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Has anyone taken up the StewMax offer? https://www.stewmac.com/StewMAX/StewMAX_1-Year_Membership.html I'm wondering whether it's worth it and whether the free shipping is painfully slow? I paid for a StewMax membership and had some books shipped last week which arrived yesterday. 6 day from Dispatc...

AiRdAd wrote:I think Rob has done the wellington course

Yes I have. A great course and you can do it with very little prior woodwork experience. Paddy usually runs it once every 2 years in January and you can build a Dreadought, OM, or Classical.

Mine

From my limited experience (only seeing ones that had issues) the Indonesian ones were good, but heavy like Molly said and they may need a little fretwork unless you have a tolerance for some minor fret buzz. The Korean made ones were a step up and better in that regard. The used Ghost fret on TM is...

Blue Matteo really pops with nickel covers, cream pickup rings and amber knobs...

James Hetfield plays one.

This is what I was looking for! Cheers Rob! PS- for leveling work, if you straight edge a neck using a slotted rule, and find the neck dead on (with strings removed, truss backed off or not) do you still use the jig to improve stability? I do, yes. I have used a vice in the past, along with a long ...

I have the Erlewine neck jig and use it regularly. I don't use it for fret removal or installation or slot/tang width sizing, I use it for fret levelling. Yes it is accurate and is definitely not the only way to do things to a high standard, but it makes life easier especially on things with non-adj...

Molly wrote:LOL. No Fastway here.

Tell me about it, Brexit sure is dragging along..

What's not to love? Pic borrowed from Adrian's Flickr

AiRdAd wrote:How many guitars would they complete a day do you think?

In 2011 they were shipping 1500 per month, not sure about current numbers.

I have a Lava retro coil which is still going strong after 10 years. The Vox ones are good too.

This came from a seller in Wellington, I believe? If so then I've played it before and after the Santa Cruz strings went on (and against my initial hopes I preferred the strings that were on it before, 12-53 PB, unsure of the brand). A nice sounding guitar that felt like it hadn't quite opened up ye...

Slowy wrote:I want to hate Crafter; so much bling, so little money. But the few I've played weren't half bad for what they were.

Plenty of non-bling models available, and the all-solid stuff above $1k is fantastic (just ignore the Dragon inlay).

I've had this Bogner Mojado head for 10 years now... and during that time I've also owned (And sold) a Soldano, AC30, Rivera, Tamerlane, Wolverton, a Boogie Mk. 3 and countless others. It has no master and no practical EQ (although the Schizo switch does change the voicing nicely) but just sounds gr...