What's on your work bench?

[sizzlingbadger]

Yamaha XS750 (1977) just replacing a leaky base gasket but found a bent exhaust valve

Yours?
I used to have a 1978 XS1100 with a sidecar - super cool old bike!

My mates, its a nice old bike, US import years back.

[sizzlingbadger]

Yamaha XS750 (1977) just replacing a leaky base gasket but found a bent exhaust valve

Hmmm, how did that get bent?

not sure, everything else is mint so pretty strange, must have been like it for some time though as it was in a museum for about 20yrs prior to my mate riding it the last 4yrs. he did say that #3 carb always required a different setting than #1 and #2, now we know why.

[ChAoZ]

Received my Filtertron style templates so I have routed the pickup cavities in this Thinline style body

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Ok, couple of things.

On the rack of doom is the newly acquired 2003 mexi strat. It’s virtually unblemished but frets could do with a kiss and there is some sprout.

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And on the workbench that is a workbench is a 1 tonne press. Got sick of using an old drill press.

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[NippleWrestler]

Had an order for a pickup set come through from a dude who likes the chugs and likes the low end. This is just the bridge looking like an industrial toaster.

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And under the covers.

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For ultimate power I'm using my new favourite polepieces which are hefty pieces of carbon steel. They're so big the bobbins and baseplate need to be drilled out to accommodate. Bigger poles is more mass which is more inductance which is more output which is more good (in this instance).

Then this is all mated to a double thickness ceramic magnet (like in a super distortion or Duncan Distortion) to bring back the highs lost through the high wind and keep the bass huge and tight. Overall it's 15.5k, splits to 6.7k. I love an asymmetrical pickup.

Here's the size of the slugs.

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Once I got the strings off, there were quite a few divots in the lower frets. Took more than a tickle, but all done and polished and set up.

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My favorite colour combination for a Strat!!!

[NippleWrestler]

You're doing the Lord's work. I've always maintained that an MIM with the subsequent hand-time put in (proper fretwork, rolling the edges, fine tuning the nut slot and setup etc) will play and sound as good as any other strat at 5x the price.

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You're doing the Lord's work. I've always maintained that an MIM with the subsequent hand-time put in (proper fretwork, rolling the edges, fine tuning the nut slot and setup etc) will play and sound as good as any other strat at 5x the price.

Over the years, I owned a couple of MIM strats, one was a chrome red one I handpicked from a whole load of strats (american included) in Hong Kong. I missed that pretty much instantly after I sold it. And another similar to this, again missed!

This one is the same age as the red one and is as resonant, it just needed a dress and a good set up and now its very playable

The only downside is the trem is bloody noisy at the moment, will see what I can do.

[jeremyb]

You're doing the Lord's work. I've always maintained that an MIM with the subsequent hand-time put in (proper fretwork, rolling the edges, fine tuning the nut slot and setup etc) will play and sound as good as any other strat at 5x the price.

Alan Farrow our local tech told me he played my MIM roadworn for about 2 hours after setting it up cause he liked it so much, doesn't get much better than that!

[Slowy]

I have a guitar that feels like the frets are too low. But when measured, they're within .1mm of instruments that feel fine. Any insight into what's happening here?

[Slowy]

You're doing the Lord's work. I've always maintained that an MIM with the subsequent hand-time put in (proper fretwork, rolling the edges, fine tuning the nut slot and setup etc) will play and sound as good as any other strat at 5x the price.

There's a video where a man from the Fender Custom shop says essentially the same thing.
My/Badger's Baja Tele is a perfect example; I've played Nocasters that made my heart skip but I've never met an American Tele I'd pay the extra for.

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I have a guitar that feels like the frets are too low. But when measured, they're within .1mm of instruments that feel fine. Any insight into what's happening here?

Width thing maybe, thinner will probably feel taller?

[jeremyb]

I have a guitar that feels like the frets are too low. But when measured, they're within .1mm of instruments that feel fine. Any insight into what's happening here?

Higher action or different gauge strings?

[Slowy]

I have a guitar that feels like the frets are too low. But when measured, they're within .1mm of instruments that feel fine. Any insight into what's happening here?

Higher action or different gauge strings?

Don't think so.
Think I need an Oleg.