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[ Pickup Routes ] Next up, the pickup routes - Here I am marking out a new template. The prevous attempt (coping saw) was terrible, i just couldn't cope (literally?) Drilling the middle chunk out a bit before routing. It's not a drill press, just a hand drill, tape, and some dreamin'...

Thank you all for your comments :) I'm sorry for the delay in posting content, this is gonna be a bit of a bump... It's been really busy recently, working (and playing) hard! Woow, thanks guys, but I can only dream of having a project that cool! Frets all in, I couldn't resist a wee...

Audacity can slow down parts of/or entire tracks, changing tempo and maintaining pitch if desired, though its more of an editor. You would have to "import" the tracks and it might take a few seconds each time you want to begin listening. This will provide the maximum quality available (based on...

Those scores really stand out! Here is my fret-slot sawing set-up. You can see the first two slots having been cut, and the £6 on eBay Flush-Cutting saw that cut them. I used two bits of plywood, two clamps, and two initial saw-cuts as a tiny vice for holding the fretwire still while i cut...

[ Glueing the Neck ] Carefully masking the wood surrounding the neck join - I intend to absolutely flood the lands with glue. The neck being joined. The masking tape absorbed alot of glue... ALOT of glue. It scraped off okay. Masking Tape Yay! :) I drilled holes and...

This sounds ridiculous at first, but you can learn to mute the string with your left hand fretting fingers as you move them off of the string. You can practice doing this, initially with individual fingers; Push a string down, the as the first step, lift your finger to the point where the string...

Thanks guys :) More updates below. It is definitely not to everyones taste! I shaped the body using a detail sander my dad bought me (perfect gift for the moment!), giving the front and back a gentle curve towards the ends The cutaway looks small but the horn doesn't go out that far and so...

I also agree for the first body and the second headstock - The first body will suit the angled neck pickup due to those angled curves, and the second headstock suits that body better.

I can't wait to hear the results with the buffered circuit (and learn about it). Thank you for making this topic :)

I'm afraid it will not have those little love heart inlays, although i was toying with the idea when i saw love-heart jewellery on ebay! Thanks for the compliments Mysticlamp and simulclass83. Now it is body Routing time!! This is alot of fun! The plywood template needs to be raised a...

Does this edit-lock affect Topic creation posts as well? Sometimes it is useful to have a topic creation post that accumulates/summarises important posts throughout a topic (e.g. post your <this> and we shall collect them all on the first post).

GSingleton, I think turbo may have been looking at your statement "do not listen to these people" as though you were snubbing everyones advice other than your own.. perhaps you were meaning that the topic started should not simply leave it at the advice in this topic but rather do further and...

Awsomes :) About two weeks ago I was watching some videos on YouTube and it told me underneath that they were coming by to play - Tickets bought :) (thank you internet)

As the first attempt at filling the gap was a poor little bend, and got further roughed up as i sanded the neck tenon down to match and squeezed it in until snug, i made a new piece to bend into the gap. Because the neck tenon now fits extra snugly with the first piece of spruce, i was able to...

I know It's probably been said before but that body shape is fantastic! It has some of the positive aesthetic qualities of purely ergonomic designs that i've seen, but without the sacrafice of unexpected missing parts of guitar (though that can be very interesting too, but what I mean is that it...

The extra string can be a bonus to a wide variety of genres - You can tune it as you like, while still playing all of the standard tuning songs the same way on the six usual strings. e.g. you could use the extra string as a drone string for celtic folk, or use it as a bassline string to work...

Thank you for the nice comments guys :) @Linny I'm more in Paisley, but I am very fond of Glasgow and I'm in the city every week. Routing the Neck: I roughly cut some MDF into corresponding templates for the neck socket. This time, i used a saw to cut out triangles of ever sharpening...

That is good advice. I've seen so many clamps in images, it'd cost me more than the materials in the guitar to buy the clamps that everyone else uses! I have borrowed some clamps from work though, and they are massive! I'm not even sure why we have them, but i'm okay to borrow them for as long...

I love the guitar shape, and i think the purple pickups look fantastic and really bring out the richness in the darker woods. I like the idea of the green knobs and teal strings and green strings might make the purple pickups recede (although the strings would stand out more), but the teal could...

@skeels Thanks man, I'll keep posting :) I got a router though, and a pile of bits for £40 from B&Q. There will still be plenty of room for primitive tools though... I'm quite primitive @Swyse & BlackMastodon Also thanks; The headstock is quite small but my camera puts a lot of bendy...