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Muzz

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  1. Muzz
    Routed down 2 mm Fits in nicely
  2. Muzz
    (What was wrong with your amp)? SR It is an amazing photo isn't it, I don't know who took it, it was in the paper on Saturday. My amp is a 1981 model and is prone to say no whenever it likes, so I keep a portable mosfet spare in my gig bag and have a modern tube amp ready to use when my main one in the pits. One of the fuses was blown and when I put a new one in it blew immediately even though the amp was switched off. My favourite amp technician has moved interstate, a friend has given me the contacts of someone is very good. When I get some time I'll drop it into him. Do you like vintage tube amps Scott? I took the straight edges off the template, and rasped out most of the curves Took the rest out with a Dremmel and rolled up sandpaper Screwed the cover in place and drew around it Lined up the template
  3. Muzz
    So I get to rehearsal on Tuesday night and my amp refused to make any sound, dived into the bottom of my bag for my spare amp and then it was all OK to carry on today I sunk in the cavity cover, made a template first, did some digging then closed off the semicircular ends, and routed out
  4. Muzz
    Looking great
  5. Muzz
    No one expects the tone trolls
  6. Muzz
    My early encouragement too, love to see these timbers and techniques being used.
  7. Muzz
    Putting the earth wire tunnel in, I drilled a little start hole in the bridge post hole with a normal drill bit Then got my drill bit made from a wire coat hanger, snipped sharp at one end It popped out in the right place Slange var
  8. Muzz
    Switching to the on top position Ready for the switch And it's in
  9. Muzz
    Ripped off the template like a band aid Time to prepare the foundation for the 3 way Doing some spade work When the arrow gets to 45 it's time to stop
  10. Muzz
    Checking the depth Checking the depth of penetration, that could go a bit further in There we go
  11. Muzz
    Tissue double sided tape on the back of the cavity template, lined up This is the pot I am using, I love these long shanks, I would hate to leave a thin bit of wood on the top of the guitar, these pots let me leave the top over the cavity at 13 mm. making sawdust routing down
  12. Muzz
    Drilling the pilot hole Went in about 8 mm with a 22 mm spade bit, oh that is slow work, then increased the size of the pilot hole with ever increasing diameter normal drills Then got the last bit out with the spade again, much quicker when there is less wood to remove. Tidied it up with some sandpaper wrapped around dowel.
  13. Muzz
    I do use the volume a lot, in between songs I often turn the volume down and I do swells when my buddies and I are playing 'How many more times'. This Epiphone Explorer has an interesting arrangement. The headstock on that Epiphone looks OK, what I can't understand is why anyone buys Epiphone Les Pauls and SGs with the headstock Epiphone puts on them, why do they change the headstock to a less suited shape? Why don't people buy Tokai Les Pauls instead with the better looking headstock? I don't use the switch all that much, and I want to have the switch away from the playing area so it doesn't get knocked. Drilling the control holes. I am hoping the points just poke through the other side Yep Avengers' and my invention being constructed again, this is to drill a pilot hole for the jack
  14. Muzz
    That is a great system
  15. Muzz
    I went in to JB HiFi and they had this for sale at $150 that's about $118 US So I bought it, it's a great guitar, nothing needs done to it, absolutely baffling that companies are close to giving away guitars these days Back to making a guitar which is much more wallet draining. Making the cavity template. drilled out some saw entry points hacked out rasped and sanded out
  16. Muzz
    Beautiful, and the chrome pup rings are a great touch,
  17. Muzz
    Now just got to decide on what kind of bow tie and cummerbund to give JT. also got to decide on this or this
  18. Muzz
    one down put the neck in to line up the template for the neck pick up both done
  19. Muzz
    testing the fit, all OK drilled in the back stop, and tested Lined the template up for the bridge pickup stuck it on with tissue double sided tape, rubbed my finger back and forward fast over a tune o matic hole so it made that woppa woppa woppa sound
  20. Muzz
    Drilled out the bridge holes to 10 mm diameter I used a template that I know is spaced correctly to drill the bridge holes at 12 mm diameter, the little holes line up on the silver line
  21. Muzz
    It looks fantastic, great work
  22. Muzz
    Checking the neck angle, all OK. Checking the neck is pointing down the mid-line with fishing line Looks straight
  23. Muzz
    I think different people will have different ideas on which type of scarf joint is best, but the plans to make some simple jigs and do a scarf joint that is in the headstock are at my post starting here if you put veneer on either side of the headstock the joint will be close to invisible, good luck with it.
  24. Muzz
    Still coming up with clever little innovations I see. What grit are you using, and how many times did you have to change it? Did you have any problems with pressure from the fret ends grooving the mdf? SR That wedge worked great for getting the burrs and sharpness off the fret ends, it had 600 grit on it and one piece of sandpaper did all the frets. I used hardly any pressure at all, and just let the wet and dry do all the work. The neck is nearly at the point where the finish goes on
  25. Muzz
    sanding the frets, sandpaper stuck to a level the frets are gently sanded on the level, no pressure applied so the neck doesn't flex sandpaper stuck to an mdf wedge to smooth over the edges of the bevels
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