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LOL!!!! that was great! James Ceri Bond.......outside one of the most classified buildings in all of Europe, cleverly blending in with surrounding so no one will EVEN suspect your surreptitious activities.......

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LOL!!!! that was great! James Ceri Bond.......outside on of the most classified buildings in all of Europe, cleverly blending in with surrounding so one one will EVEN suspect your surreptitious activities.......

......... the lengths he'll go to diverting us and keeping us entertained. 8)

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Only things I know for certain about spies is that they always, always wear black rollneck sweaters and they generally have some sort of secret to hide. Well, it looks like I have the sweater - I wonder if it hides a secret? Make sure no one's watching...:

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Hmm: hidden secrets indeed. Oops - is that M looking out the window?

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Now. About this guitar neck. Anyone recall what we'd decided for it?

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they all wear black EXCEPT the detective Jacques Clouseau.........

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Its what's making this thread an epic in my humble IMO

as per your request :lol:
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all unrelated posts shall be deleted on request, with no offence taken 8)


Best thing punk ever did was end that nonsense.

im kinda gettin into punk, i heard some stooges and really liked it..... any bands you would recommend?

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Ceri,

Anticipation is killing Kong; maybe it wasn't "beauty killed the beast" as in the story ... although this guitar qualifies. :lol:

Hmmm what neck was decided on... I don't recall a definitive decision on the neck, but I do remember something about wanting flames somewhere on this here guitar. I wonder if that could be a clue.

PS Thanks for the advice on my own train-wreck.

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If your getting into the Stooges (who were more of a garage band than punk, though definately inspired punk) try some

Anti Pasti
Nowhere near as good as the stooges but kinda the same vein, very DIY.

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Poly's a great girl met her a couple of times.

Theres always the undeniable one foot in the gutter, the other on a bananna skin
NewYork Dolls

My personal favourites ever
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I think thats Twelvebar playing the white strat on that vid.

Ofcourse theres the ramones and the pistols, not really stooge like though are they.
Arguably these lads were as equally inspired by the Stooges as they were the Ramones. The album this is from, fresh fruit for rotting vegetables. Is a must for any alternative music fans record collection.
The Dead Kennedys

You may find something in that lot.

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How's this for a neck? Nice Fret job, don't you think (24 of em)?



























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If she removed the rings do you think that her head would bob like one of these ubiquitous car window bobble figures?Seriously though I saw on a documentary that they would sufficate if the rings were removed-the price one has to pay to look beautiful.

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I think thats Twelvebar playing the white strat on that vid.


haha!! :roll: :roll:

I actually used to play that occasionally with one band. :roll: :roll:

How bout some good ole Canadian hardcore:

SNFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWSa3I5oFzY

Dayglo Abortions:

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And DOA (the band that gave hardcore it's name):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF62ucrGciQ


Ceri you'd better get to work, if you ever want to seize control of your thread back!!!

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How's this for a neck? Nice Fret job, don't you think (24 of em)?

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I think a refretted neck is in order.....the 7th fret from the bottom seems a little dislodged :shock:

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How's this for a neck? Nice Fret job, don't you think (24 of em)?

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I think a refretted neck is in order.....the 7th fret from the bottom seems a little dislodged :shock:

that would be tricky.... if you removed the rings the neck would collapse and she would most likely suffocate.... just a little not so fun fact

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Hey Gang!

Been a few months since I've last checked in with all of you. Was busy with a new CD and filming of an instructional video. Now that those projects are out of the way, I'm on furlough till my next gig. Such is the life of an anonymous session artist.

I went back to the beginning of this thread an reread it from start to stop. Just can't get enough of Ceri's genius. It's nice to see everyone still here. But, how's Niki's body going? Is it done or is there more to come?

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Ceri you'd better get to work, if you ever want to seize control of your thread back!!!

Hee-hee - but as I say, I tend to think this thread does better when I keep quiet! :lol: Can't recall another one quite like it, can you? And that has nothing to do with the boring side show of guitar building...

Still, we have to return to that occasionally. So.

Thanks to Mr Kong for bringing us back to the matter of the necks (!). What shall we do about one for this guitar? Shall we buy a neck from one of the aftermarket makers (some nice ones in my country)?

Or shall we make one?

Anyone old enough to remember the top wood going onto that body (about 100 pages ago) might recall that I used European sycamore. Confusingly, sycamore is one of many names that means a different tree either side of the Atlantic. This is acer pseudoplatynus, a maple often referred to as "fiddleback maple", cos that's what it has been used for over hundreds of years.

My sycamore is apparently English grown, I was told by my tonewood supplier. That's not important in the slightest, but I quietly liked it for that and so decided it might be nice to get some English sycamore for the neck too. Easier said than done.

The sycamore used in violins mostly comes from Eastern Europe. The tree is believed to have only been introduced to Britain around 500 years ago and is not really grown as a crop here - in fact, some people regard it as a weed species, though I happen to think it can make very handsome trees.

Anyhow: I went to my local timber merchants, who have got better and better over the decades I've known them, and asked for some English grown sycamore. So the fella started ringing round stockists and mills trying to find some. It really only comes onto the market in small amounts when someone somewhere chops down a particularly good straight tree, and an hour of phoning produced no results.

I was just about to give up and order a boring old maple neck blank from my tonewood supplier instead, when a forklift truck driver who'd been loitering near us during some of the phoning finally mentioned he thought there might be a small off-cut of sycamore "round the back" of the very timber yard we were standing in. He went off and indeed came back with a single thin, rough plank, bark still on. I immediately bought it and had them machine it to the size I need: 40 x 80 mm / 1.57 x 3.15 inches. Here it is:
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And with the off-cut removed:
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If we lay a neck template on it we can count how many necks I might get out of it. From here:
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- to here (see the template down the far end of the plank):
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That's four necks out of the machined plank, and if I plane and thickness the off-cut I believe I can get a fifth from that. Not bad for £30 / $45. Compare that with the price of neck blanks from the online tonewood suppliers...

I set about chopping it up into individual blanks:
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And then it's onto my planing / jointing machine. I need two perfect flat sides at right-angles to each other for neck making:
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We've seen this machine a few times already on this thread. I aquired it last summer and already it has paid dividends. I'm not nearly a good enough carpenter to do this planing accurately by hand, so I simply couldn't be using this wood without the machine. Here's a planed blank:
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And we're ready to start making necks!

I might be wrong, but astonishingly I don't recall anyone making a neck on the Forum since it started. Can that be true? Weird. Let's put it right.

I have to go away yet again at the weekend (!!!) but my time is more or less my own between now and then. So let's see what we can achieve in that window of opportunity.

10.30 in the morning right now where I am. I'll get started and report back later.

Cheers - C

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