PTU 7's.

Hey man, that RG it's getting awesome.

I would do it with a mounted drill and with a plane drill with its correct measure http://www.viarural.com.ar/viarural.com.ar...s-planas-01.htm

Hey man, awesome guitar you have there!

Your work it's really really clean, and your wife made a nice work on that inlay.

Frank.

I would glue the joint first then route slot for truss rod. and after that i´d glue sides to headstock. but that´s just me. You can do it like you want.

Yeah. It deppende also what method you use to do the truss rod chanel. But your idea I think that's the better option.

Jorger I recommend to cut the piece on the middle and glue them inversed, so the grain will not be for one side, preventing warp.

Te recomiendo que lo cortes al medio y que los encoles a la inversa, para que el dibujo/veteado de la madera no siga. Entonces con esto prevenis que en un futuro se pueda llegar a doblar por cuestiones climaticas + humedad.

No, before you glued the headstock you will need to flat the joint and the sides. Then you can add the pieces you need onto the sides.

Hi Melvyn,

I have seen your book in Emule P2P Net as e-book coming from several nods.

I have to be honest that I used Emule sometimes to download some things..

I live in Argentina and let me tell you that here (as many other countries) is not very easy to BUY a book or CD music or whatever because you have all the restrictions you can imagine.(credit cards, shippings, custom issues, goods stealing, etc) And if you can surpass those restrictions you have to pay a fortune for it (currency Devaluations). thats discouraging to buy something coming from another country.

I didnt have a credit card (its not easy to get a card here) and I couldnt really get your book from any store here in Argentina and beleive me that I even beg some stores to tell me if they could bring it from USA to me..and they never even tell me how much it would cost coz they didnt care..

About ordering from internet we have some important problems with customs here coz sometimes they steal goods coming from another countries and when you ask of course they tell you that they dont know nothing about it..or sometimes you have to go to custom to get it and pay a bribe to get it. It a big risk to order something, pay for it 5 more times what you people pay for it, and dont know if you are gonna get it anyways.

I only told you this because I think this is not a problem from Argentina only and I think that is the reason why so many people have to download from internet without paying for it. (but yes, not all the people do it for the same reasons).

I know that this not justify the act of download ilegal copies of copyrighted products but I think this is A reason why so many people do this.

However, I didnt know your book until I entered to this forum.. There was hundreds of helpful people here that told me to buy that book coz was very good one to start on it. So I saw the price of it in Amazon and I knew the risk on the horizon.

Finally could get a friend´s credit card and bought it from amazon with also the Martin Koch one. I dont remember exactly now but I think I ended up paying $100 US.- (for me is like if you would pay $300.- you know devaluations ).. The books arrived home without problems.

The main reason why I bought it was because it was a fair and good price.. so knowing your effort to do it (thanks to PG guys:)) even knowing that I have the possibility to download it from internet and Without traversing risks I decided to buy it anyway.

Sometimes you try to do things in a correct way although sometimes its not enough.

Thanks,

Demian.

Hi, Demian.

That was an awesome description of how we are living nowadays on Argentina.

I have several "problems" with buying tools and different stuff for lutherie. And here it's all expensive (Vendoma has to low their prices).

So, the problem it's that if you buy all the stuff like cds or books or what you can download from P2P programs, you cannot use that money for guitar building, and beleive me, here it's freaking expensive to get everything.

Frank.

OH MY GOD Im glad I saw that pic before trying it at all, that looks like painful crap

I deem that finish tr00 LOL

I want to try that on a body.

Perry, that inlay it's very nice. Awesome woods you have there.

I want to know where can I find rosewood for necks.

Well, the user of the Rhino Liner'd guitar it's very happy with it. And he said that's comfortable.

That's a very very very metal shape, Perry.

Give Perry some time, I think he'll post some awesome update in some days.

Thanks for answering.

I looked and I found this system:

http://chellee.com/site/Luthiers_Blog/Entr...ss,_Part_3.html

I think that's a nice way to install them.

The neck it's looking very good. Are you going to put a truss rod cover there? Becuase I see that the truss rod has a little piece out of the headstock.

I have thought about using that stuff before,but you would need a thick clearcoat to level out the bumps.

I saw a guy on sevenstring.org using that type of paint on his guitar and leaving all the textured stuff on it.

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/sevenstri...pped-paint.html

I like the darrel one. Can you tell me about those guitar head pickups. I saw them on evilbay.

White colour plus black hardware it's an awesome combination.

Carl, the guitar looks amazing!

The contouring on the horns it's very nice and the body wood has a nice grain.

The only thing that I see it's that the bass string it's almost on the end of the fretboard. Or maybe it's an effect from the picture.

Hey man, that 7 string it's coming amazing. I like a lot the combination of mahogany + the ebony fretboard.

Hey.

I want to put LEDs on one of my guitars i'm building, and I want to know is how you put them and if the Truss Rod can brake them.

Considering that the truss rod can break them when it administer some pressure.

Frank.

One of the local guys here has an 8-string plan that uses a 2+6 headstock setup, with two bass tuners on the low side and a set of six lefty guitar tuners on the high side. It doesn't look too bad and it makes an awful lot of sense.

Is that one of the Charlie Hunter style 8's? If so, where did he get the plans?

Yeah, that's what I thought when I read it. Maybe he did some drawings about the guitar, or searched pics and made the plans.

Thanks for asking. Now that I know, I will buy some stuff in the future.

I will ask for some top woods for a project that i have in mind. It's expensive?

Holly sh, Wez. That fretboard and the top look amazing.

Matt, I have a new wicked shape to show, so you can start working on another guitar. Joking.