Husk mod - AXL LP

ChasFred said:
Just saying . . . I think Nitro is easier to work with than Poly.
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I understnad that it is easier to apply and bring to a shine, but I dislike nitro. I wish my nitro guitars were poly. As I understand it, the trade off is finish checking and susceptibility to staining when it comes into contact with rubber/petrolium products v. breathable wood that ages well and provides for more acoustic properties. Since I do not take any stock in the concept of tonewood and think that only acoustic guitars need acoustic properties, poly wins every time.
 
Frets look great!
When you nip the overhang ends off, do you put your end nippers right up to the binding, and does it cut cleanly?
In my earlier post I described where mine did not.
 
jtcnj said:
Frets look great!
When you nip the overhang ends off, do you put your end nippers right up to the binding, and does it cut cleanly?
In my earlier post I described where mine did not.
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Yes, right up to the binding and it cuts fairly clean. Then I use a real metal file to bring it closer. Then I to fret ends.

With regard to the nipper, most luthier ones are inferior. I got large handle and medium handle heavy duty nipper and ground the front flush.

Watch these videos. They helped me.


 
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is the guitar got poly on it already ? if not just keep puttin darker stain in that one spot maybe. get some dark walnut or somethin.
 
JohnnyGoo said:
is the guitar got poly on it already ? if not just keep puttin darker stain in that one spot maybe. get some dark walnut or somethin.
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The guitar was lightly poly'd and unfinished, but I sanded that spot bare from 100 grit through 1,000 grit. It is a veneer, so I do not want to push my luck. It is getting better slowly.

The stain I am using is Minwax Jackobean. It looks like black paint!
 
Yes, I bought a pair of 10" (I think) Irwin end nippers and ground the face flush as well.
Put a couple more squirts of PB Blaster in the truss rod hole last night.
Hope for joy around 4:00 PM EDT.

I'll watch those as well.
I posted the ones I used in my the beginning of my build thread on the first one:

Another Axl Lp Jr. From Ubuy Fret Install

That guitar has not seen the inside of a case or on the rack since I finished it.
Never did glue the nut, lol.
Got 3 or 4 I need to glue.

If I come away with a working truss rod later today, I will get started probably Friday.
 
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