Recessed Floyd Rose cavity. Three routing templates (two on the front side and one on the back), two of which have add-on fences for routing different parts of that specific outline at different depths. Complicated, sure, but also incredibly satisfying.
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What's On Your Workbench?
- Thread starter HaMMerHeD
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Yeah, done that one. It’s complicated but so satisfying when it’s done and looks nice and clean.
I have to do that on the Tele build, I'm hopeful I pull it off that well.
Slowly, slowly, the Explorer case is taking shape...
On my workbench today I have a Les Paul Junior style guitar that I built last year. It is currently my no 1 player and main gigging guitar. Here it is:
Unfortunately it has developed a nasty trussrod rattle, which also creates feedback with the amp. I tried to fix this a while back by drilling from the octave inlay dot sideways to the trussrod channel and injecting some wax, but the wax solidified way too quickly and most of it ended up on the top of the fretboard, which required a major cleanup
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I'm not ready to admit defeat, so here we go again, this time with a different gameplan. I want to drill directly from the top down into the trussrod channel to inject silicone and then cover this by a third fret marker at the 12th Brian May-style, like this:
I have a gig on sunday, so let's get this over with!
Unfortunately it has developed a nasty trussrod rattle, which also creates feedback with the amp. I tried to fix this a while back by drilling from the octave inlay dot sideways to the trussrod channel and injecting some wax, but the wax solidified way too quickly and most of it ended up on the top of the fretboard, which required a major cleanup
. I'm not ready to admit defeat, so here we go again, this time with a different gameplan. I want to drill directly from the top down into the trussrod channel to inject silicone and then cover this by a third fret marker at the 12th Brian May-style, like this:
I have a gig on sunday, so let's get this over with!
On my workbench today I have a Les Paul Junior style guitar that I built last year. It is currently my no 1 player and main gigging guitar. Here it is:
View attachment 4701884
Unfortunately it has developed a nasty trussrod rattle, which also creates feedback with the amp. I tried to fix this a while back by drilling from the octave inlay dot sideways to the trussrod channel and injecting some wax, but the wax solidified way too quickly and most of it ended up on the top of the fretboard, which required a major cleanup
I'm not ready to admit defeat, so here we go again, this time with a different gameplan. I want to drill directly from the top down into the trussrod channel to inject silicone and then cover this by a third fret marker at the 12th Brian May-style, like this:
View attachment 4701885
I have a gig on sunday, so let's get this over with!
Looks great even if it rattles.
Black Limba? What’s the neck made out of?
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,589
- 221,970
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
These Telecasters have finally left my workbench.
Build thread is in my signature if you want to see all the details.
Buck Owens would be envious!
Good eye! It's a black limba body with a mahogany set neck and a wenge fretboard. The headstock is mahogany with maple/wenge veneer binding. Pickup is a Lollar P90.Looks great even if it rattles.
The operation is going well so far. I turned the trussrod all the way counterclockwise and injected some (50/50 thinned) silicone. I had to push quite a bit on the syringe, but maybe 1 ml went in. I'll let it dry like this and relax the truss rod tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
And with the threefold fret dot, the guitar will look even more original and daring, and people will praise your boldness and creativity.
Wow…. Check out his boldness and creativity!!
It’s working already.
It’s working already.
This was on my bench this evening. My Dad's 1961(ish) Harmony Rocket. I disassembled it as far as I could. I cleaned everything and gave it the first fretjob that it ever had... like it literally never had anything done at the factory aside from beveling the fret ends... and decades of playing cowboy chords pretty much decimated everything below the 5th fret. Restrung it with flats just like it had when he bought it. Plays and sounds great.
Restrung it with flats just like it had when he bought it. Plays and sounds great.
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,589
- 221,970
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
This was on my bench this evening. My Dad's 1961(ish) Harmony Rocket. I disassembled it as far as I could. I cleaned everything and gave it the first fretjob that it ever had... like it literally never had anything done at the factory aside from beveling the fret ends... and decades of playing cowboy chords pretty much decimated everything below the 5th fret.
Can't express how awesome that is in every way possible!
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,589
- 221,970
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
Excellent. Love the Korg tape dispenser too. 
Excellent. Love the Korg tape dispenser too.
I thought the same thing - "What sort of sci-fi tape dispi. . . oh, I see."The patient is alive and well. I tightened the trussrod today, glued, filed and polished the new inlay dot and strung it up. No rattle! The rod is dead silent and the guitar plays and sounds just as before, all because of my boldness and creativity
