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RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Love the dots @boo. I'm sure you'll manage to sort out the radius. 🙂🙏🎶🎸

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4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

I’ve accidentally sanded one side of the fretboard too much. Don't you mean you've carefully crafted an ergonomic radius offset?

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

got it in my small lathe to shave a bit off. Dang @boo, that’s a lot of work for some dots but good job! Reminds me of that Ratt song, Lathe it Down. 😆😆😆 That’s a bummer abou...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

It worked well apart from the fact that I got a little over zealous with my radius block and because I was concentrating on sanding the inlays so much, I’ve accidentally sanded one side of the fretboa...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

I used CA glue and accelerator to instal them with. I then sanded them flush with the fretboard. Attachment : 6C893579-1B22-49EB-9EE2-DE73FC64C99B.jpeg Attachment : D1ABC061-DB3A-4576-BA37...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

I couldn’t find any yellow fret inlay dots that my customer had specified so I found some coloured acrylic rods so I could make some. Thanks to people on here for helping me find such places that sell...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

@boo @tv101 Thank you both for your thoughts and advice on this, I really appreciate it.

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

So you need to play around with the neck angle whilst there is still enough meat on the neck heal, taking very small amounts off each time. That's really what it comes down to @Tej - trial and error,...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Any advice when it comes to the neck angle By the way? Seems like a critical point with little science involved to get it right? @tej It all depends on what bridge you intend to use. The best way is ...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

It’s looking good but I’ll fine tune the neck depth and angle when I’m not so tired. Attachment : 5F5799DD-41E7-42AF-AE28-1398777EB459.jpeg Attachment : 507FB153-6BE6-4310-80A8-B7172425680...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Routed for the string ferrule block and installed the bridge to double check the alignment. Attachment : AF2F6E4E-D692-4C62-8DF3-D40C2B5B8C86.jpeg Attachment : 279B5009-A351-47B6-9DA1-8D98...

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4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Got the neck heal sorted today. Attachment : CB0870F6-05B7-41D4-8D1D-292902D5000F.jpeg Attachment : B284BEC6-276E-40D3-A957-3D130B1C43BC.jpeg Attachment : D9BBB8EE-A829-49F8-95B8-03...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Yep, first time used in anger Russ. It’s rather good, I’m really impressed Very neat @boo. Looks great. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Is this the first guitar to be built with this neck pocket jig @russ Yep, first time used in anger Russ. It’s rather good, I’m really impressed @darrenking.

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

@mattbeels Nice jig Matt. 😁✌️

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

I know the action is a bit too high right now but I’ve got about 12mm or so to take off the bottom of the neck heal to bring it down to the correct depth yet. I’ll put a slight (1 degree) angle on it ...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Test fit the neck. Perfect fit. 🤘😁🤘🎸 Attachment : E7713D8A-92FE-49AD-A918-8B2AA89BCB05.jpeg Attachment : 69501074-C9EB-40EF-ADAE-E20C66D69295.jpeg Atta...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Here we go, the first proper use of the No-more-sloppy-neck-pocket-o-matic It’s marvellous. Attachment : BDBFD3A8-004E-418F-8F73-8BEBBB9992BA.jpeg Attachment : FEA7F5AF-BE3C-42D1-AFBA-9E0...

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Haha @jonhodgson, here’s a rather non sexy photo of mine... not like @boo... his photo so sexy, me so jealous! Attachment : image.jpeg

In forum Electric

4 years ago
RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

No-More-Sloppy-Neck-Pocket-O-Matic I think that should be the official name laser etched on the jig

In forum Electric

4 years ago
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