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RE: Explorer (or maybe LP) with Floyd Rose

@steveh Trussrod fully tight and still bowing forward? You could try adding a bit of physical pressure to pull the neck back and see if the trus...

10 months ago
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RE: les Paul style

@markbailey learnt to carve the top and got inspired to do the heel from one of your lives where you did that carve top with an amber burst.

10 months ago
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RE: les Paul style

@russ I'm all about the superstrat myself but it's nice to build variety.

10 months ago
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RE: les Paul style

@liebe depends on whether it's glued or bolted, I like bolted pretty snug if possible but glue in needs room for the glue and to tight can cause real ...

10 months ago
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10 months ago
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RE: Thicknesser?

@liebe Radian tools sell a planer bit to use with a router sled, it's excellent. Just take small bites. A thickness planer or planer table is a...

10 months ago
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RE: Thicknesser?

@liebe make yourself a cheap router sled, I recently did that with a piece of contiboard and a couple of rails. Great for getting things straight. The...

10 months ago
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RE: Body blank joint

For gluing it's better rough so 80 is good. I think the join disappears more and also glue gets a better hold, gets right into the fibres instead of f...

11 months ago
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Answer to: Body blank joint

Flat, no light showing through. And yeh it can be a pain in the muffler prepping wood but it has to be done. Handplane, sanding, router and straight e...

11 months ago
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RE: Copper tele

Well this turned out nice, sounds great, plays great but I'll probably get a green arm at some point lol Final video will be up in a day or two ...

11 months ago
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RE: Copper tele

And a bit more, tops glued on, edges filed and sanded over and my tele neck pickup ring finally arrived. Also copper on headstock and logo on trussrod...

11 months ago
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RE: Copper tele

As usual it's all on my youtube including the cheek clenching latest episode lol

11 months ago
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RE: Copper tele

@liebe it'll either be extra quiet or extra noisy lol

11 months ago
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RE: Copper tele

Cut my first ever f hole today and glued the plate on the headstock

11 months ago
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RE: Copper tele

@brie Yeh basically a neck through. Anyway been back at it, F hole next

11 months ago
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RE: Bass number 2

@russ cheers, wait and see my next build lol!

12 months ago
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RE: Hello from Denmark

@bjarni hi and welcome. There's quite a lot on the youtube channel too under the live heading. Mark did a fair bit of streaming when covid was on the ...

12 months ago
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RE: Bass number 2

Well that's my 2nd bass sorted

12 months ago
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RE: Bass number 2

Smoothed off the sharp edges and started the finishing

1 year ago
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