Hey guys!
This is gonna be kinda a "need help" and "show off" thread.
Like 1½ year ago i bought a 7 string guitar and im all into 7'ns nowadays and my old LP started to collecting dust. So i decided to crank it up a bit by make it heavy custom. Diden't thought about the issues before i started and it ended up with leaving it for 1 year in a corner here at home. Now i decided to take up the work with it again. the problem is, i was going to change the binding on it since the old one have started to crack and stuff so i bought new binding, to bad in wrong dimension. So there i stood witha neck without bindings and no idea how to actually repair a neck, i even took 4-5 frets of it at the bottom (yes im an idiot). Started to work on the body finish instead and the body is close to be done really but the neck is still fuckedup and missing bindings and 4-5 frets at the bottom of it. And since it's not a bolt on neck i find it hard to replace it aswell. My idea was to make it clean and put some string through on it.
All that stuff has been no problems and the pics will probably speak for themself, But yeah. The neck is my main problem here.. Im quite sure that im not able to get a new binding on there, lacking experince and lacking tools for it aswell. So i got two options: 1. Polish the frets/tree material flat like there never was any binding there or 2. Just give it to someone that actually can put a binding on there and spend like god knows how much to get it fixed.
My worries about polish it down flat is that, maybe the neck will be way to thin to be playable or uncomfortable, even tho it's not much that needs to be polished away, like 1.5mm on each side of the neck...
You guys think that will work or?
3. option may be to actually try to equip a bolt on neck?
Since it's a old epiphone guitar i don't wanna spend to much money on it either..
Any tips/ideas about the polishing on the neck sides? will it work or end up in a nightmare just..?
Take a look at the pics and try to get a idea of what i mean.
/cheers Jimmie
This is gonna be kinda a "need help" and "show off" thread.
Like 1½ year ago i bought a 7 string guitar and im all into 7'ns nowadays and my old LP started to collecting dust. So i decided to crank it up a bit by make it heavy custom. Diden't thought about the issues before i started and it ended up with leaving it for 1 year in a corner here at home. Now i decided to take up the work with it again. the problem is, i was going to change the binding on it since the old one have started to crack and stuff so i bought new binding, to bad in wrong dimension. So there i stood witha neck without bindings and no idea how to actually repair a neck, i even took 4-5 frets of it at the bottom (yes im an idiot). Started to work on the body finish instead and the body is close to be done really but the neck is still fuckedup and missing bindings and 4-5 frets at the bottom of it. And since it's not a bolt on neck i find it hard to replace it aswell. My idea was to make it clean and put some string through on it.
All that stuff has been no problems and the pics will probably speak for themself, But yeah. The neck is my main problem here.. Im quite sure that im not able to get a new binding on there, lacking experince and lacking tools for it aswell. So i got two options: 1. Polish the frets/tree material flat like there never was any binding there or 2. Just give it to someone that actually can put a binding on there and spend like god knows how much to get it fixed.
My worries about polish it down flat is that, maybe the neck will be way to thin to be playable or uncomfortable, even tho it's not much that needs to be polished away, like 1.5mm on each side of the neck...
You guys think that will work or?
3. option may be to actually try to equip a bolt on neck?
Since it's a old epiphone guitar i don't wanna spend to much money on it either..
Any tips/ideas about the polishing on the neck sides? will it work or end up in a nightmare just..?
Take a look at the pics and try to get a idea of what i mean.
/cheers Jimmie
