Mark… I assume 70mm will be more than adequate at the body end?I have a piece of mahogany I can glue on to give me that depth.Were you going to instruct me on the order of events to make the…   Read more»

Thanks… if I go with magnets I think they will be a reasonable distance from the pickups holding on the backplate rather than the scratchplate… good heads-up though…

Mighty Perdy! Nice work again. Hats off as always…What’s next?

{The thinking behind this project…I always revert to my Strat. It’s comfortable for me to play and has a rainbow of tone colours that I love. I really don’t play the guitars I make or the others I own even…   Read more»

So you did Mark – I couldn’t see through the tears of disappointment 😭This is the way we shall progress… thanks again for your patience.

Thinks… Hey but Mark… as I intend to spray said Stratomonster a Stratty colour I can attach a similar block underneath at the body end to the optimum thickness wot wot wot?

Ah! Not having the hardware yet I hadn’t measured the depth of the trem block. Back to the drawing board! I had also been watching video of people puttiong the angle into the neck rather than the body but it…   Read more»

My block is 970x110x42This is a first draft and I will re-draw when I have the actual components. I have used your fingerboard so that sets the length dimensions.

the controls are roughly where they are on a standard Strat,…[Read more]

Hah – the plan is to have no pup surrounds but to load from the rear. No screws on the front at all. Mad (probably) – but I think I have a plan. I may not have enough neck depth…   Read more»

Now I have your lovely piece of rosewood I have begun the drawing and more detailed planning… I can now see that a conventional Strat not only has the fb thickness but also up to 5mm of neck wood when…   Read more»

I will experiment sometime I think… you get a lotta CA glue from Poundland for er… £1… seems to work fine.thanks for great input again…(it echoes a bit in this sparsely populated space doesn’t it….)H 

back to the original subject…I wonder whether using cyanoacrylate as a wood finish would have done the job?Anybody had any experience of using superglue in this way?H

More good input – thanks.Ben at Crimson is a vintage tool nut and runs a shop specialising in those in parallel to Crimson Guitars. Perhaps he thought that the tools were more relevant to the Maker Show. I’m impressed you…   Read more»