@koendb excellent, looking forward to hearing it once I get everything together 🙂 I dropped a Dimarzio True Tone (think that’s what it’s called) into the bridge, mainly as a sadly quite expensive experiment with so called premium pickups. It’s…   Read more»

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Yes it’s hard to find a balance that feels good and a neck that’s too thin can be hard to play I find, as well as being unstable.

@koendb Brexit has made life difficult for guys like us. I’m still trying to get a wood order from Belgium that I placed in November 2019 for which I paid Belgian VAT and no doubt I will have to pay…   Read more»

@koendb Thanks. It will definitely improve as I’ll clean up the whole board at the end which will leave a much more uniform look too if nothing else. I suspect the lighter colour is tiny particles of glue dust in…   Read more»

@koendb I was careless filling the fret ends and on two of the frets the glue ran over the front of the board. I’ve managed to clean it up fairly well but now the wood is lighter on two frets…   Read more»

@koendb No. it is not a kit. I wrote out a check list of all the parts I needed and went and chose all the individual parts. To be honest, I don’t think I saved a penny by me doing…   Read more»

@koendb  @tej  @russ Thanks for your kind wishes and thoughts, I’m sure Gina is going to fine after her treatment. Yes the grain filler is to try and get as smooth a surface as I can before lacquering. It’s not…   Read more»

@koendb thanks for the rundown, I’d agree that claims of tonal improvement from filling the gaps are significant on an electric guitar are unlikely. I’m yet to see or indeed hear any proof of anything like that from wood choice…   Read more»

@koendb, so key question from your second build, what was the difference?

@koendb thank you 🙏 

Thanks for your feedback @koendb and @tej much appreciated. 👍

@koendb Don’t have it to hand, off the top of my head it’s going to end up 23mm at the headstock end. There’s a sizeable step from where I didn’t lock the depth stop in which means there’s now only…   Read more»

Oh man that’s amazing, that tone is so good @koendb 

Thanks @Koendb.  I got one from Dylan pickups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjpReLqe7k
  

@koendb 🤘😈🤘

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Sounds good and I’m pleased you have got it finished

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Looks like we are all in the remedial class for routing, extra practice needed.

I gave up caring about tear out and small dings and chips,

@koendb I can’t let this one go, it’s way too obvious! Should be able to clean it up ok though, in theory 😬

@koendb That’s an interesting idea which didn’t occur to me. I’ve heard of builders ageing new instruments to look old but I’m not up to date with the current trends as I’m not an electric player. The photo doesn’t show…   Read more»

Great work @koendb. ✌️😁 
🎶🎸🙂🙏