Recent content by PeterTSkelton

Bridge pins set. I was hoping to use my drill press to push these into place, however the throat isn't deep enough, so I resorted to careful application of my trusty Mk 1 Hammer to drive the bushings into place. A little quality time with an Allen wrench and the posts were tentatively set. Skip...

Folks I've got a Roasted Swamp Ash body which I'm thinking would look great with a combination of a yellow dye stain to lighten up the lighter areas of the wood, followed by an application of dark paste filler to make the open grain darken up. Anyone got any experience with an approach like...

Another GFS sale landed me with a bridge, jack plate, locking tuners and shielding paint winging their way to me as fast as the USPS man can pedal. I ordered the chrome finish Wilkinson bridge, I'm just fine with the standard saddles, roller saddles seem like they would induce another point of...

Some of you diligent folks will already have seen this arrive over in the JOTB forum. My roasted swamp ash Strat body showed up via the good graces of UPS yesterday and has met a nice match with a 59 roundback contoured Padouk vintage/modern neck which I picked up a month or two back I tore...

It was the right figure in the right place at the right time. If I'd really had my druthers this one would be getting a vintage tremolo, but needs must as the credit card drives Whoever said it was right, the neck will indeed be getting burnished. I already polished my Clapton carve maple neck...

Arrived home today to find that the UPS Santa had stopped by during the day. Brought the box inside and opened her up. Obviously immediately threw away the note which says read this before you play with the new toys and ripped into the new toys. I retrieved my Padouk neck from her bed nestled...

Turns out that I fell afoul of the screamin deals and picked up a roasted swamp ash body, pre drilled for a two point trem so that's swallowed up the sunburst body budget for now. It's still on the list though, probably get a Clapton carve rosewood on maple neck for it and all will be well with...

Ok. Finally got everything closed up and the Clapton boost circuit working as intended. I need to get a second nut for the TBX control as the shaft on the pot is too long, and its only supplied with the one nut and a lock washer. The GFSs give a pretty good account of themselves so far at low...

The GFS's are here and strapped onto a new white single ply scratch plate. Test fitting shows that they fit just fine in the factory standard route on my MIM body. I need to get out to Home Depot tomorrow and pick up some crimp terminals for grounding everything and some velcro to mount the Mid...

I may go all the way and get a chambered body. Waiting on the right neck to show back up in the showcase now, I'm looking out for a screamin deal on a clapton contour, preferably with a rosewood fingerboard or for another boatback carve to show up.

Well I just finished up with the maple neck. As delivered it was OK. I specifically ordered an unfinished neck as I don't like finished necks, and as received and assembled onto the nearest willing donor it felt pretty good, although if you just ran your hand or fingers along it you could feel...

Bah. Someone snagged the neck I had designs on out of the showcase :(

So as seems to be standard, quick and easy availability of pretty much anything from Warmoth has tipped the scales on the "how many guitars do I need" balance. So far I've got an in-progress refit of an MIM body with a Clapton carve maple neck, which has some noiseless GFS singlecoils and the...

So far out of the box the maple neck has been a great player. It's started to settle a little bit which is obviously to be expected, I bought some new Allen wrenches today so I can give the truss rod a tweak as required, and eventually I'll have a decent tech give it a proper setup. Really very...

Well a combination of payday and a GFS sale won the day. I ordered a Clapton mid boost from amazon and the vintage set of TrueCoils from GFS, and I'll pick up a new five way switch over the weekend. I'll try swapping out the switch first if I get the chance, but otherwise the lace sensors will...