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paulk1 wrote:whether it was made in Mexico or fuckin tykwon do'

HAHAHAHA

You can get some good sushi in taykwon do'

the apostrophe at the end is what makes it.

Ill post some pics of what kind of tools I use to do binding channels in a bit, my hands are covered in abs plastic shreads and dust from scraping and sanding the bindings that are almost finished, tommorow I do the frets and decal and finish it up by Tuesday , I'll probably sell it for about 400, and get a warmth CBS strat neck and B&B that one to keep for this guitar


Sushi blacktop with strat humbucker pups and one toggle jazzmasters are the coolest guitars man, why Ruin it man

Does anybody still moderate this forum?

paulk1 is unmoderateable.

I've tidied up a couple of these threads but it quite quickly becomes a losing battle.

Paul, don't feed the trolls. Haters gonna hate. I think it's quite awesome what you're doing, and that you post photos of the process-it both shows the quality of your work and the attention to detail in the process, and can also serve to help those attempting to do a project like this for the first time themselves. As others have said before you've really stepped up your game here, and it's good to hear it turned out to be a lucrative business for you as well.

By the way on an unrelated matter of opinion, I have to agree with others when it comes to a Fender logo on a Squier neck...it's something I've done before, and I always felt like I just had a copy afterwards. If I was in the market for that neck you're selling I'd rather it say Squier. But I'm not, so whatever pays the bills.

I meant " just gotta add blocks, damn iPhone correcter

James wrote:paulk1 is unmoderateable.

I've tidied up a couple of these threads but it quite quickly becomes a losing battle.

Oh, that was you? I opened this thread expecting to have to edit a bunch of img tags but it all seemed to be loading cleanly so I left it alone.

How much do you think you'll be selling this for when complete?

About me being unmoderatable or something to that effect, I sincerely apologize, I know in the past I used to post pics from imageshack and they used to be too big I guess and I guess it took too long to load for some people and I think that's what mainly pissed people off, but I totally apologize , now I use photbucket and I seem to not get such bad replies when I post stuff, thank the lord, because this is where I learned or at least got the idea to do what I do with these guitars, and that means a lot to me, because I have always had a passion for music and a liking for guitars, since I was 15 I became an offset guitar lover, I went to my first concert " Nirvana " with my brother and Cool Aunt Sophie , and saw Kurt with a mustang than use a jaguar, finally smashing a black stratocaster into the drum set,
so I went to Sam ash that year and bought my first guitar, a " Blonde jazzmaster with gold hardware" limited edition which I sold a couple years after and will always regret it, but after that only bought offset guitars since


The point I'm Trying to get at is that I have so much respect for the people on this site that posted their projects and gave me the idea to do the same, I might have my own technics now than those people I got influenced by, but now have a hobby I love and something other to do than just play these awesome guitars, I can make them look and sound the way I like them to, and eventually word got around and there are people scattered threw the US, and actually one in Canada that are playing on necks and full guitar modds I produced, which I never even dreamed of happening,

So I now post my work in the same respect, hoping it will help someone else find something to do that they love, "guitar modds" and maybe my pictures and threads will help them along with ideas on how to do this type of work on their own, because I can't do more than 3 jobs at once, and I don't do it for the money only, I have to admit, I do some jobs that Id rather not so I can make a few bucks, but that is rare, mostly it is things that come my way that I see have potential to be something better, and if I don't need it, " like this neck I'm working on now", than I will sell it, I'm not gonna just rebuild it and put it in my closet or something if it's just a neck, can't play on just a neck, and if I would prefer to have a larger headstock with the truss rod adjustment at the heel, than that's what I'll do, in fact I found the perfect neck for my project now , a CBS Warmoth pro series strat neck, at a reasonable price, $157.00 plus shipping $170, I'm ordering it tommorrow, and that will be the neck I'm going to keep for this guitar, the headstock is bigger than any CBS fender licensed aftermarket neck out there,
I'll post a pic of it, can't wait to get it and I've done a Warmoth neck before, the rosewood is softer and alot easier to cut into, makes my job a lot smoother, but getting back to try to help others,

For example, today everyone is gone, 2012 party is pretty much over and I have the time to not only get back to work on this neck, I have the time to take photos of the tools I use which someone was asking about and I have time to post shots of the progress of this neck, I actually took the time to lay out exactly all you need to do what I do as far as B&B on a neck along with fretting and finish,

I wouldn't post this stuff if I didn't care about trying to inspire others or help people do what so many companies charge way too much for , I think it's called " USA Guitars" or guitars USA , something like that, well before I learned how to do this, I called them and spoke to one of their guys, he was telling me that they would charge me $700.00 hundred bucks for just a bound and blocked neck, rambling on about how hard the work is and why it cost that much, and that was unfinished for that price,

So that when I did my research and figured it out on my own how to do this type of work and this website was the main site that I got these ideas and tips from

So I honestly thank those and everyone for being a part of this website that inspired me to find something I love to do, never mind the negatitivity I come across from time to time, the gradification I get get from before and after shots that I post , blocks that nonsense out of my mind, we're not here to knock each other, and I never went to anyone's thread and did anything of the sort, in fact I haven't had time since I started this work to even view other threads anymore which I regret, and hope to take a break soon just to do that, I would love to see what other people are doing to their guitars, and Ill tell you one thing, if it's your guitar you have every right to make it look and sound anyway you want, who am I to knock someone down when they are trying to do what they love, that's just against my beliefs and I dont understand why from time to time someone has to come to my thread and try to make a joke out of it, go to "Facbook or MySpace for kid shit like that, this place is for people that are working and enjoying music , not ragging on each other for stupid shit, I don't have cuts all over my hands and fingers that hurt like hell so I can have some idiot tell me I'm doing ugly work, or I'm ruining my guitars,

I just want to continue to enjoy my hobby, occasionally take on a job like a Mij jag neck coming soon in the mail from PA and feel good about it, who the hell wants to read about people fighting over whether the "Blacktop" is a Mexican jazzmaster or not, I realized that after it happened and I apologize for getting involved in such a meaningless conversation

Now let me get back to taking pics of what I use "tools" for who ever it was that asked and upload some photos of the neck now, and my tailpiece will come in tommorow by the way, just checked the tracking, I'm tired of looking at my jazzmaster with that tailpiece missing

Odious

Dude, you're fine. Your posting style used to be difficult because of the image loading and whatnot, putting images side by side so they widened the post, etc. You appear to have fixed all of that (or other mods are getting to them before I see the posts) and other than some really weird misspellings, your posts are fine.

Just make sure your posts don't widen the page (ie, post two large images side by side) and images are on separate lines from text and you're fine. Keep up the work, and keep posting it here. Everyone has their share of haters sometimes, it's up to you whether to let people get under your skin or not.

Carry on and don't worry.

I like his projects but this forum has rules about business threads and where they go. If you're going to do a project thread with photos and details that's fine. To reference your business and other stuff though is not how it's done, if I'm not mistaken.

No hating at all, just saying.

But this thread isn't him asking for business, it's talking about mods he's making to him Jazzy. He has an odd style of rambling about 12 different things while doing so, but to me it looks more like ADD rather than spam.

That, and retaliating at Roddy for riding his nuts like a desperate stripper.

OK

ok, where do i start, hummmm, you guys are right, i do sometimes ramble about a bunch of different things at once, but thats just my adhd, with the weird spellings, that i blame on my iphone and myself typing really fast on it and not noticing the spell check or correct, which ever it is, and sometimes it fixes words that arent supposed to be fixed, and i take responsibilitly for not looking at what i just wrote, and i never made any real money on this site by posting my work, exept for some bits and bobs on the classifieds section with recent Mascis parts i had no use for and long time ago, two necks, the Warmoth Jazzmaster and the mex strat neck, "tom delong, but i B&B'ed it , and they didnt even sell on here, they ended up selling on ebay anyway, so with the super fair prices i posted those necks for on this site and they didnt sell, i dont even bother trying to sell my necks on this site, so i strictly just post neck projects as projects,

i mean if i pay 200 for a tom delong strat neck on ebay and almost 80 bucks for supplies, bindings, block material, poly, sandpapers, etc, and than post it for sale for 300 and it doesnt sell on here after almost 2 weeks of non stop day and night work , im talking literally i sit there non stop , sometimes forget to eat, working on a neck to get it done , thats how into it i get, than i realize people on here arent willing to spend what i spent on the neck and supplies , nevermind the labor, are you kidding me, aside from a neck being worth 250 used with dings, i strip it, and B&B it, than refret, and refinish it to make it look factory finish brand new, and no one here is interested in it, i gave up trying to sell necks here, so trust me im not rying to publisize myself for a sale on here, its a hobby,, and yes. i do sell most of it, but to post a neck on here and not be able to sell it for what i paid for everything, without a profit, its beyond me, so i am not trying to sell and promote myself on this thread especially, just to get that clear, i mean ask yourselves, if you had the capabilitly to do this exact thing, and paid almost 300 for all the stuff you were working with, the neck, bindings, block material, frets, sand papers , stains, wood conditioners, drill , all the tools involved, etc, and it was nearly 300 for a neck that turned out like the ones i modd, and no one was interested in it, but yet, no one in person , like at guitar center or sam ash even believed you that you buit it, and you couldnt sell it free of labor, would you try to continue to sell it at that site,

anyway. im getting off track, i do this for fun, and if dont need it after its done, i get rid of it, selling it where ever i do isnt the point, the point is it is a guitar project and im posting it in the guitar project section, although its a little difficult to type due to the cuts on my fingers and glue from the work, i just think that some people dont think of the pain that is involved either, do you know what its like to have to eat with rubber gloves on, because of all the cutts on my fingers from the work that the salt and spices would burn the shit out of my fingers so bad that running my fingers under cold or hot water for a half hour wouldnt even help,

yeah, and than tell me i dont deserve to make any profit for what i do, or i suck , i can imagine being on your side of the computer just viewing what i do, its probably just " laaady daaaH; " but you dont know if you dont know,


now i love what i do , and im gonna do it, i still do even when theres pain involved, and too much time taken out of my life that i dont even have time to take my new laptop out of the freakin box and set it up, thats how much i love to do the work, and i got th macbookpro friday, and just took it out of the box today, while fretting the mascis neck,

so , here are some recent pics, this is what i have done after new years company has left and i was able to get back to my work and setting up my new laptop,


shit, i dont know even which pics to start with, if you guys even knew how many pics i have, actually thats why i went out and bought the Macbook pro, needed more ram, this white macbook is stuffed, the new one will be for the music my band makes with logic pro, and the final product photos, this macbook will be for all the photos of "the process of the making of the guitars i do", if that makes sense, and the "Pro: " is nice and clean to take around when i go out, this white one is a little scrathed up from keeping it near my work area, than i have the mac desktop for just regular interneting and movie editing, my bands videos mostly, my brother edits those but here are some of the recent shots,


oh first, the tools i use that someone requested i post, i will explain as i post

this is all i use to make binding channels and the block inlay holes, wood carving kits, exacto blades and razors. with the bindings channels i use the diamond file shown to make the channel perfectly straight along with sand paper, 150 grit,





these are finishing supplies i use, wet and dry sandpapers, along with steel wool before i use wood conditioner and the secret to getting the stain perfectly evn and not soak into the wood and make little black specs is to use steel wool from ruff to the finest grade, than wood conditioner, spary a couple coats of polyurethane, than use gel stain of your choice in color, otherwise youll get a uneven stain with blotches and little black specs , i mastered it, reading reranch and from learning the hard way,



after wetanding the dryed up polyurethane finish, i wetsand with 800 grit up to 2, 500 grit wetsand, than use automotive turtle wax to remove the swirls that you only see in certain angles and than use car wax polish, than it looks like glass,



this is the glue i faithfully use for bindings and blocks, the "Loctite blue glue you see there is the one for bindings, i have red so many threads on different sites, even on the "Stewart Macdonald site" where i order my bindings, that epoxy doesnt work , or a bunch of other glues, where the next day after removing the binding tape, the bindings pop off, thats terrible, i never will try it, i first tried this glue, and never did me wrong, the strongst bond, the stuff is like 8 bucks for a little bottle, but enough for the neck, and has amazing results, i use it for the bindings , the side dots and the blocks mixed with duco cement or any other brand multi purpose cement,

now, doing the frets, this is what i use, a diamond file, sand paper, same grits as mentioned before, a rubber mallet to bang the frets into the fet slots and the bluc "Loctitie glue to glue the frets in, with a thin metal fret tool that you can buy at stewart mcdonald, with a space in the middle for the fret so that when you sand and polish the fret , you dont touch the fretboard,

and pliers or something that is simular to wire cutters, but you can find them on ebay or stewart mcdonald . special tool for cutting the underneath of the fret, tang nippers they are called, so the fret hangs over the bindings, on the far left of the photo below




on the left is my soldering tools and supplies for rewiring. and the right of the tool box is were i keep my fret tools



i noticed that these pictures are a little smaller so you can click on them them to see them bigger if you really want the same product

to sum up the tool thing, this is just all my stuff i acumilated in the past months , i use a small "Dremel rotory tool to make the holes for the side dots because it has a slow speed and thats all i need for that specific part of the process,

along with a sanding wheel, and the long wooden tool you see is a beem i use to level the frets after installed with sandpaper taped to it and ran up and down the neck to make the frets level, great tool, "stewart mac as well, all sizes



i think that covers the tools, heres a shot of the side dots being made




you can see its a cylinder stick that you drill a hole for , than glue the stick in and slice off , sand , and you have a side dot

now stripping the neck was a bea otch, i know a couple people said to leave the original " squier logo", but i couldnt even if i wanted to because this neck had so many layers or either laquer or polyuethane than it was chipping unevenly while i was scoring down the sides of the neck to make my line for the channel to be carved for the bindings that i had to scrape off and sand the original finish to get the binding channel cut without chipping away randomly and uneven, so i had to d=sand the whole neck to even do the work to it and the place i get decals from doesnt even make "squier" decals, and if if i had to replace the decal, and had n choice, im gonna atleast use a jazzmaster decal, not leave it blank, because i know i wouldnt want it blank if i bought it from a luthier,

just take a look at how much laquer was on this neck , its was the thickest i have ever encountered, it was crazy, they really coated this thing for a nuclear war it seems,



it was like amber from jurassic park,



i did a few fender necks and left th original decal on them because while scoring the line down the side of the neck for the binding channel to be cut never chipped away unevenly like this, i was always able to keep the original stain, or just match the little spots i sanded threw, but this was a different story,

so, finally getting thew all the top coat, which took actually scraping away with my blades, than sanding, there was no way to salvage that :"squier " decal, oh well, i thought it would look better with a restoration decal anyway, personally, i respect others opinions, but im not crazy about squier, thats why the cheapest necks i modd are mexican strat necks from 2002, those tom delong necks, or Warmoth,

so this is it sanded down and bindings finished



anyway, moving right along, one thing i dont like doing too much is carving out the dried up super glue that seeped into the fret slots, very hard proccess,

but you can see how good and tight that glue binds those bindings to the fretboard and i coated it with a couple coats of polyurethane so that when i apply the translucent gel stain tommorrow , it will not soak into the wood unevenly, that the one thing i am happy i learned to do, it looks so profeesional done that way, youll see when i do it and post it,





more shots of how tight and perfect that bind is with this glue i use, get it at walmart, or online, and to think people try all kinds of epoxyies and have so many problems, and this stuff is at walmart, and works like a charm





tight, coated with the poly before gel stain



here are some better shots with my better camera of the first coat of polyurethane, (before the stain). and it looks and feels smooth almost as if it was wetsanded because of the steel wool 0000, before spraying, worth it, it makes the rest of the finishing sprays and staining alot easier to wet sand if its already smooth as glass, its all about preperation,



im already more than half way fretting the neck and will finish the frets in about another hour tommorow morning, than stain, spray, let dry and decal, than spray let dry and wet sand,



i have a dark walnut stain for the fretboard, almost ebony, its gonna look nice, and a dark maple for the maple of the neck, than the spagetti decal,

i know, i shouldve left the decal, but impossible with the circumstances of the way the bindings went and paint chipping off, it wouldve lookd like shit, and i wont let my work look like shit after all the money i and physical pain i put into it along with enjoyment, im odd, i know but dont care, anyway.
one of the weird things about this neck i noticed is that after all that scraping with blades and sanding with 150 grit paper, the stamped date on the heel was still there when that is usually the first thing to go , check it out






and lastly, i mentioned at first in this reply that i havent even had time to start messin with my new macbook pro or even take it out of the box, well i stopped working aroound 9 pm and opened it up, im backing up alot of my stuff to the new macbook pro, but will still use this as my laptop for my workstation, to document and store "the making of" photos and videos of my projects, by the way, i have been making videos of this work as well, not this neck, but my last strat neck, same idea, one day when i find the time, i will "IMOVIe it" and post to youtube for you guys to view, instead of just looking at these still shots, im looking forward to that, and i will make that video with my new laptop, thats what i got that for , my band, final photos of my work, like a portfolio, and vids and recordings of my band, logic pro, etc, .



and this is the neck i ordered for this jazzmaster to keep as the neck for this jazzmaster, of course im going to do the same work to it because its just the look im shooting for but i think i will look real cool with that headstock, and i might use the "Jazzmaster decal, without the "swirls, " i seen a custom shop jazzmaster on ebay with a headstock like this and the 68' decal with just the "Fender jazzmaster offset decals, no swirls, and it looked bad, so i think i might do that, but either way, this is the neck im getting for this guitar,




before and after almost, but im farther now, but for the hell of it, wanted to see this for my self




good night and more to come tommorow, i know i always spell tommorow wrong, fuck it, night yall

cobascis wrote:

cobascis wrote:How much do you think you'll be selling this for when complete?

It depends high high the bids go where I'm going to sell it, all my necks usually sell for generally the same price,in the 300-35o range, but this going to be the only and first j Mascis squier modified bound and blocked jazzmaster neck, I think it might go higher, I'll start the bidding at 325 though and let it run for about a week,

Only answering a question asked, not trying to sell it here

paulk1 wrote:

cobascis wrote:

cobascis wrote:How much do you think you'll be selling this for when complete?

It depends how high the bids go where I'm going to sell it, all my necks usually sell for generally the same price,in the 300-35o range, but this going to be the only and first j Mascis squier modified bound and blocked jazzmaster neck, I think it might go higher, I'll start the bidding at 325 though and let it run for about a week,

Only answering a question asked, not trying to sell it here

just a correction, sorry for the quote on myself, there was NO option to "EDIT" my post, strange, so i just hit quote and fixed the begining sentence, i mistatanly wrote "high high" instead of "how high"

laterallateral wrote:

how long did it take you to photoshop that pretty smile out of the pimp my ride website and paste it over my glue, just curious because it seems like something i would like to waist my time doing