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My latest project is giving me major headaches. It's a HSH superstrat kind of deal in dark green, without pickguard and chrome pickup rings instead. I feel like such a meathead but I didn't even notice the neck had 24 frets until I was actually playing the thing. This has repercussions, as in the intonation is totally off by a semi-tone and maxing out the saddle doesn't help. As of now the scale length is at 26", so half an inch too long. In a fit of rage I already ordered a new neck, a normal one. But I kind of like this neck on here. Should I try shaving off some of the neck heel with a chisel? Half an inch seems like a lot of wood to me, but I guess there's room on the overhanging fretboard before it hits the pickup. I am undecided.

Also for the life of me I can't get the soldering right. 2 days of troubleshooting and tearing my hair out, soldering the same 3 pins over and over, a true Sisyphean effort. I figure I'm using the wrong kind of solder, though none of my other builds have this problem. The lead wires from the pickups are just so tiny, I just can't seem to get good contact. I thought I was done one time, and rejoiced, but no I was wrong, the joints just came undone. So now I have 60/40 rosin core in hand, I will try again tomorrow.

I guess it looks pretty good though. I will get this thing working. The neck humbucker is truly thunderous when it's working, with enormous amounts of bass, making a special sound. The other two pickups don't sound too bad either, useable tones all around. This thing was supposed to be my last project, but I simply cannot end things this way. I am brewing up another project so... last hurrah my ass.

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I wanted to paint a rose on my guitar body and my wife lent me her plotter machine in order to create stickers for my designs. I printed a rose outline and then placed it on the guitar, I sprayed it and a really nice rose was created from it. The problem is when I tried to remove the sticker it was really hard so I went the "old way around". Used a hair dryer and heat up the area. The sticker came off but it left this goo or gunk or residue on it.

I googled and I came around many suggestions. Nail polish remover, alcohol or warm soapy water. None of them really worked. I tested them on an area that is easy to remedy and nothing (other than ruining the colour/making it dull). Any ideas from you guys? Is there any home made remedy for these stuff?

Thank you all in advance for your answers. I really hope you can help me cause I am getting desperate.

Hello, I found this old guitar at a second-hand market for very little money, I was thinking of converting it into a Cuban tres. I am a non-professional musician, but I still have several instruments to which I have put my hand directly, do you think a conversion on this guitar is feasible? Thanks!

Hi, I built my first guitar, and I love it. My question is, if the guitar is perfectly in tune, and intonated well at the 12th fret, what is causing a fretted note at 5th or 6th fret to be sharp..? Nut slots too high, or something else? Action is currently pretty low.

Thanks!

I don't have a problem with StewMac in general, but holy smokes, the cost of their truss rod rescue tool is offensive. Since it's also not currently available, I don't feel too bad asking if anyone has any alternatives or has any experience making their own. It's that low profile thread cutting die that's the trick.

I don't own a milling machine or a metal lathe - but for the cost of the tool I can just about buy a used one.

Maybe I'm just venting. I'm sure it's expensive because it's so niche, but damn...

Does anyone have a good recommendation for places to get decent quality components and hardware (pots, tuners, bridges, fret wire, truss rods) without the name markup? I have a stockpile of cheap noname import components from ebay from when i started. I'm getting back into it and i'd like to do it right this time. What's worth spending the high shelf name tax and what's just rebadged mid stuff? Thanks!

So I'm building a Rick kit and I wanna wire a mud bucker and a mini humbuckers to a control plate with 2 volumes and 1 tone and a 3 way pickup selector. I need help weather I wire it like a jazz bass or do something else?

i'm putting together a sort of frankenstrat type of thing and i don't wanna shell out the couple hundred for a genuine FR. i'm thinking about a generic floating trem unit like this

if you guys have any clue how decent these are it'd be great to let me know. i'm gonna do it any way but i thought i'd ask.

Is this flux appropriate for electronics work? I can’t tell if this is plumbing or electrical flux, nor can I tell if there are in fact two different kinds of flux or if they’re all the same.

I need a Jackson king V (7 string) with a Floyd rose compatible cavity, and 2 humbucker cavities any help is appreciated thanks

First build based off the Gibson pictured on the right

On my bass a have 2 music man pickups and I was wondering what type of wiring mods I can get done to it

How bad would it be if a typical epiphone SG bridge, the piece that holds the strings, was like, a centimeter or two off center, but the other piece is exactly in the middle?

It's not far off at all, the strings might just be ever so slightly diagonal going to the other part of the bridge, and then the strings would be straight to the tuners, is this a problem at all?

(For context, I made a post the other day, 18 year old highschool student building an electric guitar in my woodworking class)

Today I got the neck on completely perfectly, it looks great, straight and everything, but I'm just a little worried on the bridge.

Morning all,

I'm finally getting around to swapping out the middle and neck pickups on my first guitar, a MIM HSS Strat I got way back in 2003 (or so).

I swapped out the stock bridge humbucker for a JB a long time ago, and I love it. But I could never decide what to do with the middle and neck positions.

One of the bigger stumbling blocks has been balancing the output of the JB.

Right now I'm looking at the Hot Rails and Red Devil in the middle and neck, respectively. My plan is to wire them for coil splitting to keep some single coil tone for when I want it (which isn't often, but it happens).

So my major questions are if anyone's had experience with that pickup array (JB/Hot Rails/Red Devil), and whether I should look at the bridge Hot Rails for the neck position to balance with the JB and Red Devil.

(As you may have guessed, I mostly play hard rock and metal)