ilovefuzz.com

oof - sounds like a real mess!

yeah, I like those black top classicals

Dandolin wrote:real mess!

Orange crap removed. letting it settle for a few days..

Very nice, what did you use to remove the varnish/lacquer? That guitar looks super interesting.









I need to figure out how to polish aluminum well before finishing the Twist, started building a Tiger model and Wandre Waid/Spezial bass. This is the headstock of the Tiger right after TIG welding (hit one side with file).

repoman wrote:Very nice, what did you use to remove the varnish/lacquer? That guitar looks super interesting.

Not the best interns of speed but I was trying not to mess any glue joint up.. Same reason I din't use a heat gun.. might have messed with the braces and the goal is to glue the top back together... On a side note... to keep myself from doing this again I gave the rest of the jog to my sister for her home remodeling project that way I don't have the temptation to remove finished for a while.. every damn time I do this I say I'm not going to do this again.. and I do

fucking hell, you guys, this is great stuff! my mind is boggled at the Wandre.

comment dites-vous? "Great for slide! Open-G ROLLING STONES KEITH RICHARDS"

oof sorry to see that
no can glue, fill, and drill I suppose?
if you're not feeling the Krichards thing, maybe try Baroque guitar or Cittern tuning

Made this bass string holder for the Waid bass last night
The actual ones seem to be made of extruded aluminum half round pipe, the one I made is just solid half round. Also figured out how to buff/polish aluminum...buy a buffer! Spend 5 hours wet sanding or 2 minutes using a real buffer. :surprise:






This bass is massive, I tried printing this so it would be 100% scale to help in making the template but I'm fairly sure I printed it way undersized looking at the position of the bridge (assuming it is a 34" scale bass) and how close the strings are on my print out...I'm guessing the body is 2 feet wide at its widest on the real ones...just ridiculous. I'm building it to be more normal sized.

Looking at that, the bridge looks like a hofner which have near guitar string spacing if that helps...

Yes! Just looked it up, says Hofner spacing is 14mm or 0.560 inch, I copied the spacing on the Pbass bridge I have which was 0.800 inch.

Needed a fret press caul, and decided to try and make one and maybe save 70 bucks from stewmac.
Tested it on a scrap neck, seems to work well. Took a long time though because my mill is small and milling steel on it is glacial.

I put banjo tuners on my spanish laud

Before [with wooden pegs
Now with Gotoh planetary banjo tuners Also working with Tortis pick guard material is weird you have to microwave it to work with it

Very cool! Looks great

and you'll never have to sand pegs to fit ever again!

nice work! I wish I could do that with my mandola, but it's a slot head...they make planetary gear pegs but gatt damm they are expensive.