Recent content by dirtycooter

When you get the strings on the tension will be less-strings pull one way and the springs the other way. I always like to set mine up with the bridge smack against the top then tune to pitch and relieve the spring tension to the least amount but yet keeping the bridge contacting the face of the...

KITTY KITTY!!!! mmmmwwwwwwwoooooooooowwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............... ROOOOOOOWW!!!!!! Mommy? Where is Fluffy? :doh: By the way-nice boots and nice axe. We have a don't ask don't tell policy here so don't worry-your secret is safe with us :laughing8: note to...

"Just my two cents Happy New Year and if you go out and celebrate tonight be careful it is the biggest ameteur night of the year!!!!"   :doh: :icon_thumright: Well spoken-thats a knee slapper :laughing3:  But there is only one way to become a pro-thats through "practice" :occasion14: I'll...

No -by all means-  hi-jack away :laughing11: Now that I am done with this one I have to contemplate my next project and its finish and body wood. Not sure what I will want to do yet. Never had a clear wood grained finished guitar before. Yet I like the cool colors you can get with paint. ideas...

Got nothin against bikes-I just don't feel comfortable on the road with the overpopulated crowded roads with crappy drivers around here and horrible cobble stone roads Michigan is known for. Down in Detroit there are pot holes big enough to swallow a Mac truck-seriously! We got some serious...

I fixed the post to be nice-they don't call me Dirty for no reason. :icon_biggrin: The light bill is payed up easy and in full-its the camera interacting with the light-I'm also middle aged and debt free just so you know. :headbang1: :icon_thumright: Its my old lady's job to buy the dish...

You used epoxy?? Could you tell me more about that process? I almost attempted using that as a grain filler for this ash body after I heard some other guys did it. Kinda was nervous though since I heard it is tricky to apply and went with the elmers wood filler. I seen black epoxy used as grain...

They are decals from a shop only a few blocks from my house-custom made and stick on-just like the real General Lees were after the very first car was produced-the first one ever was hand painted on. :icon_biggrin:

Thats some pretty cool spalted maple man! heard that stuff is tricky to work with though but is sure is cool lookin :glasses9: Don't know what i will do for the next one I build-alder and paint-mahogany and figured maple clear finish dyed top, so many choices :tard:. I really had fun though...

By the way-that is a sweet ass cross bread of Telecaster there! :headbang: Nice work man! Rare to see two buckers and a floyd on one of those! :icon_thumright: Also that bike is cool too-I really like Harley's orange-it a real deep reddish tone in it yet its orange as you can get and "never...

Well-here is the spray can secret for those of you in disbelief. Filled the 1 piece swamp ash grain with Elmers wood filler in the rectangular plastic tubs-filled the crap out of it many times and sanded off over and over again until there was no grain pits left-sanded flush with the wood-its...

I didn't stutter-by the way is that your boyfriend in the avatar-you must be proud :headbang1: :laughing8: :laughing8: :laughing8: :doh:

:laughing7: :laughing7: :laughing7:-so we got some wise guys heh? Lets see what you've done then. Show 'em! :laughing3: :evil4:

What do you guys think??? :icon_scratch: Its pearl orange and actually all done myself with "spray bombs only" from Menards, Walmart, and Auto Parts.

Just wired up my single volume 1 hum super strat with braided single conductor wire-p/u to pot and pot to jack. Works then it don't work-what is going on? I soldered p/u's single conductor sheild to back of pot then center conductor of p/u wire to left most lug. On the jack I soldered the...