Hahahahaha!
Keep it simple Frankie.... no need for flux capacitors or inter planetary space modulators :)
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Hahahahaha!
Keep it simple Frankie.... no need for flux capacitors or inter planetary space modulators :)
I think some things upstairs got scrambled when they beamed me up.....:pQuote:
Originally Posted by dingobass
Hope there wasn't any probing involved....Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
Haha while you guys were discussing weird alien procedures I also did some procedures on the guitar.
I rounded over the entire backside (see what I did there? ;) including the neck pocket, because I'm going for an all-access neck joint. The round over makes it more comfortable and gives easy access to the higher frets. And I also drilled out the holes for the neck ferrules.
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Then I started to route the neck pocket, pickup and tremolo cavities. But before that I drilled a bunch of relief holes. If you have trypophobia, now's a good time to look away.
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Then routed the neck pocket to a depth of 18mm, bearing in mind my neck is slightly thicker by 2mm.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...psbcmzdapm.jpg
This time, the pocket was really tight so I had to sand off some meat from the neck itself. I may have to widen the neck pocket slightly later on because from preliminary measurements the neck may be slightly off towards the bass side by 1mm at the bridge, and that makes a significant difference in terms of string alignment.
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Then with the neck in place, I drew out the position for the neck humbucker. In hindsight, I could've gotten 2mm closer towards the neck but I didn't want to take chances of the humbucker not fitting properly. I guess it won't make a significant difference in terms of tone. I'm hoping to get the bright, neck humbucker tone you hear on players like John Petrucci, Steve Vai etc.
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Then I finished up routing the tremolo cavity. Again this was quite scary because I had to use the long pattern bit and the last time I accidentally routed into the top while plunging back up. Luckily no mistakes this time round!
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...psppobf3px.jpg
And I did a test fit with some hardware lying around. I'll probably get Zebra humbuckers again. They look nice.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ps74th7z4r.jpg
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A picture of the neck joint. It feels really comfortable at the moment with the thumb behind, but I still have trouble reaching the 24th fret. I might do a scoop on the lower horn.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...psu5sqmg70.jpg
Whew! Hard part's over! Routing the neck pocket always makes me nervous!
BOOM!
Noice werk :)
Thanks DB!
Spring and control cavities routed.
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The pickup channel wire routes came out nicely.
Also drilled the knob recess on the top.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...psxjzvopzv.jpg
Thats looking fantastic.