Hey everyone, updates! Well more of a question. I sprayed my clear on, I have to wait a bit till I can sand and do the final coat. Also I got my bridge and different pots ordered, regular shafts aren't long enough. Anyways, I have a Squier neck that I was going to use till I made some more money to get a warmoth one, but anyway, it just barely doesnt fit in the neck pocket, so do I just sand it? Its litterally a hairs breath from fitting or should I skip on that and just wait till I can get a neck, which might be a while?
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If memory serves me right, you do the opposite in normal, permanent situations, right?tfarny said:Just sand the neck of the squier, not the pocket.
Thats what I'm thinking too. Normally with quality parts you'd sand the pocket. But yeah, for 50-60 bucks on eBay you can get another.Max said:Well, Tfarny's suggestion is probably the right thing. If you horribly oversand the squier neck, you're out maybe <$70.
All right guys, finally another update with pictures! I sanded the neck to the point where its snug in the pocket, thats ok right, being snug? It takes a few taps from my palm to seat, hopefully thats good. Anyways I got the neck on there and everything and its great, feels great to really see it coming along and to hold it like a guitar haha. Anyways I just my email from UPS so my last set of parts should be in soon! Hopefully it will be strung up and playable by the end of the week! As for getting it wired up I dont know as I have to use my friend's mom's iron. Anyways its apart again cause I have to spray the clear again, it said I could handle it within 24 hours but I have to wait 72 to be able to sand it and spray again. Here are the new pictures, enjoy! P.S. Sorry they are still cell phone pictures, but you still get the idea, once the body is done and looking really good ill take some good quality ones.
rockskate4x
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lookin pretty good... it'd be nice to have some better pics
bpmorton777
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great job!. Looks like it's coming along. would love to see some out door shots of the body (for the sunlight) so we could see that poplar.
Brian
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Hey everyone, im pulling my hair out here. My strings dont line up at all, kind of crazy. The string-thru holes are over to far to the left so all of the strings look like this when they go over to the TOM bridge / / / / / /. Also makes lining up the pickups a little difficult. Any idea what I should do about this?
By the way, sorry I didnt see it sooner but its the 1st and 2nd position pots.
By the way, sorry I didnt see it sooner but its the 1st and 2nd position pots.
Sounds like the TOM is in backwards?rapfohl09 said:Hey everyone, im pulling my hair out here. My strings dont line up at all, kind of crazy. The string-thru holes are over to far to the left so all of the strings look like this when they go over to the TOM bridge / / / / / /. Also makes lining up the pickups a little difficult. Any idea what I should do about this?
rockskate4x
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I've put my TOM on backwards on accident before, and didn't notice anything wrong with the guitar until I tried to intonate and realized that the screws were on the other direction. I don't think that a backwards TOM is the problem.
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