What's on your work bench?
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Thanks Bob, yeah this one was played hard and hung up wet. When I got it it reeked of cigarettes and the fretboard as the frets wore down had been scalloped on the first seven frets to allow it to keep playing. I know why as it sounds wonderful. It has character all right.
My friend put 2 carbon fibre strips in the neck (no trussrod or bar in these) so the neck won't move. Tru Oiled the neck and it feels great.
My friend put 2 carbon fibre strips in the neck (no trussrod or bar in these) so the neck won't move. Tru Oiled the neck and it feels great.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Second neck for today, finished the mahogany neck for the chambered body guitar, this one is for the silver burst tele.
Ive got 3 consignments coming from 3 different guitar parts suppliers, keeping my fingers crossed they all arrive soon as I'm running out of things to do here!
Ive got 3 consignments coming from 3 different guitar parts suppliers, keeping my fingers crossed they all arrive soon as I'm running out of things to do here!
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Looks like nice big frets. Did you teach yourself how to do this?MakoGat wrote:Second neck for today, finished the mahogany neck for the chambered body guitar, this one is for the silver burst tele.
Ive got 3 consignments coming from 3 different guitar parts suppliers, keeping my fingers crossed they all arrive soon as I'm running out of things to do here!
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Have been despairing of the tuners on my mandolin. Sticky, rough, massive backlash, impossible to tune. Just worn out. And because they're individuals, impossible to replace.
Found an article saying most discarded tuners were actually fine; here's how you fix them.
So I dismantled them, scrubbed them in isopropyl alcohol, re-assembled with lithium grease and bugger me if they ain't working like new ones!
Found an article saying most discarded tuners were actually fine; here's how you fix them.
So I dismantled them, scrubbed them in isopropyl alcohol, re-assembled with lithium grease and bugger me if they ain't working like new ones!
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Lithium? Does that make it radioactive???Slowy wrote:So I dismantled them, scrubbed them in isopropyl alcohol, re-assembled with lithium grease and bugger me if they ain't working like new ones!
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Yep. Means I can find the little bugger on a dark stage.Conway wrote:Lithium? Does that make it radioactive???Slowy wrote:So I dismantled them, scrubbed them in isopropyl alcohol, re-assembled with lithium grease and bugger me if they ain't working like new ones!
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Lovely tuners on a a nice speckled neck. What are you hiding there?
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Nothing fancy, just an old Framus.Jay wrote:Lovely tuners on a a nice speckled neck. What are you hiding there?
The Bass player got the hots for singing Copperhead Road (and to my amazement, it became a crowd favourite) so I need this to play well.
I call Copperhead Road the $1200 song because by the time I had a decent pickup and an AER amp to play it through, that's what it had cost me.
Fortunately, both the AER and the sticky pickup are brilliant and get lots of use with other bits of my collection.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Finally put a kauri top on the old weathered Schecter Omen Extreme 7 I purchased from Mr Mofo a few years back. Its nothing flash in the way of patterned and grained etc but its quarantine, work on this gat is long overdue, the materials were there and I have the time.
Looking forward to putting the finishing touches and getting this gat back to life. Sadly cant find the tuneomatic so it wont be finished until after lockdown.
Looking forward to putting the finishing touches and getting this gat back to life. Sadly cant find the tuneomatic so it wont be finished until after lockdown.
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Planning out an 8 string multiscale headless
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Re: What's on your work bench?
mean! dumb question sorry, how do you know where each fret goes? do you measure each separately according to some rule book or guide for multiscale fret distance or something?ChAoZ wrote:Planning out an 8 string multiscale headless
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There's a program called FretFind2D, you just enter your variables and it calculates it for you, then get it printed out full size at Warehouse Stationary and glue it to the fretboard - fret slots are done on the linesKNNZ wrote:mean! dumb question sorry, how do you know where each fret goes? do you measure each separately according to some rule book or guide for multiscale fret distance or something?
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I've made a few this way now, works well
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Re: What's on your work bench?
On an 8, you may need the tension of a 28" scale length on the low to eliminate flub but want to still bend so set the scale length of the high to 25.5"KNNZ wrote: how do you know where each fret goes? do you measure each separately according to some rule book or guide for multiscale fret distance or something?
You basically measure out a 28" scale length then a 25.5" and join the dots. That's it.
There is the 'neutral point' (place where the fretboard has a standard vertical fret) that needs to be considered but it's not a major.
Cant wait to see how this turns out bro. Love your work.ChAoZ wrote:Planning out an 8 string multiscale headless