MIMF

"Extreme situations call for extreme measures." I'm going to experiment a little with window insulating strip and see if I can feed some of that through the truss-rod recess. We'll see...

No, not absolutely certain. I broke a string tonight so I took the opportunity to clean and polish the frets and fretboard and discovered a loose tuner nut. I was hopeful that was it but, alas, no dice. I'll keep chasing. How on earth did you determine it was loose part in the tuner?! Did you take t...

David, thanks for confirming what I suspected. I've been telling people I'm sure it's a La Si Do for years - I knew it was made in Canada (per the heel stamp) and that it was made by a guy named Robert (roBEAR). It has a really comfortable profile and was built for speed. It's also quartersawn maple...

I love that cutout at the tip of the headstock. It looks like a puzzle piece.

I finished my first scratch build a month ago. Okay, the maple/ebony neck was one I bought in 1988 from Stew-Mac when I built my first guitar from prefab parts, but I did strip and refinish it. The body is from a plank of poplar I bought about 10 years ago and started, but I didn't have a neck-pocke...