strings are too close to the covers. I need to do something to drop my bridge saddles down so that the strings don't buzz, string won't hit the chrome covers, and the saddles are at a more medium height without being in either extreme.

Also, the nut is not cut too low. When pressing the string at the first fret, the strings just clear the 2nd fret fine. Help please.

- Stew

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 everyone (i'm a n00b to this site hahaha) but I am currently working on restoring an old guitar neck I have. The previous owner spraypainted the back and put some useless gloss on the fretboard. So my objectives would are:

• Sand the back down
  
• Somehow de-fret the fretboard - so it can be sanded
  
• put whatever nessesary finish is required onto it
  
• re-fret it
  

So how would I go about de-freting the fretboard? How difficult would that be (same with re-fretting it) And what kind of finishes don't screw the feeling over?

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?

50 bucks!? That looks great. Congrats on your first project. How is the neck? I've been thinking of getting a similar one, maybe the same kind.

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'm heading to the store tomorrow to buy wood for my first project. It'll be a semi-hollow tele with a humbucker in the neck. I have a great quilted maple cap. Would you suggest a main body of ash, alder, or mahogany? What should I be looking at for the cost of each? I'm headed to McBeath hardwood in Berkeley, Calif. I know it isn't the same, but I am seeking a tone in the neighborhood of BB King.

Thanks

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