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If you could get any (new) pickups for an HSS strat what would you get? In my bridge I have a Lollar Imperial F Spaced with a pearl cover and a gold pickguard on an Olympic white body. It’s a partscaster already with a maple gloss warmoth neck. Looks don’t really matter that much just throwing in details for vibe. I want my guitar to cover every musical base possible. I play mostly rock and blues with a touch of every other genre like country and funk.

I also have an LP with a ‘59 neck and Full Shred bridge for heavier stuff. Honestly I don’t even know what to think of in terms of what a vintage strat sound means but it’s a great guitar and I use it for almost everything that isn’t metal or punk.

I recently rebuilt a guitar. I had some issues with buzzing that I fixed once I wired everything correctly and redid the ground connection. No buzz or minimal.

Last night I took all of the hardware off except the neck and the bushings because after settling I wanted to repolish the clear coat.

Now I have put it back together and there is absolutely horrible buzzing when I am not touching any metal part. Usually I’d say this is normal and just EMI.

However, this problem didn’t exist before putting everything back together. I’ve checked every single solder point and pickup connections which are into a screwport solderless system.

The only thing I haven’t checked is the bridge ground because it’s underneath the bushings and I don’t want to pop them out. However, when I touch only the bridge the buzzing goes away so I can rule that out.

The only other clue I can find is that when I turn the tone knob to zero it goes away. What gives?

Discussion of tone is dead horse so not trying to stir that up, just curious on what people actually do. I just completed a first (poorly done) build and want to start thinking about my next one.

I am working on refinishing a guitar right now amongst some other things but had a quick question on primers. I painted it last week and it was very evident very quickly that my sanding job was not as awesome as I thought - a couple lumps from wood glue not sanded off, some dents and such. My question is basically best path forward to fill in those dents. For large ones I used wood glue and saw dust and got those back to level. For smaller ones I had a couple coats of z poxy that I thought would do the trick but did not.

Would I be best to scrape wood filler over the entire area? Use a high fill primer? The paint I’m using is 2k poly so I don’t know if I can use “any old filler” or if I have to use something specific. The company sends out 1k primer in their bundles if you buy them.

I absolutely demolish pits right now compared to my WW build. I have shattered cow, right gear, etc all maxed out and sitting at 240. But T12 bosses take multiple phase breaks/forever. Is it just a push build and not a farming build? 241 paragon, everything at least 2GAs and statted correctly and what not. Nothing concerning from a gear standpoint.

Think like fridge or washing machine. I know, weird question, but I am attempting to build a DIY spray booth for a guitar refinish and was hoping someone might have a large box. Thanks!

Title - all the hotness on youtube seems to be how to make all skills necks. Playing WW 1 mythic right now.

Strats and the like are 2 3/16" wide on the neck pocket. Paint mixing sticks from home depot are one inch wide. Get six, stack 3 tall, glue, clamp. Do again. Then glue (or don't) the two stacks together width-wise. Bang, free paddle. They even make ones that are "extra length." Just ask at the paint counter.

I have six years of project management experience but some of that was in a highly regulated organization which was key. I knew all of the documents no one else used because that org used everything down to communication plans.

That being said, I did not study. Not because I was confident but because I had a project crash and didn’t have the energy after long days to do it.

So here’s what helped me:

1. PMI loves collaboration and talking about things. Most of the time the answer is talk to everyone or, in the case of negatives, talk to individuals. Exactly like how you would do in real life in most orgs.

2. Learn all the docs (RAM, comms plan, risk register, etc.) if you don’t use them at your job.

3. When it asks you what should you do after a hypothetical it means immediately most of the time. As in, what is your absolute next step. Not what is the best action you’ll eventually take or anything out in the future. Think of yourself getting off the phone hearing whatever news and what the exact next thing you should do is.

Other than that, idk. I thought I failed and had zero confidence going in (and out). I got lucky working for one of the few orgs out there that actually embraces PMI everything I guess

Headstock is going to be a tru oil finish - do I just spray a couple layers of shellac on before dropping a waterslide logo on then shellac to even out the edges? I wanted to do a brand onto the bare mahogany but I already did a few layers of tru oil. Too late to turn back?

I did not study literally at all and watched a few of the AR videos a year ago. I have been a PM for a while in a highly regulated org so maybe that helped. I read someone on reddit this morning saying pick whatever answer has collaboration and did that. Anyway, glad it’s over - had been putting it off forever and missed an attempt in the mental hospital lol

The epiphone les paul im refinishing has a ludicrously thin veneer of what i can guess is Okume underneath all the poly on only the front of the body. I’m painting a new poly finish that is not see through at all. From what i can tell it’s mahogany underneath. Do I just sand off the veneer? It’s got some valleys from uneven sanding already because it’s so soft but I planned on doing quite a few layers of z poxy before getting ready to paint.