Recent content by PeteNelson

I've read the same about Floyd Rose bridges - if you mount them flat, the action is too high, unless the neck is angled, either by angling the neck pocket or shimming the neck. Having just routed and installed a Floyd Rose on my guitar, I can confirm that the action is definitely too high with...

Really beautiful.

Aha, ok. That makes sense. I'll have to buy one and put on my headstock. It should help alleviate my tuning pains!

Thanks for the advice, Sust. I don't have a string bar on my guitar, and I don't know if I've seen one on other guitars with trems before. Is a string bar something that people usually use with a locking nut and trem system?

Well, yesterday and today, I did some routing for the Ghost Floyd Rose bridge on the guitar (still have more to do), and I put the bridge on, and strung up the guitar. I wanted to see if it would tune correctly, since if it wouldn't tune, then I might as well turn it into (expensive) kindling...

That is incredible! You're first attempt? I'm blown away. Speechless. Stunned. Etc.  :kewlpics:

Aha, I see that now. I hadn't ever looked at Warmoth's bass necks before. I am interested in learning about doing inlays. I found some stuff about doing metal inlays using metal powder and really thin superglue that I think looks really nice, but I would need to practice the technique a lot...

Dolando, if you don't mind me asking, how did you do the gecko inlay? That really looks cool. Both guitars look really great.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it - the fill with epoxy idea is cool.

That is incredible. How/where did you learn to do the wood burning effect like that? I'm just blown away by the beautiful artwork/guitars I see on this site!

Thanks, Strat - I think the head will be ok, after I checked it. The Steinberger tuners are kinda unusual, in that the strings don't wrap around the peg. They go *through* a hole in the peg, and then when the knob on the back of the head is turned, it pulls the string down into the tuner body...

Another quick update - I got a few pieces of wire (I don't have any strings laying around right now) and strung them between the locking nut and the tuners, and it looks like there will be just barely enough clearance, so I think the head will be ok. It might not look great, but at least it will...

Hmm - I may have found at least part of the answer to my question about doing a piano black finish in the earlier post about India ink. That looks great!  :hello2:

Hi all - this is my first post here, and I'm working on my first build, so I'm a complete noob. As usual, I've probably bitten off a little more than I can chew, but I'll just keep making sawdust until I either have a guitar or a pile of sawdust! Anyway, I wanted to build a guitar from my own...