Charvel Inspired Strat or Strat Inspired Charvel?

[jvin248]

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+1 on the Relic!
If you haven't done any relic-on-purpose guitars before, it's also about the feel. So no sharp paint chips, hard metal parts edges, roll the fretboard edge, soften fret ends. And then the easy playability of good fretwork/setup/etc of course.

Looks great so far.

Just curious - did the original have a swimming pool route? I'm sure the impact on tone is negligible, but I always thought "the more wood the better".

The wood only matters for Marketing Literature and Salespeople. Look up youtube videos of 'guitar' and: cardboard, cement, colored pencils, jawbreakers, plastic, 3D printed, steel, and ceramic. Rock 'n Roll is about being a Rebel, not listening to 'the man' in Marketing telling you what you should be playing or buying.

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[Captain Nutslot]

Is it an Original Floyd Rose?

http://skyway.s3.amazonaws.com/FloydRose/FROriginalRoutingDiagramsMMPacket.pdf

You probably have seen this already. My suggestion would be to drill the two holes for the studs and insert them BEFORE you route the cavity that goes through the body. Those studs are damn close to the edge and it is really easy to crack your body when you put them in.

The other thing that comes to my mind is the depth of the spring cavity vs. the swimming pool route on top. Since you're going non-recessed, the bottom of your trem block is going to sit higher within the body. Not a problem if you have a long (42mm) block, more so if it's a short one (32mm), because the spring cavity would have to be routed deeper to accommodate for it if that makes sense?

Very cool build by the way, Floyds make me giggle every time I play a guitar equipped with one

The trem I was going to use is this...

https://www.guitarfetish.com/NEW-Heavy-Duty-Dual-Locking-Floyd-Rose-Trem-BRASSSTEEL_p_518.html

and would have required a recessed route on top... however I forgot to specify (if it was even an option) that I needed a 42mm string spacing at the nut, not 43mm. So it ain’t gonna work for me.

 

[Captain Nutslot]

If anyone is interested in this first trem let me know.

I picked up one of these guys...

I like it! And it doesn’t require a recessed route on the top.

 

[guitarbuilder]

You can probably use the GFS trem without that bar across it too.

 

[Captain Nutslot]

You can probably use the GFS trem without that bar across it too.

Agreed... the swamp ash is hard!... that plate is probably for balsa gfs bodies lol

 

[Fatcat211]

Good call on the OFR. Installed a gfs and now have a OFR. There’s something better about the construction, pivot points and geometry of the OFR.

 

[Captain Nutslot]

Did a couple duties since we hit 30 degrees this week... out of order I’m sure

 

[Captain Nutslot]

Colt said “scriiiibe a line”
... so I scribed a line!

 

[Captain Nutslot]

took a couple vids of the latest steps in the neck build here... messin around with the toob... heres a thingy my boy put together for me

 

[Captain Nutslot]

So, I botched that first neck...bit the bullet and ordered templates (and a few other bits) from Stew Mac and started over.

 

[crazydave911]

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[Captain Nutslot]

3rd neck.. 2nd truss rod

 

[guitarbuilder]

What's going on there???

 

[Captain Nutslot]

What's going on there???

Well the first neck, I tried to roast and it twisted up bad.

2nd one, the fretboard had dull router bit chip out when I was truing it up to the neck shape. Plus I wasn’t 100% happy with the glue up... useable but no go on this build... maybe a brotherhood build. If it fits within the rules lol

soooo trying again... I grabbed some new templates from stew Mac and I want a smaller radius router bit to match the neck pocket template... do ya know what that skinny corner is? 3/16”?

 

[guitarbuilder]

Well the first neck, I tried to roast and it twisted up bad.

2nd one, the fretboard had dull router bit chip out when I was truing it up to the neck shape. Plus I wasn’t 100% happy with the glue up... useable but no go on this build... maybe a brotherhood build. If it fits within the rules lol

soooo trying again... I grabbed some new templates from stew Mac and I want a smaller radius router bit to match the neck pocket template... do ya know what that skinny corner is? 3/16”?

Neck pocket? .25 radius or 1/2" dia router bit.

 

[Captain Nutslot]

Neck pocket? .25 radius or 1/2" dia router bit.

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Yeah but this template seems tighter like the top corner of this ...

 

[Captain Nutslot]

Here’s a half inch bit... not tight enough

 

[guitarbuilder]

Do you have a 3/8 to try on scrap ?

 

[Captain Nutslot]

Do you have a 3/8 to try on scrap ?

Not yet lol

 

[crazydave911]

The Stew Mac is pricey but a very good bit. It's an Amana, occasionally find them on Amazon cheaper