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Hi ORCRiST: wow, looking fabulous! I love all the attention to detail - nice, clean hole drilling! High five on that.

One tiny suggestion: howsabout putting the self-adhesive neoprene on the underside of the bridge instead of the paintwork?

Anyhow. Can't wait to see it with the neck on!

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Hey there!

Since you've been through so much work to honor such a great icon and idol (he's a beast :D) I guessed I could do something for you...

So I went to his facebook and posted a pic of your body and I told him about your work... If ya don't try ya don't succed so here goes nothing!

Hope he sees it!

Regards,

Hustle_PT 8)


Hey you guys, thought I'd offer you some info. I found. I was reading over my IMFC (fanclub) magazine last night and this was on the last pages:
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As I suspected, not Dave's or anyone officially affiliated with Dave or 'Maiden. Too bad, but now we know.



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That adamantium looks brilliant on the pickguard and body.

Nice holes too Orc, a classy bit of countersink going on with them.


Thanks Nik! You have sharp eyes, as I know the picture showing them wasn't all that close or clear. Indeed they do have a countersink.



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Hi ORCRiST: wow, looking fabulous! I love all the attention to detail - nice, clean hole drilling! High five on that.

One tiny suggestion: howsabout putting the self-adhesive neoprene on the underside of the bridge instead of the paintwork?

Anyhow. Can't wait to see it with the neck on!

Cheers man - C


Cheers Mr C! Well, I don't think that would work - theres no effective way to attatch the padding to the trem itself due to the irregularity of the mounting surface(s) on the trem. That being said, while working with the padding I discovered its decidedly low-tack so at least it shouldnt harm the finish over time and can easily be removed (cleaning or adjustments for example) at need or whim.

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ORC:

This is a really cool thread and I look forward to seeing your amazing guitar when finished. If you are the one who drew the concept drawing in the first post, you are quite an artist.

I'm not a big Maiden fan, but I watched a bit of the Flight 666 documentary on VH1 Classic the other night in honor of your guitar and this thread!


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ORC:

This is a really cool thread and I look forward to seeing your amazing guitar when finished. If you are the one who drew the concept drawing in the first post, you are quite an artist.

I'm not a big Maiden fan, but I watched a bit of the Flight 666 documentary on VH1 Classic the other night in honor of your guitar and this thread!


Hey, thank you very much! :oops: To be honest with you, however, that sketch is crap, LOL. It really was just a very base rendering so Patrick would know WTF I was talking about once he received the body.

Thanks again!

ORC


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looking great orc!

I can't wait for the final product (was following this on the warmoth boards too).

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Update time!

Right. (Whew), time for the pickguard assembly, wiring, hole drilling ( :shock: ), and lots of test fitting... Here we go!

First off, I ordered no less than three different pickguards all with different materials as I didn't know what I'd go with in the end.
As previously mentioned, I decided to go with the .90 black gloss/white/black pickguard. In the initial planning stages, I wanted
to do a full copper shield of the inner cavity. After doing a lot of research and consulting peoples' opinions I trust, I decided
against the full shield. But since I had a whole bunch of adhesive copper sheets laying around , I decided to lay down one continuous
sheet across the entirety of the inside of the pickguard. All of the edges were carefully cut and de-burred, leaving about an 1/8th
of an inch from all edges including the pickup and control cutouts (except for where the 3-way switch and pots were to be mounted).
I had these perfect little washers that I used for the pickup mounting springs just so the tension of the springs wouldn't mess with
the copper shielding over time and under tension. Not needed, but hey, I had them - and I think it makes for a cleaner looking setup.

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I work in IT by trade, and I build custom PC's for people - so I had this really cool black cable sleeving kit. It's sort of a black plastic
weave that looks like steel braided brake or hydraulic lines and it easily stretches to accomodate various wires and cables. I used the
sleeving kit and shrink tubing to make all the pickup wires neat and tidy up until things started splitting off to be soldered to the switch and pots.

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For the components used:
1x RS Guitarworks 280K SuperPot - volume
2x CTS 250K audio-taper pots - tone controls
1x AP Vitamin Q Oil & Paper cap (.022uf, 400V)
1x Oak Grigsby 3-way blade swtich
1x DiMarzio Super Distortion (DP100), Blk/Blk, F-Spaced (Bridge)
1x Fender Custom Shop 'Texas Special' RWRP single coil, with black cap. (Middle)
1x DiMarzio PAF 36th Anni. Edition (DP103), Blk/Blk, F-Spaced (Neck)

Some may note that these aren't really 'proper' values for components to pair with the pickups in this build. But, these same values are found in Dave Murray's 'Kossoff' stratocaster, which in turn are the values found in a normal three single-coil strat; 250k controls all around. Dave never changed them when he added the humbuckers to the 'Kossoff', so thats what I'm going to use. The only liberty (or departure, if you will) I've taken is the use of an RS Guitarworks 280k 'Superpot' in lieu of a standard Fender 250k volume control pot and I'm using the AP Vitamin Q cap instead of... whatever Fender used for a cap 'back in the day', 1963 in the case of the Kossoff.

I've never wired a guitar before (or ever messed with the innards of any guitar for that matter), so I'm pretty happy with the result. Very clean IMHO, but I had a lot of help from my friend Josh who's my soldering expert. Thanks Joooosh!

All done and ready to go:
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The pickguard was taken downstairs and plugged into the amp and tested before installation into the body - and lo! everything worked perfectly!

Special thanks to Mr. Martian (aka Roy) who helped me with the wiring schematic, thanks Roy! Dave's control setup is a tad different from the regular strat setup. Tone #1 controls the neck, and since Dave almost never uses the middle single coil, Tone #2 controls the middle and bridge pickups.

Here's a shot of the body with all of the holes (shudder) I had to make for the pickguard and input jack. Not a single power-tool (not counting the soldering iron) was used on the guitar. I have a hand-held modeling or jewelers drill that I used for all the holes. Everything came out perfectly, much to my relief!

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And here we have the completed pickguard and jack, installed and secured...
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Another angle...
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Here's a (bad) shot of the spring claw, and you can barely see the bridge ground (soldered on the reverse side of the claw for cleanliness), snaking off to the control cavity on the left:
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This is a shot of the body illustrating the tremolo rout. I had picked up a sheet of thin, self-adhesive neoprene padding that I intended to use to protect to tremolo recess rout. When it came down to it, I couldn't decide if I should show the beautiful paint or protect it. Test fitting the trem, I found that there was a good half-inch of painted area in the rout the trem didn't cover. I didn't want to cover that up, yet didn't want the trem leaf spring (according to Schallers engineering schematic, called a 'Bronce spring') to mar the finish. So I compromised and cut a half-inch strip and placed that directly under the leaf (or Bronce) spring and where it would contact the body if there was no string tension on the trem. That way, the paint is protected directly under the spring, yet the entire route isn't covered allowing one to see the paint the trem doesn't cover. Works for me!

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Here's a shot of my wicked Ruthenium trem and something I decided to try out: a 37mm bell-brass sustain block with stainless steel mounting screws. I have Floyd's on all of my other (two) guitars and after reading the rave reviews on tone and sustain I figured I'd give it a shot. I should have taken some pics of the OEM block for comparison as it looks really wimpy next to the brass one. Not in the pic's (I think) are also a set of 'Raw Vintage' tremolo springs. Also designed to increase sustain and recommended by some fellow forumites, I thought those plus the sustain block would make for a nice one-two punch...

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Previous to this stage of the build (I had eight months to kill), I bought and installed these nifty Floyd Rose saddle shims. The Schaller Floyd Rose has saddle radius of 12 inches. Using the saddle shims, I correctly adjusted the saddle heights to match an approximate 18" radius at the bridge to properly compensate for the curvature my Warmoth compound radiused fretboard:

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Test fitting the trem... here you can see the neoprene strip due to off-angle of the picture, but looking down from the top/front its completely hidden...

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Another wierd angle, lol...
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And here's a final shot of the trem and pickguard before bed!
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Allright, thats it for now - its 2:30 in the AM and work calls in the morning.

As always, comments and questions are welcome!

ORCRiST


THAT MY FRIEND IS A GORGEOUS GUITAR .... A THING OF BEAUTY.

pardon the all caps but wow... i am one of the BIGGEST Maiden fans of all time. Murray is my favorite along with Alex Lifeson and David Gilmour and you my friend have made really made me tear up with your tribute to Mr. Murray. I've been planning on getting a DM sig strat one of these days... wow... i'm just inspired.

UP THE IRONS...

glad i found this thread. I wish you the VERY best


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THAT MY FRIEND IS A GORGEOUS GUITAR .... A THING OF BEAUTY.

pardon the all caps but wow... i am one of the BIGGEST Maiden fans of all time. Murray is my favorite along with Alex Lifeson and David Gilmour and you my friend have made really made me tear up with your tribute to Mr. Murray. I've been planning on getting a DM sig strat one of these days... wow... i'm just inspired.

UP THE IRONS...

glad i found this thread. I wish you the VERY best


Hey, again, thank you very much!! :oops: (<-- that seems to be happening a lot lately.)

Tonight after work its final assembly time. I'm happy with the neck, so now its time for tuners, locking nuts, and string retainers oh my!

Stay tuned!

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Can't wait to see the finished result. Digging the look of that. 8)

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Hi ORC,

Very nice job on the wiring. The flex looks cool, very tidy indeed. :D

Looking forward to seeing a neck on that bod!

Andy

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It's time for another update!

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If I had an ax like that, I would be afraid to even play it. I would want it always in perfect condition. That is going to be a beauty when finished.


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Okay, were all thinking it, so I will say it..................

Is it done yet????

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Thats just what I was thinking

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Gents, give the man space. I have an idea there's one or two things going on he has to deal with. Don't worry, a little bird tells me normal service will be resumed in due course...

Hold your breath - but don't suffocate! :lol:

Cheers - C


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Ceri wrote:
Gents, give the man space. I have an idea there's one or two things going on he has to deal with. Don't worry, a little bird tells me normal service will be resumed in due course...

Hold your breath - but don't suffocate! :lol:

Cheers - C


Thanks all.

Yes, Ceri's right - you'll all have to be patient (like I'm forced to be).

I ran into a temporary setback during final assembly Thursday night. Everything was going swimmingly. I had used some low-tack blue painters tape to mask off part of the headstock to protect it whilst I installed the tuning machines.

I got everything installed and began pulling off the tape. When, Mr. Murphy decided to rear his ugly head. As I pulled off the tape, one of the two custom decals I had on headstock came away with the tape (despite the layers of clear satin nitro covering it). Curiously, the same piece of tape covered both decals and only the one decided to lift. :(

Very frustrating, but not a big deal - I do have spares. So I cleaned up the headstock, then sanded down the surface. At that time I discovered the tuner holes needed some light sanding so the tuning machines fit a bit better, so while re-prepping the surface for the decal - I addressed that fitting issue as well (thanks again Ceri!).

So. Everything has been fixed. The new decal is in place and the first (new) coats of clear satin nitro have been sprayed. Now we need to wait.

Rest assured y'all will know when things are ready to rock. :)

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