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Hi Simon, sorry for the long silence, many things happen in my personnal life that kept me away from moving foward...
But now, i am back on track and ready to complete the missing steps.
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Hi everyone,

Here's an update of the few steps i could go through this weekend...


I installed the tuners to both necks and i confirm 18 tuners completely unbalance the piece as expected....:D...

Oh man🤦🏻*♂️
it felt like i would feel stupid once i would know. Now it seem obvious, but to my defence i only built 2 guitars so far and they were set-neck so.....😁

thank you very much gentlemen...

Hi Colin2121,

thank you for your interest.
Unfortunately, the built is not moving forward as fast as i would like (spare time is rare ressources this summer), but i manage to built the Tru-Oil...

As an update,

I reveiced few parts including the Grovers Tuner (305 series) and can confirm they will fit the built.
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Restring session will sure be a bummer but, i'll manage ;)

Also put...

As i am not familiar with Polyurethane, i will follow your advice and continue with TruOil as you proposed.

Again gentlemen, your input is much appreciated!

Anyone knows what wax i should use to keep my necks as close to the wood as possible as on my EVH Wolfgang Standard?

https://reverb.com/p/evh-wolfgang-wg-standard-quilt-maple

I have read that 1...

Thank you Colin2121. happy to hear Tru-Oil work for fix as well! i love this product. as i get more experienced with it each time i lke how coats built slowly and make it a really "forgiving" product...

i agree with you about glucose syrup :) but this particular built i wanted to have clean and neet finish. As basswod is easy to dent, i was aiming for minimum protective finish vs. not going too...

Hi There,

I had a problem after the 4th first coats of Tru-Oil applied with my gloves directly.
One of the last coat, I have put too much and didn't wiped even properly so i could see drips once...

Here's an update of the llast days evolution;

As the wood has no dent or mark whatsoever, i did one round of 240 grit & ended up with 320 grit, blown clean with air and dusted of with tack...

Thank you very much Simon for such thorough explanation!
I definitely want "clean" cleans as i can get it driven further down the signal chain when needed.
i am a fan of JB and his sound, but for...

Hi !


Happy father's day to those concerns ;)

As it is very humid actually in Montreal (and i dont have climatiser at home) i will need to wait a bit to hit the board with oil until i can have...

Thank you Simon for the confirmation!
i also had a look to Wazzkelly Tru-Oil past work as proposed by colin2121 also wandered around the forum and find that all necessary info and more seem...

Thank you Andy40!

The right handed version is Mahogany, but only basswood for the Lefties :p

Thank you Colin2121 !!
i already did 2 guitars with Tru-Oil, but only the last one came out quite nice.
It doesn't show much herre but gives an idea.36003

will do the homework, thank you for the...

Hi there!

Happy to join the "My Built Diary" community!
I received my kit 2 weeks ago but as i have been surfing between work with kids at home home and other "2020 challenges", seem like the...

Wow, amazing work!
thank for the welcome
Cheers

Hi Community!
Happy to join in!

As a quick note about me, i play since i am 15, i am now 46, i stop playing between 25 and 40 to proirise family :)
I am happy owner of 1 Yamaha Gd-10, 1 Mann...