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Awesome work mate! Might have to upgrade my rack soon myself!!

Ever since I saw the Fender magnificent 7 announcement at NAMM I've been craving one of these bad boys, but a price tag around the 2500 mark has got me thinking I should attempt to make it...

That's all true, I'm sure if I take my time and fix a few things up I'll be able to get it all good. It's just disappointing as the only reason I bought the TL51 over the other TL models was it had...

Great guitar Michael! The carvings are awesome!!!

Is there a thread on the forum somewhere teaching you how to do your own bindings? Something I'd like to look at down the track!

How often do kits come out that are perfect and need no adjustments before putting them together?

Ok cool, I'll fit the tuner heads on the weekend and do a proper mock build and then we will know how bad the neck angle, string through holes and scale lenght are and what I need to do to fix them!

Thanks mate, yea the tuners look awesome.

I'm just not ready to drill holes yet, still trying to get my head around a few things and don't really feel I have a handle on anything yet, so not sure...

Cool, so without drilling holes in the headstock I can't fit the two e strings properly can I?

I think these are what you are talking about???

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They were in a seperate box for the tuners, but.....with the set in washers (i think they are what you are talking about, they are very...

Going to try do the mock build properly with the tuners and strings on the E strings. Having trouble figuring out how to fit the tuners, they are really lose and have no screws or anything to hold...

Yea sorry mate def had the saddles around the wrong way. Thickest E is 330 thinnest 325mm, aligned to where the string sits

Have a look at this pic, to the naked eye it looks like the neck is...

Hey mate, the thickest E string is roughly 325 and the thinnest is 330

What measurements are ideal?

The channels sound like a good idea, hopefully string on timber wont reduce the life of the strings

I wound the saddles forward to the point that the screw was flush with the end of the saddle as...

Hey mate,

I hadn't seen your message until now, but I did a little mock build anyway, not as in depth as you said.

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As you can see it fits together OK, where the bridge is sitting all...

Thanks for the heads up on the address there mate, deleted that pic.

Yea it has chrome hardware.

So although the holes aren't inline you think it will be ok? Or do you think I should be looking...

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Hey everyone,

Got my first kit this morning, was pretty excited to open it up and have a quick look. Seems pretty good, the grain looks nice and I can't see any machine marks or anything yet.
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Too true. In your avatar is that a similar finish on an LP?

Dude this guitar is amazing!! This is almost.exactly what i had.imagined in my head/!! I was thinking a natural ash/butterscotch yellow with black binding but this small.burst is unbelievable!!!!
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Cheers guys, will do!! Friday seems so far away.....

Thanks everyone,

I'm in WA so hopefully will be here Thursday or Friday!

Hey everyone,

Just ordered my first kit this morning, a TL-51 Ash. Sort of an impulsive buy really, only even considered building my own guitar for the first time yesterday morning. Spent the...