Recent content by DuckBaloo

Not knowing your spraying abilities, my strong advice is to go to a few car/motorcycle body shops and hire someone to spray flames or scallops. It takes a lot of experience to do well. My guess in the example you posted ... Yellow sprayed first Yellow mask off and blue sprayed Blue masked off...

This usually means it needs a shim (or a larger shim). Leo's boys put a shim in every guitar they made in the '50s and '60s for a better break angle over the saddles.. I'm unsure of what you mean by the headstock "fishtailing." But if it means the neck is shifting, I might suspect ... Wrong...

I would assume someone installed it. The mico-tilt insert is required to mount the neck. The three "bolts" on a 3-bolt neck are actually two wood screws and a machine bolt -- the neck insert is tapped for the machine bolt, the bolt won't screw in without it. The body insert is tapped for the...

I put some in a mixing cup, add water, and stir, ...and stir, ...and stir. And, yes, very smelly. But, thankfully, not noxious fumes like the classic oil-based fillers. If it's a an opaque finish, many builders just use thinned drywall compound.

I use the water-based grain filler these days (been buying Goodfilla). Water-based requires more work than the old oil-based stuff because it shrinks back more, but I don't have to worry about dangerous fumes and rags randomly bursting into flames. Many people praise Z-pooxy, I plan to give it...

These were the options in the old Warmoth printed catalogs (to give full credit, posted by @Unwound G in this thread in 2012). I remember these options in the '90s and early '00s, it's been 20 years, I'm not sure if they offer them off-menu anymore. A lot of options (and I assume equipment) has...

No, a chamfer bit is for beveling with a router. It has a wheel on the bottom of it to follow along the body.

This one is pretty much as narrow as it gets... https://warmoth.com/sfmh1 Note... It will retrofit a vintage Fender hardtail bridge, but it only gets you to 2-1/8". If you really want 2-1/16", then it's best to plug the old holes and drilling new mounting and string-thru holes,

Go with a steel pole piece pickup, like the Fralin Steel Pole 43 or Harmonic Design Super 90. The Quarter Pounder has large pole-pieces but they are still magnetic rods and will always have the bright cut.

I have a set of files and have cut my own bone nuts. But it always takes me 3-4 blanks to get one I'm satisfied with. It's the thing I'm worst at on builds. Cutting you own Tusq nut is easier, it's a much more consistent, predictable material. Much easier to pay for someone to cut a new nut...

That was Lindert,

Is the neck finished? If so, I would let it acclimate. Honestly, I err of the side of caution, so I would either way. My bodies and necks usually sit around for a couple of months after I've sprayed them before I wetsand and buff.

This. The Gibson neck angle, a throwback to the acoustic and jazzbox days, won't work with a traditional , flush hardtail or trem bridge. That's why the '80s Gibsons used those awkward Kahlers. Plus, the TOM is Gibson bridge o' choice and vintage spec is what sells for Gibson and Epiphone. If...

Pretty sure they just mean the shifted neck PU route to make room for the additional frets.

The TL-DR frame...but I think it's better to watch the video and see each body by itself. The differences will seem more extreme when compared side-to-side because ... perception. I'm a big fan of Aaron's videos showing these subtle differences.