Boo
Boo
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RE: 🎸 Guitar Hardware Ideas🎸

@e-den-hertog What about this one.

6 years ago
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RE: 🎸 Guitar Hardware Ideas🎸

Grainger ferrule blocks but you need the routing templates too! They are good though.

6 years ago
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RE: 🎸 Guitar Hardware Ideas🎸

I bought these neck ferrules recently, just to experiment with instead of using wood screws to bolt necks on with. Again, Grainger have top quality st...

6 years ago
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RE: 🎸 Guitar Hardware Ideas🎸

@russ Are those tuners the Da Vinci ones from Schaller? I really do like those and I will use them on a build one day.

6 years ago
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RE: Is anyone still buying guitars?

@tv101 No, I attribute certain dates to certain events in my life. I am dyslexic so my brain works differently. I did an honours degree as a mature st...

6 years ago
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RE: Hello everyone.

Hey @peebee Paul, welcome and you will find everything you need here. You can be our resident Bruce Dickinson! 🤘😁🤘

6 years ago
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6 years ago
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RE: Short scale advice

I don’t believe it! Ive just realised that my Fender Strat has a 50mm bridge humbucker with a 52mm bridge (trem). How strange! All this time I’ve s...

6 years ago
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RE: Is anyone still buying guitars?

I’m not even considering buying another guitar, I’m just going to make them from now on. Unless I stumble upon something special for very little money...

6 years ago
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RE: Is anyone still buying guitars?

Before that I bought this Ibanez PGM 301 in about 2008 for about £800

6 years ago
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RE: Is anyone still buying guitars?

Before that I bought this American Fender Strat Deluxe 2013 model, I paid about £1,350 brand new in 2013. It’s got some fancy electronics. I bought it...

6 years ago
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RE: Is anyone still buying guitars?

@tv101 I think the last one I bought was in about 2015 because I’ve always wanted one from being a kid. This is my Ibanez JEM 77P in Black and Blue fl...

6 years ago
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RE: Short scale advice

@russ Yes this Schaller bridge looks really interesting, there are some great modern bridges around these days.

6 years ago
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RE: Short scale advice

@markbailey That’s good to know Mark, thanks very much. @tv101 it will still be interesting to see what those measurements are. There is no rush now t...

6 years ago
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RE: Short scale advice

@tv101 Thanks, that would be a big help. Short scale as in standard Gibson 24.75”

6 years ago
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RE: Short scale advice

He suggested this bridge and only wants the one pickup. So the guitar will look similar to a LP Junior, short scale, one pickup, no scratch plate, in ...

6 years ago
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RE: Short scale advice

@tv101 Thanks for your help Tony, I am getting myself tied up in knots! Im thinking of using this Schaller bridge to match the 50mm spaced bridge p...

6 years ago
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RE: Short scale advice

A few pictures, if they help.

6 years ago
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