Recent content by roboboss

I saw them in Portland, ME in 1978. They were backed up by a new band we had barely heard of called Van Halen. Van Halen was better but I still liked seeing Sabbath. my friend recorded the whole concert on his pocket sized cassette tape recorder. Boy do I feel old.

Here's a little trick you can try to remove the srews. Go to the hardware store and buy a roll pin with an iside diameter the same as the broken srew. This is a litlle tricky but you put the roll pin in a drill and slide it into the hole over the broken screw. Reverse the drill as you put...

I mount my string trees on little springs instead of those little studs that come with them. This allows me to adjust the string tree height(s) so I get a good break angle over the nut with all of the strings having the same angle. I think it works great I only wish it was my idea. I got it from...

One thing that raises a red flag for me would be the fact that he calls it "your item". If he was more specific I'd be less suspicious. That's just me.

uOPT I see what you mean. I was thinking more along the lines of a Tele.

Could it be that the bridge was a little narrow for the pole pieces and Leo angled them for better alignment? I really don't know, just speculating.

I would ask for lots of bailout money. Then I would give myself a big fat bonus. I would then hire my wife as a VP and give her a big fat bonus too. Then I would ask the workers to take a 15% pay cut so I could use the savings to buy that nice new corporate jet I've always wanted.

Sorry. My mistake I thought you wanted to make a body out of Pine or Oak. I've worked with Ash from New Hampshire and Swamp Ash. I found them to be very similar as far as grain filling goes. If you just want practice wood I think Oak will work for you.

Oak will be heavy and to me the pores are even larger than Ash. The pine might work but it's a pain dealing with the pitch. Pine may also be too soft. It may be difficult to avoid those little dings while your building. In my humble opinion you'd be better off with the Ash.

I cut and make my own neck blanks and that problem happens to me once in a while. My stuff is air dried so it's probably even worse than kiln dried. I'v also noticed that a piece will stay flat until I start working it. I recently started working on a cherry neck which twisted on me right after...

+1 on the drop of super glue.

That stuff you saw the carpenter use is probably wood filler. It's quite different from grain filler. Wood filler fills nail holes and other imperfections before painting. Grain filler is usually a liquid which fills the pours of the wood before painting. There's plenty of info out there on both...

Put a speaker magnet in a sock to clean up the little fuzzies you get when using steel wool. Works great.

If he has any fallopian tubes in that pile I'll take a dozen.

Joz, I'm afraid of the same thing you are. What I do now is put the body in a slightly damp tee shirt and cut out a hole the same as the control cavity. Now if I splash some solder it lands harmlessly on the damp shirt. Have not had a problem doing it like this.