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I am learning to use a router with a template to route neck sockets, control cavity and pickup routes. These are for fender style solid body guitars. So likely needs a bearing that rides on the top so that I clamp template to the top and it follows the template and routes the cavity. Looking for sug...

I cut out my guitar bodies with a saber saw (incorrectly often called a jig saw) so have a jagged edge and not to the line left by the template. So my options are likely use a spindle sander and sand the body back to the template line or use a router, but that would need a 2" long straight rout...

wondering if there is a way to color the tops of a tele neck pickup black with a black cover so that it is stealth in a black pickguard? Obvious you can see from close inspection, but with an uncritical eye from a distance would be invisible?

One thing I have learned in fifty yrs of playing guitar, that the garbage no tone cheap instruments and amps of my youth, the cheap crap that we used till we could get a real gibson guitar and fender amp, that we had to use because it was cheap crap, is now very valuable and venerated as tone monste...

In 1957 The fender precision bass got a 4 saddle bridge. The reason being that when soloing in the upper frets, it would lose intonation. Seems to me that the neck being fretted to the 12 fret, but fretless above allows the use of a vintage 2 saddle bridge and then the musician plays fretless when s...

When he was alive I used to email Chip Todd, he is most certainly the father of modern electric guitar construction, he used thin veneer and just glued it with pressure, no vacuum bag.

Great ideas all of them, I don't the hide glue crackle finish will work for me because from what I read it only works on paint, maybe I am missing some information. I want the grain to show thru. I think you can get the effect I want by using nitro and then spraying it with freon, but I don't think ...

So, am going more for the yellow look on the P bass.

I am building a bass guitar that draws inspiration from the Fender '51 P bass. Not a copy of the bass, but it has that great country western look and so does knotty pine. So the shape and hardware will be similar to the old fender p bass and the wood and finish similar to the old Gretsch Roundup Gui...

Am building a guitar with a Tele bridge and pup. The neck pup will be a Duncan 59 with a coil split due to expected low output thinking about an outboard preamp or compressor, any thoughts about matching volume so no volume drop when using coil split?

Am hoping to relic the hardware so need source of supply or as although strip chrome back to nickel. When replying about stripping let us know if you have exp?

I am planning to to put thin veneer on a precision bass body copy. I used to correspond with with the late Chip Todd who never bothered to vacuum bag, but found using weight sufficient. The problem area would be the edges. I am not planning to use binding, but round over the edges, so the veneer wil...

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My bass bushings are a little small for the headstock tuner hole, they fit the tuners fine, but the bushing has a 5/8" od and the hole is a little bigger. Am wondering is a little liquid weld would do the trick. The tuners are already mounted. The alternative I see is plugging he holes and redr...

It worked, I scraped the neck pocket of excess finish, a little sanding and it fit thanks for everything

Just curious as to what you do to fit a slightly oversized Precision bass neck to a slightly undersized fender style body? I assume that I just take a wood file and make the same number of strokes on each side of the bass cavity until the neck drops in, but you may have some other way. This of cours...

For powering onboard effects, I thought it would be good to use usb charging, any thoughts about this?

space is not the issue, I am trying to get 9v to the electronics and what my options to do that are? creativing a cavity to hold the electronics is not the issue, it is how to power it with a battery? For example there may be a way to attach a battery box to a strap and power thru a strap jack? Just...

Am planning on putting some Guitar fetish mod boards into a guitar I am building.
Looking for suggestions to buy a battery box or other options?
What do you use to power onboard guitar effects and why?

how would I know what glue it is? anyway, I used a trim router and routed the edge then took a razer knife and removed the top, now am sanding it and making a new .25" flat plywood top. The problem with using steam is that the whole guitar might come apart. Have to put more blocks in it and sho...