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INSANE manufacturing techniques revealed!

I just tried my '59 Roundback and my Fatback, both with 1-3/4" nuts, and they're equally easy to do thumb-over. I'm a big-handed freak though. Well, I wear X-Large or XX Large gloves, anyway. I actually find the fatter necks are easier for me, because with thinner necks I have to space my...

You can connect the shield to the ground wire of the pickup once you decide which one will be ground in your application.

Thanks for the explanation. Do you find that alcohol works better than water to raise grain? I've never tried it.

What is the procedure? It looks interesting.

What was the technique? (flame maybe?)

I think beginning is a good way to start.

I don't know if you're in the US, but I just put the screws in my Warmoth cart. If I choose "USPS Ground Advantage", shipping is $9.45. That's still pretty high, but better.

It's who I am... it's what I do.

Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.

That's sure to my my Christmas brighter, Spud... Thank you! The best holiday wishes back to you!

It appears to be fall-away, which to me is a good thing.

You're not an idiot... just the victim of too much advertising lingo in the world to keep straight. :)

I must be out of the loop, because I don't know what "pro construction" is and I can't find reference to it on the Warmoth site. The last neck I got from them was "modern" construction, and had some fall-away out of the box, which I find a good thing. The fall-away would have prevented it from...

He sounds more like a bad tech than a luthier. If you're good with a file, and have steady hands, you can probably square it up and make it OK. Or do as Rick suggested and take it to a real Luthier.

I have large hands too. One of my Warmoth necks has a 2-3/4" nut width and is a Fatback with 6100 stainless frets. It's my favorite of any I have. If you have big hands, a nice baseball bat neck can be very comfortable. Welcome to the board, midge333!

Very nice, Andrew! I like a Strat with a lot of wood showing like that. I did something like that myself.

When they're all the way clockwise, the capacitors are still slightly in the picture, since they're in series with the the pot's full resistance. That's why some guys use no-load pots that break the connection between the wiper and the resistance trace when all the way clockwise. But as you...

Even with both tone pots all the way clockwise?

Yes, with two capacitors the effective capacitance is the sum of the two when both pickups are on. Two capacitors lets you have different values for the two pickups, but having only one prevents adding the two in the both-pickups position.