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I sent you an email but just incase. I used a jewelers brass flat wire. any jewelers supply place should have something similar, but I got mine from Riogrand.com. Its just a soft flat wire of a brass alloy that look about the same color as 14K gold. The stuff I used was 0.020" thick and 0.125" tall. hopefully that helps you.

Sorry for such a late replay. The original mosfets are no longer made unfortunately. There is a company called Exicon that have a line of mosfets that are the same type of liner mosfet and are a direct replacement. P/N ECW20N20 and ECW20P20. As far as I know these are the only replacements for any linear mosfet. Hopefully that helps.

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It can be caused by quite a few things. But in my experience more often than not it is caused by the quality of the fret job itself. Specifically the width of the fret slot cut into the fretboard compared to the width of the tang of the fret itself.

With the Proxxon. just went back and cut through the brass in the fret slot and back cut it away from the slot slightly in either direction so it wouldn't interfere with the fretwire.

Glad you like it!

I got a small set off of Amazon a while back, they were cheep and work ok. Not the best. Im still looking for a good set myself.

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First one I put up on UA-cam. I have never really documented any of the builds I have done in the past while this was still just a hobby. But since I have decided to attempt to turn my hobby into a business, I started this channel to document all of my builds.

@@TaittGuitars How long? How many have you built so far? Where do you sell them?

I agree with you. Off camera I did some apartments with scraps of the wood but since its pine for the life of me I couldn't get an even color out of the dyes. On top of that the blue staining causing the streaking in the wood just about disappeared once I applied dye, even lightly. I think If I ever use pine again it will have to be a solid finish or something along those lines.

@@TaittGuitars There are ways to control the saturation level of dyes on wood. I do it by using finishing oils and alcohol based dyes. The oil goes on first, then while the wood is saturated with oil (still wet), you apply the dye in successive thin coats, rubbing it in then wiping off the excess right after application, until you achieve the look you want. You can even back up a step by applying another wet coat of oil and wiping it off immediately. I find that it does not obscure the natural variations in the wood. You can even let the oil finish dry completely then dye it further. I use dyes made for leather.

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Thats exactly what is it is. It's a type of brass sometimes call jewlers brass, a type of red brass that's 85% copper and 15% zinc. They use it all the time as a substitute for 14K gold.

Just curious, have you had any issues with color change for the type of brass you are using?

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It is a flat brass wire used by jewelers to make bezels for stones. The brass is a type used as a substituted or gold.

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Actually I used to live in Huntington Beach. Thank you for the kind words.

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This one I built for myself as a prototype for a production model. I’m in process of tweaking a few things on it but I’ll be building more soon.

Thank you. I don't expect to win this year but this is a good launching point as I move forward.

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@@TaittGuitars you're welcome, Josh! So proud of you. I've sent your link on to many others!

I have done both lacquer and oil based finishes like true oil. I like both of them. The superglue was more because I saw someone else use it as a finish on a small project and thought it might work. Now after having done it, just like using pine. I probably won’t do it again unless someone request it. Even then maybe not.

Actually the smell wasn’t too bad at all. But I was in my garage with the door open and did have a fan going.

Pine does work well as a guitar wood as it is very resonant. but that said it can be a real pain to work with. with its alternating hard and soft grain lines it constantly wants to chip out. onto of that its overall use a soft wood that will ding pretty easily. But if you're careful enough it can make a nice instrument.

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Trying to keep them closer to the design of the originals from the 50’s. Also I figure it will add a bit of character to the sound.

@@TaittGuitars I agree. I can't tell you how many pickups I boiled the wax out of because I love feedback.

Two words: wooden covers.

@@timhallas4275 no time to do them on this guitar but wooden covers are definitely on my got to try it list.

@@TaittGuitars When you are ready, here's the easy way. Sand the plastic covers til they are about half the original thickness, then glue on some thin wood veneer. sides first...sand them flush to the top, then glue on the top. tada!

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That wire inlay is not as hard as it looks. Much less precision required.

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