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Sorry I missed the Apache, I spent some time with Richard the next day — posting that now 🙂
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
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Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
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Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021I’m not sure about a full scale meetup (I’m a little shy). GF and I are visiting the left coast the last week of August, first stop will be Santa Cruz, and I’m surely gonna drop by Sylvan.
We’re super excited, i think last I was in Santa Cruz was 20 years ago, my first time there was 1975.
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021<p style=”text-align: left;”>Big thanks guys, I know keeping any interactive site running safely in today’s world is no small task. I hadn’t noticed any issues, so it’s not surprising to me that we had many bot / fake accounts.</p>
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021Thank you! I think so, glad if others like ’em as well..
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021The pegboard / headstock inlay will be vertical with axe head up, I posted horizontal just because I think that works better in the forum layout.
Logo will be in the fretboard, I’ve seen SCGC place it centered on the 12th fret, and also on the 16th, in the upper bout area. I’d be good with either!
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021I meant to include that in the OP, the top will be old growth Adirondack spruce, I’m sure the shop will send along photos in time :-).
The labrys is a lesbian and feminist symbol, I’ve no specific venues in mind for her. When I get a chance, I’ll post a thread of my strat with a gold leafed labrys carved in the upper limb, this one is an echo of that.
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021Ahh 4 years later, if you haven’t already found what you’re looking for ..
There are good choices for custom necks, Musikraft is great.
On my strat build, I modified the bridge I wanted to accept the Ghost piezo saddles I wanted with slightly wider spacing. All that was needed was 20 minutes in a Bridgeport milling machine.
Lollar and others build wider “F’ spaced pickups and as Matt mentioned above, custom is pretty easy. You can also go with rail design pickups where there are no per-string pole pieces.
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021Suggested arrival is for December! Of course I will, I see you also go to TME, maybe we’ll meet there one of these days!
I was just looking over your OM thread, that’s a beautiful instrument!
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021Will! It was great to be in touch with you on my upcoming OM build, now.
I was a reader of the WEC (access to tools), Your dad and Stewart got me started in a few important life directions!
Glad you’re aboard!
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021I quite appreciated Richard’s talk through guitar cleaning practice and Virtuoso polish as a temporary replacement for the SCGC wax. However, I’m left with a question of what their polish consists of (their lit is quite clear that it’s not carnauba, and that they frown on wax generally). I’ve contacted them for clarification.
Conversely, since the SCGC guitar wax is presumably a *wax*, Does Richard / SCGC advise using wax? I’m fine with the concept of wax generally, and also wary that paste waxes rely on melting wax in petroleum solvents .. I’m wary of what VOCs I bring in the house, and at the same time, I don’t know another way to make a wax aside from my post above, and I wouldn’t use tung oil as a solvent over a nitro finish without assurance it was a safe thing to do.
Wax on; wax off 😉
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021Hmm, here are some ideas. I’ve got a fair amount experience with carnauba wax, it’s favored as a protective surface because of its extremely high film strength – it’s used as a lubricant for coining operations at extremely high pressures, say when forming a nickel-titanium alloy part to protect the tooling.
I’ve used it for glass blowing; it’s common to use beeswax to lubricate tools used in contact with hot glass, carnauba on its own had too high a melting temperature, however mixed with beeswax it worked a treat.
The way I’ve seen to create a non-toxic paste wax for wood is to use tung oil in place of the petroleum solvents normally used to make e.g. car waxes.
So I’d think to combine tung oil with perhaps pure carnauba, or a blend of carnauba & beeswax.
The question is, would the tung oil component be ok over a nitrocellulose finish?
SCGC 1934 OM Adi > BRW
#1 build WRC > flame maple
Solist 🌈 burst on quilt maple
Martin OM-28
Strat rosewood > mahogany 2021
