Recent content by mero

For a moment I got excited because I saw the lighter-colored rosewood half and thought that was an edge bevel! Was wondering if I missed the memo on some new option  :doh:

Well Re-Pete, they covered the entire cost of the new black dye body and kept the old body. They had offered to send it to a professional luthier for refinishing but that entailed shipment to another neighbouring country and having no idea of the quality so I suggested that they just replace the...

Hopefully I'll be able to complete that picture in the near future by finding a suitable neck! Right now I'm undecided between going with mahogany/rosewood/satin finish, maple/maple/satin finish, or continue getting rosewood/rosewood necks like the last couple. I thought the maple would look...

agree with bagman. if anything, at least it makes it easier to direct mount your pickups and change them in future. (speaking from experience as my direct mount humbuckers are ever so slightly misaligned and don't sit square in the cavity)

Not hating on the Dragon IIs, but if you're putting PRS pickups in there, why not the newer 57/08, 59/09 or 53/10s? IMO they're a massive improvement over the older PRS pickups

they're from warmoth - http://www.warmoth.com/Bonnet-Knob-Ivoroid-P367C826.aspx

yep black dye! jumble, that's just some strange grain pattern going on there  :laughing8: small knot maybe

Well actually the body came over a year ago but I just didn't get around to completing or doing anything much to it. The story was the I previously had another body that ran into severe finish problems when it was getting put together at a local shop. (Which you can see at my previous thread...

camera battery's charged, so here come some more photos! and some bling... neck plate by DangerousR6 and custom TRC with my initials

Had some parts lying around from a previous build that I never got around to completing, chanced across someone selling this telecaster body, and voila! SEMI NEW GUITAR TIME! (camera ran out of battery so here's a cellphone photo in the meantime  :sad:) Here are the specs: Mahogany with...

coincidentally, when Warmoth was clearing out the Gibson style parts, I very nearly bought one of the firebird necks. I was playing around with the idea of a firebird neck with a jazz master body then, think it would have been pretty unique! Sadly they all sold out while I was still thinking...

so tempted to start a new build... maybe without the bass side pickguard, with a simple satin vintage tint maple/maple neck (Warmoth or Vortex style since I've been using them on all the recent builds and like the 3x3 layout). I'm thinking Lollar Imperial humbuckers, 4-conductor with a rotary...

Anyone knows whether there'll be any restock in the future for the fantastic metal Warmoth decals? The chrome and smoked chrome ones went out of stock a long long time ago and it seems that even the gold ones have sold out completely as well. Been hanging onto an order for a neck because I've...

Actually, I bought a 2012 Gibson LP Standard recently and was quite pleasantly surprised at the modern features it had. PCB in the electronics cavity with push-pull pots all around for coil-splitting (well not really true coilsplitting but a pseudo "fat-tap"), out of phase and blower switch...

Sounds to me like there isn't any legal basis or practical need for going into a licensing agreement like that. Chances are the profits that Warmoth makes from selling Gibson-styled products wouldn't be anywhere near the amount of money required to ink a cross-border contract like that. Plus why...