Recent content by kruno

I just realized my link to the hot rails pickups was wrong. Fixed!

lol

Anyone have a tutorial of how to mount a single coil sized pickup (hot rails in my case) to a rear routed strat body (neck position)? https://www.seymourduncan.com/single-product/hot-rails-strat Looks like the hotrails come with the holes threaded, I take it i'll need to drill those out into...

Can you share the link to your post?

Thanks for sharing guys.  I hope more people share.  It's looking like the satin finish is darker than the gloss finish on roasted swamp ash.  I really like that transparent brown gloss finish, just worried it will come out too dark depending on the actual wood specimen.

The other thing is i'd like the headstock to match the body as much as possible.  I like maple necks, but if I go the darker route, I'd use the padouk neck, unless I could get the maple headstock finished to match the body.  Although padouk has the advantage of not requiring a finish, I just...

that's a good point.  I still wonder if something has changed in the process though.  Because all the in-stock roasted swamp ash bodys with clear finish look like what I posted (there's four of them and they all look roughly the same...).  So it seems to be consistent.  I'm looking for what to...

Also, these look to be a gloss finish and the video is Satin.  I'm on the fence if I want gloss or satin, but I would like to know if the darkening is different based on satin vs gloss.

I saw this youtube video from Aaron:  https://youtu.be/qRow5ZD1CiM It shows that the roasted swamp ash with clear finish gets much darker post finish compared to pre-finish.  However, the pictures of roasted swamp ash with clear finish on warmoth's in-stock body's don't look nearly as dark. ...