Coyote's Build

[jhale667]

Just checking, but...

OK, isn't fabric or coverings over primer what we're talking about avoiding here for tonal purposes?

[Coyote]

I think I found the right place for the paintjob... Gonna call the place on Monday.

ALASALMI.COM

[GAR]

OK, isn't fabric or coverings over primer what we're talking about avoiding here for tonal purposes?

That's best asked from Warren DeMartini I would guess.. I would think it's the easiest way to go about it.

He could also use just regular contact cement, but should he want to refinish it, contact cement has a funny way of pulling the grain out by splinters when you yank the snakehide off without a heat gun..

I doubt he'd want to do that, natural hides are beautiful.

Plus, it was common back in the 40s thru the 60's to have tooled leather parts stuck on your guitar such as bridge-rings, pickguards, rosettes and armrests.

Natural snake hide would be kickass. Dated, but still kickass because its' uncommon.

[Coyote]

Status report: The Musikraft package has arrived!
(And the brass block's still MIA...)

I'll get back to y'all on this, I got shit to do here.




























































And yes, I'm taking pictures.

[Coyote]

Ran into a snag...

No hole for the jack... Now, how'd Charvel do this?

[jhale667]

Ran into a snag...

No hole for the jack... Now, how'd Charvel do this?

You didn't specify the "football" jack rout? Or did they just space it?

[Coyote]

Literally, no hole drilled for the jack.

Don't know what (or who) happened at the Musikraft plant...

But it opens up whole new avenues here... A Strat jack á la some Lynch ESPs?

[jhale667]

OK, that sucks, and will be a pain to ship back to fix...but that's something a local luthier could do for you cheap...small consolation, I know.

I'd still go for the side football jack, make it "authentic", y'know?

[Coyote]

OK, that sucks, and will be a pain to ship back to fix...but that's something a local luthier could do for you cheap...small consolation, I know.

I'd still go for the side football jack, make it "authentic", y'know?

Actually, I have a "les paul" jack aching to go. (as per the original "pre-pro" Charvels)

And I wouldn't mind doing this myself.

[jackassrock]

OK, that sucks, and will be a pain to ship back to fix...but that's something a local luthier could do for you cheap...small consolation, I know.

I'd still go for the side football jack, make it "authentic", y'know?

Authentic, and easy. Easier still, just drill a hole in the top and drop a jack straight into the control cavity.

[Coyote]

Nah, that's too easy...

[jhale667]

Nah, that's too easy...

Yeah, please don't. Haven't even seen the thing but betting it'd be blasphemy to deface that....face...with anything other than a traditional Strat jack (a la Jake E. Lee's Charvels), IMO.

Side-mount LP jack would be pre-pro and retro, though...

[GAR]

Ran into a snag...

No hole for the jack... Now, how'd Charvel do this?

At first, they swung the drill press table 90* degrees and clamped a body blank cutoff to the table, as a makeshift jig using a 7/8" spade woodbit then went for it by hand..

Then later when Grover got some money he bought a Pacco 300 single-spindle, horizontal boring machine exactly like this one. These originally sold for $1100 bucks, this one's going for $400 in Flagstaff..

Woodworking Horizontal Boring Machine

You didn't have to fight to twist the table and line up a perfect 90, you just flopped the body on the table and stepped on the footpedal!

However all you need is a 7/8" spade woodworking drill bit, and go 1-3/4" deep.



I don't know how if you'll reach the cavity, you can angle and keep going till you breech the inside if you want. But I'd just go deep enough to hold the jack, then drill the wire hole 1/4" the rest of the way.

[Coyote]

I ran into a slight problem upon installing the block.

Apparently, I neglected the fact that this L-block wasn't originally designed for southpaw Floyds...

[jhale667]

Hmmm....Email Adam, see if he even offers a Left-handed version you can exchange...sucks you can't just flip it.