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Thanks! Really happy with the way it looks. It sounds great too. Main issue to resolve is that the truss rod doesn't tighten and I'm not not sure what to do about it. Luckily the neck is a tree-trunk which helps, but I can only get the set-up so far without it working.

The scroungeocaster (renamed for the up-cycled, free-cycled and botched together components) lives!

I once drunk bought an expensive guitar pedal that probably (definitely) shouldn’t have, given the finances at the time. When it arrived, Overcome by hungover buyer’s regret, put it away, still in the box and totally forgot about it. Found it in a drawer over a year later. It was like magic!

Hell, who here hasn't made an ill remembered midnight boozy purchase?

Not me. Hold on, there’s someone at the door. With a package. For me. Huh.

Damn you paparazzo!

Also, It was in the context of responding to someone asking where to buy where to buy a tin of £1.50 sardine pate but yeah, have at it. FORE!

It was “my local fishmonger” which I thought was ok as in… it’s the fishmonger local to me. but even so, I bet some wag takes umbrage with that and changed it to THE local fishmonger. Unless, even being fishmonger adjacent is a GC-worthy fail these days… in which case, I suppose it’s a fair cop.

Whoah… was that me?

I actually stealth edited it at the time because GC paranoia

hungover

and Scottish

friendliest forum on teh netz.

Christ that's a beauty. I may regret asking this but... what are you asking for it?

Have just removed The Crapocaster's bridge, drilled out and filled the holes ready for repositioning forward a few mm. Think I need to increase the width of the rout a few mm as I was happy with the l-r alignment but it was rubbing on one side.

I need some new screws too.

/rivetting update

Why you selling bud? Also PICS!

Are you sure you want to advertise your address alongside details of an expensive and nickable thing?

glws tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRHBxaXDjq0

Can we all agree to stop saying “wee drams”? Kthnksbye.

https://www.avidaportuguesa.com/en/store/sardines-pate-with-chillies-minerva

I get from the local fishmonger at £1.50 a tin. Store cupboard essential.

Brown bread, spicy sardine pate, tomato, sea salt, mayo.

There’s no way that’s the normal amount of fingers either

Bridge screws made a appearance on the back of the guitar, worryingly near the edge as well… yikes.

They’re standard length so imagine the body has a deeper than usual rout. Not happy at all as I can see that whole piece of body coming away with enthusiastic whammy action which would be game over for the whole project. Balls.

Reckon I’ll have to taken them out, fill the holes and re-drill with bridge a bit further forward and some shorter screws. Hopefully the saddle adjustment will be enough to get the intonation right. Even if I come fwd 3 or 4mm it’ll hopefully be a lot stronger.

Cheapo nut files arrived too. They're utter shit. Barely more substantial than a short length of guitar string. Hope they'll survive one use.

Filled and drilled body holes and fitted neck. I now have "AN GUITAR".

Added some awesome relic-ing to the finish in the process. Definitely didn't hit the edge of the neck pocket with a hammer when knocking in a dowel. *cough. Never mind.

Having tuner fitting dilemma now. Bushings are 11/32" vintage size which is roughly 8.7mm. The holes seem to be around 8mm. I'm thinking an 8.5mm bit run slowly (in reverse first) should do it? Obviously I have a dozen 7.5mm, 8mm and 9mm bits kicking about but no 8.5. Nipped out to the local hardware shop earlier to buy an 8.5... and just found they've mistakenly given me another 7.5mm. Le sigh. Good job I'm not charging me my labour by the hour.

I've forgotten what I'm on about.

did lol

Just discovered this thread and devoured it on one sitting. Great read and inspirational stuff.

Arf. Ordered some 4mm dowel. Will have to shave or sand to fit then glue and whack.

Also ordered the cheapest nut files on Amazon. Will see how that goes.

Need to ream out the tuner holes this morning and that’s bout all I can do until I can attach the neck.

Are there any rules about aligning neck and bridge? Which do people unusually fit first? I was going to go with neck first as the fit is fairly tight and scope for fettling minimal. The plan is to use high and low e strings (or floss in their place) to make sure I got the bridge in the right spot to mark holes for drilling. Thoughts?