FFS, Fender, I’m trying to keep everything in one place (as we don’t seem to have any mods any more) and you go and mess things up. This isn’t the forum for this sort of question.
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FFS, Fender, I’m trying to keep everything in one place (as we don’t seem to have any mods any more) and you go and mess things up. This isn’t the forum for this sort of question.
Question duplicated in this thread https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=12479 and being answered there.
Hi, Dale.
Some pictures might help us understand what's going on, and whether it's within normal tolerances or excessive and needs dealing with (or sending back).
The site will hoist pictures...
I’m sure you’ll do your normal wonderful job in putting it together. Hope it all goes smoothly.
Don’t sand the shellac. You are building up protective layers of shellac between the stain and the clear coat, so the clear coat only touches the shellac, not the wood. If you keep removing the...
There’s a possibility that there’s a loose connection inside the pickup. It’s not going to be easy to tell, even if you do manage to take the cover off.
I’d either disconnect the pickup wires...
The three-way switch positions should select neck, neck+bridge and bridge pickups.
The three connections on the box switch (excluding the ground contact on the other side of the switch) should be...
Your Shellac isn’t the clear type (or as clear as it gets) so it’s going to make the binding look yellow. It’s up to you whether you want that or not. I prefer some tinting as the kit binding is...
For the moment, I’d use cotton or very thin strings (not guitar strings) and just tie knots. You don’t need to fit the tuners for this if you want to, just run the string down the first tuner hole,...
You need to know what you are trying to achieve, and then work out how to achieve that.
What you want is for a) the neck to line up with the body so that the strings run down the neck parallel to...
I've just come across this YouTube channel with lots of tips on soldering. It's mainly for PCBs, but the lessons taught can be applied to most soldering tasks. Warning - strong east-London accent...
You may need to loosen and rotate the jack socket in order to get the jack plate moved nearer the trem end of the jack socket rout.
Because the socket is angled, how it's rotated does affect how...
Looking good to me.
I can't tell from the photos, but it's definitely worth putting a disk of masking tape over the end of the truss rod nut, otherwise you may need to scrape it out before the...
It's all good character-building stuff and hopefully we learn from our mistakes.
But it's very easy to be heavy-handed with cutting nut slots, I over-cut all the time. Even with proper nut files,...
Heatshrink is good. Always better to be safe than sorry.
Use the edge of a flat needle file (providing your file is thin enough in that dimension for a G string slot). I’d certainly avoid the triangular file unless it’s just for scoring an initial line.
Scrape the binding before putting any clear coat on.
Link to the PitBull build guide here.
https://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Pit%20Bull%20Guitars%20Manual.pdf
I’d send it back. It doesn’t take much of a measurement error in the bridge hole positions to make the guitar unusable.
It’s far better to mark hole positions with strings fitted, so you can...
On my needle file set, the flat file is 0.048” on the side dimension, which is fine for cutting a slot for a 0.045” G string. I’d always start smaller and expand the width, even with proper nut...
For bass nuts, you can normally use a combination of needle files. I have just purchased some Hosco bass nut files, but I was using needle files before that. I find the round one to be pretty good...
Hi and welcome.
Stacked, so they’ll certainly be a bit deeper than normal.
Sanding sealer is definitely a before staining product.
That's a polyurethane clear spray. I can't find any more details on it as it doesn't appear to be incorporated onto their website yet....
No!. Sanding sealer isn't meant to go over stain. Just put clear coat over stain.
I don't know why your 1K rattle can causes the stain to blotch. I'm not experienced at all with acrylic...