RobOG DuoSonic 25.5 w/NEW Pictures!

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:16 am

i've had that same experience with sand paper.
and i've had people look at me and be like?
"is the bandsaw the one that goes up and down or all the way around?"
and then they point to a floor modle jigsaw or something.
there is a woodcrafters in indianapolis that is AWSOME~!
if you ask for 1500 grit there they will ask you what step and how many coats and suggest another grit.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:17 am

brandon. wrote:so I'm thinking of routing 2 channels in the body so the wires from the pickups can just sit inside instead of being threaded through the holes.
I think adding these two will make the wiring easier...
The dotted lines between the 2 pickups and over to the switch hole are what I'm talking about... It's a bit hard to see.

Are there any obvious reasons not to do this that I'm not seeing?
The two routes at the top for the switches are there just in case I feel ambitious and decide to throw them in,
but if I add these 2 channel routes, then I can do all the wiring on the pickguard before putting it in place...

You can do that with the switch route also. Just wire it using that channel. Easier and simpler. Tape the wiring to the pickguard if you want.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:27 am

brandon, be CAREFUL! the hole i drilled from the neck pup to the toggle switch area has a broken drill bit inside of it.
be insanely carefully not to hit that and shatter your face with flying metal bits.

Ninja Mike 808 · Post by **Ninja Mike 808** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:58 am

That Duo is gonna be dangerously awesome!

brandon. · Post by **brandon.** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:07 am

that's what that was? should I try and pull it out? (would I even be able to?)
I guess the best way to go about routing that is to keep it shallow huh?

also, mike, do you mean to route it from the toggle cavity to the control cavity?

also, thanks for the compliments!

Post by **Mike** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:14 am

brandon. wrote:that's what that was? should I try and pull it out? (would I even be able to?)
I guess the best way to go about routing that is to keep it shallow huh?

also, mike, do you mean to route it from the toggle cavity to the control cavity?

also, thanks for the compliments!

Yup, use the cavities that exist. I did it on my Duo-Sonic II.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:30 pm

Sweet looking guitar so far, and that Duo Sonic II is lovely.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:36 am

damn, that shit looks hot in that pic mike

brandon. · Post by **brandon.** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:16 am

so I decided to hold off on painting it for the winter and the rest of my parts came in today, so i put it together.
I'll post pictures tomorrow, I think it looks great.

Anyways, the white pickup covers I ordered are too small, oddly enough I thought that by ordering
a strat pickup cover it would fit a strat pickup. I guess I was wrong.

I had to slightly enlarge my string ferrule holes and had to do some scraping on the control plate cavity.
Once the input jack was attached to the control plate, the plate itself wasnt able to move back far enough
to line up with the holes, which in turn, screwed up the pickguard scre hole placement.

So that stuff is fixed.
I set it up enough to play a few chords, but I'm still getting dead spots all over the place past the 13th fret... whats the best way to fix this? shim? or bridge adjustment?

Pictures!
Here it is all together...

Check out these wicked(hardcore) strap buttons... I'm pretty sure I messed up one of my straps trying to put it on, they're a fucking pain, but they'll have to do for now.

brandon. · Post by **brandon.** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:28 pm

Updated!

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:53 pm

Choice Jazzmaster.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:32 pm

is the neck used?
fret leveling and crowning would be key.
but... if its newer then..... maybe fret leveling.
does the neck have the proper amount of relief?
is there already a shim in the neck pocket?

brandon. · Post by **brandon.** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:43 pm

Dinosauria wrote:Choice Jazzmaster.

Thanks, it's my main guitar along with a telecaster.

That neck is pretty old, and considering the guitar it came from, it's awesome.
I shimmed the neck with a piece of card so that the headstock would be angled up...
I mean, the card is in the top half of the neck pocket, farthest from the body.

On the topic of fret leveling and crowning...
How hard is it to do?

Also, I bought a Fender MIM telecaster neck and the seller said the frets have been levelled, but it needs a light dressing to smooth and polish them...
What does a fret dressing entail?

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:00 pm

you shimmed the neck in the opposite direction?
crowning frets is sort of labor intensive and tricky the first time(ask mo rocca)
but basically you need to pick up a file meant for it, the rest is rather self explamitory.
when you level the frets you ajust the truss rod to where the neck is perfectly straight, then you take a flat file, or a straight peice of steel/wood with sandpaper taped on and run it from the first fret to the last fret.
this makes all the frets level with eachother.
but once you have done that, it makes the fret tops flat, so you have to bring some life back to them with crowning, and then polishing,
polishing is the easiest part, just get some 1000 grit sandpaper and "sand" the frets.