Recent content by TonyFlyingSquirrel

My fave off of VHII!

The Ibanez FRG7620 in my Avatar to the left has a Gotoh Floyd, Tusq nut, and a straight string pull to the tuner posts of the Hipshot Locking tuners. No locking nut. I’ve slotted the nut and polished the slots and it stays in tune wonderfully despite my Vai-ish attempts to knock it out of...

Just saw this. Typically when I see Fender or Gibson launch a new guitar, it’s a Strat/Tele/LP/Ect with a new marketing speak added to it, but this guitar just has some bit of new class that genuinely I find appealing...

There are designers and luthiers, and there are players. That doesn’t make one to automatically be all three.

Pure Class!!!

I’m loving the IKEA homage, lol!

Just don’t go too deep. I have spare frets of varied sizes. I use a fret the next size taller than the ones already on the guitar. I use the fret tang nipper and sip the tang completely and polish it smooth. I do two of these and place one up agains the fretboard side of the nut, and another...

I learned the basics on needle files like the cheap kit from Harbor Freight, but actual nut files like the Music Nomad set make it far more precise.

Grizzly or Dewalt, or even Craftsman

I have one of those milling vices from Harbor Freight. Works nice, but I do not recommend their drill press. The chick drifts ever so much.

PRS also has some very smooth low friction pots.

It just isn’t level yet, you can still slowly build it up more, then you should have enough to level sand back and still have plenty of clear to protect the wood and maintain a deep shine once buffed out. It’s gonna be stunning once you get there though.

The king of dying wood for me is Great Ape, on this forum. He did dyework on my Ibanez RRG7620 in my avatar. https://unofficialwarmoth.com/threads/ngbd-new-guitar-body-day-great-ape-content-non-warmoth-body-stunning-artwork.29607/#post-418843...

Voodoo Labs Mondo, using the courtesy IEC AC port. I purchased a right angle 12” IEC cable for the Helix and have it plugged directly into the Mondo.

I’ll bite, sure thing, thanks so much. Sending Pm.