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I've also seen this done with strips cut from packing foam - sort of like the foam you might find in a photography lens case. It's always good to have a few options to skin the same cat - depending on what you have on hand at the time.

This whole FBI thing reminds me of the Blues Brothers. Guitar Buyer: Can you tell me if this neck is made of rosewood or ebony? What were the guitar maker's personal habits? Was the guitar maker quiet? Did he make much noise? Guitar Salesperson: OMG are you from the FBI Guitar Buyer: No ma'am...

No tracking number from them Updown - using international express. It's been a week I don't expect it yet - but I expect them to tell me the tracking number or at least acknowledge receipt of the order - which the tracking number would satisfy as well. er I actually ordered a regular white...

Nice bass - I wouldn't mind making one of these myself - maybe next projec  t!  :occasion14:

The delivery came today - everything looks great :icon_biggrin: I'm having a bad time with www.guitarpartsresource.com with the bits and pieces I ordered - they just won't acknowledge my order or give me a tracking a number - basically they can't be contacted on the phone and they won't answer a...

Wow sw-eet looking guitar. I bet it looks as good up close as it does in the pics. :occasion14:

Wow - brilliant looking guitar. So exciting when you open the box and they look so great isn't it. Enjoy the build. :occasion14:

Looking good  :occasion14: Have you decided on what pickups and pickguard colour you are going to use?  

I've got the tube sockets in a quarter inch drive socket set - so I'm OK there. I just worried about splitting the wood if I tried brute force to snug them up. The tuners went in lets say about 3/4's of their required length before they got too tight to push any further. Next time I will just...

Thanks for the advice Cagey - I wonder if it won't be alright for what I want it for though. When I built the last strat - I ordered a schaller ream for the tuning peg holes but when I received the neck the little suckers didn't want to push down all the way into the hole without more force that...

Like some of you guys who have been playing a while, I've accumulated a few nice guitars over the years and they can be hard to get at quickly when they are stored in their cases. I would like to hang them on the wall but wouldn't do it because longer term they would get dust in the bridges and...

I have the luxury of looking at your pics on my properly callibrated PC monitor today rather than my crappy and tiny netbook. The body looks fantastic - good enough to eat. Your guitar will look stunning.  :occasion14: You've gotta love Warmoth's work - I've never seen such nice guitars over...

On the build front. I've ordered the following bits. Schaller locking tuners Fender Standard Trem A plain white perloid pickguard. I have a spare black pickguard if I don't think it looks ok when I try it out. Fender Custom Shop 69 pickups. I also picked up a cheap tuning hole reamer $20.00...

haha Cagey  :toothy11:  You wouldn't believe it but I'm an amateur telescope builder and astronomer - so you were pretty close there with the astronomy analogy.   :icon_smile: I think it's funny when the public come up on telescope open nights at our club, point up at the sky and say - what's...

Here's one where I drew the outline of "blue rabbit" in red pencil for those who haven't been subjected to any hallucinogenic psychotropic drugs and can't see it  :laughing7: