Recent content by xntrick

I got the urge to see if I can put jumbo frets in this old neck. If that goes well I may be tempted to scallop the higher frets, 12 to 21. Does heating the frets with a soldering gun make the job easier? Any other tips or suggestions I should be aware of, thanks in advance.

I got so tired of photobucket emailing me about hosting photos on their site. Hopefully these are ok on Imgur.

If you go nuts with it ala Hendrix you do have to pull up on it, but generally it goes back in tune quite well.

That is one gorgeous guitar!!!

I really like that trem. My first 2 guitars had floyds in them and I hated those things. This one rarely causes strings to break, I don't need a wrench to change strings and it mounts flat so I don't have to remove a chunk of wood. You do get used to them as they have a different feel to them.

Here it is all back together, very happy with the new look. Getting a shot that shows the grain and reflection is almost impossible it seems, might have to get out my giant light kit at some point. I don't have a baritone in my collection which is something I will start saving up for next year...

After buffing the reddish stain, I Picked up a sample of a stain called "golden pecan". I was hoping to get some gold color in amongst the reds and browns, not sure if it did much good but it certainly didn't hurt. Buffed it a bit more and followed up with 3 coats of tung oil and it was looking...

I hear ya, lesson learned. Luckily I was able to start over, the results look good so far.

So I got some stain called "red oak" and within 5 minutes of covering the back of the guitar I knew this was going to look much better. Once the back dried I took the hand held sander and went to work removing the shoe polish. It was a bit stubborn at first but eventually I was back to...

I was not aware of that, my search didn't come up with that information. This was certainly trial and error on my part.

This is after buffing and sanding the polish and it's terrible unless you like that dirty rustic grainy sort of look. You can hardly see the wavy grain from the very first photo, even if it were the brown polish I don't think i'd keep it. It certainly is useful if you want to check your sanding...

This is with the black shoe polish applied and I'm not sure this will look very good. I'm hoping that sanding it will improve it in a big way as the polish is not bringing out the detail in the wood grain.

I marked the lower horn to be a 1/4' deeper, doesn't seem like much but i figured I could always go deeper. This was rather tedious work with a drum sander on a slow speed drill and you can see it's not perfect. A deeper cut would be ideal but I just don't have the patience at the moment. I want...

These are the measurements for the neck heel. Mine is different as I am reducing the side of the heel as opposed to the top as Warmoth does. I find that is more suited to my style. It's only a 1/4 of an inch but a dry run reveals just how much this improves the reach. It's very time consuming as...

I made a run to the hardware store and picked up a 10 piece file set, a small drum sander and a rasp bit. Both the sander and bit are too larger to use with my roto-zip which is really a shame. That thing has some serious rpm's which makes it a delight to use. I'll have to use a battery powered...