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Points: 197 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2008 at 04:54

How do you plan on tackling the whole nut issue? If you are confident enough in your abilities go for it man. It would be great having luthier skills. The problem is I'm lazy. So I'll just go the extra penny and go for some signature models instead.



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I've mucked around with taking guitars apart since I first started playing, I once reduced my old Burn Marquee (one of the few all single coil guitars I've ever played) to it's component parts just so I could give it a decent clean. I've also had to fit new necks to bodies in the past so I've got enough experience there I hope.

The two things that are worrying me are getting the placement of the bridge right and cutting the nut slot in the neck. I'm tempted to have a luthier do those jobs for me but I'd rather do them myself.
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Points: 197 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2008 at 04:42
Hopefully it works out for you in the end. I was always worried that if I took the neck off I wouldn't be able to get it "perfectly" aligned again. That was back with my other six strings though.
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Points: 1324 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2008 at 04:36
Originally posted by SpaceMonkey SpaceMonkey wrote:

Looks finished enough.LOL


That neck doesn't even fit in the neck pocket at the moment I need to get the sand paper out and increase the width of the pocket by about 0.5mm, still that means I can get a really tight fit which will make the neck nice and secure. Wink

There's also the small problem of the lack of electronics Tongue

Originally posted by SpaceMonkey SpaceMonkey wrote:

Have you always played strats?

 
 
Woo, 100 posts.


Never owned a strat before, my guitars have always been humbucker equipped Gibson style guitars (except my Steinberger of course)




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Have you always played strats?

 
 
Woo, 100 posts.


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Looks finished enough.LOL
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In the 'How much do you practice?' thread I mentioned I was building myself a guitar, and was subsequently asked to elaborate on it a bit rather than derail that thread any further I've started a new one. Wink

So here's the specification of the guitar I'm building

Body: I believe it's Alder but I could be wrong, painted clear blue on the top and solid blue on the sides and back, has a universal rout so in theory I can fit any pickups I want.

Neck: clear gloss Maple/Rosewood strat style neck, 22 frets, C profile.

Pickups: 3 Fender Tex Mex single cloils.

Bridge: chrome Wilkinson VS100 pivot trem

Tuners/Machine Heads: Gotoh 6 inline sealed, chrome

Pickguard/Backplate: white

Basically it's a fairly standard strat clone, but since I've not got any guitar with single coil pickups it's going to fill a hole in my collection quite nicely and since the parts I'm using are high quality it should also play just as well as an Fender provided I build it well.

Here a pic of what I've currently got for those who are interested:


This photo really doesn't show the parts at their best, the rosewood fingerboard looks a lot better in real life than in this picture.

I'll update this thread once I get the other parts or get any work done but that's not going to be until late next month.
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