Recent content by Roundmidnight

With enough switches you can do most anything. If you want to put two pickups in series I would recommend you combine reverse wound, reverse polarity pickups to minimize noise. This is likely neck + mid, or mid + bridge assuming you have a RWRP pickup set. On the first couple strats I built I...

Thanks. Using Behlen pure tung oil. I don't need no steenkin' warranty. It is funny. Most of the neck looks great but the fingerboard doesn't seem to be building much finish depth. Probably just paranoid again. RM

I am doing a black Korina body in tung oil and wanted opinions on using fumed silica with tung oil as a grain filler. I have filled using epoxy and fumed silica under a "water base" lacquer and it worked really well. Seems like it should work but I would appreciate input if anyone has tried this...

I have been slowly applying tung oil to an all maple neck. Does tung oil really work as a fingerboard finish? I worry somewhat about string contact quickly removing the finish and resulting in dirty fingerboard syndrome. Don't have problems with this on a 5-10 year old guitar that has had hell...

I like the Mullard and Tung-Sol reissues. Have several copies of each tube running in various amps and they sound great with no microphonics and most have been in service for 1-2 years. I did have one Tung-Sol fail prematurely (hash & crackling) but am not willing to write them off yet. Time...

Thanks for the advice. Looks like another StewMac order is in the works. Those guys must love me. Will whine some more later when I run into additional problems. Kind regards, RM

I am finished a black Korina Tele body with tung oil. Initial coats have been Behlen tung oil cut 50% with mineral spirits. So far I have 6 coats on the body and the end grain just drinks that stuff up. Is there anything wrong with flooding the end grain with the cut back tung oil? Should I use...

Russ, All feedback on Heyboer iron that I have seen has been good. Was actually thinking of using it on the Melissa build. Unless I do two "identical" builds with different iron what do I really know? You pick your poison and take your chances. I have a CarlB icon on my AX84 altar. Really dig...

I have always assumed that sunlight was a big factor in the weathering process. It is a pretty slow process however so I am not sure how practical it would be to implement in a finishing process. Years ago I was on a high end construction project where the contractor was siding a horse barn...

Photo of back. (Why are my photos sooo small??).

Howdy all, Here are a few pics of my latest project, plain maple neck w/black Korina thinline body. It will be a pretty simple bare bones old school Tele. The body weighs about 2.5 lb. This is the lightest guitar I have ever hefted. Feels great. My plan based on reading various posts and my...

CB, I bow to your experience in this matter. My gawd you are a prolific poster. Excellent content and discussion in most of your posts as well. Kind regards, RM

I will relate my experiences with kits and parts which include quite a bit of Weber stuff. In order of build: Weber 5E5A (Tweed Pro clone, wound up with Mojo cab on this one which Weber was supplying at the time) Mission 5E3 (Tweed Deluxe clone with optional Mercury Magnetics OT, home built cab...

I'm about to finish a plain maple neck and was planning to shoot nitro but I could easily screw this up so Tung oil is more appealing. So Tung works OK on the maple fingerboard? Should polymerized Tung be used or pure Tung oil? Will orange oil work for thinning the Tung oil down for the...

TT - Thanks for the input. Hope to start when I have all the parts beginning of the new year. Thanks again, RM