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http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Books,_plans/Building_and_repair:_Guitar,_acoustic/Guitar_Player_Repair_Guide.html

If people only have to own one book this year, I reckon this should be it. Ol'...

So do you flood the fretboard with CA till its glossy, or "simply" bind the fibres up? I like wax myself, it buffs well and doesn't tend to penetrate the fret slots as much as raw oil. I had the...

If your still skeptical, Dan Erliwine shows this method in the guitar player repair manual...

I'm inclined to agree with Martin. I would think that a smooth good playing fretboard would be more tonally significant than the possibility of the fretboard dampening sound because of the treatment...

Theres always the ever popular tung/danish oil too. It hardens as it dries so you can buff it to a nice matt sheen.

Ahh stick to the old formula of finger oil, blood and sweat.:rockon:

Yup, I use bees wax with carnuba and also lemon oil. If you polish down the oil then coat with wax if you have really cleaned the fret board. Just be wary of soaking the board. SOmetimes the oil...

I agree with you about painted guitars. There is a definie niche for them. There are a lot of perfectly good tone woods that range from just plain to downright ugly. In comes the solid colour...

Worries me a bit that they don't specify what type of Alnico it is: number 5 is the most common in P'ups and has the highest magnetic flux.

The creation of the magnetic field around the poles of...

I agree. Wax is the way to go.

HEY!

Dont give away ALL our secrets!!!:doh:

Hey Stu,
I notice that your avatar became "reformed carvaholic".

True?
is it a 12 step program?:rolleyes:

Have you gone over to the dark side of slab guitars, Bo Diddly-esque design (square...

Hell, the way the world is going, I think they already have.


Haw haw haw:D

For a fairly modest outlay Stewmac have a good setup kit available, and an excellent setup book. The way the dollar is at the moment (80.6 cents US) its not a bad time to look at stew mac. Its not...

Now you know the dark secret of the mass produced guitar market!

Most of the time your bridge is nothing like the radius of your neck. As the neck is tapered, and you have a set radius on top,...

PS read this thread, its a start to finish of my then 13 year old making a guitar.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=70739

Titebond (yellow PVA glue) is more than adequate for a body join. There is a Triton yellow glue available at Bunnings Me, I rough cut with a saw (band saw, but a well set up circualar should be OK)...

gee flatwounds on a hollow neck thru tele with humbuckers and 4 knobs angled headstock and lefty and... good to see you stuck with tradition:2tsup:

sweet sweet sweet

Just make a little video and pop it on as an AVI or a WMV (thru windows movie maker):2tsup:


What about it MODERATORS and runners of the list... any chance of being able to put sound bites on...

you know, its interesting, I did my Electronic Trades in '97 and there was not a single thing on standards. I know things have come a long way since then (and the trade is now no longer a trade as...

what about dainish oil??

I've had some good results with it:2tsup:

You can get it from Bunnies too

Maybe Perry was right that you are Minime...:D

Too much time on your hands Perry???:D

I obvioslu have the wrong friends... or the wrong beer:2tsup:

anyone used weldbond?

OK, I think I'll work to D'addario EXL 145's they're not too fat, and still have a plain 3rd string. They are also fairly readily available here (you dont hear too much drop A in country...

I remember reading an article, it may've been Australian guitar, where Slash says he hated downtuning even to e flat aka guns'n'roses.

Yeah, maybe I am being a bit judgemental as far as drop...

gotta be nice to the paying clients, they always know WAY more than I do - I guess thats why they send their guitars to me...now hold on a minute, how does that work again....:D

I just worry about the intonation, as the string gets larger, the longer the intonation. The longer the intonation, the greater the variation in tuning in each fret.

Still, if my suspicions are...

I prefer to get the tension as close to normal as possible, so I tend to try and use the D'addario string tension guide to find the right size and gauge for the tuning. I can probably come back a...

I have always loved parkers, the best design IMO to come out in years. Its a personal taste thing I know, but...

I mean this guy is tryig to do a lower than baritone tuning on a 25.5

Naw, I don't like to send anything out that I don't agree with. I mean it will be impossible to intonate, and deano's right:...

Got a client who wants me to retro his RG 321 hardtail to a drop A:oo:


This kid really has no idea, I think...

I have retro'd a 25.5 scale down to a drop C before with pretty reasonable...

I know quality figured timber is getting rarer but...

Perhaps if they made it a bolder colour, less like a boiled steak (bleeeeehhhh) blue or purple or something.

Doesn't have a scratch on a...

OK, I've settled down now.

The likelyhood of me learning anything much from a "normal person" doco is pretty slim. The reality of it they probably could spend 45 of the 50 minutes explaining the...

It has its own website!!!:oo:

http://www.solidbodiesthemovie.com/HTML/purchase.html

of course its a purchase.

Did anyone see it, is it worth the US$15???

DAMN!!!!!!
I got home from work at 11:15pm

Damn Damn damn damn mdandmnamndmamdmadmdamndasnasfdasfasfkn:~

Was it worth watching?

Damndamndamndamndamn

Plastic recorder as played by year 1 students:o

yeah, those borers really love left handed timber:D

I have used a commercial grade sanding sealer before and it seemed to lower the contrast in the figure, but it was all water based so it could've been that...

Lookin' mighty foine:2tsup:

I had similar problems with water based finishes, so I put the lacquer tin in a pot of hot water and had two large halogen lights keeping the ambient air temperature up towards 20degC and bought it...

aaawwwww shucks Bob:B

Hey guys,

these forums are great, but funny things can sometimes come out no-so-funny.:no:

Bob is the MAN, he has been (and is) a constant contributor and help. I know of at least 3 lurking...

I have bought parts from www.guitarparts.co.nz and they have been great (our dollar is better than yours ner nernernenrnenrenrn:2tsup:)
PS wait till your "lil mongrel" starts making guitars, like...

Yup, you and just about everyone else.

It's nice when you start getting people telling you what they want, you just have to think the "how" not the "what" too.

Neat looking design.
May I ask...

Hey, the way I did it was to get a good picture, google once again, and find something with a known dimension (usually the pickups or the like) and work out the ratio between the picture and the real...

if you want some ideas and possible purchase places look at the ever popular www.stewmac.com or www.warmoth.com at least you will pay a LOT less for freight than we have to:2tsup:

Do you have a good Drill Press?

A good forstner bit will probably do it. You may have to install a sacrificial wedge on it to get the bit registered thou...

You need a small air pump inside to keep the interior at positive pressure to keep the plectrum out.:2tsup:

Looks like Stu's spent a bit of quality time at carbatec, judging by the lineup of...

What??
Your missus cooks?

What did I do wrong??

Hey bassbuilderman, we haven't had the heart to tell you that Stu is actually a figment of the Forum's collective imagination.:D

But as imaginary friends go, you really picked a good one.:2tsup:...