looks like PK's build diary has turned into Grand Final comments !
How many beers you had DB to put that in writing ?
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looks like PK's build diary has turned into Grand Final comments !
How many beers you had DB to put that in writing ?
I suppose if you choose to watch the NRL grand final instead....Quote:
Originally Posted by Maddogm
That sounds like sour grapes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fretworn
I won't be watching either. I only watch any form of football when Roy & HG are commentating.
Fretty sometimes Roy and HG commentate on the radio so worth checking out. Turn down Bruce and Eddy on TV and ark up the radio !
Roy and HG are commentating both finals on ABC News Radio.
PFttt, some one closed my Series 1 Scrathy thread.. right after a post from Gav, which was helpful info.....
PK
which section was it in PK ? must be an administrator error.
Didn't see it in Non PBG section
Hi Woks, it was in General Guitar DiscussionQuote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
its still there PK it's just not the latest post in that section
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...?t=4330&page=3
Yes, I see it is still there...not sure why it 'disappeared'?Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
haha Gav I think PK has been thread jacked about the AFL so hard on this thread he can't find the other thread.
Have to see if DB can come up with an Anti Thread Jacking oil hahah
After Months of Nothing, well working too many days for money to buy food with, I've sort of found some time to progress this a little bit further.
I've reached the point of gluing in the neck after many many many many coats of that Stupid Minwax. never never never use it.
I am at the point of do I solder in the pickups now an risk getting glue all over them, or do I leave them out and never actually get the pickup Vol pots in their holes once the pups are soldered and the neck glued, as once the neck is in you can't maneuver large sized pots inside the damn body with fat chuncky little hands.
Wanted Urgently Beautiful woman for five minutes work. must be petite, with long slender hands and wrists.
(May as well be good looking to improve the aesthetics :D)
I tried the missus but that didn't work and she could only do half the job, need someone to get the shaft fully in the hole.... for the pots on my Build.....What were you guys thinking.
he he
PK
OK Problem solved. Used a 600mm (2ft) length of linen thread and threaded the pots like threading a needle. pulled the shafts through and bolted them down. What a PITA it is trying to wire these things up..
PK
There's also the trick of using the aquarium tube!
Tks Kelloooooo I might actually have some somewhere. But doubt there will be a next time Hollow Body build like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by keloooe
PK
Kelly's Hand Built Guitars... :P
Damn, minor error. I soldered the Neck pick up to the Bridge Tripple shot. If I get time I'll fix it tomorrow.
PK
Just resting on the couch while the glue cures. Been glued up now for about 5 hours. Stringing up day is tomorrow.
good stuff PK looking good
tks WokkaQuote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Cheers PK
Noice.
If you need it, I have the phone number for the I just wired up a hollow body guitar support group.....
It's all cool Db, I have a six pack of beer to deal with the psych issues.... LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by dingobass
To tell you how this one is wired.
The selector switch is just chooses pickups Bridge, Neck or both.
The knob next to it is the tone pot, well it's a push pull with two caps wired to it. I don't remember the values, probably .23 and .68uf.
The front pot is Master Vol, and the rear two pots are Individual Pickup Vol Pots.
All the wiring is push back shielded cotton.
The pickups are attached to Seymour Duncan Triple shots, so each pickup coil can be selected individually, or in parrallel(standard), or series.
Now tell me do I need a beer or three :D
Cheers PK
nice progress PK, you'll be playing it soon mate
Hey PK this axe is looking awesome. And for the wiring effort I reckon at least a slab of bier!Quote:
Originally Posted by kells80aus
Quote:
Originally Posted by dingobass
Tks AO, and SBQuote:
Originally Posted by andrewdosborne
Does it also include getting a wiring harness like I had for the Frankenpester in a Tele control cavity while nearly burning my hands multiple times requiring many hours of swearing? If it does, pass it on please :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dingobass
Pest you should make up a cardboard template to do the wiring so you're not working in a small cavity and it will avoid burning yourself with the soldering iron.
Good luck with the wiring PK and as Ponch says a 6 pack may be a bit lean !
just dont set the cardboard on fire , Pest...
Tks Woks and Stan and Cal.
Wiring has been done for months. To me the wiring is easy except when I wire the pot left to right instead of right to left.
Big problem right now is the archtop bridge is about 3mm too high. I have three options get another lower archtop bridge, drill the knurled knobs down 3 mm(and run the risk of the base breaking, or drill out the post holes and go for a standard LP style(not my prefered option)
Note for Adam, the slot for the neck was way sloppy, in fact it had a taper of about 1.5mm from front to back with it getting wider towards the back. I've bogged it up with glue and topped it with a tapered lump of binding in the top of the join.
The neck is pointed straight at the middle join at the back of the guitar body. So Happy with that.
Had I pointed it in line with the top edge of the neck slot the high E string would have run across the B string pickup post.
So this can never be a GOTM. but otherwise I am comfortable with it.
Cheers PK
hey PK so looking toward the front of the neck pocket it was sloped to one side ? (not the break angle direction)
Maybe you have raised the neck position by about 1.5mm so hopefully this will lower the string action a bit.
Tks WOk.
I have a couple of plans to look at tomorrow.
1. is adjust the tailpiece slightly.
2 is steam the neck off and try again. and re position the tailpiece.
what ever I do It will be alright in the end. I can hide the visible gap by steaming it off and fiddling a little. It should be easy enough to get off as it's only been glued up one day. I've steamed necks off a couple of times. it just requires patience, and no trying to force it apart. as that's how things get broken.
:)
PK
Yes PK patience steaming a neck off, otherwise you will probably fill the swear jar hahah
Yeah but it doesn't solve my problem. Either way its really difficult to get some of the wires done, glad I was able to snag those helping hands thingos, now there will be quite a lot less swearing!Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Ok Problem solved. There is a small ridge on the side of the neck slot. I had thought I could just glue fill this. Obviously that didn't work So I will shim it tomorrow.
Oh yeah the neck is off already. :D it's easy when you know how, that and soft glue helped.
Minimal damage done, just a couple of touch up spots
Shimming should give me that 1/2 mm or so that it needs to force the neck against the opposite side of the slot. It means the tailpiec will be mounted about 15 mm north of centre.(or is the side join actually off centre.. )
PK
well done PK so the swear jar didn't get any heavier ?
Important the neck is a fairly tight fit in the pocket so shim will sort that
tks Wokks,
I think what was happening is that the extra 1/2-3/4 mm of void that ridge had, allowed the neck to skew a little.
So shimming should sort that.
Steaming the neck off was only a half stubby job. :) took about 1/2-3/4 of an hour.
I have some special thin scrappers I use. One of them is a StewMac bridge removing shim. it's about 1/3mm thick so slide in down the side of the neck real easy, this lets you know how far down the glue has softened. :) when it gets all the way in then the jobs done. :D
PK
Ok, two things going on.
1. The archtop bridge is destined to fail. It's just a bridge to far for my skill, as to get it to work the neck need to be re-angled steeper, I've put that one in the too hard basket
The option for me is to some how come up with a thinner bridge base, so I have ordered one.
But if the bridge post do not line up then I am still screwed.
At the moment I have a temp base made by Staedler, I think the model is a 2B.
2. The neck issue seems to have been that it was getting skewed because of that little undercut in the neck slot.
It lines up now just a little bit north of the side join. the alignment over the pickups is also much better.
My options if I can't sort the archtop bridge is to re-drill the bridge post hole. It's not my favored pathway, but at least it is a proven outcome.
Cheers PK
It's probably appropriate to introduce this delightful guitar with beautiful blues song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4
It has a been a long time coming, and a change had to come.
It was going to be Virginal white, but with the warmth of the wood in the body it had to be left open to view.
What has developed has been progression into a the old worldly back street New York style blues.
I had to make a concession on the floating bridge as the string spacing were way to narrow to suit this neck.
I only have to put the pick guard on her and do the intonation. (still trying to find where I put the A string, I'd hate to break up a new set for one string)
Classic :)Quote:
Originally Posted by kells80aus
Just proves the old saying, there is always a work around:p