Recent content by somebodyelseuk

This is a case of reading the 'small-print'. I remember when I ordered my neck, reading that Warmoth deliberately manufactures a slight forward bow in their necks, and the side adjuster is for 'fine tuning', not initial setup. You use the truss adjuster at the end of the neck to get the neck...

Sorry chaps, I don't have a photo, but for the last 30 years, it's been the same MIDI controller as in post #25, with a Morley Wah to the left (I'm left footed), and a Morley ABY switcher above it, directing between the rack and a Boss TU-2 tuner. Power for the Ground Control comes down the MIDI...

Mate... there are no rules, just guide-lines. Worst case scenario... if you screw it up, you've lost a few hundred quid/bucks. Nobody's life is at stake. 99% of the time, screw-ups, where guitars are concerned, are retrievable, anyway. Take your time, and don't be afraid to think 'outside the...

I'm very much in the 'whatever floats your boat' camp. It's not really my 'thing', but then I've been playing a bright yellow (and I mean YELLOW!!!) Strat-a-like for the past thirty-ish years. As long as you are happy with the result, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks or says... in...

Just the once. The hole that the screw screws in to has parallel sides, so the pointed end is redundant - the hole is drilled with a drill bit. I used to help build rally cars in my spare time and have completely stripped, restored and rebuilt several of my own cars. This is just assembling...

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Just needs to be said... Be careful the first time you screw the short screws in their holes. I had to cut a couple of mm off the end of one of mine - the heel was contoured in both plains, meaning the 'furthest neck-side' screw bottomed out in the hole. Other than that, pre-drilled neck is the...

Yep.

It been a couple of months. Guitar is everything I hoped it'd be. Last time I posted, I promised to post a picture of it side by side with the guitar that inspired the colour choice, but didn't get around to it. Anyway, here it is.

Yeah. 100%. When you're building, do all that stuff before you screw it all together. Do all and any work with only the part that requires the work present, wherever possible. It's a bit like losing your virginity really... the first time is a bit stressful. After that, it's all good fun...

If you paid someone else to paint it, and you're not happy with the result, take it back and get it sorted out... "If I wanted an orange peel finish, I'd have asked for an orange peel finish." We all know why it happened, and we know what it takes to fix it. It's up to them to sort it out.

David Bowie - "Hah, ha, ha. Hee, hee, hee..."

Dear diary... Well, I s'pose this is the 'finished it' post. Yesterday, 'fine tuned' the control routing, soldered the ground on and fitted the trem claw, soldered the electrics in. Today, drilled the scratchplate screw holes and screwed it all together. Then, the bit I always get nervous...

Captain's Log, stardate... Progress report time. Yesterday, being a 'sabbath', I only spent a few minutes on the project - cut the neck screw down with a Dremel, drilled and fitted the strap buttons and worked the trem claw screws in and out a few times. Then it was feet up for the 'Sunday...

If you're a smoker, don't give up until after it's finished... Seriously though, plan everything you do beforehand... everything. You need to have a clear idea of how you're going to proceed. Work out a logical order to do things in. For example, back in the '90s I did an assembly whereby I was...