MIMF

My opinion (take it how you will, and maybe with a grain of salt) is that it's a balance of neck/bridge geometry and fretwork. I just picked up a cheap Gibson Les Paul Special at GC, and the fretwork is immaculate. Looks like they finally got their Plek machine dialed in, because I dropped the strin...

Looks good, John!

I significantly reduced the hum in my LP Special DC style build by placing an "air coil" in the control cavity. I used an old ceramic Tele bridge pickup sans the magnet. Wired it up in series after the pickup switch, and can bypass it with a push/pull pot. It doesn't cut 100% of the hum, a...

Great looking axe, there! Nice work...

At the ReRanch site under "Basic Refinishing" then "Aerosol Sunbursts", they recommend making a cardboard template slightly smaller than your guitar body, and spraying your burst from the edge, so you'll get a slight amount of feathering to soften the line of the black or brown b...

I think one of the biggest mistakes I made on my earlier guitars was trying to dimension the neck width/string taper exactly on the saw as opposed to going slightly oversized and then sanding to fit. I ended up with sloppy neck joints that I then had to use veneer to "shim" on either side ...