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  1. daddy ray
    if you pay attention to what you'r doin you can have way more guitar for the $'s by bolting one together yourself plus every time you encounter it you have the "feel good" of having done it yourself...talk about priceless!! dan erlewine has a video about assembling from componants that covers everything from proper bridge placement to cutting the nut to final set-up use this for your how to if you've never do it before it's available from stew/mac it's how i got started in this a few years back
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    i can't speak to the epi strat however i have an epi les paul elite w/ chambered body & f-holes that was built in '96 & it's mahogany neck & body just like the gibsons i know this to be true, since i've opened it up since i bought it to correct a couple of problems it had in fact i didn't know epi built a strat...i thought they had always been gibson clones in recent history
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    i don't know whether all parts carries what your looking for they have a rather extensive inventory your right on about their web site...i won't use them for anything i buy for my shop for that very reason
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    alas, life for the artist is fraught with difficult to impossable decisions, yes? sometimes it just boils down to where yer head's at when it comes time to do it
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    i retrofitted a recessed floyd w/locking nut on a guys strat bout a year & a half ago had no problems at all with it good string height at the nut etc
  6. daddy ray
    for floyds i use a template from stew/mac i have done them without a template as well be ultra precise in your layout (measure twice cut once) making sure that your layout line for the trem studs is 90 degrees to an established centerline that incorporates both neck & body when it's time to drill use a drill press if you have also use a forstner or brad point bit to assure that your stud hole is centered on your layout very slight discrepancies can be corrected by slightly loosening neck screws and shifting the neck in the pocket to align the strings to the edge of the fingerboard do this with high & low e strings in place hope this helps
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    if in doubt add carbon fiber stiffener rods i did a les paul neck recently that was quite flexy before the carbon fiber afterwards a set of .012/.052's w/wound 3rd only pulled about .015 relief into the neck when tuned to pitch before i added any truss rod i now add them to anything i have the fingerboard off of i'm that sold on em it's a slow take-off doing something like this...that's why i still have a day job kids all need new shoes
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    speaking of seldom used woods...i've always wondered why hickory & ash are not used for neck woods...both are incredably tough, tight & straight grained the main beam in my neck jig is ash & it's a wonderful looking piece of wood as for hickory...just check out any sledge hammer handle
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    stew mac offers the schaller roller bridge it doesn't look like a tele bridge but it'll give you what your lookin for
  10. daddy ray
    brian: thanks for the welcome! the school of hard knocks present us with our most valuable lessons we tend to remember better that which cost us something in the learning
  11. daddy ray
    thanks drak!
  12. daddy ray
    hey everyone this is my first post glad i found this forum i've been looking for one that was more tech oriented i did a purpleheart veneer on a neck back it wasn't wrapped, but rather i milled the back of the neck flat, bonded the purpleheart to the flat & filed/sanded it to match the original contour looked pretty good pay attention to the fit into the headstock transition area for nice fit
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