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Thanks for the tips - I just used what seems to be quickly becoming my favorite hand tool... a razor blade. I caught the lacquer before it dried and it came off the fret tops very easy.

Sorry if this question has been asked already... tapping into the vast knowledge bank here again. I'm going to lacquer a fretboard that is bound and I have not installed the frets in yet. I think I should go ahead and install the frets, then lacquer the entire neck including the fretboard and frets....

I hate to have to ask but I could not find this discussed anywhere in the forum, could have been but my searching came up dry. So please forgive me if it's been discussed before. I'm working on my first neck-trough or (neck-thru) bass. Is achieving desired neck tilt just a matter of attaching the bo...

Awesome thanks

Please forgive me if this has already been answered in another thread.

Black Walnut - Good for archtop bodies?
Wild Black Cherry - Good for necks?

Just got off the phone with Hipshot and the bridge will not work with the stock mute. Well no I'm back to square one... Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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I'm looking mainly for the bridge mute and bridge cover in chrome http://www.flyguitars.com/graphics/part40b.jpg http://www.flyguitars.com/graphics/part7a.jpg I think I'll go with hipshot's 2 pole Gibson replacement bridge if it will work this the bridge mute (need to call hipshot to be sure). http:...

For side dots I wanted something bigger for old eyes to see and dark red rather than the standard 1/16" diameter and black or white store bought side dots. So I was looking at a couple of heavy fender pics and came up with an idea. I drilled a 1/2" hole in a chunk of wood but not all the w...

Four weeks, and worth every minute of it. That finish looks great! Seems like an awful lot of controls for a bass, though. One old trick to the patience problem is to have multiple projects going at once. You can apply a coat to one instrument, then go work on the fretboard of another. I used this ...

I have an old trapeze tailpiece. with this attached i make sure the E1st & E 6th strings intonate. Basically I measure down the string on the E 1st with the saddle 2/3 - 3/4 forward to start with and move the bridge slightly until both E's intonate properly. For string throughs I have a metal p...

Third times a charm?

Steve Senseney wrote:I would like to see your pics, but they don't show up for me!

Hi Steve - I adjusted the URL in the first post

You guys must have all the patience in the world besides building (which is the definition of patience) it took 4 weeks for the finish to cure... There is no way I could take the monthly challenge :lol: Thanks to EVERYONE on this site, I studied hard, read a lot and learned a ton. Arch Top and Back ...

Clay Schaeffer wrote:I think the $20 Harbor Freight trimmer is what makes some people consider "going there". <g>

I hear that, I've had one of those $20 routers for over a year that a friend gave me. I took it out of the box once and examined it, put it back in the box and it's been there every since.

I went "mid-evil" and used an adjustable razor knife. I don't recall the brand, I found it at auto zone in the 3, 5 and 10 dollar bin. It is all steel and has a thumb screw to hold the blade at the desired length. A few mins on my bench grinder to get the end square did the trick. it was a...

Geeze I own a sawmill and have wood out the ying yang is wild black cherry and walnut good for a solid body bass?

Jeff are you a violin guy?? Glass is a violin-culture scraper thing. :lol: no but I'll do anything to minimize sanding - I've developed quite a glass collection over the years, lots of different profiles, shapes and sizes... Be careful glass not only cuts wood like butter, it'll also cut you in a h...

Spokeshaves, razor blade and glass for me. Spoke shave for roughing, razor blade for shaving, glass for the finer stuff - I really dislike sanding...

jamie unden wrote:

Jeff Mills wrote:Wouldn't this work the same with just 3 on/off/on switches instead of 6 switches?

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Except that the Brian May wiring has the pickups in series and yours has the in parallel.

Which is better series or parallel? I'm asking because I really don't know which is better.

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Sounds like it's time for the magnifying head gear again - I wonder if I couldn't make up something with a slit in a dowel and just the the tip of like a stanley razor blade exposed. or... maybe I could make some scratch stock, god knows I got plenty of spent bandsaw blades from the sawmill to use f...