What's on your workbench right now?

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by echoplex » Fri Jan 27, 2023 12:42 am

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Fixing up my friends guitars and the nut made me laugh. The absolute state of this...
Ouch! Is that a plastic or bone nut? Can't tell from the pics

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by X-Ray Spex » Fri Jan 27, 2023 3:01 am

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Is that a walnut Meteora?
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by straightblues » Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:34 am

No it is Mahogany. I piece body, and 1 piece neck. This is a custom build. Ronin foil bucker pickups.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by jazz&tele22 » Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:56 am

Wow. Beautiful.

How are the pickups?

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by echoplex » Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:00 am

Love the shape of it. Almost like a mixture of offset and thunderbird :w00t:

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by OffYourFace » Fri Jan 27, 2023 2:53 pm

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BEAUTIFUL!! Intermark inspired??

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by s_mcsleazy » Sun Jan 29, 2023 1:30 pm

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need to make another pass with the router under the pickguard but the router packed in. we're so close.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by sal paradise » Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:18 am

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need to make another pass with the router under the pickguard but the router packed in. we're so close.
This is looking really classy! Love the black guard.

Is the volume knob placement your choice? I’d probably hit my hand on that with the way I play when I get over-exuberant ;D
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

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sal paradise wrote:
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need to make another pass with the router under the pickguard but the router packed in. we're so close.
This is looking really classy! Love the black guard.

Is the volume knob placement your choice? I’d probably hit my hand on that with the way I play when I get over-exuberant ;D
nah, just how the guard came.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by jazz&tele22 » Wed Feb 01, 2023 4:02 pm

This one was kinda messy when it arrived and didn't work. Did a little tracing, cleaning up and re-soldering from top to bottom. Reused the existing wire so things don't really match up but it doesn't really matter to me. A little point-2-point and the meter says it's good so far.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by JSett » Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:34 pm

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Looks good. Any reason why you decided not to use the existing brass plate?
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by hulakatt » Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:45 pm

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Looks good. Any reason why you decided not to use the existing brass plate?
Yeah. Was wondering that as well. I have the shield on mine and have been quite happy with it.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by jazz&tele22 » Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:08 pm

johnnysomersett wrote:
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Looks good. Any reason why you decided not to use the existing brass plate?
Just bulky. When it arrived it was making the guard buckle and didn’t sit flush on the body. I didn’t have it on my last one and it was fine. The tape is just slim and an easy fit, less finicking around. I already had plenty in of the tape as well.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Gordon » Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:35 am

I have a question which doesn't deserve a whole thread, methink, so here it goes: when dying a body (black), would you need to mask the binding (white), or the risk of it darkening is low/inexistant, being plastic? :ph34r: Thanks for your feedback.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by epizootics » Thu Feb 02, 2023 7:51 pm

Gordon wrote:
Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:35 am
I have a question which doesn't deserve a whole thread, methink, so here it goes: when dying a body (black), would you need to mask the binding (white), or the risk of it darkening is low/inexistant, being plastic? :ph34r: Thanks for your feedback.
I guess it depends on the types of dyes you use but the risk is very low. If it does darken it some you can take a Q-tip with alcohol and rub most of it out. The light sanding you'll have to do after the dye should take care of whatever's left on the binding. But I'd still make a test on a scrap piece of the binding (or on a spot near the top of the biding on the side, where you can scrape it easily without touching the wood if you don't have a scrap piece), just in case. :)

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