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RE: les Paul style

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

2 years 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 ...

2 years 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...

2 years 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...

2 years 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...

2 years 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...

2 years 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 ...

2 years 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...

2 years ago
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RE: Copper tele

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

2 years ago
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RE: Copper tele

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

2 years ago
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RE: Copper tele

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

2 years ago
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RE: Copper tele

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

2 years ago
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RE: Bass number 2

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

2 years 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 ...

2 years ago
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RE: Bass number 2

Well that's my 2nd bass sorted

2 years ago
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RE: Bass number 2

Smoothed off the sharp edges and started the finishing

2 years ago
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RE: Okay, my first big mistake, but I think it's fixable, help! 🙂

@somethingnicer Most of that will be removed when carving the neck too so don't worry to much. I doubt anyone will ever notice once the build is finis...

2 years ago
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RE: Bass number 2

Bit more progress, bridge fitted, pickup and control cavities done, headstock done and control cavity cover.

2 years ago
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