Building a guitar

You really need to get the screw alignment perfect. The only resistance should come from the formation of the threads, and this will be consistent and smooth. After fully tightening the screws, there should be no screwdriver markings on the heads. This would show that excessive force has been used.

 

N Ellingworth wrote: I've finished it, or rather I finished it yesterday and never got round to posting about it. Still not got it properly set up but it sounds great and the raw Pau Ferro neck is simply incredible, if any of you get a chance to play a raw neck go for it.

Not sure what's more beautiful: this guitar or Antoine's boss nova album covers. Really. Nice work.

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Lovely!

I've finished it, or rather I finished it yesterday and never got round to posting about it.



Still not got it properly set up but it sounds great and the raw Pau Ferro neck is simply incredible, if any of you get a chance to play a raw neck go for it.

Dean wrote: a friend of a friend has just built this rather sexy bass:     see more here: Moon Base Alpha

Nice

That is one sexy looking bass!!!   Only thing is with that much material routed out you must lose a lot of tone. right? i don't know a lot about basses though.

There are a few standards that the 5 way switches tend to use, typically though the one I've got is none of them.

Not got any at the moment I'm afraid lost them all during a recent purge of useless files, just search for 'gotoh tuner screw failure' or something similar and I'm sure you'll find a few of the things I did, but on a positive note the neck is now at the repairer and he should be giving me a call tomorrow with a quote on the repair cost.

Now I just need to perform some slight rewiring of the electronics (I managed to get the cables for the neck and bridge pickups the wrong way round), just my luck to buy a switch that doesn't use a standard layout I guess.

Nope I did the research and huge numbers of people have had issues with the screws Gotoh provide, I was also very careful with the pilot holes, they were all slightly deeper than was required.

I'm not going to take any more risks though I'm going to get the tuners and string retainer installed by a professional and then I'll simply be able to bolt the neck on to the body, string it up and set it up. 

That's not a problem for me the only problem I've got at the moment is a couple of snapped screws in the head that need removing (I was installing the tuners and the screws Gotoh provided were utter rubbish), rather than risk ruining the neck by trying to remove the screws myself I'm going to send the neck to a professional guitar repairer and get it done properly, I may give him the body too and just ask him to finish the build for me, that will depend on price though.