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  1. StarbardGuitar

    Build #5 - Quilted Maple Top, Indian Rosewood Neck Super Strat

    I had a little bit of time to work on the build today so I made the body template and cut the body out. I planned to do more tonight but had to stop early because I caught my finger in the planer/jointer and took a big chunk of skin and nail off... Thankfully it didn't go really deep but that...
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    Build #5 - Quilted Maple Top, Indian Rosewood Neck Super Strat

    I glued up the body and neck blanks last night, cleaned them up this morning. The neck is Indian Rosewood with Bubinga strips and Sycamore veneers to set them apart.
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    Build #5 - Quilted Maple Top, Indian Rosewood Neck Super Strat

    LMI delivery came today, most of what I was still waiting for before I can start was the rest of the wood. So here's some wood porn for you guys... Got the Indian Rosewood for the neck on the left, the Bubinga is under that and the mahogany for the body is underneath that. Birdseye maple...
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    How Deep Should a Neck Pocket Be?

    There are already some great answers here, but my general rule of thumb is that your neck pocket should be just deep enough so that when you bottom out the saddles on your bridge, the strings should be resting on the frets or maybe just slightly above. Just make sure you still have plenty of...
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    Build #5 - Quilted Maple Top, Indian Rosewood Neck Super Strat

    Thanks! Yeah, I've had the same experience, one time I ordered a fingerboard that was only 1/4" thick (most are 5/16" before radiusing) and had asked them to radius it and slot it for me, and almost immediately after I placed my order online they called me to let me know I would need to change...
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    Build #5 - Quilted Maple Top, Indian Rosewood Neck Super Strat

    Thanks guys! Actually, I wanted it to be a 25.5" scale and my drawing is at that scale, but when I was ordering my fingerboard from LMI I used their fret position calculator to make sure I could fit 24 frets at that scale plus enough room behind the nut for a floyd rose style locking nut, and...
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    Build #5 - Quilted Maple Top, Indian Rosewood Neck Super Strat

    Hey guys! I will be starting my 5th build soon, which will be some sort of a super strat :hbang:. I typically don't like to build copies or clones of guitars that already exist, like say making a strat copy, because I just think if I am going to build something from scratch it should stand out...
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    Guitarbuilding - Episode 2!

    Damn that neck is beautiful! It's amazing how gorgeous something as simple as the contrast of light maple vs dark wenge can be. How heavy is the wenge neck, say compared to a maple or mahogany neck? I'm trying to decide what woods I want to use for the neck on my next build, but I want to make...
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    Second guitar - Black limba/BB/multi-scale 7

    This looks great so far! I love that combination of black limba and buckeye burl, very interesting combo
  10. StarbardGuitar

    My 4th Build - Singlecut Neck-Thru 6-String, Mahogany, Flame Maple, Ebony

    Thanks! I learned a lot of what I do from reading other people's threads on forums like these, so I like to share what I've learned as well to hopefully help others. This was my first attempt at a scarf joint, so I am definitely going to mess with different techniques like you mentioned on my...
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    My 4th Build - Singlecut Neck-Thru 6-String, Mahogany, Flame Maple, Ebony

    I've been very busy with school so I didn't get to make a video with this guitar sooner, but here's a video demonstrating some clean and some distorted tones with this guitar! Clean tones were recorded in the middle position, and all distorted tones were on the bridge pickup alone...
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    Advice on stain + oil finish (newb)

    Hey, sorry that this is too late since you've already done the dyeing, but I had the same problem with stain seeping through the masking tape one of my builds. If you want to avoid getting dye or stain in a certain spot, your best bet is to seal that spot with sealer or paint of some sort. That...
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    Guitars Built by Members of SS.org [pic heavy]

    Thank you so much! Look out for my next build - I should be able to start my next one in a couple months and I will definitely include a build thread!
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    Entering the world of light modifications

    I'm not sure if anyone else has answered your question about the F-spaced vs. regular spaced pickups, but I can at least chime in with my own experience. I've swapped many pickups out for DiMarzio's, and in my experience F-spacing is really only critical for the bridge. I've always gone regular...
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    Jackson js22-7 refinish 1st time

    I say yes - because if you want to attempt to wet sand & buff the finish you want as much clear coat on top as possible. Trust me, I've sanded through way too many times and it slows the process down a lot when you wet sand or burn through when buffing because you have to go back and fix it. The...
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    Misha Mansoor Style Wiring - Super 5-way Switch, Split Inner & Outer Coils. Help!!!

    Thanks for clarifying! Just curious, what would be the reasoning for someone flipping the neck pickup? I assume what you mean by that is that rather than the adjustable pole pieces being towards the neck on the neck pickup, that they'd be facing towards the bridge pickup instead. I've never seen...
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    Misha Mansoor Style Wiring - Super 5-way Switch, Split Inner & Outer Coils. Help!!!

    Though actually, there is also this diagram Which has the same switching set up, but it labels them as being in series. So I assume that means the other one I just linked to is in parallel? :scratch: I'm getting confused haha. I imagine the tone I'm looking for would be the parallel version...
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    Misha Mansoor Style Wiring - Super 5-way Switch, Split Inner & Outer Coils. Help!!!

    Whenever I mess up some sort of complex wiring like this I just get pissed off and go for a simpler wiring set up instead :lol: Thank you so much for that! I always forget to check DiMarzio's site for schematics because I feel like seymour duncan's is easier to use haha. That looks just like...
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    Misha Mansoor Style Wiring - Super 5-way Switch, Split Inner & Outer Coils. Help!!!

    Hey guys, I was watching this interview with :bowdown: Misha Mansoor of Periphery, where he talks about his signaure models with Jackson. He says that the 5-way in the guitar is wired so that positions 1, 3, and 5 are what you'd expect with a normal 3-way switch (bridge, both, neck) and that...
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    Guitars Built by Members of SS.org [pic heavy]

    Also, here's another picture I took. This one has the two guitars I've built together laying against an old chevy caprice. The other two instruments I've built are basses, the first one I've taken apart because the neck has some issues, the other was built for someone else so these are my only...


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