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His whole list is breaks things down into very small bits, so cutting the saddle slot is completely separate from shaping the saddle, and making the nut is separate from slotting the nut, (and polishing the nut and saddle is given 20 minutes of it's own, which I suppose makes sense if you are...

Six hours for a refret on an unbound fingerboard? Four hours at most, if you know what you're doing. Now, Dan (who does know what he is doing) insists on using that ridiculous neck jig of his, which is probably the issue on that one, but I've seen one of the guys in my shop do a complete...

I make up my front panels in my CAD program, print it out (I have a largish format printer at 13"X19"), and use one copy of that as a drilling template for my chassis. I glue a second copy to the back side of a piece of plexiglass (so you can see the printing through the plexi), and use the...

...do you get the Stew-Mac "Trade Secrets" emails? In the most recent one Dan is talking about labor estimates, and how much time to plane. Now, Dan does good work, and on the whole I think Stew-Mac is a good company and serve an important function. However, has it ever taken you 6 hours to...

A D28 case will fit in most overheads. There are a few exceptions - mostly on older planes. It takes up almost all the room, so your kind of being an asshole, but no more so than anyone else on most flights. If it doesn't fit, ask the flight attendants if you can put it in the coat closet...

Loosen the strings (no, it will not hurt your guitar to loosen the strings, I promise), and try to get the guitar on the plane with you. I can't say anything about Asian airlines, but in the US I've always had good luck getting my guitars on as carry-on luggage. Of course, it probably depends...

Eh, I always liked them. Not so much to play, but they were well made, and I like the way they sound. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

A Warmoth neck will be a LOT better than anything made by Kramer. What I'm not sure about is if it will fit - I don't know that Kramer's neck pocket is shaped the same, and if they don't match then it just won't work. They made a whole range of guitars. Some of them were junk (which were...

I know you are but what am I... [/little girl voice] ;):D Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

I don't know that any manufacturers use them, though I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few. The only way I KNOW you can get them is to get a neck through either Warmoth (who use a 10"-16" radius), or from USA Custom Guitars (who use a 7.25-9.5, which I greatly prefer!) Gabriel

Sorry, but a 1972 ES-325 is not a "vintage" guitar. It's a POS. A 1962 I might give a shit. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Just about any good wide leather strap. The problem comes in finding a good simple leather strap. You know, one nice piece of leather, not lamented or stitched or any of that shit. The better Levy's ones are pretty nice, and Planet Wave's has some really nice ones from South America (I can't...

D18's have mahogany back and sides. HD-28 have herringbone trim, and are braced slightly differently, though not actually the same as the earliest D-28s. The D-28V is pretty much right, but not quite. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

The wiring, other than the replacement pickup, is stock? Because according to Fender's website, it should already work on both the mid and bridge pickups. The top tone control (again, according to Fender's website) should only be working on when only the neck pickup is on. They show a four...

They are dumb. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

If you need hum free, Kinman's and the Seymour Duncan Classic Stack Plus are the best things out there. I've got the Seymour's in my strat, and to my ear they sound more like single coils Strat pickups than anything else I've tried, and I've tried them all. Light "Cowards can never be...

Bob Ohlsson explained it this way; they both played on it. It's just not always clear in the memory of the player if it was the version which was released to the public, or the version that was recorded for the publisher to use in exploiting the copyright. And unfortunately, the musician's...

OOO28 or an OM28. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

She's been mentioned a couple of times already, but to anyone who thinks their is something wrong with using a pick to play bass, there are only two words needed to disprove the theory - Carol Kaye. If you are familiar with her, then you get it. If you're not, go out and learn. She is one of...

God I hate frets with ends like that. They feel bumpy to me. Ick. Here is the way I do it. First I bevel the fret ends with a file (you can just hold it in your hand, or you can mount it in a block if that helps you keep a consistent angle). Next, I use a diamond fret file to sort of...