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132Body update: oil finish is complete- about 12 coats of tru-oil (BLO w/ a dryer). #600 between coats at the beginning, #0000 steel wool for the last few.
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133Neck update: Got the 1/8" spacers for both the tuners and under the fretboard epoxied on and tuners drilled
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134neck update, pt 2: Did a lot of reshaping and cleaning up the width to match the fretboard (it was close, but not perfect before). Then epoxied on the fretboard. obviously lots of filing and sanding/polishing to do...but getting there.
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135Any plans to do any w/ an aluminum fretboard? I imagine laying fretwire into metal is a different challenge.
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136I would like to give this a shot at some point. Major concern is putting a radius on the board, which is probably easy w/ cnc, but non-trivial by hand.
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137first sort of mock up- board attachment went smoothly. spend an hour this evening just sanding and shaping-
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140I figured it was demo carpet samplesDudley wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:22 amYeah! I need explanation. Are those calibrations? Is it a triffid scale?