SV-1 build

[Rockfactor]

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[FrankenWashie]

oh. now you can see my SV1 and my Aria that Merve Cargil built for me. The SV-1 is so white, I should have used some more stain, but it plays very well.
The frets on the Aria are so low, but this i have not shaved off much to make it a very playable guitar.
I've got to get a player to try it out before making many adjustments

There we go! Honestly I like the blonde look on this, still not a fan of that kit inlay but that is a personal preference thing. Not everyone on this forum is mad enough to strip a perfectly good fretboard off a perfectly good neck to replace it with something else!
your photo reminds me I need to check on how my body is curing. Might possibly get it finished at some point this year. Maybe. 🤔😂

[Buchanfarmer]

sorry folks, only ipad, phone which doesn't chat to the ipad but does with laptop. and laptop which doesn't chat with ipad after upgrade to the latest IOS

everything was going good until a bug an had to reset this ipad junk. had uploaded everything to laptop, but now they dont chat any more.

back to guitars,

Hope FrankieWashie your body cures soon. Did you chat to a Doctor? haha

[Buchanfarmer]

To be honest, i did not even bother to look at the inlay as its the action - that is the lack of buzz and the fret size as well as the string height which makes it work.
I would have put a lot more stain into the wood though, but here the lighting is so bad its like being in a cellar with just a candle light. Sorry FrankenWashie, I used to live in Germany and the all the houses had cellars. Mine had the washing machine and dryer which meant it was damp all the time. Probably why i never built the small acoustic guitars - but that's next I hope

[Buchanfarmer]

Hi Rock Factor, nice video. reminds me of when i played last at the cafe. i thought i was fairly good but then the main act came on. Wow.
Don't have any 'I' things except for this ipad. don't actually like apple products as they seen like stone soup to me. the only reason i got this was because I couldn't get any internet connection except with this and by mobile phone data. now Telstra in their infinite wisdom have put in a new tower just 6km away but pointed it away from me so my connection is very very low at one dot of 3G
don't really blame them as i am the only one this side of the tower. yes i live in a very remote part of Victoria. nearest neighbor is about 5km away. yes its nice as i can make as much noise as i wish, only the sheep and cows, maybe fox's and wild dogs care.
So with about 1000 watts of power, its a blast - or could be if i turned it up.

[Buchanfarmer]

ok, still finishing the SV-1 but looking forwards to building two small guitars for which i have most parts except the fret material. tools too are a bit sparse. I need to make a few small planes as i cant afford the ones from Stew-Mac

Now to try and finish this SV-1. The back plate is a problem for me. the spring bracket is about 12mm both ends from the body but one side is a little bit higher and the back plate will not get over it without work. so I bent that side down a little - then the plate will fit - NOTE to Adam - the routing on the bottom side should not go right through for the tremelo. the trem doesn't need the whole body to work.
If this was how it was made, then the spring hole would be just a rectangle and i would haven't had any issue.

Now back to planning, what guitar is next?
I would love to make an SG type to replace the one I sold about 30 years ago to buy a car. Sorry it was just the deposit.

Here is my new question please:

How much lower should I tune the strings before putting on the clamps on the nut? I have the tuning screws just touching, so the only way I could tune is by screwing these in if I put the clamps on at about one fret low.

[Buchanfarmer]

Oh the cat scan has finished - she has said "yeh it's ok" or was that where's my food?

[Buchanfarmer]

Last time I had a band, I owned all the equipment except for their guitars and the drums - although I was going to buy a set fpr ne drummer.
This time I seem to be making a group of my own. Ive only got 2 hands and one only works 50% because of spinal damage - the specialist says i have spinal degeneration - so I can say for real that I am a degenerate. Just got fitted for hearing aids today, wow I can hear.
I saw some things on the net like Sid Grondman's Fhone equipment. Sid used to build amps and speakers. I bought my first Fhone from a used car dealer it was used as a deposit. then Sid made me a PA with 2 speaker boxes that would fit into my car each 4 x 12ux speakers. I still use those speakers but the amp, mouse pee and transformers don't mix well.

[Simon Barden]

I always set my fine tuners to their mid-position, tune up, then clamp at the nut. You never know if you'll need to fine-tune down or up, so I find mid-way is best.

Those clamping nuts really need a string bar to pull the strings down onto the headstock side of the nut. Only a few $ but they make a big difference to the locking nut's performance. You can then tune up on the main tuners without the clamping action affecting the tuning at all. It also means that the clamps are only holding the string in place, they aren't also trying to bring the strings down onto the face of the locking nut.

https://hazeguitars.com/blog/locking...bar-adjustment

[FrankenWashie]

I always set my fine tuners to their mid-position, tune up, then clamp at the nut. You never know if you'll need to fine-tune down or up, so I find mid-way is best.

Those clamping nuts really need a string bar to pull the strings down onto the headstock side of the nut. Only a few $ but they make a big difference to the locking nut's performance. You can then tune up on the main tuners without the clamping action affecting the tuning at all. It also means that the clamps are only holding the string in place, they aren't also trying to bring the strings down onto the face of the locking nut.

https://hazeguitars.com/blog/locking...bar-adjustment

Yeah I second that, I had some tun8ng stability issues with the FrankenWashie, finally got around to fitting the string bar that cam with the Floyd kit, tuning issues went away.