Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Ordered a Baguley aluminium neck (15% off at the moment, for anyone who’s been thinking about it).

It’s to go on my pink offset thing, which will need pickup covers/knobs/pickguard to be revised in preparation.

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Oooooohhh!!! 🤩

That's interesting, please give us some feedback on how that plays and sounds! Really curious.

How are the frets attached?

Same as wood, I believe - slots cut in the fretboard, and they get pressed in.

I like that a lot. I've never really paid attention to these except in sunburst or red - that looks so sharp in black.

I wish my shed was bigger! I'd love to have a crack at making one of these sometime, I don't think it'd fit on my bench at the minute...

If you had frets without tangs and a tight slot then you could superglue them in. Would be easy to heat the neck and pop them out when needed because you don't have to worry about harming the wood. Really weird design. What does it sound like?!

I’ll put a video up once it arrives - it’ll probably take a couple of months as they make them in batches to order (still better than EGC, where you pays your money and, maybe, get your neck a couple of years later).

Damn, I missed this. Looks sweet indeed, the fretboard’s come up a treat.

is a reamer the right tool for increasing the holes for tuners?

Yes!

Anyone used a Vibramate? Talk to me... I wanna put a Bigsby on my 335... So no extra holes at all?

I don't want to drill into the guitar at all...

Yep. I just used a very sharp drill tho., start out running it backwards.

Bigsby on hold... 1. I can't find one for love or etc... 2. I'm not sure about how they look with a Vibramate... Will think on it a bit more before taking the plunge...

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New scratchplate day. Wooo.

Cream pickup covers are marmite admittedly but I broke my other pickup and the covers don't swap so cream it is for now...

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nah leave it. suits it and there's not enough cream in the world.

Looks decent - I quite like a cream pickup cover!

Makes me feel like I need a tort scratch plate for my Mustang now, hmmm....

Looking well Rixtar!

I am missing some red tort in my life. There’s a limited edition Player P-Bass out at the moment in ocean turquoise with a tort scratchplate and it’s tempting me despite being a maple ‘board and not rosewood. Seems to be a colour combo they’ve done in limited runs a few times in recent years.

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That's a beauty.

Tonslen, did yer man use this stuff for your pale Gibson fretboard?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U1W8mQaaww

Thinking about giving it a go on my pau ferro neck...

I like that as it is! 🙃

@Pifko I think he just did it the old skool way with some wood stain...

Mat of Monty’s fame was my neighbour growing up. I hit him up via insta to say “hey remember me?”... no reply.

He was cool... super proud of him.

I used some of that stuff on the (slightly dried out and sun bleached) rosewood neck of my Tele last night, came out lovely.

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Nice one, thanks. Got a before pic? How many coats?

I don’t, sorry, but this was one coat. I have seen photos of a pau ferro fretboard that came out very nicely after a few applications, but I can’t find them now :/

Looks really good, did it affect the feel of the board?