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After seeing some of the awesome guitars people build around here....I decided I just had to attempt one myself. Not sure how it will turn out but here is what I am up to.
I bought a maple neck and decided the brand new frets were not the size I like....so they had to go!
So after about 2 minutes with my home depot end cutters...they were gone.
Then I had to build a router jig to cut the slot for the locking nut. Since I did not have the right bit with a ball bearing the patented E.J. method was out.
First I had to tape a couple of picks to the thing to make up for neck radius rocking.
Next I had to install the new dunlop 6105 frets....which I have never done before. I started by hand bending and then tapping in with a happer and wood block. I would start in the center and work my way to the edges. I would also add a drop of superglue on each edge first.
The one thing I would do different next time is instead of buying the pre-cut frets, I would just get the long wire stock. I thought the pre-cut ones would be pre-bent, but they were not. Since I didn't have a wire bender, and they were too short anyway, I bent them by hand and eyeballed the curve. I got pretty good after a few, but it would have been much faster and better to do it the right way....with the right tool.
Next time!
I also want to put in some cool inlays of some sort, but I did not want to bite off too much this first time in case I really screwed it up and had to scrap the whole project.
So far so good, so I'll invest in a F.R.O. and a body......and keep moving forward!
Then I sanded down the neck to make it the exact asymetrical shape/size as my Wolfgang. ...thicker by your thumb and thinner toward your fingers. It's extremely comfortable already....to me anyway.
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"I'd like to get something together--like a Handel, Bach, Muddy Waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy" --Jimi Hendrix
Awesome! Now really impress us and do the Jackson you have been putting off with the binding on the neck!
Seriously, kick ass job and excellent pics!
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