Easy job to finger fit on mine when I did it mate.
Easy job to finger fit on mine when I did it mate.
+1 for surgical tubing vs PVC. You can also get silicone tubing (Exercise Tubing) from Clark Rubber in various diameters. That's what I keep on hand for hollowbody work.
note: it's actually latex, just read the description!
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I am constantly amazed at what you can buy from Clark rubber. I think we may already have some of that from the physio. Thanks again allOriginally Posted by McCreed
+1 for surgical tubing vs PVC. You can also get silicone tubing (Exercise Tubing) from Clark Rubber in various diameters. That's what I keep on hand for hollowbody work.
note: it's actually latex, just read the description!
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Time to install electronics and touch up a few indiscretions I discovered in my finish. Just debating best approach to earth my cavities. Thinking of running a wire to harness and soldering back of the pots.
Gloss finish obtained with a final 2000 grit wet sand followed by 2x thin coats of truoil and a polish with meguiars ultimate compound.
I have tried a few times to use the micro mesh pads but no joy getting that nice gloss finish.
Painfully my decal on my truss rod cover came off when taping it down to screw my hole to fix it on but at least I can enter guitar if the month as was questioning whether the word hollowbody was a brand trademark. I still have plenty of decals to fix this later.
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Looking fine! Everything looks nice and crisp. No, hollow body isn't trade marked or copyrighted as far as I know.
Hey Mike, your project is looking great. Can’t wait to see it all finished.
I’ve shielded the cavity in my Strat and Tele guitars but didn’t think I’d be needing to do this with my PSH-1 kit given it has humbuckers.
Do you think I should do the same? You can’t really fully enclose the cavity with shielding, I presume, because the pickups just have plastic mounting rings rather than a scratch plate or metal bridge plate.
I have installed a few extra switches so I can run the humbuckers in split, parallel and series. Series and parallel modes the humbuckers do their thing but single coils don’t. Whilst it won’t be perfect, I am installing it anyway (looks kind of nice too ) and using shielded wire where possible.
If you are not splitting then I doubt it you will need it. But I would defer to the experts like [mention]Simon Barden [/mention] who know much more about these things.
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Thanks. I am pulling my hair out tonight as I sanded some evil drips on the horns which I somehow missed and I cannot seem to get the gloss finish back with my diluted truoil. I may need to build up some neat truoil first before gloss coating again.
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Question. Should pickups be parallel to the string ? I am at the last stages of installing hardware but the pickups aren’t sitting level.
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Fret buzz help.
I sanded down the bridge pickup ring and now have level pickups.
Finished setting up now but have an annoying fret buzz on my A string when fretting between the 3rd and 7th frets and on my Low E around the 10-14 frets. I have played around with adjusting relief and action but no joy getting rid of it. My other strings are ok and I can fret all the way down the neck with no buzz.
I suspect I have a high or low spot on a few frets somewhere from when I leveled the frets at the start of my build.
Any tips on how to diagnose which fret is the culprit and fix???
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