Recent content by chubs

Digging up an old post, guitar is all finnished now after being put aside for about 10 months. Re doing the grain fill After a couple of coats of paint Final coat neck inserts Assembley

Thanks for the tip, I was going to sand the scratches etc out that the sealer highlighted, mix some black die into the filler, re fill, sand then seal again. Wood finishing is all new to me.

Got a coat of sealer on and it looks terrible, going to have to basically start over, a lot of the grain filler has come out and there is ugly sanding marks all over it that I didn't see before, bummer.

Bit of an update, I've moved house and have only had a few short bursts of motivation since. So here is what I've done Grain filled the body Coat of Black dye Sanded dye I ran out of sandpaper before I finished so I'll finish the sanding off tonight and get some sealer on it with any luck

Yeah, if you have a warmoth body there will probably be slot already cut for truss rod access, you can't either cut a matching slot in the pick guard or remove the pick guard for adjustment.

Progress has been slow, I had the neck in for a fret dress and had a set of pickups wound for me by a local bloke. Unfortunately some of the finishing supplies I need are out of stock at the moment, hopefully I don't have to wait too long to get them, the weather is getting better for...

I replied to your PM, But I guess I may as well post here as well for others. This is the case I have SKB fender case. It fits quite snug, although it has gaps around the body it doesn't move around much at all and I would have no issues putting on a plane just the way it is.

I have a Chevy V8 in a toyota, so that's a bit of a mix, but I use to work for a division of Boeing where everything was imperial, hated it. Metric is much simpler. Oh and I have one of your neck plates on my bass which will get played a lot more than this guitar, as I don't know how to play...

Correct, once you go metric you'll never go back.

Best to drill them yourself, I wanted mine to have a classic tele layout without a switch The chrome plate is just decorative

Not yet, still on the wish list.

Finally making some progress on my Carve top Tele I had a Just out of the box thread, but it's been a while so here it is again Tuners installed Body arrived I didn't want a neck plate on this, so I had my mate machined up some inserts that would go into the body and a M5 cap screw sits...

Go for a double neck

I will look to see what epoxy I can get locally, doubt anyone would ship that kind of thing internationally

I have a Black Korina body to paint, it will be a transparent finnish, to me the pores in the wood look black, should I tint the grain filler black to maintain a natural look?