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Permalink Reply by Fantacone Box Works on August 4, 2019 at 6:03pm

Working on 45

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 5, 2019 at 8:46am

That a fine looking instrument.

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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on August 5, 2019 at 11:58pm

Starting a 2x4 lap steel build...

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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on August 8, 2019 at 4:34am

I've made some progress on the 2x4 lap steel. I laid down the second coat of base color last night (see below). It's sitting on the bench right now drying. I'm going to do a metallic coat tonight, let is dry good, then clear coat this weekend. After that, I just need to get her assembled.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 8, 2019 at 6:46pm

That looks great. Are going to use the acrylic fret marker boards that Gitty sells?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Walter on August 9, 2019 at 9:25am

What color is the base coat?

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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on August 17, 2019 at 9:32am

Cobalt Blue Rustoleum. I have a video of the build here if you want to check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmYQuLmFsuA

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 17, 2019 at 10:37am

Sounds great. Most lap steels have aluminum or steel bridge/nut assemblies, so it's nice to see some difference and it sounds great.

Your playing is great too.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on August 12, 2019 at 8:58pm

Moved the bridge back on the Glider about a quarter of an inch. Will be doing the same on the rusty box. Plus rewiring the both of them. Going to a standard wiring with the three single coils in rust. And 'independent' volumes in Glider, Adding a tone to the glider as well. 

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 13, 2019 at 6:20am

Lots of projects work eh?

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on August 13, 2019 at 8:09pm

: ) more like fixing what I should have fixed. I wired Rusty up so i could blend the bridge pickup in with the neck. Or the other way around depending on where the five way switch is set. This requires no load pots to work right. Wired it up with regular pots. It works, but not the best. The glider has been wired backwards from the start. And really does need a tone control. The bridges on both guitars were to far forward. Actually had to cut the adjustable screws so the stings wouldn't break on them on Rust. 

What I may do with Rust is switch the bridge and middle pickups. Not a real fan of the quaky sound. Also I really never use the bridge pickup on a strat. I know I'll have to lower the mid pickup to make up for the volume differences. 

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 14, 2019 at 2:36pm

If you switch the middle and bridge pickups, you'll still get the quack sounds when those 2 are played(comes from 2 pickups in parallel and 1 pickup is rwrp of the other), but the bridge and neck together will have a thin out of phase type sound which some like and some don't. 57 Strat's didn't have a middle rwrp pickup, but they were wired to a 3 way switch(no combinations).

So you could leave the pickups in their usual place and wire in a 3 way switch or wire in a toggle switch for series/parallel in the 2 and 4 switch positions of the 5 way switch. The series option sounds really good because the pickups are a bit away from each other, it's different from the regular humbucker. Sounds a lot like the Telecaster Deluxe that had Wide Range Humbuckers.

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