I guess I'm a dinosaur, but I can't work this out
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I guess I'm a dinosaur, but I can't work this out
Can't figure out how to post pics. Sorry, It's not intuitively obvious to do.
I'm about to attempt a finish on a SCM to replicate Jeff Beck's '54 oxblood Les Paul. I've used a mixture of stains, with water soluble red and purple, followed by brown Raven oil. My test wood...
I recently modified a strat style HH guitar, after seeing demos of the PRS DGT SE. I replaced the shitty high output pups with Tonerider alnico2's, added a Wilkinson 2 point vibrato bridge, cheap...
Hi,
If you haven't already done your neck and want to darken the fret board, you could try raven oil in brown. The brand I have is Waproo.
You'ld have to mask off around the board carefully, and it...
Of course you'ld have to finish the wood after removing any oil or other finish. For a rosewood board my preference is tung oil. You can wet sand it in with 2000 grit wet and dry and there forms a...
J.R. You can have at the scratches with impunity, using sandpaper of increasing fineness, until the scratches are invisible/gone. Just protect the frets so you don't scratch them. You'll never...
Hi Ines,
Your Bigsby B3 is winging it's way to you.
Check out Towner downward tension bars. they may help give you the break angle you'll need over the bridge saddles.
Cheers,
colin.
Hi Andy,
Your B3 is in the post.
There was a tracking code: R228769002995781
Enjoy!
Cheers'
Colin
Hi Andy,
Yes it's still available. I'll post a photo. It has some slight tarnish from being handled.
I am charging the clueless german for postage, so I should charge you also.35077
Send me a...
Hi Clueless,
$30 will cover it, so a total of $80au, if you're still interested.
I'll try and add a photo.
35031
Cheers,
Colin
Hi mate,
I'll ask for a price at the post office on Monday and let you know.
I found a site new to me that has some lefty knobs and other useful stuff ie
Guitartrade.
It looks Australian, might be another resource for hard to find parts.
I have a lefty bass playing son and a lefty guitar playing grandson. I have been building guitars for them for a few years totalling four basses and three guitars. The latest is a lefty AG-1....
I have two gold original Bigsby B3 trems. I bought them to go on PSH-1's ( actually a similar predecessor) and they didn't fit. My poor research entirely.
I have searched for suitable kits to put...
I'm thinking of building a GSM-1, but I couldnt find any pictures of completed ones, Two piece body- I wondered how the two sides complemented each other.
The other thing is the control layout. If...
Another consideration:-
I tried the Seymour Duncan option of cap and resistor in parallel, and that also gave me little volume drop until about 4 and then rapid volume drop, which I found good for...
Thanks for that link. But too late, I've gone ahead and attacked the bridge with a round file and ground out the medial sides of the holes.
It now fits, looks a bit ugly (irregular), but as they...
I've just got to the assembly stage of an Ex1, and found that the bridge spacing centre to centre is 74mm, but the body is drilled for 72mm, centre to centre.
I've looked online and bridges all seem...
I've just ordered an EMG 37HZ set from EMG for $178 (AUD). They're passive, apparently the right size. I'll report once installed.
The ones that came with my IB-5 were so low in volume, that I...
I also love Toneriders. I've tried Srat, tele, P-90s, Alnico 2's and 4's in humbucker. All excellent tones and value. I would have replaced the generic pups in the basses too, but Tonerider don't...
There's also a brown raven oil that's useful. I stained a strat body with brown before sanding, then sanded down to expose the grain.
Sealed and finished with Tru-Oil. White scratch plate, bit of a...
Bit of an update:-
I've tried the raven oil on a couple of guitars since:- an IB-5 (lefty), and a 5 string thunderbird.
Both maple and rosewood. I stained the whole neck on the IB-5, so I could...
Hi all,
What are the stock bass tuners like? About to get IB-5.
I hadn't used kit tuners on my previous two builds, but this last time I thought I'd give em a try. (LP-1M)
Talk about shite!
One...
No, Wokka, a hollow bodied starcaster from DIY. Difficult to contemplate shielding. But it sounds great, GFS gold foil pups and 50's wiring, so no need for treble bleed circuits.
I originally had a...