What? These are nuts.
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Whoever decided this is a nut must be the third kind of nut above.

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:facepalm:

Thanks man.

Best fix is to prevent it. Finish the hole from the other side.

I should have known you were parts of this travesty. :eyebrow:

What do you mean exactly? That's the front that chipped, not the back. It's the one hole that I went all the way through the backing plate. I think the chuck nicked it.

Well that explains that, I thought it chipped on the back side. I might have even assumed.

As you were.

Update of sorts.... The original stratocaster that I bought in 1988, the one I took to get repaired... That started this whole interest for me....

Is fucked.

The neck is not fixable. Not by any means Pete is willing to attempt, anyway. I may someday revisit it. I'm keeping the neck, but we've decided to make a new neck for it.

I've got that beautiful piece of flamed Maple I showed you in this thread. Last night I went over to Pete's and he designed it with a 3D design program. We've tweaked a couple things. Like the nut width and one of the curves on the head stock.

The cool thing is... We're going to cut this neck on his C&C machine, truss rod slot and all. So I can give him designs for the inlay on the head stock, and the C&C will cut it out precisely. All I'll have to do is fill it with dust and glue and sand it flat.

I'm going to use Bubinga for the fret board, and he can slot and radius that to spec as well.

Should be interesting

Bubinga - sounds dirty but isn't

~ just want to take a moment to mention what an excellent thread this is ~ It is so interesting watching you go, and all the details.

I've been playing for 34 years, and I do my own setups, and have even replaced bridges and modified my electronics and such. But there's so much to it all, I'm learning a ton here.

Thanks for that. I have to constantly remind myself to stop and take pics. Then at night, I go through my gallery and write the post based on the pics I took or video. I'm glad you're enjoying this thread.

Sunday, I'm going to lay out the hardware and drill the holes for the bridge and claw. Then I'm going to paint it. I'll do the tiny holes for the pick guard and tuner pegs after paint dries. The time between coats and curing, I'll use to work on the 88 strat neck... And vacation....

Might have a finished guitar by end of Feb, early March. Then I'll do a second guitar!

Yeah, thanks for taking the time to lay all this out for us. I appreciate it anyway.

I keep looking forward to the next installment.

Making lemonade, good plan.

I also love this thread man, too cool for words. The precision required to do this right is mind-blowing.

Here's that neck blank

That's beautiful maple.

I'm really enjoying this thread too. Making an electric guitar is much more involved than I realized and this one is really coming together.

I'll second or third or ____ because I'd stand in line to praise the amount of work you've put into making this great thread.
Technical enough to learn shit but fun enough to eagerly await what happens next.:notworthy

The flamed Maple is beautiful but I don't think the people will see it when you're up on that stage of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.