After too many years dormant, it is finally time to unleash my Wrath (NGD!!)

Re: After too many years dormant, it is finally time to unleash my Wrath (NGD!!)

Thanks :)

KeeperOS said:
Wow, I get crap for playing with 10s on 25.5" superstrats and you get away with 13s?
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Ironically, with 10s, 11s and possibly even 12s, she would be unplayable and buzz from the 5the fret to the 15th. This is because the neck is back bowed and very stable. It takes manly strings to put enough tension on the neck to pull it straight and into relief. But with 13s she plays at my normal 1.14-1.2mm action just fine ;)
 
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Bad-ass axe! She looks incredible!

Regarding the messed-up pot: when I was messing around on my SG, I pulled a bit too hard on one of the knobs and the pot broke, allowing me to spin the knob in one direction an infinite number of times. I'm thinking you might've done something similar. Just a thought.
 
Re: After too many years dormant, it is finally time to unleash my Wrath (NGD!!)

Very cool...love the shape/finish!
 
Re: After too many years dormant, it is finally time to unleash my Wrath (NGD!!)

Logo is kinda small but if I squint I can make it out.

(oh, and that's one sick axe! Looks like it could hurt someone)
 
Re: After too many years dormant, it is finally time to unleash my Wrath (NGD!!)

Congrats on getting it all finished mate.
I remember when you first got that.
 
Re: After too many years dormant, it is finally time to unleash my Wrath (NGD!!)

I consider myself pretty manly, but 13-60 in standard is lumberjack territory.

Can you shave the frets a smidge to compensate for the back bow?
 
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King IzzO))) said:
I consider myself pretty manly, but 13-60 in standard is lumberjack territory.

Can you shave the frets a smidge to compensate for the back bow?
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I could, but proper would be to heat-press the neck and pull it forward (I lack facilities to do so and adamantly refuse to outsource luthiery work for ANY reason, to anybody, if it can be avoided in any way). Or replane the fretboard and refret it completely (you can actually see the plane of the board /neck joint pulling back past straight when the strings are off). Primarily because simply re-leveling them would bring the middle octave down to medium-low jumbo territory and that already annoys me enough on my JRS-2 where it was done at the factory and the difference is minimal. That guitar has been slated for a refret ever since I got her back. Just never actually gets one because she still plays just fine, it´s just my anal retentiveness when it comes to details that causes problems.

But due to my strings, neither is necessary, she plays and sounds just fine with no significant buzzing. So why bother? It`s only ever going to be a factor if somebody else "acquires" the guitar, in which case the work needing to be done just might be the reason I get her back, because the acquisition will almost certainly not be a legally binding sale that I approved and I have good contacts to the few people in the greater area that are capable of doing anything above a setup. So I would probably get a heads up if she were brought into another shop for a refret.

Should I ever decide to sell her, it´s obviously something that will be done before anybody even knows she´s on the block. ;)
 
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Years ago (1996 or so) I bought a US Mockingbird archtop. Total wedding cake guitar, neck thru, quilted top, white binding, ebony board with the clouds, imperial tuners, etc. I had it for a couple months, through winter. The neck warped, and no one around here would to touch it. I was just a kid, now I could probably fix it myself, but I ended up losing my ass on it.

Yours makes me wonder if they had a problem back then. It looks to be around the same era.
 
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King IzzO))) said:
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Yours makes me wonder if they had a problem back then. It looks to be around the same era.
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While I don´t know of any "global" issues, I certainly wouldn´t rule them out. And yes, 1996 sounds about right to also be a ClassAxe guitar like mine was supposed to be.
 
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*Update?*

I`m actually liking this one so much that I`m honestly considering building one as a seven string baritone, muahahaha.

Now if only somebody would give me a job so I can afford a router and a few clamps... :smack:

Oh, and I think I might have figured out what went "wrong" on the volume pot after experimenting a bit with another one. It`s almost comically funny if truly the case, though I`m still somewhat dumbfounded at how it could happen in the first place. If I can actually recreate the results with some regularity, I`ll let you know how to break yours properly :laugh2:
 
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Nice old guitar!
 
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That's a Kahler right? I'd love to try this guitar out. I'm not sure if the info was posted, but what woods are in the guitar?
 
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^^ Maple/mahogany, ebony board.

Zerberus said:
*Update?*

I`m actually liking this one so much that I`m honestly considering building one as a seven string baritone, muahahaha.

Now if only somebody would give me a job so I can afford a router and a few clamps... :smack:

Oh, and I think I might have figured out what went "wrong" on the volume pot after experimenting a bit with another one. It`s almost comically funny if truly the case, though I`m still somewhat dumbfounded at how it could happen in the first place. If I can actually recreate the results with some regularity, I`ll let you know how to break yours properly :laugh2:
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7 string baritone... need more beastliness? 90 for the low B?

Remember to apply for a patent ;) - Pot of Wrath®.
 
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^^ +1
Love that Tru-Oil. Just bought a qt of the stuff.
Nice work,
PC
 
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