Recent content by jond4

Hey all, thank you very much for the positive replies. I'm feeling better about it now (not as defeated as earlier) I talked with my wife and she also said don't quit, step back and think about what's been going wrong and fix that stuff and that I should at least get this one completed since I...

Hey all, just wanted to drop in and say thanks for the help I received here during the times my warmoth builds didn't go so well. I truly appreciated that. But, this weekend I was trying for the first time the solarez 'i can't believe it's not lacquer' product on a warmoth body  and I didn't...

Thanks to all of you for the support...emotionally and with ideas to fix it. I really do appreciate it  :yourock: And sorry I was away for a few days and didn't get on here to say thanks, some of that was of course simply spent jamming on the guitar  :guitarplayer2: and last little refinements...

Well, I couldn't wait. Show went well Friday night and nothing to do Saturday so I did the dowel thing, which went like cake so that was a nice change :) And I've installed the neck and strung it up. I added a picture to the album. https://photos.app.goo.gl/AiZhpt9VUCQKL9JH6

I'm definitely going to do the dowel/plug option. I might honestly try that this weekend depending on how busy I might be, we will see :)

I agree, there's room for error with dowels. I only need for them to be sized well enough that they glue in properly and I can easily enough put the neck into the pocket and use the holes on the body as guides for drilling new pilot holes through them. Plus even though I essentially created a...

Definitely! :) I got home from work last night and was looking it over and said to myself, nothing is gonna happen unless I try and how it is now is useless and I didn't want to waste such a nice neck plus the $350 so off to the garage I went with it. You can see from the pic the bit still...

I added a picture of what the holes look like now. You can see it's rough to say the least but the largest part is just under 1/4" so yes I believe inserts are still an option or I could attempt filling some of that space with dowel. https://photos.app.goo.gl/AiZhpt9VUCQKL9JH6 Inserts would...

Guess what!!!!! I got the screws out. And they were in deeper than I thought but how I did it was I slowly worked at them with different size drill bits and my drill press. I used very tiny bits to create a little pocket in the screw shank and then followed with bigger bits to obliterate them...

I actually very slightly attempted that. I stopped because I started to feel that if I got a slot into the screw and started to turn it, it would simply crumple. But, that was only a feeling at the time, it might actually work. And it certainly wouldn't hurt to try, since the alternative is...

Considering this is my personal and somewhat experimental guitar, I'm not terribly concerned about it's looks on the backside, just that it plays and sounds good. So with that in mind, I'm sorta leaning towards the dowel idea, it's feeling like it may be the easiest to pull off. I'm going to...

Thanks for the excellent ideas everyone. I took some pics if anyone is interested in seeing, https://photos.app.goo.gl/AiZhpt9VUCQKL9JH6 Another option mentioned to me is drill them out with a larger bit and then dowel the holes. Which I'm confident I could do. I got these screws at the...

Thanks Cagey, I truly appreciate that. Some days a thing just doesn't go right for any particular reason. Perhaps the funny thing is I wasn't even originally going to get ebony, it was going to be roasted maple. I poked around the shop in stock section before ordering and saw this one which was...

Thanks Cagey, I'll order one of those at some point and get the screws out. Maybe in the future I'll try the insert thing. To be honest I really am starting to believe there is some silly universal force trying to tell me to not bother with making guitars and that I'm a guitarist not a...

Well, I drilled the neck heel pilot holes out to a straight 1/8", no problem there. Attempted to attached it to the body and the two bottom screws are now broken off inside the neck pocket. Ridiculous.