DrNomis_44's Gold Standard STA-1M Build.

[Andy40]

I think that most of the forum members would agree with me that your mateship and continual support on this forum, for us, has been invaluable Doc. You have encouraged me when I have had major set backs in my builds and have inspired me to build pedals (and an amp someday). I can see that you have set exceedingly high goals for yourself and your pursuit of them is admirable, I just thought I should highlight some of your qualities that you may not get told sometimes. Building guitars is not easy, and when you put the better part of a year and finances into it it can be soul destroying if things go wrong. I've been there, and I've seen others go to that place as well. It's a rare thing though, after that time, when it's time to pick it back up and finish that build, I've seen some amazing builds come out of it. Take some time Doc, I'd love to see you finish this epic build thread

Andy

[DrNomis_44]

I think that most of the forum members would agree with me that your mateship and continual support on this forum, for us, has been invaluable Doc. You have encouraged me when I have had major set backs in my builds and have inspired me to build pedals (and an amp someday). I can see that you have set exceedingly high goals for yourself and your pursuit of them is admirable, I just thought I should highlight some of your qualities that you may not get told sometimes. Building guitars is not easy, and when you put the better part of a year and finances into it it can be soul destroying if things go wrong. I've been there, and I've seen others go to that place as well. It's a rare thing though, after that time, when it's time to pick it back up and finish that build, I've seen some amazing builds come out of it. Take some time Doc, I'd love to see you finish this epic build thread

Andy

Hey cheers for that Andy, though you and I have never met in person, I regard you as a great mate, hope you don't mind me saying that, I've read a few of your threads and found them inspiring too, your guitar builds have impressed me a lot with the standard of finishing on them, when you get round to building an amp, feel free to ask me any questions you like and I will answer them to the best of my ability, I agree, sometimes I do tend to set very high goals for myself, maybe subconsciously I'm trying to prove something to myself, I don't really know, but when I do achieve those goals I tend to feel good about myself, and yes, when I don't achieve the goals I've set for myself it does tend to feel a bit soul destroying, I think I need to learn how to deal with setbacks better, so, maybe that can be my life's mission, hopefully I'll get this project finished with the new Strat body, meanwhile there are a few other things I can work on.


The good news is that I managed to get my white Ibanez RG350DXZ guitar back into a playable/giggable state, with a new set of strings, it seems to be holding it's tuning a bit better now, so at least I have one guitar that I can play, I also did some other maintenence work on it to get the trem-system working better.