Recent content by mycroftxxx

Count me in on the “don’t finish the roasted maple neck”. Instead, burnish it with a progression of 600-800-1000-1200-1500-1800-2000 grit paper (Super Assilex and Super Buflex work great) and in 90 minutes or so, you’ll have the guitar neck of your dreams!

In my case, the recess for the switch still wasn’t deep enough for my normal-sized 5-way, so I had to lengthen the slot (and also chase out the width of the slot due to the gloss clear coats building up in the slot). I couldn’t find a thin enough file so I used a hacksaw blade.

I have the one from StewMac, and it worked great on my recent build with Schaller M6 2-pin tuners. But it’s twice as expensive as the one on Reverb, and looks like it does the same job, so have at it…

Doing great! Really like the ability to tweak the saddles’ left/right position. Also is comfortable to let your hand rest on it while picking. Does it sound better than a traditional bridge? No idea but the guitar sounds fine to me. And…it looks cool :cool:

Thanks for the comments and questions! The four knobs are master volume (passive), closest to the strings; master tone (passive), next in line; clean boost (active), third one in line; and the last one, kind of offset from the others, is a mid-boost (active). I was originally going to use the...

Here’s my flame maple carved top Soloist, just finished a few weeks ago: Warmoth alder body, flame maple lamtop, tiger’s eye dye; Warmoth Strat replacement neck, roasted maple. And here’s one with the background removed:

Played it at a jam yesterday; the clean boost worked great for setting my volume for rhythm work, then roll up the mid boost for leads. Sounded great from my perspective, and I got some positive comments from the audience too.

Yes, that’s exactly what the back finish is - tobacco burst-over.

I revamped the bridge grounding, including taking the spacer off and adding many more copper wire strands under the bridge. End result - dead silent without my hands touching strings, bridge, etc. As quiet as my Suhr, which has their proprietary noise canceling system. Anyway, I got the bridge...

After playing the guitar a few days, a few tweaks: Adjusted the neck relief to 0.010 at the 6th fret, just where I like it. I was having problems bringing the pickup heights up (the Zexcoils like to be pretty close to the strings, and due to their unique construction, this can be done without...

As is typical, the first time I plugged it in…dead silence :rolleyes:. So I worked back to the minimum viable configuration, the pickups, the 5-way switch, and the output jack. Still no sound. Triple-checked connections, sure looked just like the EMG instructions. Switched out the output jack...

Correct.

Well, to be honest, it was several years ago I checked into that class; it’s possible they don’t have it anymore. Around the same time I was looking into the luthier class, a coworker took the general woodworking class there, and loved it. Final pic of the night: This may look like some kind...

In retrospect, yeah, that’s what I should have done, but I didn’t have the scrap wood :confused:. What I was really intending to do was drill most of the way down, then turn the body over and drill from the other side until the full bore was complete, but it felt almost like the drill bit was...

Got some work done last night…first up was the switch channel: Three issues: first, it hadn’t been chased out after the body was finished, so it was too narrow. Second, maybe it’s the same length as it would be in a Strat pickguard, but with a quarter-inch thick top in between the switch body...