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    You can use spray paint and get very good results. Personally, I used DupliColor paint from an auto parts store. But before you do that, remember to fill the grain and seal with sand/sealer. After the sand/sealer dries, sand it down so there are no bright spots. After that, you're ready for the primer. I used Zinsser BIN primer with good results. After the primer you are ready to paint. It took me a full can to get the job done. For the clearcoat, nitrocellulose is the way to go. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT use polyurethane! That is a sure way to kill the tone on the guitar you're working so hard to make nice. I'm not sure where you can get nitro in Canada, so you'll have to try the home improvement and the hardware stores up there. But you should be able to get the paint, primer and nitro in spray cans.
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    If you want to get the frets really shiny, use the steel wool like Ray said. After that go over them with some silver polish like Silvo. You can get it pretty much anywhere. And the nice thing about it is that it's non-abrasive, so it's perfect for a maple neck.
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    That looks really nice! I'm glad you just went with the clear coats rather than painting the body.
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    I've never had an intonation problem with any Fender at the 12th fret, unless the guitar wasn't set up properly and I took the time to adjust the saddles... The intonation was OK at the 12th fret. Like I said it is the harmonic over the neck pickup that I'm not getting. Oh well, guess I'll have to make my own neck now.
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    The one nice thing is that it taught me about how to finish a guitar and how to do a setup. But I've found a lot of issues with the neck on my strat. First, it's not to the same scale as Fender. Therefore, I was able to get the intonation at the 12th fret. But for the harmonic over the neck pickup; nope, not happening. Also, the neck felt really thin in my hands. It makes me want to build my own to replace it. I think the hardware is crap too. The tuners were literally falling apart but that wasn't a big deal to me since I planned on not using them and putting in Kluson style tuners anyway.
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    I took some time to check out their stuff and it looks pretty good. My only beef and it's a minor one, is that I wish they had more of a fretwire selection. Otherwise I like what they have. Even the acoustic kit is intriguing to me. My guess is that since the president of the company is a luthier he won't sell stuff that is junk.
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    These guys have a great deal on the Zona saws. They also have the .024 and the .030 blades. Beats the snot out of StewMac's prices. http://www.hobbylinc.com/prods/rad_zon.htm BTW, I have a stupid question. When cutting the fret slots do you take into account the barbs of the frets too? I looked at the Allparts site and when you figure in the tang at .020 and the barbs adding an extra .017, what size blade should I be using?
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    God knows I have so many, but here's my top 10 in no particular order. 1. Stevie Ray Vaughan 2. Jimi Hendrix 3. Larry Carlton 4. Eric Johnson 5. Robben Ford 6. Danny Gatton 7. Wes Montgomery 8. Duke Robillard 9. Roy Buchanan 10. Grant Green
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    Good idea. I've decided that my next build will be from scratch, not from a kit. BTW, do you live in Wisconsin? If so where are you from?
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    Saga also makes a Les Paul kit. My strat is born of a Saga kit and I had to work like hell just to make it relatively playable. But yes, mammoth and wisconsin, I'm reasonably sure it's a Saga. I'd recognize those craptacular tuners anywhere.
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    If you want it to stay bright white over time you should be able to find a non-yellowing lacquer; be it nitro or poly. I think Deft makes a non-yellowing nitro. Check this out. http://www.deftfinishes.com/wood/new.htm
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    I've also used the Reranch nitro and had very good luck with it. The neck amber also works really well. I will also echo what marksound said. Bill is great to work with.
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    Welcome aboard!
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    I just want to know if Diamond Dave does the high leg kicks and jump splits when he stops the ambulance he now drives.
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    IMHO the figuring is great the way it is. I would just clear coat it. To me any type of staining would just look muddy.
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    Here's my $.02. Your decision not to do the omega hole was a good one. Eddie Van Halen did it with an Explorer type body and he said after he did it the guitar just didn't sound very good. Besides, why mess with a classic like an SG?
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    Both sound fantastic to me ::EDIT:: You could write him back, and tell him that you're Ed Roman and that the interchangable scale guitar is your patented design, and force him to remove it from his auctions.
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    My must-haves will probably sound pretty boring but here goes anyway. -Dunlop Cry Baby, maybe even two of them to really nail the tone Stevie Ray got on "Say What". -Tube Screamer. I'm not really into the heavy metal type distortion pedals. There's just something about those little green stomp boxes. - A fuzztone to play out my little Clapton/Hendrix fantasies. - Chorus pedal; meh. I'm not too picky on those. - An octave divider and a delay would be nice too.
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    Dude, that sucks. How crappy is that that they didn't have the balls to do it in person? But then again I've been there too. I just got fired from a job in February. So how did I drown my sorrows? Looked for another job and finished up my strat. But in the mean time, hang in there. This is but a temporary setback.
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    First of all do you know if the finish on the guitar is nitrocellulose or polyurethane? Make sure that the finishes are compatible. As far as spraying over the decals, I would actually do two or three very light coats to seal the decals first. Like spazzyone said, you want to be careful so the inks don't bleed. After the light coats then you can do the heavier coats to finish the job. Good Luck.
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    This is something that has been intriguing me for a while now. When you do a compound radius on the fretboard, whereabouts do you begin blending in the flatter radius for the higher frets?
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    For the sake of consistency you probably should strip off the primer and re-seal the areas where you think the sealer might have come off.
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    and I DL'd a relatively inexpensive proposition called "Jamorama" by Ben Edwards. I'd been reading some reviews (I'm a sucker for reviews!) of guitar-teaching programs and methods, and while "Learning and Mastering the Guitar" was certainly very highly rated by many experienced folks, it was more than I was willing to fork over, and "Jamorama" had also received a great deal of praise and cost a LOT less, so I thought I might give Jamorama a go, and if by some miracle I could actually stick with it long enough to feel I was actually getting somewhere, I might give the Big Daddy program a go. Bart Let me know how that works out for you. I'm kind of in a rut right now and I want to expand my vocabulary beyond the typical first position and barre chords.
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    I'm sure you could find more than a couple of people who wouldn't. Is it just me or does anyone else get a vision of the people in this factory taking a bunch of Saga les paul types and slapping Gibson headstock logos on them?
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    Thanks. Suppose I coulda looked there first, eh?
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