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What's on the workbench??
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08-12-2010 06:11PM#1Saw a thread like this on another forum and thought it would be cool to have! Just post some pics of what you are doing! Repairing, building, setting up and musical instrument or piece of equipment!
Heres some pics to get you started!
Fret levelling
New bone nut for a Tele Deluxe
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The my les paul forum ?:D
Heres what I have at the moment. First build attempt. Still lots to do(i know the scratch plate isn't wide enough, will probably make another)
Sorry for the image size, cant figure out how to resize with the image tag0 -
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tele by mechanicalapple, on Flickr
Warmoth Baritone Esquire with a TV Jones Powertron in the bridge
it's going to get the graphtech ghost piezo system fitted when I can afford it
I also need to decide with colour I want
I'm thinking orange sparkle or maybe teal metallic
Picture 11 by mechanicalapple, on Flickr 0 -
FruscianteFan wrote: »Got it in one!
Guitar looks great! What pickups are you going to put in it?
I have a duncan distortion (bridge) and duncan 59(neck) on the way. If the guitar feels nice to play(will be my first neck build so thats questionable) I will put them in it, otherwise I will put them in my epiphone sg and put the sgs old pickups in the v0 -
Nice idea for a thread. Here's a project I started today, its an Allparts Strat body I got off a friend. The reason he gave it to me was because
(1) As you can see, all the holes need to be drilled, something he wasnt comfortable doing.
and (2) He took a bit off the pocket trying to install the neck:
Luckily im no stranger to paint and drills so here's where I am after a bit of work today:
If I get a chance I'll drill the neck and bridge holes tonight.0 -
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I did some work on that bass I mentioned in my last post, I pulled the frets by heating them with a soldering iron and then getting under the fret with a knife and pulling it with a pliers.
Here's the bass before.
A friend helped my out and I had all the frets off the board in a few minutes. Then I got some light coloured wood filler and put it in the fret slots, I was trying to use a knife but ended up doing it with my fingers. As you can see I'm so lazy I didn't even take the strings off fully, I used the same ones when I restrung.
I left it sit over night to harden and today I sanded off the excess filler and got some nice clean fret lines where the frets were. I need to do a small bit more sanding to finish the clean look, especially at the top end of the fretboard. In the future I might protect the board with some epoxy. Right now I have it restrung and it's playing pretty nicely, it's definitely got that fretless sound which is what I was looking for. Here's what it's like now
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