Ash Strat Reset

[stan]

wow, very nice result!
Sounds like you, AJ and I dont live that far from each other, I am thinking a Pitbull get together might be the go...

[kells80aus]

Hi Stan, yeah AJ lives a few km away. You'll have to give me some time to get a PBG finshed though. lol Although I have my Wedgtail, Eagle 11, and Epi. Down side at my place is my amp is a Behringer Vampire 1200. It only has one input jack. so you would have to listen to each others inabilities.... lol

[stan]

lol... I have 2 PBG kits and havent started either... Also have a Fender Tele, Squire Strat and a archtop Harmony acoustic that is going to get a Kent Armstrong Jazz pup.... I am lucky enough to have a Fender twin reverb - it has 3 inputs, so we could all rock the house, even if not that well!

[kells80aus]

1st attempt at setting the intonation, which was really point less as I have to take it all apart to put colour on the body. But I thought I might express my thoughts about this task on a Fender style guitar..... It would be easier to strap two sticks of dynamite to the thing and push the plunger. It has to be at the right intonation for at least 1 millisecond at some stage......LOL It seemed like there were twenty thousand little allen key worm screws to adjust up down and all around. Do not despair I got there in the end. Well close enough. Still not happy with the tremlo. Someone can help with this. How much tension should be on the tremlo springs. This tremlo block is sitting up about 3 mm from the body at the rear of the tremlo block, should this be sitting a little lower, and what is the best way to adjust this. more sping tension or tighten the tremlo body screw a little more.

Cheers PK

[wokkaboy]

wow what model axe is that Paul ? Is it the Eagle 11 in your project list ?
the red strat you are returning looks amazing, might have to try this red shellac

[kells80aus]

Hi Wokka,

I should have said it was my first attempt at intonating a FENDAR... lol also got to deal with setting neck relief and maybe a couple of frets need leveling.

It's not the Eagle 11, that's a Gibbo set up, piece of pissa to intonate them. ROFL. this is the Future Butterscotch strat with all the beutiful grain. BTW I won't be inking it. I've grain filled it with Pine colour Timbermate slurry. so that has enhanced the grain by itself. I guess that when I put the base coat on that it the filler will soak up the colour leaving the brown grain to stand out.

The Eagle 11 is up and running. I actually have teo Eagle 11's here. I put the Kent Armstrong P90 pickups on son Chris' and the P-rail plus Kent Armstron P90 on mine. I need to do a bit more work on mine as I think the three way is dodgy. either that or I wired the pick ups out of phase. seems to loose volume in the centre position.



.... Oh Hang on, are you refering to the pics on the previous page. Yep the Red strat looks damn nice. I'll have to cut a deal over that I think.

The guitar in the case is son Chris' Eagle 11. I call it Eagle 11 as a reference to it's origins which was the Maton Wedgtail. I took the Wedgtail shape, enlarged it a little and put a taper on teh bottom edge of it.

Cheers PK

[Gavin1393]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from kells80aus on February 24, 2014, 15:02
1st attempt at setting the intonation, which was really point less as I have to take it all apart to put colour on the body. But I thought I might express my thoughts about this task on a Fender style guitar..... It would be easier to strap two sticks of dynamite to the thing and push the plunger. It has to be at the right intonation for at least 1 millisecond at some stage......LOL It seemed like there were twenty thousand little allen key worm screws to adjust up down and all around. Do not despair I got there in the end. Well close enough. Still not happy with the tremlo. Someone can help with this. How much tension should be on the tremlo springs. This tremlo block is sitting up about 3 mm from the body at the rear of the tremlo block, should this be sitting a little lower, and what is the best way to adjust this. more sping tension or tighten the tremlo body screw a little more.

Cheers PK

Yep, tighten those body screws a bit and all should be well.

[kells80aus]

Thanks Gav.

I was going by a Vid I found on YouTube of some English guy building a Fender with a Warmouth body and Fendre Parts neck. his set up was screw it down and then back a quater. so I guess In my case they aren't down hard enough.

Cheers PK

[kells80aus]

Got some Belcat BHS-94 Black Guitar Alnico V Pickup Hot Rail Blade Strat Pickup comming for this little baby. Ebay, (soorry Adam ya get what ya can when ya can).

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/321046238...84.m1497.l2649

Also got a Belcat plaain black Hummbucker for the Bridge.

[kells80aus]

1st coat of Butterscotch(over timbermate) looks OK to me.