Recent content by Schlieren

Here's a great DIY stompbox project thread http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=524060 a sample:

I think that is a little bit better, if you get the idea

I think something a little bit more complete and graceful works better; the control plate melds more organically with my suggestion I feel. Maybe curve the final edge more than I have so it starts to round out and come back down the edge of the body... yes.  Let me revise that if I get a...

The ebony is obviously superlative, but man that Pau Ferro... I like it even better

Front with TruOil; this was done a couple months ago. Here you can see the difference between the original finish (on the side of the body) with the TruOil. Right now Mike Lull in Seattle is working on the millwork of positioning, routing and mounting the two pickups, mounting the bridge and...

Nickel plating has lush, warm, yellow overtones to its hues.  Chrome has brash, artificial, blue overtones. That being written, I had a helluva time finding the right parts for my guitar to be wholly nickel plated.  The tuners had to come from Holland, for example.

Well done.

I love reading a thread with the problem on the first page and the solution on the second page.  That means I don't have to do anything  :glasses9:

I agree with this to a certain extent.  I suppose I'm projecting a bit, since I work for a company so numbers-driven and predatory that someone in it getting caught skirting or flaunting regulations isn't terribly surprising. Gibson's pricing structure might reflect the "market" but the...

I'm of many minds on this turn of events. On the one hand, Gibson kiping a bunch of hot wood wouldn't be all that surprising; have you seen how much they charge for their guitars?  A corporation capable of committing one crime - highway robbery - is thereafter capable of committing any other...

I have a neck made of padouk with a goncalo fretboard; the padouk is "smoother" to the hand than the goncalo, because the goncalo has a much more closed grain. I do not have experience with canary, but if it has an open grain, as Cagey wrote, then it also will probably be "smoother" to the...

I've found I'm a really, really big fan of soft, dark tones in a guitar; I think my default setup from now on will be a Tonestyler AND a master tone pot.  That's how I'm rigging up the bass I'm building, and how I'm re-wiring my Tele (although with that it's a Varitone + master tone)

Quick update: I sanded off the slurry; I started off with the block-and-sander and quickly went back to the random orbital; hand sanding is just way too time-intensive and I'm not all that picky.  Orbital down to 220, then hand-sanded @ 400 and 600, swapping out the paper a few times to keep it...

Close!  The nick is actually dead center.  I sanded it off though, but not for perfectionism's sake  :toothy11: Here's a general flash-photography overview of the back of the body, done in Behlen's Master Gel.  The glowing praises I've read are all false, and the skepticism all correct.  The...

Satin finish ends up glossy from your hands; I've worked mine over with 1200 grit sandpaper a few times and it's stayed satiny every since, although I'm hoping that doesn't last until a few years from now the finish is completely off the thing  :) I figure after five or six years, it's going to...