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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 27, 2014 at 12:57am

as discuss in here...http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/solid-guitar-pictures

and here I did the pick up etc...

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Permalink Reply by Scott aka Farmer Ted on November 27, 2014 at 1:04am

That turned out brilliant, John. The skeleton hands rock...as much as Elmar's flatpup does too.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 27, 2014 at 3:10am

Sweet!! That looks great!

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on November 27, 2014 at 9:50am

lookin mighty  fine . 

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on November 30, 2014 at 12:07am

Beautiful!  Been thinking about doing a similar build....

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 30, 2014 at 2:49am

just realize that some of the frets aren't in right.

so I'm going have to take them all out.

I had a feeling that s/steel is a bad idea.

so I'm going to buy some new nickle frets probably from chickenbone johnny!

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 30, 2014 at 4:10am

When you say the frets aren't in right, do you mean they are in the wrong place?

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 30, 2014 at 4:41am

they're in the right place but not seat properly and looks as they are twisted a little bit.

straight then about a 1/4" from the end a slight twist.

not sure how I'm going to rectify that with them being s/steel.

had a chance to check the sound and notice some didn't sound quite right on the 1st  string(bottom looking down)and I notice that some are not right as stated above.

this all learning process here for me.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 30, 2014 at 7:08am

Did you make sure that the slot is deep enough and that the tang on the fret wire is not bottoming out?

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on December 1, 2014 at 12:01am

good point Dan.

I'll check it later.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on December 1, 2014 at 1:44am

You only need to be a couple of thousands of an inch too shallow and it will cause problems. Better a little too deep than too shallow.

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on November 30, 2014 at 3:51am

That is really beautiful!

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