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I do love your work. Planning to do the same soon

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hello Michael ! I would like to install a top load bridge on a mexican Fender telecaster player. SO if I undertand tour video It is not possible? Thanks and hi from France!

If you want a specific colour that you can't find or want certain features that don't come stock on a store bought guitar. Yes, make your own. But, you will never be able to sell it for the amount you put into it. Think of a Partscaster as your "Forever Guitar". I have 4 Partscasters and they are all good.

Thanks for sharing, looks awesome. I really like your idea of creating a joint prior to glueing the blanks, neat addition. Just out of interest, when applying the finish are you still sanding between coats?

Let’s not forget, Leo designed the tel and the Strat to be parts guitars. With his thinking that when necks and bodies were worn and tatty you replaced them. Also 4 of the most famous Strats in history were partscaster’s SRV’ number one, Claptons Blackie, Gilmore’s The Black Strat and EVH Franken Strat

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5:20 I couldn't tell!! All 3 sounded nearly identical. I have a nice partscaster I made, it plays really well!

you can get the "modern" style bridge , in a vintage style mounting holes(mounting and string through holes in the right spot)

Thanks for share your journey. I did exactly the same mistakes like when my router bump in a lateral hole, or when I destroyed my template. Your pocket at last video was much better then mine, so sharing the mistakes help to try avoid it. Congratulations your built become a beautiful guitar.

Just an idea , anybody feel free to tell me if it’s a bad one.How about a hardwood tapered wedge, and when perfected glued to the base of the neck pocket? A bit like the Stewmac shim but far chunkier?

That sounds amazing.

Fantastic! I am in the same situation, and I was about to make new holes in the guitar to pass the strings, I will look for these plastic tubes to do the same thing. But I would like to know over time, will the plastic not wear out or get damaged with the tension of the strings? No problems encountered after several months?

the first color is yellow?

do a test piece on a spare piece of cheap wood. till its perfected.

Place a couple layers of masking tape around you template area where the router bit rides. This will tighten the neck pocket

Way more simple. The angle is right there on the wood. Plus, there is a margin for error with the height of the wrap around on the posts. Need to be closer? Rout a c-hair deeper. Done it. Experience.

You can use a neck shim? Is this an option?

Easier way. Cut the neck pocket level to the top of the body but 1/8th of an inch deeper. Then put the body on a flat and level table and place a 3/8ths inch shim under the body at the neck pocket. This will tilt the body slightly. Then pour a mixed epoxy glue into the pocket until it self levels and covers the whole surface. You now have a neck pocket that will tilt your neck such that you can use a 1/2 inch high bridge.

I just used a red cedar siding shingle!😜😜😜

On my first TOM bridge guitar build (a homemade Squier Venus/Mercury) I was too afraid to cut the neck pocket angle. So my solution was to recess the bridge into the body and it worked amazingly well.

Knowing the dimensions of everything, simply draw everything out, starting with a straight line representing the string and measure the resulting angle. No "contraption" necessary.

I built a warmoth guitar with all warmoth parts...I thought I would put it together and rock...boy was I wrong...the strings were laying on the frets with the hardtail all the way up...I had to shim the bridge about 4/64ths...nothing is ever easy😫

To get past the fear of doing it wrong I say to myself "if I mess up I'll learn two things instead of one".

Easier way is using Autodesk Fusion. You only need a computer and basic CAD skills, no grinding no MDF. Det här var själva fan säger jag ...

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Good work, I like the jig contraption! 👍 I did similar, because I wanted to have the end of the fretboard sit flush on the body a d the pickups more elegant sticking out less above. So I needed to get the neck sit deeper by 3mm, but also at an angle. Did it with a sharp pocket knife and a tiny sanding block. But I cheated, and grinded a slight angle on the neck heel too. 😅 But I see some problems you might run into. First, there is a gap in the depth of the pocket to the upper end of the neck heel. IMO it's better if the whole end of the neck heel has contact with the back of the rout. I would consider routing the pocket longer (and also correct the angle steeper, so the test wire touches the last fret) till the neck sits flush on the end. If you let it like this (beside loosing sustain and running out of lowering height adjustment room for the bridge), you maybe get the next issue: Scale length is changed. Length is changed due the angle, it's longer now (the bridge needs to sit further towards the neck). Because you created a triangle, and the hypotenuse is always longer than the opposite leg. Hypotenuse is the scale length, the opposite is the plane of the body, and third leg is the bridge. On wrap around bridges you only can prolong the scale length... It might help a little that there is to add 1,2-1,5 mm to the exact scale length for compensation of string stiffness, but often it's not enough. And I never measure in cm/mm the scale length, or calculate, because errors can happen. I rather take the exact distance from edge of the nut to the 60-40% middle of 12-th fret and duplicate this from the point on the 12-th (adding 1,2mm) to the contact point of the string on the high e saddle. Sorry for the long comment. 😅 Keep doing awesome stuff, I like all your previous work! 👌

After watching Ben from crimson guitars video on neck break angles I would draw the side view of the guitar full size (Ben explains it much better 😁)

Keep it up Michael! :)

Good to see you back, what a scientist!!! More patience than me, you’d have thought there’d have been a jig already designed as it’s a popular thing

2 degrees should be enough... I did it the other way and put the angle on/in the neck heel...

Hey man..👍 good to see you again....I have a bad habit of eyeballing the angle and it's worked so far but it's only a matter of time...🎸

Still an excellent job Michael! I was thinking about your videos yesterday, and this one popped up today. Glad to see it!

Awesome build ! You are not only a Luthier you play very well also. Beautifully done - You have inspired me to one day build my own ax.

All you need to do is put an ashtray bridge on like the body was designed for. You can buy an ashtray bridge with no sides.

Metal...right..the best because it won't change it's shape because of room temperature changes.

I’d be willing to bet the tone is still awesome. One thing I think we as guitar players are quick to forget is each part of the signal chain is like a filter. The earlier in the chain, the more subtle the differences become. Pickups are the very first part. Your speaker shapes the most of your tone because it’s the last piece of the chain. So I think that despite my guitar player brain telling me it’ll suck, it’s probably negligible in a mix. My only concern then is the difference in feel or the dynamics. I’m sure the noiseless construction sucks some of your dynamics but how much? Is it noticeable? Or maybe better question is it good enough? It probably is, but I’d like to hear experiences on this one.

The trick is indeed to do it like you did and leave the guitar in the rain. Does wonders for the intonation.

If you are building them to make money, you will go broke, if you have the skills and are looking to build one just like you want to play, depending on how good your skills are, how large your pocketbook is for those parts and those Expensive Tools most people forget they will need to do that work

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your buying at the wrong places.Partscasters are the way to go if you are a player,you dont have to settle for factory profiles a d pickups, you can do it for 2 to 500 bucks ,Build it to keep ,and play ,If you try ,you can build a better guitar .

Did those stewmac say they were $100?! Wtf!

Help.. tone not working

sounds great, love those fuzzy duck pickups, i have a set of alnico 5 singles ready to go in a strat im building, cant wait to try them.

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very cool! i want my jaguar’s metal covers and pickguard to all be one big pearl pickguard

For anyone who doesn't know, boiled linseed oil gives your neck a great finish, but PLEASE DO SOME RESEARCH ON DISPOSING USED RAGS. Boiled linseed oil makes used rags flammable AND combustible, and are notorious for starting fires on their own.

You know you can look at a saddle and tell when the intonation isn't set right. If those saddles aren't staggard then you have a problem at the nut end. no way that guitar is in intonation ... If you don't believe me, do some research ... Just look at the bridges on any other guitar and you can see at the saddle what i'm speaking of. thanks. .. wow ..you showed 3 other guitars with the saddles staggard .... that should tell you exactly what i'm speaking of..... again thanks and keep up the good work.