Kalimar
Kalimar
@kalimar
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Joined: May 23, 2023
Last seen: Aug 29, 2023
Topics: 9 / Replies: 39
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RE: Hello from Nampa Idaho USA

Looking forward to seeing your builds here. Welcome

1 year ago
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RE: I’m addicted too 😜

@boo looks great. I think I've found an alternative to the treble bleed - the 50s wiring. Google it. Apparently a thing. It will give a similar effect...

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

Update! It's been slow and not much time to post. But we are making progress!

1 year ago
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RE: Preserving the nut line when cutting headstock angle

Awesome - thanks folks. Very helpful suggestions. I'll leave it unsolved in case anyone else has ideas.Have a great rest of your day!

1 year ago
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RE: Hi there! My Name is Arif Patel From Dubai, Preston, UK

Something about music and software technology. I think there's so much overlap, including the planning and estimating! 🤣 Welcome and I look forward ...

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

@clinton thanks for asking. I think it will definitely poke through. I've filled the gouges with resin. I'm actually curious to see how that turns out...

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

not sure why the audio came out so slow! Weird

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

My attempt at fixing the gouges left by the cranky router

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

Turns out our shop had some faulty colletes! I'm pretty sure these gouges will expose themselves so I'm going to try a little resin and make it a feat...

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

Ran into my first mishap. After a test run on the router table with some pine, my truss rod cavity got poked full of holes by a slippery router bit. t...

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

Made some patterns on the laser cutter. I'm using fairly thin MDF hardboard, My plan is to use the router table rather than handheld so I believe the ...

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

I agree! Fortunately someone else at the space, more competent than myself, made that jig. Made my life easy. The digital angle ruler really helped to...

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

Used a taper jig with the tablesaw for the first time. I think the headstock angle jig came out pretty good but we'll see when we actually use it

1 year ago
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RE: Hey from Julio Herrera

Welcome! Are you signed up for any of the courses?

1 year ago
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RE: making a disposable razor into an awesome scraper

Yes - I believe it's the same "build an electric guitar" course as what's available here.

1 year ago
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RE: making a disposable razor into an awesome scraper

I finally found it on Udemy! It's in the section on gluing the body blanks! Take the new razor blade and scrape it on a sharpening stone. It creates a...

1 year ago
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RE: Kalimar's First Guitar Build from Scratch

@nsj Very cool - and a great way to use all of your wood. I'm hoping to start finding old free tables to upcycle into guitars after I get a little mor...

1 year ago
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RE: Headstock angle jig

Great. Thanks for that.

1 year ago
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