Recent content by Jack_H

Oiled the neck today. Photo cannot capture how spectacular it actually looks. You can see a little of the flames here, but there are a lot more and when you hold it against light you see them flicker and shimmer.

Strat body with swamp ash body and satin dark candy red finish. Roasted high grade flame maple neck. Both from the recent Screamin' Deals. I think I will build this with black hardwares. I will update as things come together.

The neck I ordered last week shipped today. $120 for a high grade roasted maple neck and board. I wonder what it's gonna look like. I am resisting the urge to click order on two more necks in basket.

The screaming deal banner is still up just to crush our hope.

Rick Springfield. That's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

My credit card is creaming HARDER DADDY!

What are the specs? I got a screaming deal roasted maple Strat neck two days ago. Now I will have to build a guitar around it.

I asked Warmoth sometimes ago about a double cut like this and they said... well basically Gibson being Gibson. If it weren't such a nice piece of wood I would paint it orange so it would look like a Goldfish cracker.

Thank you for your link Stratamania!

I was doing some research on a HH Strat wiring and saw wiring diagrams from Fralin and Seymour Duncan. From Fralin, one wire of the cap is soldered to the lug on the side Fralin Wiring Diagram While from Seymour Duncan, it is wired to the center lug Seymour Dunca Wiring Diagram Does it make...

Has anyone installed a recessed TOM bridge? I have installed one TOM post and it was quite a tight fit. The hole for the other one has a small hole for ground wire. The body is swamp ash so it's not really hard but I am worried that driving the post over the wire might get it cut off, and I...

A quick question: is it necessary to remove chrome plating where ground wire contacts?

Thank you all for your inputs. I am give them a try when I have more time to fiddle with it.

I bought a Fender Pure Vintage '51 pickup set for a Tele build last year. After putting everything together the neck pickup worked fine, but the bridge only worked once, then nothing. After some fiddling around, the bridge would work again, but only once then stopped. I thought maybe it was...

I ran the ground wire from the switch, neck pickup cover (for 4 way switch), and output jack to the volume pot, then a jumper wire to tone pot. Bridge pickup ground goes to the tone pot, and from there to the bridge. I am thinking the ground wire to the bridge might not be contacting properly...