Recent content by neilshelter

have i killed my neck... wasn't paying enough attention... mistook tightness of truss side adjust for poor grip and twisted and now the little adjustor isnt in it!  how do i get it back in? can i get it back in? aaaaarrrggg happy new year!!  ;(

i bought an unfinished maple and kingwood neck for a tele project that went south (the body weighed more than anyguitar i've ever held) so with this neck kicking around i thought it might be fun to mod a squier 51' had kicking round as a spare! So i drilled the body for through stringing...

nononsense,  i had a look on line and i agree that marupa normally looks plain so i don't know if the seller got it wrong, who knows :)  but it's a nice light body and the goncalo top looks amazing! i just ordered a few necks off the showcase! I ordered a canary/bloodwood for the strat and a...

i bought these today from a luthier in the uk they were sitting in a box in his work shop for years forgotten about! The strat: Marupa body(?)  Kind of tan with brown and black streaking and figuring. Pretty light, seems kind of ash-y to me? Goncalo alves (aka tigerwood?) top, absolutely...

well, as you know my last project went missing and never returned (i lost it / it was stolen) so maybe you could take pity on a pour soul and give me a ball park time for the price rise so i can save up to buy replacements :S

Horrible news my worn thinline that i was building (picks ups installed but as yet unwired) was sadly lost / stolen today the owrst bit is it totally my own fault I leant the the guitar up against my car whilst loading in my bike and works stuff jumped in and drove off. realised maybe 10...

that my friend is some heavily oxidized Goncalo alves with some shiny ebony on it x

cheers guys sounds like a wood i'll dig the dude in the video pulls some of the best guitar faces i've ever scene brilliant

just for those that are interested here's some picks of the primavera bodied tele, sorry they're so dark, dunno whats up with the cam :)

I've read up a bit on the wood description page and done some reading online but i'd love to hear some opinions from you guys on the tone and usefulness of Padouk, it's so striking and seems to have a lot of  things going for it as far as my tone Likes go... so shoot I guess, it'd be nice to...

skuttlefunk the guy that did the body was the luthier i hired to build the walnut tele, i expressed a dislike for the walnut and he said well i have some bodies from some south American woods, he claimed it was the heartwood or the sapwood of a Brazilian mahogany tree...I'm not sure if there is...

well the walnut had an odd brittle resonance in the high mids which i didn't find too flattering, beautiful bit of wood though! I've just scoured the internet and i'm pretty certain the wood that my body is made from is called Primavera aka White mahogany, it all matches.. the pinky, green and...

i think the licensing dictates that the Warmoth parts have to be equal to or better than the fender equivalent but i may have dreamed that? my first Warmoth was a Telecaster Deluxe made from walnut (which was swapped out for a non-Warmoth "mahogany" Body, i''m not convinced it IS mahogany as...

hi guys thanks for the messages :) The dye is just "black" water based Dye from wood finishes direct in the Uk, they also supplied the pure tung oil, which indeed does smell nice and nutty, although my lady didn't like the smell too much! I really couldn't be happier with the colour it's not...

hiya wow thanks for all the amazing advice, and in true geek lust i didn't wait to hear back from anyone and plowed on ahead but so far i'm digging the looks! I'm not really trying to replicate a particular guitar rather than pinch bits from here and there, this is an odd project really as it...