Typical. They say dogs have Masters whilst Cats have slaves.
Dogs tend to share their love unconditionally but with Cats you have to earn it, and sometimes that may never happen.
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Typical. They say dogs have Masters whilst Cats have slaves.
Dogs tend to share their love unconditionally but with Cats you have to earn it, and sometimes that may never happen.
Haha, 100% agree with you Waz. The cat makes me earn it by coming to me for attention.......at 3am in the morning!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
Sorry for the Thread Jack H!
Oh I'm so interested in this build!
I'm doing basically the same kit.... piano black body, trans black brown face, gold hardware. Really gonna watch this one... I learned heaps from mine so far and would love to see another take on the process...
I thought the ash on these were only paper thin... was I wrong?! Was I paranoid for nought?!
I mentioned cats on the internet, I knew exactly what would happen :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zandit75
I hope mine comes out as nice as yours is looking!Quote:
Originally Posted by depictedminds
To me, and I'm no expert, this kit looks like it's got shaped (carved?) ash top (cap?) rather than a veneer. Still looks fairly thin towards the edges, but nowhere near as thin as the quilted veneer on my telecaster kit.
I'm just about ready to start sanding today. I'll be careful regardless of how thick it looks, but if it turns out to be a veneer and I sand through it, I'll let you know.
I'm still worried about two things though. The low E string measurement from bridge to 12th fret, and the gap where the "bottom" of the neck (facing down in the playing position) meets the body. The low E distance I'm about 90% sure is fine, but the gap there... I don't know. It makes me want to attach the neck before getting the timbermate on and see if I can fix it like that, but I also think that might be a bad idea in terms of being able to actually move the guitar around while I'm working on it.
So what I've done with mine (and Im hoping I did the right thing) is sand down the heel of the neck so the fretboard binding is now sitting JUST ABOVE the guitar - I did it with a block to make sure that I wasnt sanding on an angle - I figured if the neck heels are made a little bigger (which is smart if you think about it) then it'd be bigger in three dimensions - I didnt sand down the sides, just the base of the heel - the neck angle hasnt changed (much, if anything) but is a lot closer to the body now, which means I can put the bridge on the guitar without having the bridge adjusted as high as it can go.
I mounted the bridge, put the neck in with a G Clamp, ran the two E strings through the bridge and tail, checked the height of the bridge, and it seems good. Have you mounted your bridge? (If you're not going to push the pegs into the body, use some tape or cloth around the bridge pins to make it hold in the mount points a little tighter to run some light tension on the E's).
I've finished most of the painting on mine now, and have gotten to the point where I am buffing to gloss - everything BUT the TO face came up like a mirror. Im starting to wish I never tru-oiled the face now, to be honest... It's just not as smooth as I would have liked. Still nice though, gives a good semi-gloss effect.
I'll put up pictures of the build shortly. Im about to put my headstock one up now.
Good luck with your build!
Having finished an ash j-bass in tru-oil I'm completely aware of what I'm getting into with the wavy effect, and I think I'll prefer it to a perfectly smooth surface. I was considering a wipe on poly, but I've got all this TO sitting there and I like the way the bass feels, so that's what I'm gonna go with.
I wedged the bridge and tail piece in place with some foam packing material for testing. Adjusting about a quarter of the way up looks like it'll give a reasonable action. Having read your thread and then looked at pictures of various different LPs from the side, I'm not worried about the neck angle. When you compare it to a tele or strat it looks insane, but it looks like that's how the LP is designed.
It was the advice in your thread that convinced me that I should have a go at a set neck. That said, our issues are different. My fretboard sits flush on the top of the guitar and looks OK there, and the heel fits in the pocket with very very little wiggle room (flat on the bottom, wedged in hard by the sides, I can pick the whole guitar up by the headstock without it moving), and in its installed position the break angle, alignment, and everything looks good.
The problem I was having is what to do with the gap I've highlighted below from the original photo.
http://i.imgur.com/zb8Dwxz.jpg
As it turns out, the gap was caused by the neck was not sitting far enough back in the pocket. This was due to me not understanding quite how to get it in there when it fit so tight.
I put it back together to check exactly what the problem was. It looked even worse close up. Then I compared to the previous photo and realised that it didn't just look worse, it was worse. Since it can't have changed on its own, that meant that I had somehow inserted the "so tight it only goes in exactly one way" neck differently this time. Which meant I was wrong about there being no wiggle room whatsoever.
http://i.imgur.com/f9bRSSw.jpg
Looking inside the guitar through the neck pickup route made it very obvious that the neck was sitting too far forward in the pocket.
http://i.imgur.com/1pOi5I7.jpg
Removing the neck (requires lots of force but needs to be done carefully, which is not something I'm good at) and replacing it by pressing the heel straight down into the pocket rather than inserting the back end of the heel first produced the correct result.
http://i.imgur.com/Mm32Myy.jpg
I'm not going to take more photos of it because they're very boring at this stage, but I reassembled the bridge etc with the neck in the new position and re-measured everything. With the neck in the correct position, which is about 2mm back from where I had it originally, the nut > 12th fret > bridge measurements are spot on. Now it's all disassembled and ready for sanding.
So... the kit's pretty much perfect and I wasn't doing things quite right.
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Originally Posted by wazkelly
Trouble is, one of my cats is more demanding of my attention than the other one, or maybe it's just because it happens to be the more affectionate of the two, I'll let you guess which one it is.
Riight.
Now based on those last images mine and yours now looks pretty much identical. Which makes me feel a lot better about mine. Im up to the gluing stage very shortly.
That day will be about 30 measurements, glue, and pace around panicking until i can string it.
I reckon I'll be doing the exact same thing come that part of the process!
G'day H, I reckon a bit of a light sand on the end of neck sides might be required to give the glue some room to do its job otherwise it may not set properly.
Only done one set neck so not an expert but was lucky enough to have things fit quite snug but not over tight which worked out well as you need to be able to slide things into place whilst the glue is wet.