Author Topic: Building a strat...a pictorial guide (Read 7692 times)

WezV · « **Reply #15 on:** July 25, 2007, 08:42:24 AM »

in 99.9% of the guitars that exist in the world the frets are just pushed straight in and most of them stay there!!!

Adding wood glue to the fret slots isnt really the same as gluing them in - since it doesnt actually stick to the metal. Some places actually expoxy the frets in place - i suppose then you can call them glued in!! These are good techniques for eextra insurance because they dont create much more work at re-fret time. the glue releases quite easily with a bit of heat on the fret but you need to spend a little longer cleaning out the slots

These extra techniques can come in very handy if you have a difficult board to fret - one that doesnt seem to want to hold the frets - but thats more something that happens on re-frets where the slots are getting a bit worn out anyway

Nadz1lla · « **Reply #16 on:** July 25, 2007, 09:02:02 AM »

Ah cool, thanks for the info Wez!

AngusYoung01 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 27, 2007, 07:26:42 PM »

That was awesome, thanks! :D

I really want to make a destroyer style guitar, it must be so like, fulfilling playing a quality instrument that you made, and if done right it could be a very high quality instrument indeed!

WezV · « **Reply #18 on:** July 27, 2007, 10:10:48 PM »

to be honest - if you manage to get someting thats playable the first time thats satisfying enough

something like the bailey guitars course is a good option if you wnat high quality from your first attempt. It cost about £1000 depending on spec but i probably spent a lot more than that before i had made a guitar of the same quality you would get from the course

Nadz1lla · « **Reply #19 on:** July 28, 2007, 09:18:37 AM »

Yeah that Bailey guitar course looks great! Was going to do it but I really don't have that kind of money to spend unfortunately. Did see their stand at the Guitar show in London and they had a guy there who spent the weekend making a Guitar from scratch so people could watch.

WezV · « **Reply #20 on:** July 28, 2007, 10:37:19 AM »

I read about it somewhere but couldnt get to that guitarshow this year

Nadz1lla · « **Reply #21 on:** July 28, 2007, 02:46:16 PM »

I could only go on the Saturday for a few hours, so I couldn't really hang around and watch the demo. Really wanted to though, could have picked up some tips, heh.