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Muzz

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  1. Great to see this back on track and lookin rockin
  2. Sanded back and stained with Stew Mac red, put the first coats of Rustins on
  3. Grain stain with "Mahogany" from Feast Watson
  4. Yep, if you have 4 mm left on the sides it should be savable. Make sure the fret slots are deepened. Flatten the middle and top of the fretboard with a router on rails. Put masking tape down the edges of the fret board to tell you if you are leaning over with the radiusing block and stop you over radiusing the edges. Start radiusing with the block, one slide down the entire board at a time. Keep checking the flatness length ways with a long steel ruler. Use the ruler to scrape any little irregularities straight again. Keep the radiusing block centred on the board, use your fingers to keep it level, even put a spirit level on it.
  5. Great fix on the Floyd recess, and the neck looks cool since you ripped off the %^&(!@ ugly heel block
  6. That is exactly the right attitude to have, when you are not 100 % happy with a step undo the step and go from there. How much fretboard do you have left? Could you drop the neck off at your local repair/luthier shop and get them to flatten and re radius it?
  7. Trace around your body onto paper, cut out the shape, fold it in half symmetrically for the bottom, there's your centre line.
  8. That's it exactly, they are the chumpians of rock
  9. There is worse .............. Hinder Bevel on the edges using a piece of wood with a 35 degree edge on it and a file Construction on the neck done Now to decide on the finish
  10. Fantastic, can't wait to see this take shape
  11. Setting up for fretting Tapped them in with my Supercheap Auto $7 fret hammer, they finished up very close to level, they only needed the lightest dressing with some 800 wet and dry on a mdf straight edge. polishing crowns with 1000
  12. Yep, each member of the band is showing their chops on that track, the new singer fits in well.
  13. Yep it was close to being ruined, it has been recuperating under a pile of CDs and records from Electric Mary, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Thin Lizzy, Metallica, LA Guns, The Baby Animals, Kill Hannah, Backyard Babies, KISS,Scorpions, Lynch Mob, Airbourne, The Screaming Jets, Joe Bonamassa and Mick Ronson. It is recovering nicely, now it had been contaminated with Nickelback it would have been straight into the bin
  14. Doughnut from the drilling The last three holes can't be drilled from the back using a drill press, I used my invention Frets next, I wonder if I can find my fret holder
  15. Had a listen to Dragonforce's "Cry Thunder" I like it What I don't like is machine head holes that look as though they have been put in with a bullet, I can't stand tear out even if it is going to be covered up with chrome, so I did the Drilling 101 technique. Finally gave in and used the prehistoric measuring system, this time it is easier than spacing 25.5 mm apart. I drilled 1.5 mm diametre pilot holes and then switched to a 10 mm drill and drilled almost all the way through from the front, then flipped it over and drilled from the other side. A guide bar means I only have to line up in one dimension not two. Note the beanbag, if you put one of those under your work your neck or body will never ever drop, as soon as the ghosts that live in your house see a beanbag they don't push your guitar off the bench/hook.
  16. Maybe just scallop the last 4 frets, and put the dots in after you scallop, then file down the dots and finish with sandpaper, too easy
  17. Always great to get the package of hardware, keep her rollin
  18. I had thought about making a router radiusing jig, glad I didn't, the radius block worked fine. Marking out the positions for the MOP dots. I checked the positions of the frets. The 13th fret slot was 0.5 mm out, I filled the slot with glued in slivers of rosewood, sanded level and recut the slot using the radiusing block to position the cut. Next steps, drill the machine head holes and put the frets in.
  19. It won't Radius block Radiusing the board Making sure everything is straight cutting the fret grooves down
  20. Drilling the side dot holes Later I will discover that I have left out number 21, don't tell me because at this point I am blissfully unaware Putting in the side dot rod, PVA pool in the bottom of a can Next step radiusing the board
  21. Yep and some more blue stain in the finish to make that grain pop
  22. Yep a little more red wouldn't hurt, I'm thinking gloss but not high gloss, lookin hot.
  23. Two words...Heidi Klum that must have been nice for him while it lasted, imagine if you were in his shoes now though, at least you would have some great stories to tell around the barbeque, like this one time when me and Heidi Klum were ...............
  24. Watching The Voice, is Seal a little bit creepy? Most of the sanding is done Heel
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