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Permalink Reply by GARAGE HERMIT on August 2, 2010 at 11:25am

practice scarf joint,

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on August 2, 2010 at 3:38pm

Ok. Not bad. Not bad. So one thing I do (and I do what you to) is I make my scarf cut based on the length of the headstock (usually about 5-6")-- no matter the thickness of the neck which in my case is about .75", then I cut down the headstock part of the scarf to about 5/8" thick before gluing it on. Doesn't sound like a lot but your tuning pegs will thank you. Then glue, then shape the neck if desired (radius/round the back side) and then add wings if desired (if you don't know what that is, its any extensions of the headstock wider than the neck). From there, I determine the nut placement and thus the length of the neck based on scaled initially desired. I know that a 36" piece of neck stock will work.

-WY

PAUL HAMMERSLEY said:

practice scarf joint,

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Permalink Reply by Mungo Park on August 2, 2010 at 4:46pm

If you put the cut off piece on the bottom you wil have less problems with keeping the nect top flat, a important thing you will find later on, fret board or not.If you put it on the bottom you will need a little longer board or a little shorter scale.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://api.ning.com/files/yA5l...

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Permalink Reply by GARAGE HERMIT on August 4, 2010 at 5:02pm

Mungo Park said:

If you put the cut off piece on the bottom you wil have less problems with keeping the nect top flat, a important thing you will find later on, fret board or not.If you put it on the bottom you will need a little longer board or a little shorter scale.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://api.ning.com/files/yA5l..._

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thanks, you're right, never thought of that,,

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Permalink Reply by GARAGE HERMIT on August 6, 2010 at 10:40am

how's this for a DIY guitar,,

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bought it for the p/up's tuner's etc,,

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Permalink Reply by GARAGE HERMIT on August 9, 2010 at 4:08am

just wondering if i used 2 out of the 3 single p/u's from the strat guitar in the pic's above, mounted side by side, would it turn into a hummbucker, they have opposing magnetic field's, and from what i've read that's what constitute's a hummbucker, or have i missed something,,??

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Permalink Reply by GARAGE HERMIT on August 9, 2010 at 10:40am

finished my FBG, also took the gut's out of a small practice amp and found an old 8" hi-fi speaker and put them into a cutlery box, the mesh screen over the speaker hole is a frying-pan anti spatter cover,, all i need to do now is learn how to play it,, lol,



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[IMG]http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j236/w124-2door/CIGAR%20BOX%20GUI...[/IMG]

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Permalink Reply by William McCauley on August 9, 2010 at 10:59am

Tried a scarf joint over the weekend. I think it is too much trouble for the results.If it will make the cbg sound better, I will try again.

PAUL HAMMERSLEY said:

practice scarf joint,

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Permalink Reply by GARAGE HERMIT on August 9, 2010 at 2:31pm

william McCauley said:

Tried a scarf joint over the weekend. I think it is too much trouble for the results.If it will make the cbg sound better, I will try again.
i think it's too much trouble as well, that's why i did'nt scarf mine, the ordinary notched head work's fine, but think i'll put a string retainer on it, get a bit more string angle over the nut,



PAUL HAMMERSLEY said:

practice scarf joint,

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