Recent content by al5

The grain filling and sealing is what I have been reading/watching about recently. I have read good things about using Z-Poxy (for clear grain filling) and tinted (like the Good Filla stuff). The latter if I want to accentuate the grain more. But the first question is seal or fill first? Right...

Nice work! Is that Pearloid binding? Where did you get the metal neck pocket holder doo-dad (I’m sure there’s a name for it that I don’t know 😁)

Yes, sorry, I was thinking of the neck pocket style - it is a Jag/Mustang neck. I wish I’d thought to ask Warmoth to include some cutoff scraps of roasted swamp ash to test with. Not sure if that was a possibility, but wouldn’t have hurt to ask. I wonder if I could somehow roast some ash I...

I am embarking on my first build - a 7/8 Tele with a 24” scale Strat neck. The body is roasted swamp ash: I have a good amount of woodworking experience, but not much in the way of finishing (unless you count wood floors and simple stain and poly projects). I’d like to go for a finish that...

@rauchman I am thinking of doing exactly what you did here (my first build) – except with a Tele body + Strat tilt-back conversion neck (to avoid the side-adjust screw that gets in the way of moving the neck mounting hole down). It looks like you had the body pre-drilled for the mounting holes...