(Hopefully) Quick and Easy Parts-V

[FrankenWashie]

Oh and for all the guys wondering about the trem, I gave it a quick go, it felt pretty smooth and nice, and in terms of tuning it seemed to handle a little bit of a whapping fine. But I only had one string on it and didn't have a tuner or anything to see if/how far out it fell. But early tests look pretty good!!

Not so sure you should be talking about whapping your one string online dude, people get some funny ideas on the intrawebs.

How is the neck break angle? Is it just a case of a flat shim to bring things up or are you going to have to add some angle to it also?

[B'Lark]

Not so sure you should be talking about whapping your one string online dude, people get some funny ideas on the intrawebs.

How is the neck break angle? Is it just a case of a flat shim to bring things up or are you going to have to add some angle to it also?

Well hey I never considered that, you're the one takin' things that way haha

I did need to angle it. I'm gonna get some proper StewMac angled shims down the track, buuuut money...

Also, the pots arrived on friday, and I've been slowly picking away at the electronics over the last couple of nights and got it finished up tonight. Plugged it in, gave it a bit of a test and it loooks like I got sent a dodgy volume pot, the output will just cut out if the volume knob gets bumped a but. It might be a dodgy solder somewhere along the way, but from the way it was acting I suspect that it was the pot (also I am actually reasonably confident in my soldering job this time). I'll pull the pickguard off tomorrow night and investigate a little further.

[FrankenWashie]

Well hey I never considered that, you're the one takin' things that way haha

I did need to angle it. I'm gonna get some proper StewMac angled shims down the track, buuuut money...

Also, the pots arrived on friday, and I've been slowly picking away at the electronics over the last couple of nights and got it finished up tonight. Plugged it in, gave it a bit of a test and it loooks like I got sent a dodgy volume pot, the output will just cut out if the volume knob gets bumped a but. It might be a dodgy solder somewhere along the way, but from the way it was acting I suspect that it was the pot (also I am actually reasonably confident in my soldering job this time). I'll pull the pickguard off tomorrow night and investigate a little further.

Haha! Good point, i shall have to watch that.

In terms of the shimming, on one of the threads DB talks about using CA soaked copy paper to build up angled shim, can't remember which one though. The StewMac full pocket shims look good but I've found you can't just buy one thing from StewMac, you always end up grabbing something else and before you know it you've a cartful costing you a bomb!