Recent content by namklak

And we have a winner!!! So while changing strings, I cleaned off the wd-40 the "tech" put on the nut.  When each string was off, I added powdered graphite to the nut and saddle in the string path.  Recall that on this guitar both the nut and saddles are graphite.  I also added powdered graphite...

When I first built mine (strat body, tilt back neck, graphite nut, schaller locking, and wiky 100 trem) the B string was binding badly.  You could hear an acoustic "ting" while tuning and trem'ing.  I didn't want to dress my fret ends, so I brought it to a shop that had a "guitar tech".  By my...

ok, alder body, maple neck, ebony fret board, stainless steel frets, graphite nut, graphite saddles on wilkinson trem.  P-rail set to 3/32 from high E and low E when strings fretted at 22nd fret.  I then backed off the bass side one full turn of a screw.  D'addario 9s, nut hasn't been mod'ed...

I just built an HSS strat.  I finally have a strat with a bridge position that has balls.  I made two of the pots push-pull, so in bridge position I can get series or parallel, in other positions I can get the "rails" in parallel with the single coils (in this case DiMarzio True Velvet, worth...

Hi, Guitar assembly virgin, so please be gentle.  I put a Warmoth Pro Angled Strat neck on a Warmoth Strat standard body with the Wilkinson 100 trem.  I did not notice the comment about angled neck pocket when I ordered the body - otherwise I would've asked Warmoth sales.  So no angled neck...

Y'all, Why WOULDN'T I get a pickup top route "Universal Cut"?  Or put another way, what are the disadvantages to this cut?  I'm looking at a new #1, retiring my old 3-bolt standard strat to #2.  And I'm thinking of a pickup config of H-S-S.  But what if later I want H-S-H, or even H-H.  So...