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RE: 1st set Neck/Carve Top solid body underway What material are you planning on using for the inlays Eddie? |
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RE: 1st set Neck/Carve Top solid body underway @eddie6string I would probably recommend the latter. It’s obviously a bit more work to set it up but the results are more accurate. |
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RE: 1st set Neck/Carve Top solid body underway Loving the grain on that...@eddie6string |
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4 years ago |
RE: 1st set Neck/Carve Top solid body underway Looking good @eddie6string! 👍 |
In forum Electric |
4 years ago |
RE: 1st set Neck/Carve Top solid body underway Hopefully it will go from Yellow Yellow over green Green over mid blue Mid blue over midnight blue Midnight blue on the edge @eddie6string Yeah, nice colour scheme, I like that idea. |
In forum Electric |
4 years ago |
RE: I did it......loose neck pocket! Try taking a shaving off a bit of your body offcuts with a plane, adjust the depth of cut to get the thickness you want. Why have I never thought of that! Excellent tip @robin. |
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RE: 1st set Neck/Carve Top solid body underway @mattbeels Here you go - neck and another angle on the roundover / carve. Attachment : 20200216_160332.jpg Attachment : 20200216_141212.jpg |
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4 years ago |
RE: 1st set Neck/Carve Top solid body underway Cheers @koendb. And, I love the contrasting, wooden scratch plate. No nasty black plastic here @Boo! That was some offcut from the body, thicknessed (or thinned) down to around 3mm, jointed and ... |
In forum Electric |
4 years ago |
RE: 1st set Neck/Carve Top solid body underway It doesn't have to be a full body carve, you could do a small "shelf" around the edge? 🤔 Here's something else that I tried as an experiment on a recent build ... @tv101 Excellent work TV,... |
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4 years ago |
RE: 1st set Neck/Carve Top solid body underway I really like that @tv101 |
In forum Electric |
4 years ago |
Update Hi All I just want to say THANKS to all of you for your support at this horrible time. We are in a weird state of limbo at the moment but the community here is a big help and at the very least lets me... |
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RE: 60's Telecaster build - Which pickups? Attachment : 61DF380A-B2A9-4DD5-A747-DA88AB9CD30F.jpeg Attachment : IMG_3445.MP4 @eddie6string I let the pattern bit ride with a little squirt of WD-40. Drill out as much holes close to ... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: 60's Telecaster build - Which pickups? @tv101 No offence intended@robin! No worries TV, no offence taken, everyone is entitled to state their opinion and stand by it (apart from Boris of course) |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: 60's Telecaster build - Which pickups? I'm very proud of my F holes, they were a necessity to get rid of rusty nail holes. No offence intended @robin! The standard f-hole design is a, errrr, standard (!), so our eyes are used to seeing i... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: 60's Telecaster build - Which pickups? The Tele I built on a Workshop Course (remember them) has a Vintage Nocaster Creamery bridge pickup and a Seymour Duncan Vintage in the neck position with a 4 position switch (3 normal positions + in ... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: 60's Telecaster build - Which pickups? ask @clinton. That’s how he does it @mattbeels and @eddie6string Yeah that is the best thing, ask @clinton. He always seems to find an inventive way of doing things or just does them by hand. Let’s s... |
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4 years ago |
RE: 60's Telecaster build - Which pickups? I'm very proud of my F holes, they were a necessity to get rid of rusty nail holes. They were cut out with a coping saw, then chiselled and sanded to the final shape. @robin And so you should be Rob... |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: 60's Telecaster build - Which pickups? Could you do it with a Dremel @eddie6string? 🤔 🙏🎸🎶🙂 |
In forum Guitar Building Tricks and Tips |
4 years ago |
RE: 60's Telecaster build - Which pickups? @eddie6string I’ve never done one but if I had to I’d use a routing template, boom... done! |
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4 years ago |
RE: New Electric BUild Can I butt in on this supremely tasteful post and ask if anyone knows of a set of router templates for a Gretsh Malcolm Young Jet guitar? Really struggling to locate some @eddie6string - that's goin... |
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4 years ago |