Recent content by Bonkersville

Be aware, that removing that much wood can affect the stability of the neck. Or more accurately, the bending strength. The neck is heavily reinforced, so that might not be a real problem. For someone who hasn't done a lot of neck shaping, I'd recommend files and sandpaper, as others have...

I'm almost embarrassed to admit this, but I can't see a crack in that photo. Is it a crack in the finish you want to get rid of? Or on wood? Or both? I don't usually bother with those as long as they're only visual. And getting rid of them in a visually pleasing manner can be tricky. If...

For some reason I really like how the grain runs and alters through the body. Deliberately fabricated or not, that is a seriously pretty body you have there.

Tone metal!

D'oh. So sorry to see that. Also a little sorry that a nice t-shirt had to end that way...

I believe it would be very tricky to get a constant nicely formed radiused corner where the side bends meet. For that the metal would need to compress evenly at the corners or stretch at the sides. The industrial process used to batch these out is called deep drawing. In theory it's possible...

Plastic see through containers. I get mine from Ikea, but there are a million alternatives. The Ikea ones are great for that different sizes can be piled together. And the lids are also transparent. Honestly I don't have that many templates and jigs to store yet, since I've only been back at...

Right. First I'll say if possible, only ever buy good quality router bits. Especially the ones with bearings. But. I sometimes use the router for lesser tasks. You know, outside the luthiery realm. And sometimes I don't want to use the nice bits for whatever reason. So in come the cheap chinese...

I built the doubledecker bindings for the bridge pickup ring. Again with the 6 mm abs, this time I used the abs-acetone cement for all of them.

Today I had a little time to work on the second iteration of the pickup rings. First I sanded the wenge top flat. The glue line disappeared nicely. Then I built a routing template from some plywood and treated the edges with superglue. I used the template to scribe the outlines on the pickup...

Yesterday evening I installed the covers on the pickups. I made little pieces of some thin brass offcut I had. I cut it with some tin snips and straightened with a couple of hammers using the bigger as an anvil. Then I scraped the chrome from the spots that would get soldered. I used one of...

No need, I definitely was not offended. Besides, it's kinda nice to remember that this internet thing can actually bring us a little closer, like it did a long ago. Instead of us just tossing virtual bricks in imaginary windows halfway across the world.

Yeah. I have high output active humbuckers on two guitars. But I had a different setup in mind for this one. Anyways I'll put these on and see how it works. They can always be replaced.

Yesterday I removed the cover from the other pickup with the new old soldering powerhouse. There was quite a bit of solder between the center polepieces and the pickup cover. Thankfully it had done no damage and wasn't hard to dig out. And the backplate screws were still in full operating...

I am in Finland. Here we have 230 V and 50 Hz in common single phase sockets. Which theoretically means I get a little more than 160 watts from the iron. This type of bent flathead screwdriver tip is quite common here even on small soldering irons. At least the cheaper ones. My thirty watt...