Recent content by War_in_D

Thanks for the replies. I measured the neck heel, and it's 2 1/4" so Warmoth is out regardless. There's nothing wrong with the neck on the guitar, but I was just looking for something different. I may have to check into Musikraft!

Disregard.. I just called, and it doesn't appear to be doable. :cry:

Does anyone know if Warmoth offers a square fretboard end as possibly an "of menu" option? I'm looking to replace the neck on a Fender era Charvel that has the squared off fretboard. I need to measure the neck heel to make sure it would fit, but thought I would start by asking. Thanks!

I was needing a shim one day, and didn't have any so I was looking around for something to make a shim out of, and stumbled upon one of those feeler guage thingies.. Necessity is the Mother of Invention (so they say), so I improvised.  Been using them ever since. 

Also, meant to add.. that as far as shims go.  It's pretty rare to find one that is dead on and doesn't need shimmed in some respect.  Instead of buying those pre-made shims from places like Stewmac, Sweetwater, etc.  I buy one of those really cheap feeler gauge sets and just make my own from...

What size Floyd Rose nut are you using?  I could be wrong but I seem to remember this coming up before and IIRC.. Even through the R3 and R4 are the same width (albeit, different string spacing), the overall height of the nut may be different.  Not sure which way it went, but it's possible that...

I've bought tops from Northridge before.  They have some pretty nice stuff.

Or, you could always build your own!  Sorry, have to include the gratuitous flame maple top picture.  I paid $46 for this top off of Ebay. It was about 1/4" thick top, and I think the Sapele body blank was around $60.  Of course, that doesn't count all the tools I've bought over the years that...

This ^^^^^ I ordered a flamed maple body, pre-pandemic and sent an email to Warmoth Customer Service asking them to please pick me a decent one.  I got the canned response of "if you would like to chose your top, you need to pick something from the Unique Choice selections", etc.  I told them...

I'm guessing that's a no then..  Aigh't, I'll just crawl my happy butt back to the 80's.  :occasion14: :toothy12: :toothy12: :toothy12: :toothy12: :toothy12: :toothy12:

Is there going to be any love for the Floyd Rose crowd?

BING indeed!!  Nice job, looks great!

:icon_biggrin:  :toothy12: :icon_biggrin:  :toothy12: :icon_biggrin:  :toothy12: :icon_biggrin: I know the OP deemed me "persona non grata" from this thread a while back.. but that literally made me LOL!  :occasion14:

Looks really good!  But I feel you pain when it comes to the router beast, they can be a terror.  Lord knows I knocked enough chunks out of that Sapele body I was working on.  Thank goodness for the old "titebond and Sapele dust" trick.  But like Fat Pete said, as long as you keep all your...

Thank ya sir!  But, these are nothing compared to the work you're doing!