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    Dont deal with guitarbuildingtemplates.com

    Never again, I been waiting and waiting, emailing them and getting told they will ship, but nothing, it's been a month and half....I could of build actual guitars by now....:rocket:
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    Multiscale build!!!

    Been working on this multiscale build, its 24.75 to 25.5 scale...its been a challenge being everything has to change, but it's almost done and can't wait to see if everything works right...lol
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    Pickups for multiscale question

    All my research has turned up nothing so here is my question, I building a multiscale guitar and i want to mount the pickups at an angle but I want like most multiscale the coils to be offset so the pols match the strings... can I take a Seymour Duncan and build a new base plate for it so the...
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    Doing 2 builds at once, build thread

    Well i cant stop building, but that's a good problem....lol.. so I'm doing 2 side by side this time... The first is mahogany body, birds eye maple top, black limba/walnut 5 piece neck set in with rosewood fretboard The 2nd is ash body same neck but bolt on... The maple top one is a little...
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    Flying v build.....

    Started on this build a couple months back and now its in lacquer stage.... Specs on the build 5 piece set neck mahogany with maple stringers Mahogany body Wenge top Ebony fretboard 24.75 scale 22 fret
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    Got these guitats done....

    Walnut top guitar is a 5 piece neck through mahogany body and walnut top. Black limba is a 5 piece black limba/walnut neck set in eith mahoganu body and black limba top with binding.The walnut top one was for my uncle and the black limba top is of course for me!!!... J.l.e. builds...
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    Wiring help!!!!!

    Im wiring up a build for my uncle and i have 2 humbuckers with 2 volumes and 3 way selector.... both volumes are push pull and they work fine...the thing is with the 3 way in the middle posistion if i turn down either volume it kills both signals...not sure why its doing this, i was hoping in...
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    Stewmac nitro checking...only year old

    Finished this guitar about a year ago and sprayed it with stewmac rattle can nitro, i pulled it out of its case yesterday to find this, a bunch of checking lines in the nitro. How could this happen the guitar is in the house in a case and not exposed to weather changes. I took some pics but it...
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    Started a set neck build...gonna have questions

    Ok guys ive done the neck throughs and the bolt on neck builds but never tackled the set neck. I just finished a build and was at my local lumber supplier and they had some nice black limba so i got some of that and mahogany for the body, and im going with a 5 piece black limba/ walnut neck... i...
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    Router bit help!!!

    Im in the process of building my 4th guitar and in the past ive use full 2 inch router bit for the body...now it that the best way or should i use a 1 inch bit with multiple passes?.....which method is best for less tearout threat
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    New build started!!!!

    Its time for another build...i found some mahogany at my local lumber place for real cheap, then my friend had some black walnut slabs sitting in hit garage for the past 16 years that he gave me. So im gonna go 5 piece neck through being i cut 2 out of the last blank i made, mahogany body with...
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    So stoked..NGD...2nd time around

    Wow and wow is all I can say...... so here is a little back ground. My uncle is the one when I was young to get me into guitars, and in the early 90's he bought this charvel jackson, I always loved it and when he stopped playing a couple years later I bought it off him when I was 15. 3 years...
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    New guitar build started...

    Started a new build, it's inspired by the charvel san dimas model. It's going to be a 5 piece mahogany, walnut neck through neck, mahogany body, ebony fretboard, floyd rose and a humbug kernel bridge and single at the neck
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    new build...modern tele

    The time has come for another build. It's based on the telecaster but with a twist. The body is a one piece mahogany with a quilt maple top A birdseye maple neck... I'm gonna shape the headstock too being i dont really like the tele headstock so I got a strat one, gives me more meat to play with
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    gonna refinish my les paul studio

    My 94 les paul studio has seen better days, and it's time to refinish it. It was a wine red but over the years it's more like a poop red, so I'm gonna strip it down and rehab it Before And now after a couple hours of stripping
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