Recent content by sdeeg

It's certainly worth a try. I tend to position the guitar so it feels natural with my arms, which are slightly longish, but they're not way down Jimmy Page style.

LOL! Wisdom :cool: I generally played sitting, but I've recently started going to a musicians workshop where we play for 3hrs in a band setting (there's a pro bass player, guitar player, and drummer to help us amateurs) and that means standing. I've tried putting the strap button at the neck...

I'd be interested in your thoughts as I'm working on a balance (neck dive) issue with a Tele Thinline. Do you know where that post is?

W00t! Thanks for validating my suspicions. And that's a very nice looking instrument. How did you do the wiring? Any coil splitting? I'm thinking of really going off the reservation and drilling a cavity on the upper horn for a LP style switch. Need to take a look at the actual body before...

Great book. StewMac also produces a lot of helpful videos. I just recently watched a good one on fret dressing. They also create and sell a lot of helpful tools. Get ready to open the wallet to that pandoras box as well!

You sir are a BAD INFLUENCE! Hhmmmm ... perhaps, after my taxes are done (they're ungodly complicated this year and I had to file an extension and have to get a CPA to do them), and if I get enough money back, if it's still available I'll take it as a sign that I was intended to buy it. I...

Must .... resist .... 3.3lb .... burl top .... already have guitar on order .... don't want divorce ... aaaahhhhhgggg!

Truer words have never been spoken (typed)! The idea of going back to factory guitars seems like such a compromise. Now when I walk into the guitar store I look and think .... hmmm, I can build something like that but I'll change this, and that, and I'd like these other things, etc. etc.. So...

W neck on my thinline is definitely not quarter sawn. Almost perfectly slab. But the one I got for the strat is quarter-sawn-ish. Looks like it was cut more from the center as the angle of the grain lines changes fairly noticeably. At least from what I can tell from the headstock.

That's a really interesting suggestion @Bruce Campbell. I played around with it a little and found that it makes more of a difference then trying to move the bottom button. Although it changes the angle of the instrument making it hard to see the fret board. I suppose I shouldn't be looking...

In the for what it's worth department, I did an experiment with tape and thinline and found that I'd have to move the strap button way up the bottom to get anywhere near the change I'd need (the natural position for this instrument is head slightly down from neck parallel to the ground). @Bruce...

Thanks for that input @Hodgo! I had been thinking of putting the switch back there, but was also concerned about it being too far back. Nice to know that it's workable, and I'll keep it in mind. I've also been looking at the SG configuration, but wonder about it being in the line of...

I'm with you on the comfort issues. My Les Paul is my least played guitar because of comfort/weight issues. My W tele thinline is only moderately played because of comfort, but I also love the way it sounds so I do end up going back to it. I'm going to be experimenting with strap button...

100% My intention is to use a forstner bit (which also uses the innovations of Brad Point) on my drill press as well as the tape, pilot hole, and a block on the back. Oh sure. Now you chime in! :ROFLMAO: Spike in customer service sent me rough dimensions, and while I understand it might not...

When I got my W Thinline I simply put the strap buttons in the normal place, and it's always felt "neck heavy". I think I saw someone on here suggesting this was really a matter of geometry not so much weight. Makes sense to me, and I can see how moving the button on the bottom of the guitar...