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Hello every one!

I finished building it! Finally!

It still needs a setup, and some minor details (such as a truss rod cover and pickguard engraving).
But here's a pic of it.
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The...

I'll try to do it, although it means that I have to screw the bigsby like bridge to the body so I can give some tension to the strings. I was hoping I would only have to do that after clear coating...

Thank you for your clear explanation.
I'll try to clamp the neck, attach some strings and adjust the nut height. Then see if the action is high or not.
But is it normal that one side of the neck is...

vh2580, when I tested the alignment of the neck, I attached 2 tuning machines and two yarns to them, and place them over the bridge with the necessary tension as if they were strings. What I found...

I don't have to a disk or a belt sander but If I know what to do, I'd go to a carpenter's workshop and try to borrow some tools...

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(Lower side. It hits way more on the bridge.)

Now, what should I do?

I thought of an angled wood shim between the neck an the body but the neck fits so snugly on the body... To get room...

And now the doubt I really hope someone can help me with...

The next step will be to glue the neck to the body. But when I insert the neck on the guitar body and push it firmly, it leaves some...

And on one of the sides, there were some parts that didn't take the stain so well, like this one:

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I then used a razor to scrape away the stain from the binding. It's very easy for your...

Then the body.

Brown on the back.
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Blue on the front. I used a water based blue stain from crimson guitars (phthalo blue), again with a cotton rag.
Then I tried a burst effect with a...

After that, I finally painted the guitar.

First the neck.
I put a thin stripe of tape around the headstock to obtain a stripe of natural color.

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And I was pleased with the results.
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My build continues and the big doubts start to show up...

But before I ask for your help, let me show you the progress.

I glued an ebony veneer to the headstock, and made the holes.
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Unfortunatly, I've been very busy with my work and I don't have much time to invest in my kit.

But in the last days I've done this:

- Wired the electronics
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- Bought a headstock...

Thanks for the advice.

Which type of product you recommend me to use to fill these grain? Do I use it before or after staining?

Thank you!

Here are some photos of that deep grain I talked about.

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Can you see what I mean?

I sanded with P180 to P240 to P400.

There was a dent in the back of the neck, but i managed to get it out with steam (I used a damp cloth and an iron).

There were some parts on the body with a very deep grain. I tried to take...

Hello!

I finally started assembling my kit. I did the dry assembly as recommended and I encountered some problems.
The neck socket in the body has a part that is broken, as I've already seen in...

Hello everyone!

My name is Décio Pereira, I'm from a south Europe country called Portugal, from a north city called Porto. I'm 31yo and I play guitar since I'm 6.
I knew I had to take the...

If this was a kit, it would be possible to customize it in the same way Matt Bellamy from Muse does, by adding a kaoss pad or a fuzz factory embedded in the body of the guitar, for example.
I think...