Tonewood of the cab resonating along with the cosmic microwave background radiation. Do not joke about this. I now about a guy who had a snack corner. Because of the lack of room, he had his belly against the microwave also when it was working. After a while it seemed that his intestines were parti...

Answer to the new insanely cheap Mustangs? Either way it looks pretty neat. I'm not a big fan of bursts in general, but they look okay/good on small Les Paul types.

Looks slick! Love that Gretsch wall, though I'd be terrified of someone opening that door too wide...

Pre glue: http://i.imgur.com/YQsh4kt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mBWP7rw.jpg Design flaws and inexpert hand-finishing left gaps, and wood glue is a very poor gap filler, so I opted to use polyurethane construction adhesive. Polyurethane construction adhesive expands when it cures, moreso than I anticipat...

On dovetails in plywood, and why they were a bad idea. http://i.imgur.com/FGOoch4.jpg The dovetails were added to the design when I still planned to use solid wood. When I made the switch to plywood, I did not reassess their inclusion. I assume there are ways to do this correctly. I'm just learning ...

Neglect to take pics when gluing the veneers.

Test fit like there's no tomorrow:


Give blood sacrifice:


HAIL SATAN

Summon a skeleton:


hail satan.

Continue them walls: Plane sandwich parts to final thickness: http://i.imgur.com/RIbvnqN.jpg Forget to take pics of anything but the sides. TEST FIT THEM MOTHERFUCKERS: http://i.imgur.com/Q62iyDh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iqdPbhp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GhRWRr3.jpg Note the dovetails. The dovetails were...

Make them walls: Layer 1/2" ply together, CNC out the middle: http://i.imgur.com/zINQsRx.jpg Cut foam from 2'x2'x1" sheets, also with CNC: http://i.imgur.com/0kXkyVl.jpg Combine?: http://i.imgur.com/Ml9WtY6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Nyzv9jJ.jpg As with the top: http://i.imgur.com/y2N7lg2.jpg ...

I am fundamentally incapable of not overcomplicating everything. http://i.imgur.com/wxeamI4.png color key: sand: cheap pine ply tan dowels: poplar tan veneers: super cheap Home Depot 1/8" generic hardwood ply. inner veneers not pictured pink: extruded polystyrene insulation foam sheet (Foamular...

for real, that is fucking hot. I was a little iffy on the bwb pickguard, but now I see that it balances the frets' non-blackness.

I hate gold hardware and I love that guitar.

FedEx says it should be to me Saturday, but the tracking is showing it going all the fck over the US. Florida to California to Texas now.... They delivering via squirrels? UPS/FedEx claim it's how their regional sorting facilities are arranged, but I suspect it's mostly human error. I work shipping...

Yes. Good. Very good.

Mustang25 wrote:I just thought it would be cool to put a dimarzio super distortion in it

hells yes. do this.

Also my clean volume was effecting my lead channel volume. I guess that is normal for some amps? I thought the volume and master from each channel were independent of each other. The lead volumes don't do anything when you are in rhythm though... That is by design. I don't know when they stopped do...

Oh hells yes. Running this into a ~warm~ power amp would counter the traditional Mesa cool-bias bias, and would let you not have to lug around a giant heavy Mesa. Nice.

Still excited about this project, but I've cooled to using this particular body. I have a somewhat-slaughtered basswood mustang body* which might be better suited to this.


* I've made some mistakes. I've made many mistakes.

Yes, yes good. This is very good. How did you go about mounting the invader?

Figured it out! The little plastic part that prevents installing the tube incorrectly had broken off of the cold tube, so it had, of course, been installed incorrectly. The fact that the amp still functioned is testament to the hardiness of tube amps and/or mesa engineering and/or blind luck. Once t...