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Hi Gordon,

Sorry for the delay, but yes you have to cut the fretboard a tiny bit to compensate where the rollers touches the strings (like the edge of the nut). When you buy the LSR nut it comes with instructions and mesurments

Hi Edgar, The tuners are Steinburgers gearless that StewMac used to sell. The strings go throught the peg and they are locked using the top of the tuners, that piece is a screw "stopping" the string going one side or the other. The tuning is done rolling the knob on the back of the headsto...

Hi Dan, Thanks a lot man. LSR roller nut and a StewMac roller bridge. Wanted to try that nut for a long time I wanted a Bigsby because it feels to me that that body just needs it for the look but I don't know if it's because of the angled bridge, quality of the bridge, the nut or something else but ...

Thanks a lot Hans. It's really appreciated

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Got the idea for this one after reading "Electric Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia" a few years ago. On the subject of the Gibson Firebird, it said Leo Fender thought that body design was a tad too close to his Fender Jazzmaster and told Ted Mccarty about it. It got me thinking (prett...

Thanks for the kind words guys. Really comforting when considering the fact this really wasn't the perfect easy build. Most notable blunder, the body slipping between my belly and bench while sending the sending sealer on the body horns (body upright ) and falling on the protruding miter saw fence u...

You got it! Bridge too tall and I wasn't bright enough to do what I have read here and in books so many times over, make a side view drawing of the body and neck so you can calculate neck angle and other mesurments. I used nut files to cut the notches deeper. Not hard to do but I could have avoided ...

Thanks guys Gordon, if you look closely at the 12th fret, you'll see I've modified the inlay slightly by insterting black dots Jason, no I've cut the notches deeper than what it was originally. It seems to be a common problem with the BadAss 1. They are not deep enough for a Fender type bolt-on sett...

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Finished this one at the end of September. Took 6 months to build and I used the remaining Korina I had from the Explorer build of last year. Made my own body template but used my Ronnie Trigo's Precision neck template 34" scale lenght 1 5/8" nut width Korina body and neck East Indian Rose...

When I build my first guitar, I followed religeously the only book I could find in 1997, Roger Simonoff's "Constructing a Solidbody Guitar". Good book for what it is but I ended up routing every cavities and recesses free hand like he does in the book thinking if he could do it I could too...

Thanks for the good comments guys. It's really appreciated

The body look may seem odd to some people but once strapped on it feels really good. Try one at your next visit to your favorite guitar shop. You might be surprised!

Those pickups, the more I play them the more I like them. Great sound

Thanks a lot for the kind words Marrku and Ben!

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It's been a long time since I posted something here. So here it goes. Finished this baby a week before Christmas. I used Ronald Trigo’s laser cut explorer templates for shaping and routing. Korina body and neck Ebony fretboard , 24.562 scale Seymour Duncan JB at the bridge and Jazz at the neck Gotoh...