The operative words in this whole conversation is 'With WATER based stains'.
It will work with water based stains,but Shellac uses Alcohol as a base, so if using Alcohol based stains it could end it...
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The operative words in this whole conversation is 'With WATER based stains'.
It will work with water based stains,but Shellac uses Alcohol as a base, so if using Alcohol based stains it could end it...
It's not just string slots not cut as well as they could be, it can, and usually is a combination of things.
Gibson's slanted headstock, combined with the offset tuning pegs are notorious for being...
Looks very Gnarly [cool]
I've just Re-Started my modified ES1 build [Re Routed for Kinman P90's- had to take 5mm off the thickness of the neck tongue because the V 2 Kinman P90's pickup's are deeper...
Long time since I visited the forum [to be amended]
I just had a look in the Pitbull Shop - Custom section and saw various options for necks, but fingerboard radius wasn't listed as one of those...
Just go to any Artist supply store and they will have it, it's one of the most popular brands in the world.
It's used by anybody that is into calligraphy, and comes in shades of Brown, Blue,Green...
You could use Winsor & Newton Indian INK to dye the fret board, they have several types, you want the one with the spider on the bottle, it contains Shellac, which dries hard, and is also used as a...
I have, and still am, waiting for, a K.Yari 12 string guitar at a reasonable price to appear on Ebay.
I don't like my chances.
Dingotone seems to work the same way as Shellac, but in reverse.
With Shellac, you multiple coat it, then sand it down.
How have you found the color spread?
I have a ES3 build using Shellac...
Ty INKSCAPE, it's free.
Sort of like how GIMP is to PHOTOSHOP, INKSCAPE is to ILLUSTRATOR, both do the same things, the paid version makes using them a bit easier, but truth be told, not much real...
If it's what I think it is, it's going to be pretty dense wood, and looking at the core of one of those log's, possibly as hard as Iron-bark.
If so, you might be better off cutting the logs...
There are two ways you can make your own personalized pickup covers.
One involves polymer clay, which you roll out, cut/mould to shape, then bake in a oven till it hardens.....you can do all sorts...
I had already left for the green shed before I saw your post.
Thankfully they did have the Aluminum strips suitable for making notch edges
I ended up buying one of the Ozito airbrush kit's with...
Pity he cut it up they way he did, as it always preferable to have any wood used for instrument making quarter sawn, for structural integrity.
I suppose you could quater saw what bit's are there,...
I've got a K.Yari of the same vintage, as one poster already mentioned, they were imported and distributed in Australia by a small guitar shop in Sydney's Kings Cross in the early to mid 80's
They...
I've been contemplating getting a DAW, well duel purpose a under utilized PC that I built for graphic processing.
It's a i7 4790 with a Gigabyte H97 MB, 32gb RAM, Samsung pro SSD's and a Nvidia GT...
I see the The green shed has 1m lengths of 3mm Aluminum 10cm wide, well they have them on their website, if they actually have any in stock is another matter....
A bit of progress with the DIY String Butler like rotating string trees.
I went to Hobbyco in Sydney's City center on the way home from work the other day, basically to see if I could find two...
I was on the periphery of the goings on at Albert's.
A viewer and keeper of notes of the goings on, both written and photographic, of the comings and goings [session work/ Equipment...
I have a bag full of different color Dingotone bottles that I bought 18 months to 2 years ago which I have never opened.
[No reflection on Dingotone as a product, it's just that I lost my work space...
One of the nicest guys you could ever meet.....Horrible to try to meet at a gig, only because he, and the rest of the 'Young' clan, are so short....Jockey sized....hard to spot in a crowd.
Had a...
Well obviously there is, otherwise so many people wouldn't be having the same problem, and such a product wouldn't exist.
There is a well known video of Wes Montgomery berating the fact that he...
I had thought of doing that, I even bought a long stainless steel rule to notch with the dremel, problem is it's too thin [1.3mm] and thus flimsy [well not flimsy, more like too flexy] to be...
As the topic asks, any chance of one of these tools becoming available at the PB shop for Bass guitar?
34" & 35" scale
The only ones I see on the web are priced $100 and more, which seems a rip...
Cutting the nut slots at a angle on the D & G strings doesn't really solve the problem, it just lessens it, so does cutting the nut away a tad at the rear and using some form of lubrication [I use...
I, like many others it seems, have been having tuning problems with the G string on my SG, so I did a search to see what people have been doing to remedy it, apparently it's a problem suffered by a...