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Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Lol....but I actually like it in the Naughty Warehouse, the inmates are quite a sociable lot.....lol.
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Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Lol....but I actually like it in the Naughty Warehouse, the inmates are quite a sociable lot.....lol.
yeah that's it Doc, I was the first naughty corner inmate and I've seen alot of inmates join over the time.
There's only one rule --> Don't upset DB and it's all plain sailing haha
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Originally Posted by wokkaboy
No worries, I'll keep that in mind, I just added a new thread to the Naughty Warehouse, mostly for entertainment value, but also for some humor too.
Update:
Just got a couple of notifications in my email.....the Luthier Supplies I've ordered are on their way, Woohoo!!
Once they arrive I'll be able to really make some progress on my build.
good stuff Doc, start doing some arm exercises for all the sanding you will be doing
I presume you haven't got an orbital sander so it will all be done by hand ?
almost page 18 and the sanding hasn't commenced haha
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Yep, I don't own an orbital sander so I'll have man-up and just rely on some good old elbow grease...what a masochist I am, this build thread is going to be epic....lol.
Seeing as I'm a skinny guy, and looking on the bright-side, it'll be good exercise for me that should do me some good.
yeah Doc after sanding, then timbermate, then more sanding you may need a large Pitbull shirt for your new Popeye forearms haha
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Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Lol....my friends in Darwin won't recognize me either, I'll have a hard time convincing them that I yam what I yam...I can see where this is going, I'll have to put-up with doing Popeye impersonations at VIP events, etc....*rolls eyes*....lol.
I think you should change your forum name to 'DrNomissasingledetail_44'...Quote:
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Hahahaha.....good one Muzza.
Update:
So, from what it says in the most recent email notification, my Luthier supplies should be arriving in the post on the 10th of this month next Thursday, so, not this coming weekend, but the following weekend is when I'll start getting stuck into finishing the body and neck, will continue to upload pics of my progress while I do the finishing work so stay tuned for further updates.
Update:
Seeing as I was close to doing all the body/neck finishing work, I decided to go ahead and drill all the mounting holes for the screws that held the scratchplate, bridge, trem-spring cavity cover, jack plate, and strap buttons in place rather than wait till I had finished doing all the finishing work, I managed to get the bridge into what I think is the correct position for it, in the process of drilling the mounting screw holes, I figured out how to keep the mounting screw holes aligned with one another...I used the bridge itself as a drilling template, by using some small pieces of 2.5mm perfboard I found that I only needed about three pieces of perfboard to use as a shim between the front of the sustain block and the wood of the trem routing, this kept the bridge oriented 90 degrees with respect to the centreline of the neck, all I then had to do was to move the bridge side-to-side relative to the neck to get the two E-Strings equidistant from the edge of the fretboard ( the two E-Strings ended up about 4.5mm away from the edge of the fretboard at the 21st fret), so I'm happy that the bridge seems to be aligned pretty well, I checked the scale length from the 12th fret to the bridge and I think I have the bridge positioned correctly to give enough adjustment for intonation.
So, all that needs to be done is to wait till my Luthier supplies get here and then get to work on finishing the neck and body, once I have all the other bits I need (ordered from Realtone Music) I'll be able to wire-up the scratchplate while the finish on the neck and body is drying, fun times ahead!!!
As always....stay tuned for more updates
P.S. Drilling all the mounting holes now avoids me having to risk damaging the finish on my guitar, better to get any remaining issues sorted out now rather than later.
I am glad you drilled all the holes before applying the finish.
One small slip can cause spontainious out breaks of involuntary Tourettes....
And choice words like bum :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by dingobass
If I had've drilled the holes after applying the finish and made a small slip, I probably would have used some pretty colourful language deemed unsuitable/inappropriate for this forum, then did my my best impression of an epileptic butterfly while waving my hands madly in the air and muttering something that sounded like incomprehensible babbling spoken backwards, I'm sure....lol.
I'm feeling pretty happy with how all the hardware has installed on my guitar so far, thankfully I haven't experienced any serious issues, I did have to do some filing of the scratchplate near the hole for the mounting screw adjacent for the high-E string saddle though, anyway I reckon I'm well and truly ready for the next stage in the build-process.
I'm trying to get it done haha definitely slow and steady! Not sure when I'll have time to wire again :/ I won't set the neck until we move as it will be easier to move the guitar in the box it came in, in its 2 main piecesQuote:
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Good luck with the move mate, hope it all goes well, since moving to Darwin from Kununurra, I had to do over ten moves to a new place to live till I ended up where I live now, not long after I moved in I wanted to move out to a new place again due to all the trouble with noise from my neighbors, one of them lived in a flat directly above mine and they would decide to have a very loud domestic argument every night at very late hours just when I was trying to get some sleep so I'd have the energy to go to uni in the morning, not much fun at all for me.
Been seriously thinking of moving to Cairns lately.
Update:
Just for fun, I thought I would go ahead and get the scratchplate all wired-up just so I could test out the AS57 pickups to make sure they all work, fortunately they all do work, I was able to pinch a 5-way pickup-selector switch from another spare guitar which would do for the time being, and I managed to find a .1uF/100V greencap to use as a tone cap, then i decided to just go ahead and build the guitar up, string it up, and do a quick setup on it to get it to a playable state, I'm going to be sanding the body anyway and the build will enable me to check for any un-obvious issues I may have missed during my mock build, turns out there was one issue, the first-fret action was way too high with the stock plastic nut so I got out my set of 42-09 gauge nut-slot files and my set of feeler-gauges and got to work filing the nut-slots, I went through and filed each nut-slot so that there was a clearance of .020 of an inch (according to fender specs) between the underside of each string and the top of the first fret, that made a big difference.
On the bone nut, I noticed that the nut-slots were cut a bit too narrow for 42-09 gauge strings, but since I'm going to be fitting the bone nut after the body and neck finish-work has been done, I'll be waiting till then to use my set of nut-slot files to rectify that small issue.
As it currently is, my guitar seems to be sounding pretty good apart from it having a real bad habit of being a magnet for hum-noise, i may replace the current pickups with a set of ASN57's which is the noiseless version of the AS57's, I have the bridge earthed correctly, and everything else is grounded, I don't have any shielding in place, that's all, maybe some shielding-tape might get rid of the hum, we'll have to see.
Can't wait till my Luthier supplies get here this coming week so I can start doing the final finishing work.
Incidentally, it seems I got the position of the bridge correct since all the strings intonated pretty well, none of the saddles ended up too far forward.
Update:
I just had one of the AS57 pickups (the bridge one) go faulty on me, it's gone open-circuit so that instead of reading about 6k it reads infinite ohms, not having a good run with these Entwistle pickups, I had some trouble with my Ibby guitar not sounding like it was supposed to, turns out the bridge Entwistle HDN pickup had been wired-up incorrectly at the factory where it was made, it had been wired up so that only one of the coils worked, the wires that were supposed to have gone to the other coil had been soldered together and the short wires coming out of the non-functional coil had been soldered together too, i have since fixed the bridge HDN pickup so it is working as a Humbucker rather than a single coil.
I'm not going to bother getting a replacement for the faulty AS57 pickup since I'm going to be swapping them out anyway.
Did you pull the cover off it? something i see a lot when strat type pups go dead, the lead in or lead out wire snaps.
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I did do that and had a good look at it through a small X10 magnifying glass, couldn't see any obvious breaks so the wire break may be under several layers, at first I thought that there may have been a dry solder joint on the leadout wires so I tried re-soldering the joints, no luck, it's obviously suffered a break in the wire where it's not easy to get to without un-winding all the wire off the bobbin.
Looks like I'm just going to have to write-off the current set of pickups and order a set of new ones, I was going to change them out anyway for a set of ASN57's.
If its the lead in its pretty much trashed, if its the lead out you can often unravel it and save it sometimes.
The Entwistles are made by Artec in China the same as GFS
I have a rewound 97 Affinity strat pickup here, i have changed the slugs from ceramic to A5 with a vintage stagger and correct poles for that era. I have scatterwound the pickup, its 6.2k DC resistance at 20C and Inductance of 2.1 henries, its wound to 57 specs and bang on the money. Cloth lead in and lead out wires and the eyelets replaced with brass eyelets, it has a plastic bobbin. I havent charged the magnets yet, but i do it in my lil workshop using rare earth mags and i check the gauss after each run through to make sure its bang on, i can charge them north or south facing.
I can send you the pickup, and if you like it send me the dead Entwistle, if you dont like it send it back undamaged and keep the Entwistle, or i can rewind the Entwistle for more than what its worth :D
I do these pups for kids with no cash, gives them a taste of a real pup without any cost other than a pickup swap or straight out $30 each, which is what it costs me to do the wind and replace the slugs and source the pickups.
I can grab a pic tomorrow if that helps, if you dont want it thats fine as well, no worries, just throwing it out there.
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Originally Posted by tonyw
Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll just cut my losses and order some new ASN57 pickups anyway, the faulty pickup is trashed since I think the break was under a ton of winds.
Out of curiosity as to where the break was I removed all the windings from the bobbin, so it's just a bare bobbin now (it was irrepairable anyway since I couldn't see where the break was), I suppose I could just send it in the post to you and you can keep it and re-wind it if you want.
Cheers mate...if you want i can cover you for postage.
Update:
I just got a new tracking notification for my Luthier Supplies order today, here's what it says:
In transit
Processed through Australia Post facility
3:05pm Tue 8 Mar
Winnellie, NT
Looks like it may be ready to pick up tomorrow, and I'll be starting work on finishing the body and neck this coming weekend....yay!!!!
good stuff Doc, hope you been working out with all the sanding ahead of you !
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Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Lol...nah, I've been a bit slack so I'll have to work out as I'm doing the sanding, more..sanding,.....even..more..sanding,.....yet more sanding,....and when I think I've sanded enough..sand it again, it'll do me some good as exercise.
Can't wait to try on the Pitbull Guitars T-Shirts I ordered, then I'll be well and truly "one of the gang".
that's it Doc, once you put the PBG shirt on you are part of the team for sure.
You are only 5 posts off 1000 posts, not sure if your title will change from Mentor
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You're right, after this post I'll only have another 4 posts to go and we shall see if my title will change, it's been loads of fun being a mentor.
Update:
I just got this tracking notification in my email today:
In transit
Attempted delivery - redirected to Post Office Click the link or press Enter to know more about this event
6:37am Wed 9 Mar
The Narrows, NT
So I went downstairs to check my mailbox, sure enough there was a parcel card in it and the parcel number matches my order, I'll have to wait till 5:00pm this afternoon to pick up the parcel.....WooHoo!!
I can't believe you've been a member here since December 2014 and this is your first build?
That's a lot of pre-reading, preparation and research...
I wish I was that patient.
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Lol....I have had some people say that I have a lot of patience.
With regards to this being my first PBG kit build, half of it was due to me not being able to budget for a kit, and half of it was due to me having other things I needed to do, by I finally "pulled my finger out" and got this kit ordered last month, glad I did because I'm very impressed with the quality of the kit and the woods used to make the neck and body, also all the pickup routs are much better aligned.
good stuff Doc so when are you starting the sanding ?
Page 20 of the diary and no sanding yet has got to be a record
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Lol....Yeah, it should be entered into the Guinness Book Of Records, I did say this Build diary was going to be epic, I'll be starting the sanding this weekend, hopefully I'll also get to apply the Ebony Timbermate too, I really want to see how the grain is going to pop, furthermore, I really want to see how the Dingotone Coolangatta Gold MkII is going to look on the body, for the finishing work I'm estimating that it'll probably be around May that it'll all be finished, that's okay cause that'll give me plenty of time to order any other bits and pieces I may need for the guitar.
Should be a 200page thread by May.
I am off into the bush tomorrow for 5 days, dont know if i get phone/internet or not, i wonder how many pages you can do in 5 days Doc? ;)
good attitude Doc, too many first time builders rush it and make mistakes and the finish doesn't cure properly.
Wait till you get that ebony TM on, the grain will be so much darker and obvious.
Just presand to at least 220/240 grit before you apply the TM
@ Tony, hhaha sure the diary will be a few pages longer in 5 days. Good luck with your prospecting trip hope you find some goodies !
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It may end up being a good few more pages longer, you never know, but I certainly will make sure I document my progress over this fortnight, I'm going out to a friend's place for a practice session, plus I'm also going to be treating my flat for insects with some Insect Bombs, so my two cats will be coming with me, my friend wants me to make some leads up for his rig so I'll bring my new soldering station with me too, not only that, he wants to do some recording as well so I'll be helping him get his DAW PC up and running, going to be pretty full-on, will be back home on Thursday.
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Cheers Wokka, will do, hopefully the Dingotone sanding Kit I ordered comes with some 220 or 240 grit paper, if not I'll have to make do till I can afford to buy some from the Big Green Shed (more time in the naughty warehouse....*rolls eyes*), as the saying goes..."Slowly,slowly wins the race".
Hey Doc, just checked the DT sanding kit comes with:
1 Sheet of 180 Grit Sandpaper
1 Sheet 0f 220 Grit Sandpaper
1 Sheet of 240 Grit Sandpaper
1 Sheet of 320 Grit Sandpaper
1 Sheet of 400 Grit Sandpaper
you have to supply the elbow grease :)
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No worries then, that saved me from having to do a stint in the Naughty Warehouse, when I go to sanding the body and the guitar I might start off with the 180 grit and then work my way up to the 240 before I apply the Ebony TM, then when the TM has dried enough I'll sand it back starting with the 220 grit and work my way up to the 400 grit, this is going by what I've read in other build diaries.
The headstock on the neck will have some sanding done to it to smooth it out a bit along the edge where I used my 8mm rat-Tail file to shape it.
And for sure I'll have to supply a good decent amount of elbow grease, as the saying goes "No pain, no gain".