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    Nice wool blend carpet Anthony! I love the little touch above the neck P90.... Great work as always!
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    Not as annoyed as Colonel Sanders...
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    Definitely, I can attest to that one for sure :-D KramersRule: Are you able to borrow a Dimebucker to A/B a few pickups in your build? Opinions and the like are no substitute for actually sucking (heh) it and seeing whether the chocolate teapot fits - then wear it (sorry, UK humour). A lot of people won't touch the Dimebucker with a chocolate bargepole, but that's through trying it and having hands on experience. If you write it off as an idea without trying it.... Don't Seymour Duncan have some kind of returns/swapping policy on pickups?
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    That's most probably the case RGman....I think the only useful thing about rail pickups compared to polepiece based pickups is for very very wide string bends, but that's a different can of worms!
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    Is it worth mentioning X2Ns? I had a Dimebucker (and an Invader, Perry) and didn't like either of them either. Muddy and not very flexible. I prefer Tone Zones, EMG 81/60s, Super Distortions, SD 59s, Air Nortons....I feel that with huge output power, you seem to lose a degree of dynamic and the output appears more compressed if anything, both in the lack of volume and tone dynamic. If I want to hit the pre's tube stage hard, then a gain booster does the trick better, and I can use a pickup that sounds nice :-D Having not tried an L500XL I can't give comparison, but if they sound anything like Dimebuckers or Invaders then Dime must really have had a very very huge liking for a poo pickup! I doubt this....
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    I hate the clicks and thunks I get from switches. How quiet is your A/B? I would be tempted to suggest an active circuit with two op-amps running in parallel, one with unity gain and the other with zero gain, switchable by some logic circuit in turn ran off a momentary switch which is debounced? If the switching is quiet then this is just academic :-D
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    Not the Hot Rods? Great. They're too "deep" for me but the one-ways are nice and shallow. Good.
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    Corners are easier to work than arbitrary curves so this isn't too much of a big deal really. Better than freehanding with a router or Dremel! How tight does this tool leave covers? I presume that it would be machine-tight, and the cover may need a little sanding to reduce it to size. Perhaps a couple of winds of pinstriping tape around one of the inserts would create a little size difference... Also, would it be feasible to use it in producing plastic covers? I've not tried routing plastic and I can see reasons as to why i've not tried...!
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    Very true - I was pulling the point on cost issue further than necessary, just in the cause of humour :-D But as pointed out, the cost in labour-saving is real and (cough) "accountable" in the really-real world to big manufacturers. As to whether this is why Dean and the design of various Vs aren't bound at the end is currently moot on whether it's cosmetic or cost. Yours is cosmetic dictation due to practical restriction. Fair enough! An example of an unbound Dean can be found HERE (big image, all you 56kers!). Perhaps the end binding confuses people into thinking they almost have almost two octaves per string? Perhaps they don't want any high contrast 90° angles? ;-D I would vote cost with a whisper of cosmetic as the excuse. Scuse me while I go bind the end of a fretboard
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    Not to sound pedantic, but this is probably as *practical* as it gets. Everything else is merely cosmetic and therefore subjective. Dean's accountants must be laughing all the way to the bank on the savings they make on that bit of binding and glue :-D
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    Yes. It looks cosmetic as opposed to mechanical.
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    Wow, that's crazy. It's been easier to dent than mahogany in the pieces i've used....Rick, you have a beauty there!
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    I agree. I was going to go into this reply with a PRS suggestion but hell. The business end is what matters....dare I suggest the body style you like to play with Variax electronics inside?
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    I haven't seen it myself. I get the impression of it being quite soft from the pieces i've worked with.
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    Yeah, it never keeps after repeated use! It's all just an excuse to clamp up a random piece of wood and plane it to death isn't it?
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    Uuurgh....that's an offence even to people who spend less than two minutes spec'ing guitars....did the Sears R&D guy get drunk that week and let his 4yr old at the design board with crayons before justifying that piece of crap to his team leader as "the biggest potential seller this season if you'll give me one last chance"?!
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    What is it with the "cool to be crap" thing going on with that guitar? Being obscure by playing something deliberately rare and crap is more than a little pretentious....and yes, she is quite possibly the worst looking female musician in the world short of Cliff Richard.
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    I use MDF machine edges with no problems Mattia, although I run two bearings against 1/2" board. You're right about how easily damaged it can get though.
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    We were thinking of selling the aforementioned acoustic for THIS Washburn to be a sister to my wife's acoustic. I think i'd be best off buying a new bass anyway really Simo. If you have no luck with it, then drop me a line. I've got to get my priorities right as opposed to GAS'ing. That said, it would be a great sister to my S1640FM.
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    Damn. I would snap it up over here Simo but we're on a tight month this month. Part ex 50% on a Washburn D42SCE acoustic? ;-)
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    How about an outline on scotch invisible tape, lost under lacquer?
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    Agreed. It's the same as wenge in this respect. Don't use anything coarser than fine steel wool to polish it or you'll end up abrading the soft parts of the grain faster than the hard parts and causing yourself more work bringing it back into flatness! I personally didn't find zebrano hard to work when shaping the back of a neck. Just make sure your planes and spokeshaves are set up nicely with good honed blades, and be prepared to resharpen a little more often than you normally would. If you think it might tear out. It will.
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    Those bushing recesses look....familiar.... Did you try measuring your wrench socket size first? I didn't when I first starting doing bushing recesses!
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    Sounds good to me - they're not huge curves, but it may kink slightly due to the curve moving in three dimensions as opposed to two. Then again, we're not here to make cylindrical guitars ;-) On second inspection, the curves aren't severe in more than one direction so you're on a winner I reckon. I found an awesome plastics supplier in the UK who sent me samples of a few materials, one of which being black ABS large enough to do a cavity cover. That stuff would probably reshape itself to conform if screwed to tension and heated with a hairdryer....perhaps i'm going too far into this....
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    Saw it in half down the centre, flip the sides up 90°, taper the central laminate towards the headstock and reglue. Either that or: No.
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