Angus89
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Hellow I am in the proces of wanting to build a les paul style guitar and I have just a few questions about routing the curved channel for the truss rod I know how to do the routing itself but have ben unable to find much in the way of how much curve it should have I have read mevin hiscock's book many times and I am still farely confused as I want to route the channel like a gibson where it's flatter towards the body doe anyone have a diagram of the channel route.
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Thanks for all the advice I really apreciate it I'll see what I can come up with cheers.
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where is a good place to buy mahogany neck blanks I am wanting a big enough piece where I can cut the headstock angle without a scarf joint on a side note what species of mahogany does gibson use.
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I recently bought a craftsman 10in. bandsaw for around $150.00 and have a few questions about setup I have read many tutorials and think I got a pretty good grasp but I am still confused on a few things and since I have seen than many members have that same bandsaw they might be able to shed some light on one is I have heard alot about drift and since I am very inexperienced I really havent noticed it so how would diagnose and fix it also what kind of blade would you recomend or if if there is just any advice on general setup it would be much apreciated. cheers mate
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Hellow I am needing some sugestions a friend of mine has a birthday coming up and I am wanting to to build him a strat for a present I am most likely going to chamber it for weight cause he has a bad back but my freind is a total tone freak so I would like to use a very unique sounding exotic wood I was thinking maybe padauk but I've heard it sounds alot like maple and I have never really ben able to amagine such a hard wood being good for a body cause I would think it wood have no bass and very little mids so I kneed some ideas.
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Hey this is kind of a newb question but I am staining a piece of mahogany in stew mac cherry red recomended mix using achohol and when I put it on its a very nice briliant red then once drie or soaks in the wood it dulls downbut my questin is once it dries there are some areas where the stain is thick that is closer to what it looks like when it's wet so am I trying to make the whole guitar look like this or am I trying to make it all look like the dull area and once I seal and laquer it it the bright brilliant red will come back. All help is apreciated cheers.
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ok everyone It was just recently brought to my atention that to achieve a certain finish I need to use walnut colored grain filler only proble is I have already applie one coat of natural colored filler so would sanding the natural off an reduing with walnut cause a problem.
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ok everyone just a few questions how deep do I need to rout the neck pocket for a set neck bass.Also is it possible to have a set neck without it being angled.
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I am looking for a new grain filler what I have used in the past I got wich was from reranch wich was a bitch and half to get off so I need something easy get off and even if I don't get it all off I don't want it to show through a translucent finish.
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I don't know for sure I was close enough so that the lacquer wasn't dry when it hit the guitar I really don't know what I did.
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well I have finished tables and small wood furniture and I finished one guitar but it was just a disaster I got the lacquer from reranch and I put 10 coats on it and used 2 cans of lacquer and was just having sand throughs like no other so I must not have used enough lacquer per coat cause I follwed the directions at reranch and even the dude who owns reranch and he said 2 cans should be enough.
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Hellow everyone I am new to the board and new to refinishing so please excuse my ignorance so I have a spray gun and I am ordering the lacquer from stew mac so my question is aproxamintly how much lacquer does it take to finish a guitar then how much lacquer does it takew to finish a neck.