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    Thanks for help, i'll give 'em a browse. I noticed a couple shops in town, one an art supply store and the other a sort-of craft shop. Worth a shot i guess!
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    Naturally, but most places around here only sell the more natural colours
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    Hi guys, can anyone in the UK give me some inspiration where to find bright red wood stain? Found a couple of sites and a 250ml bottle is about £5-£6 but i begrudge paying the £6-£7 p&p! Shipping from american just for one thing isnt really economical. Thought i'd to see if anyone knows of a place i havent tried. Cheers Chris
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    Cheers dude
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    The first Gotoh hardtail bridge at the top of this page looks about right for my project. The little schemtic shows the string spacing is 52.5mm E to e and then the description says "bridge tailpeice assembly for single size pickup". I cant find any other hardtails with a narrower spacing so i'm inclined to think this will be fine to use with humbuckers as well.....anyone disagree? If the spacing is slightly too wide, i guess i can always place the bridge humbucker slightly further away from the bridge to help the pole pieces to line up(?)
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    Good point, thanks a bunch. I'll give then both a whirl and see what happens!
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    Can any explain why combining the outer coils of two humbuckers would sound any different from the inner coils? I thought i'd add a bit of versatility to a basic bridge/bridge&neck/neck setup but wondered if there was any point having both these splitting combinations - i cant imagine what the difference in sound would be. Cheers
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    Has anyone have experience with or an opinion on these? There's also this one i've found: (4th from bottom of this page) I want to buy a neck and I've been window shopping for a while now, I can't afford loads but obviously I need to spend a reasonable amount to get something worth having. I'm trying to find necks that are made well AND preferably under £90 (I know I won't find top quality for that price but I don't want a POS either). One of the necks on the Carvin website is rather nice but the distributers in the UK say they can import one for about £130, which is a little too much, as are the paddle headstock necks that WDmusic sell. Thought I'd ask for a bit of help..... Grazie
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    Have you spent much?
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    A funitnure place in Reading will plane a body blank for £35 Another place in Reading quoted £60 A bit cha-ching! I assume those two places would do it by hand. A person with a surface planer would probably charge less but i have no idea what a 'reasonable' price is.
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    For what its worth.... Commodity code for Guitar/Instrument parts: 9209940000 Duty expected to be paid on such items: 2.7% I don't know whether it can be extended to complete guitars or just specifically parts. I was pricing some things up and thought i'd better know exactly what i'd get charged this end. Don't forget, duty is added to the cost of the goods PLUS shipping and then VAT goes on top of that. I understand that there can be a third charge; this is a brokerage surcharge imposed by the postal service that take the item(s) through customs. This seems to be a bit more hit and miss - out of 14 feedback responses on the Warmoth site only one person was charge (£10).
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    Muchas muchas grassy-arse
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    I'd suggest you buy a guitar from a shop
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    I've noticed that some TOM bridges have un-notched saddles. How does the string locate correctly? I thought perhaps you file the notches yourself but that cant be right.
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    I may have missed this from another thread but what's the rush anyway? I dont think you should 'make do', accurate free-hand routing is a skill to say the least. Template making may take time intially, but with a good template you can produce a very clean cut/rout time and time again.
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    I thought that the Soloist was 'standard' and the Dinky was based on it but smaller, hence the name(?)
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    I have a website link *somewhere* and if i remember correctly, they do sell grain filler (might be sanding sealer). Think it was a company in Scotland but you can order online/over the phone and have it delivered. Let us know if you find somewhere else and in the mean time i'll have a look for that link.
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    Yeah, i assumed you meant a specific adult college or something similar. My old school used to have a reasonable selection of machinary and it seems like a place i could in theory already have my foot in the door, so to speak. I totally agree with you. Right now, I couldnt justify the money that i would need to buy good machinary (after this, i doubt i'll make another guitar this year). At least i have confirmed access to a work colleague's bandsaw...why buy a band saw when i can just buy him a beer
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    Cheers for that one, i'll bear that in mind too. I'm moving back to my local area soon, i'm now wondering if my old school would be worth a shot. I dont know if schools have insurance issues with non-pupils, worth a shot i guess.
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    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah......bum in jockstrap Thanks anyway! The blank is 2" thick and ideally, i want to go down to 1 3/4". I guess in theory i could do it my self with sanding. Only reason im apprehensive is because 1/4" is plenty depth for me to screw it up, it would have to be quite a few hours of sand/check/sand/check/sand/check
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    The mahogany blank i have is rough sawn (well the topside and underneath are) and it could do with surface planing - the sides may even need jointing as well. So i phone a furniture place and they want £35 to do it. I thought thats a little steep considering the wood only cost me £45. So i phone 2 other places and they want more like £60! Madness I dont own expensive machinary, i dont even own a no. 7 jointing plane. Whats a guy to do, keep phoning until i find a cheaper price? Anyone in the UK have a similar problem or even a solution? There probably are cheaper places, but i bet they wont be in travelling distance.
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    I would say yes it is normal, my guitar had pickups with only signal and ground. I assume the humbucker you have gives one option - series, in phase. A lot of new pickups have more wires for coil tapping but some seymour duncan humbuckers still only have singal and ground (the '59? or is it the Seth Lover? Dunno)
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    Throw together another one for basically peanuts and in twenty years, sell it - another $900,000 in the bank!
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    But if you touch a live string, wouldnt that complete the circuit? I see no advantage to deliberately leave the bridge ground wire off, its clearly something that is important. As per the guitarnuts website, it says that modern amps arent usually a problem but if you hook up to some dodgy wiring or an old valve amp, you could potentially have a problem. Meh, i have a basic understanding...
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