Recent content by devilfish

Hey, After some pretty standard schaller/gotoh 3x3 style machine heads to fit a 10mm hole. Hit me up if you have some spare Cheers

Hey, I'm rewiring my strat and I'm left handed. I know I need an audio taper pot for the volume and two linear pots for the tone controls. But I've always assumed that whether a pot is Left hand or Right handed is merely a case or how you wire them into the circuit? As in, a left hand strat...

Hi, If anyone has a copy of Dan Erlewine's Advanced Fretting DVD's Vol 1&2 i'm desperate to see them, but I can't afford £30 x2 plus shipping and tax! If anyone has them and wouldn't mind selling or even lending them to me for a short while I'll pay all postage and make it worth your while...

Hi, I'm undecided on which fret file to buy.. I've tried the double sides diamond file that's identical to stew mac's and I'm not in love! has anyone tried the 3-in-1 file on stewmac? What are people's opinion. Also fretting hammers. Nylon heads or brass heads? Interested to see which people...

Hi, I have a left handed Tokai SG made in Korea, any idea what it's worth? I'm sure it's not worth a hell of a lot but wonder what people know these kind of age Tokai's go for? Thanks

Hey, If anyone has some of the Dan Erlewine instructional DVD's that they wouldnt mind selling please PM me! Thanks Sean

Hello, I'm after the following DVD's and tools, if anyone can help me out PM me! :approve: Dan Erlewine's Maintenance & Setup for electrics Vol 2 Dan Erlewine's Bridge Repairs Vol 1&2 Dan Erlewine's Neck Resets Tools: Radius Blocks Nut Files Fret...

I have a strat I piecved together myself using the following parts: Squier strat body MIM strat bridge MIM strat neck Sperzel locking tuners Seymour Duncan humbuckers. I cut the nut myself and 4 years ago I deemed it set up well enough for me to play.. However, picked it up the other day and...

Hello, Looking to straighten the neck on my highway strat to do a fret dress but I believe the truss rod is broken in some way.. I've loosened it right off, tried pulling back slightly then tightening the rod to encourage it to straighten but no dice, Tightening the rod seems to do very...

Hi, If anyone's got one they don't use please PM me! They're ridiculously priced in the UK so I'd rather buy from across the pond if someone's got a spare? Thanks

Hey. Gonna start my 56 les paul junior buiild soon. But I have a fewquestions before I start. I haven't been able to obtain one set of detailed plans for this model. I have used a body trace for the shape, I'll be using routing templates for the pickup and control cavities. And I'll make my...

Aloha, I believe the truss rod in my highway one strat to be a two way truss rod.. I'm having issues adjusting it to become straight. It seems to adjust fine putting relief into the neck, but tightening the truss rod does very little if anything to straighten the neck out. I've tried applying...

Hey, Seeing as its either very hard to find, or extremely overpriced to buy luthery tools in the UK I thought its worth a shot seeing if anyone wants to get rid of any of the following: Fret crowning files Nut files Fret rocker Stewmac string action gauge Understand radius gauges Radiussed...

Hey, I'm currently taking a luthier course which has basically made me acquire the need for my electrics to be set up perfectly. We won't be touching set ups til way later in the year/next year so I'm just after a bit of advice. I have a Tokai SG that has a few intonation troubles.. if I tune...

Aloha, Just started a luthier course and I have a few books and such, (Dan Erlewine's repair guide, Nut Making DVD and the Stewmac fretwork book) But I'm looking for more books and dvd's on setup, repair, guitar making etc.. anything! If you've got any that you don't need or want then PM me...