Recent content by aquietstorm

I like it regardless.

I thought about it some more last night and I think I can get very close without doing a lot of math.  If I intonate one string on the saddle and measure from the back of the bridge to the center of the saddle, then do the same for the other string on the same saddle I will then have the...

Well plans changed a bit.  I picked up a slightly heavy swamp ash tele body from the web specials at USACG and am in the process of finishing it.  Started with a tobacco burst and screwed it up so I stripped it to start over.  I got a nice maple/rosewood warmouth neck for it that still needs a...

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Ok, so I can't help myself.  I ordered a 12 string neck. I plan to give it a try on my swamp ash thinline.  I'm going to try the 12 string gotoh bridge saddles in a dual loading tele bridge as solochenko suggested.  But I think the holes might not line up in which case I will have to do some...

Can I grain fill a body that has previous been sprayed with laquer?  I have some Stew Mac waterbased filler and need to know if I can use it here.

I was going to use this pre-stain conditioner which is for oil based stains.  http://www.minwax.com/products/woodprep/prestain.cfm Then follow with this stain in a reddish color.  http://www.minwax.com/products/woodstain/woodfinish.cfm

So what would be a good dense heavy wood for the body?

Good point.  I didn't think about the balance.

Has anyone here done it?  What pickups? I was thinking a 72 thinline might be nice with the 22 fret 12 string neck and gotoh 12 string bridge.  Would this be a nice guitar or an abomination?

Can I put laquer over minwax oil stain?  What about grain filler and the stain? I have a swampash body coming soon and I want to go with a dark reddish stain to get a wine like color.  And I want to use stain so the grain is a darker red.  My plan: 1.  prestain treatment for more uniform...

I just ordered a set of their premium texas strat single coils so I hope they are decent.  I'm building a strat with modest components to see what I can squeeze out of it..

I'm going to start building a strat in a couple weeks and I need to choose some pickups.  I want it to be as noisless as possible yet retain the authentic strat tone.  In looking around I came across Lace Holy Grail pickups.  Has anyone tried them and what do you have to say about them?

Actually the mercury magnetics transformers are mostly hype.  All you really need for an Epi VJR is a Hammond 125 DSE combined with a few different resistors and caps to make a loud little tone monster.  Check out www.sewatt.com for the details.  They broke out of 18watt.com to discuss single...

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