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Rad repairs, So I'm tricking out a couple of tricked out guitars for a customer. It's a fiesta red strat with a wood pick guard that I made for him. I just thinned and refinished it for him. I'm now refretting the neck and hopfully will have it up an running tomorrow.

The second guitar is his tele, which is heavily mod'ed. I'm going to match the neck of the tele to the strat, and put a humbucker into the neck position. I may remake the pick guard too. But thought I'd post pics as this guy is a local guitar hero and his guitars are just killer.

They're one the desk, blown apart. I'll post pics tomorrow.

Cool, looking forward to this Todd.

Got Pictures?

Glenn

Pick guard is on the strat has been refinished and replaced.

The now matched warmoth tele neck is in the booth and just about ready to rock.

Hi Todd,

Dave White says he makes his acoustic guitar necks with no taper, which (the only reason I can remember) is so a capo like a Shubb doesn't have to be reset to be placed anywhere on the neck. (He may also just like the feel of a non-tapered neck - I'll let him elaborate if he wants.) Now, it sure looks like you're removing that taper from that factory neck, and since few electric guitarists play with a capo, I'm guessing this is a "speed" and "feel" thing. Am I guessing correctly?

Dennis

Hey Dennis, I'm fancier then that!!! I measured the thickness taper of the 70's strat neck (13/64ths) and then built the jig with the taper built in to have that match perfectly. I'll take a pic and post. When I copy a neck, I copy it!!! The warmoth neck was a fatty, tappered almost 3/8th's. So I took just over a 16th of an inch off, the thickness at the nut was a little thinner to begin with, but crowned steeper then the strat. Took the heavy C to a smoother D.

Good point though, I missed the change to show how an@l I am when it comes to detail.

Later all.