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Hi Gene I would not worry to much about the difference in hardness in body woods. I've used hard maple tops with pretty dense swamp ash without any problems. Just use sanding blocks (avoid sanding without blocks at all). A neck pocket in a spruce body should be strong enough. Fender uses spruce bodi...

Hi all, I'm searching for good books and kits to learn how to build, modify and eventually design my own ptp tube amps. I was thinking about ordering a simple kit of a 5F1 based amp for a start, but I don't want to just blindly follow a manual, I want to understand what i'm doing, what part does wha...

Hi there, For a new build of a semi hollow electric guitar I'm searching for a wiring diagram for 2 widerange humbuckers with a 6 way rotary switch and 1 tone and volume knob. the positions would be: 1. Humbucker bridge 2. Single coil bridge (the coil closest towards the neck) 3. Both humbuckers 4. ...

I have some plans for a new build (a series of three to start with). The guitar will be completely made out of thermo-ash. Because I want to make a one piece neck/fingerboard like the maple necks from fender, with carbon fibre as trussrod strip, I was wondering if roasted white ash will be hard enou...

This one is a copy of a Rickenbacker 650 Dakota. Worked out pretty good and sounded likewise, made mainly out of leftover parts and woods. I sometimes regret selling it. Maple neck-thru construction with Walnut wings, greenheart fretboard, Gretsch filtertron pickups and a stainless steel pickguard. ...

Hi there, I was wondering if it's possible to roast your own wood, lets say in a kitchen oven. I would like to use some roasted ash for a couple of bodies but can't seem to find any suppliers here in Europe that provide the right dimensions for a body. I once placed some old spruce body blanks in th...

Hi All, Long time since i've posted on the forum but I have a small dilemma with plans for a new acoustic guitar. I want to build an acoustic guitar with preamp knobs on the top of the guitar, like on an electric guitar. So say 4 knobs (volume, bass, midd and treble), the battery holder will be situ...

Hi Bryan,

The neckpocket will be bare wood. Only the neck will be finished in tru-oil before gluing the body and neck together. The body itself will be finished before joining with the neck but the pocket stays unfinished.

Hi Marc, interesting. What exactly do you mean with polymerisation? Does the tru-oil reacts with (for example) titebond in some kind of way?

For my recent builds, I want to finish my neck with tru-oil and the body with a Nitrocellulose finish. Therefor I want to oil the neck and finish the body seperately and then glue them togetheter. Is it possible to glue a tru-oil finished neck to bare wood or should I glue first and then oil? Thanks...

Hi all, Does anyone have experience with The GFS NYII and III pickups? I'm interested in ordering a pair of both of them.

thanks guys, I'll try to post a picture of the actual guitar this evening. I did post this at work so searched for a simular guitar on google. indeed this is not the standard jaguar bridge. She's already using 011 strings. I have thought about a shaller bridge like this one: http://www.atgp.nl/eigen...

Hey guys, Last night my girlfriend asked me if I could change the bridge of her squier jaguar with something more stable. Unfortately it's kind of an ought bridge design so I couldn't come up with a standard solution. Any ideas on how to fix this? Reason for changing the bridge is staying in tune mo...

Hi there Alexander, I used Tru-oil. About 6 layers just wiped on with some clear cloth (old t-shirts). Nice finish although I should polish it with steelwool. @ Jim: Sorry for using a fictional username. I have no idea how to change it to my real name in my account settings. It must be more then 8 y...

Some specs: Neck: Maple Body: Walnut fretboard: Some kind of rosewood scale: 24" pickups: Filtertrons It has a 4 way rotary switch to select Neck, neck+bridge out of phase, neck+bridge in phase, bridge. The other control is volume. In my experience I almost never use a tone control so I left th...

Hi there, Been a while since I've been here, since building has disappeared to the background for a couple of years. But last week I finished a new build of a guitar-model I always wanted to have, a Rickenbacker 650D. Here's the result, hope you guys like it. It's definitely my best build so far: ht...

Anybody ever made his own aluminium one pieze bridge, like for example a Compton style bridge? If so, how did you do it and how did it work out for you? I want to put a one piece bridge on my new self build, but am worried about intonation when ordering a compton. It would be nice to intonate with a...