The “Inspector” guitar tribute build

[Don O]

:dood:

 

[Clockworkmike]

Looks lime a co.pensated nut to me.

Bingo!

 

[DirtySteve]

Here’s pics I found of compensated nuts. The opening/relief is on the fretboard side, mainly G/B/E strings. I don’t believe he was finished as the tuner side does not have his signature fanout or fall off trench. Also, the nut over hangs the edges. I think he put a 43mm nut on a 42mm neck.

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Now that I see this I believe this is exactly what he was doing with the nut. I kept thinking there's no way he made that kind of a mistake.

 

[Don O]

I set the neck relief, filed the nut and strung it yesterday. Now on to the wiring and then a setup.

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Looks nice DonO

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

How does it sound ?

 

[Don O]

How does it sound ?

Mitch, I don’t have any of the wiring done. The action is really low as I have not set the bridge height, but the neck feels very comfortable and wide.

 

[Far Rider]

Really beautiful work Mr. O.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Mitch, I don’t have any of the wiring done. The action is really low as I have not set the bridge height, but the neck feels very comfortable and wide.

I bet it’s going to sound glorious

 

[Cadorman]

Those are some green tuners. The guitar is gorgeous, except backwards of course

 

[4406Pack]

Awesome work!

 

[Don O]

Fabricated the yellow rear cover today. Put copper tape on the inside, which will then get a parts list laminated to it when done.

 

[Session 5]

Really nice work Don O! nothing short of what I expected..

 

[Don O]

Drew up the wiring diagram. Going to use the push/pull volume pots to spilt the pups and the bridge pup gets the Fender TBX tone control. Both pups get the treble bleed circuit.

 

[Sp8ctre]

Fabricated the yellow rear cover today. Put copper tape on the inside, which will then get a parts list laminated to it when done.

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Lots of shielding just like Robert liked! Beauty!

 

[Don O]

Got the wiring done yesterday. I left out the treble bleeds, not sure how it would react with the TBX. Next up is a complete setup and I need to work on the Von Herndon headstock decal.

 

[Don O]

Rainy day today so I had some inside time. Decided to draw up the schematic in Visio. I then typed up the parts list for the inside cover. I then added the schematic to it. I had never done that before.

 

[WavMixer]

Rainy day today so I had some inside time. Decided to draw up the schematic in Visio. I then typed up the parts list for the inside cover. I then added the schematic to it. I had never done that before.

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Would those green key tuners be the same green key tuners that were sent to Robert from @kevinpaul

 

[iblive]

Rainy day today so I had some inside time. Decided to draw up the schematic in Visio. I then typed up the parts list for the inside cover. I then added the schematic to it. I had never done that before.

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That is really a cool thing to do.

 

[WavMixer]

BTW, DOC, that is a beautiful job you are doing on this fine instrument!