Custom HotRod Strat Build.

[DrNomis_44]

All good buddy.

Hearing an axe slightly out of tune for you is probably like the sound of someone dragging fingernails down a chalk board as both are quite annoying and irritating. I know if I am out and about and there is live music any pitch issues, whether vocally or instrumental are hard to ignore and many mere mortals, or rather those non-musical beings amongst us just don't seem to hear what is really going on. Clearly blissfully ignorant whilst downing more of their preferred beverage.

For me, I reckon it's because my ears have become sensitized to anything that sounds a bit out of tune, or maybe, my ears have learnt how to recognize when an instrument is out of tune, my theory anyway, I think that once your ears learn how to recognize out of tune-ness, it's very hard for them to un-learn it, for some people, it tends to drive them up the wall so to speak, other people seem to be able to tolerate some out of tune-ness.

Anyway, I'll keep posting updates on this project, I might give the Hot Rod Strat a few more coats of paint tomorrow and then let it dry for a couple of weeks, then I might do some clear-coating.

[Zandit75]

Hi Wazkelly, I will admit that I can get a bit OCD with perfection too mate, i blame that on me being a Virgo (well known for their pursuit of what they believe is perfection),

Are you still a Virgo? Just recently, NASA re-instated an old 13th zodiac sign, and now, apparently 85% of people are now under a different star sign!
I am one of the lucky ones who stayed with their original star sign!
http://fox59.com/2016/09/23/nasa-rev...-have-changed/

[pablopepper]

The idea that NASA has anything to do with astrology/star signs is actually pretty funny.

https://www.newscientist.com/article...ded-a-new-one/

[Zandit75]

Haha, yeah I saw that article as well. I just wanted to see if there was a reaction first!
According to the new date, the rest of my family has changed star signs. They got a good laugh out of it!

[DrNomis_44]

Are you still a Virgo? Just recently, NASA re-instated an old 13th zodiac sign, and now, apparently 85% of people are now under a different star sign!
I am one of the lucky ones who stayed with their original star sign!
http://fox59.com/2016/09/23/nasa-rev...-have-changed/

Hahahaha....my birthday falls on the 31st of August, so according to the revised Astrological chart, my Starsign is Leo, just what I need to make me that much more confused, and we all know just how easily confused I can be....haha.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:

Just managed to make a bit more progress on my HotRod Strat build project, in order for me to be able to install the bridge, I had to cut-away some of the plastic from between the hole in the scratchplate where the bridge humbucker goes, and where the body routing for the bridge is, I carefully marked it out and used a coping-saw to cut-away the plastic, then used a file to smooth-out any rough edges, next I marked where I needed to drill two new holes for the scratchplate mounting screws, drilled them out to size, placed the scratchplate on the body, using two screws to hold it in place, then I drilled two appropriately-sized holes in the body to the correct depth, that pretty much finishes that bit of work, the only thing I need to do now is finish-off spray-painting and clear-coating the body, and then the guitar will be ready for assembly, I'm going to see if I can buy a set of new Chrome tuners for the guitar tomorrow.

[Simon Barden]

Hahahaha....my birthday falls on the 31st of August, so according to the revised Astrological chart, my Starsign is Leo, just what I need to make me that much more confused, and we all know just how easily confused I can be....haha.

Glad you're making progress with at least one guitar!

[Dedman]

Due to Procession ( the way the earth wobbles around its elliptical orbit) over time and the fact that most of us here are in the Southern hemisphere none of the zodiac signs are relevant as the star signs are in completely different places than they were in the time of the ancient Greeks. As an aside I used to watch an Aunt rush to read her stars in the paper every day, I worked at said paper and watched the copy boy cut random selections from a bunch of print outs and stick them down on a page, these days a computer probably replaced the copy boy, but accuracy would remain constant.

[Simon Barden]

It's actually 'Precession', not 'Procession'. But on the rest you are 100% correct.

[DrNomis_44]

Glad you're making progress with at least one guitar!

Hahahaha....good one, who isn't a big fan of Deep Purple?, classic 70's hard rock, I've lost count of the number of times "Smoke On The Water" has been played by various cover bands, I think it's right up there with Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven".


Good to see that the ancient art of thread-jacking is alive and well.....hahahaha.