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    What are the advantages of naptha other than making better firewood? keeping water away from wood, for one.
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    thanks
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    use superglue. it soaks right into lacquer, it will look flawless when you're done, wick it in there, scrape it flat(use a razor blade, with 2 pieces of masking tape on each side so only the middle section of the blade is exposed, and scrape until only a little bit of glue is left), then wet sand it, and polish it back to a gloss.. and for future wet sanding, might i recommend using naptha instead? tis what Mike Sherman recommended to me tonight.
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    need to finish some other things to be able to buy the hardware.
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    its taken a lot of work, a lot of mistakes, to get this blue burst one to this point, but i've finally gotten the kinks worked out, finally have all the right tools, and now it is buffed out and looks great. you can even make out my face in the pic, as well as trees
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    it looks like the carve goes under the pickup rings on the bass side, gotta be careful about that in future builds... i dig the depth of the carve though, it looks pretty good.
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    instead of making a new thread, i figured i'd post this here, heres one of my builds i just sprayed finish on today
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    have you ever considered making your headstock a little thinner at the tip to get straight string pull? i think itd look pretty cool with the same design you use at the tip, just modified for straight string pull... just food for thought, it looks a little bulky in its current form.
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    that is awesome! love it. the only thing i'm iffy on is the small headstock, but otherwise, i love the design of the body, love the copper top(seeing as its very likely ground, makes for great shielding ), love the lighting.
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    why no fretboard taper?
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    yeah, i forgot about that soltero when i posted that last night, never liked that design though i was talking to mike sherman earlier though, and he told me that style of carve has been done in the 80s... i was still in elementary school back then
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    and now i see my carve idea has wound up on a Dean Zelinsky DBZ guitars digital mockup... awesome... maybe he saw it posted on here in 2006, maybe he didn't, i just know its pretty weird to see something i came up with almost 2 years ago on someone elses guitar... edit: though it is kind of flattering if its not coincidence, and dean zelinsky took inspiration from my design...
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    18" dual action truss rod is enough for 25.5"... hell its enough for over 28" scale...
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    i would say that there are hundreds of thousands of single cutout guitar owners out there that would argue i like the first one better but thats just my opinion to be a little more exact i liked single hump on the first one is more tele style I also was digging on the countour of the first one and ya got to go with the TOM to be honest i just really was diggin on the first design better the only thing i could say i would have liked to see is a multi scale neck. its all just sketches, if a customer wants multiscale, i'll do multiscale... the 2nd one is basically to give a safer alternative to the first one, options are always good.
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    how about this as another single cut option for my lineup?
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    why'd you get rid of the insterts in the neck? from my experience, inserts are superb for bolt on's, because you can torque the hell out of the bolts, without having to worry about stripping them...
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    tried that, one of the first ideas i tried, didn't like it.
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    recessed TOM=droolworthy. not going to put the jack in the traditional Rhoads V spot? i did that on my V, worked out pretty well, was pretty easy...
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    well, it will for the prototype build, i'll tell you that
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    thanks i've tried a bunch of different ideas i've gotten from peoples suggestions, and none of them look good to me, i'm gonna work on it tomorrow in full scale, using the same dimensions as my 8 string build. i really want these 2 to feel like they could be a part of a product lineup.
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    i use nordstrand for my 7 and 8 string single coils. was just drawing in a pickup config, thats always up to the customer.
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    yeah, you're gonna lose your inlays.
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    its a single cut take on this i don't know if that helps put it into perspective or not.
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    where are you going to find roller saddles for a floyd? a roller nut would work fine for staying in tune, but so would a nice slippery nut, like graphtech tusq or slipstone or graphite, etc. your idea has been done by some, and generally with good results.
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    just drew this up, somewhat based on my 8 string, but a single cut of course. opinions?
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