- #WESTONE GUITAR BLACK SCALLOPED NECK HOW TO#
- #WESTONE GUITAR BLACK SCALLOPED NECK PLUS#
- #WESTONE GUITAR BLACK SCALLOPED NECK SERIES#
The prices of the Grovers and the SD pups at Guitar Center were $180, $30 more than he paid for the second guitar, and although he had no intention of selling the repaired guitar, he was offered $750 for it, more than twice what he paid for the two guitars, so we all won. Since the new body had its original Washburn humbuckers replaced with Seymour Duncan Vintage Blues '59 humbuckers, so was I. I charged him nothing except the first neck's Grover tuners and the new body. Instead, I found a used guitar of the same model. The neck has also been scalloped as the previous owner was a huge Malmsteen fan. Im not sure what the neck is as it does not look like a Fender neck and Im pretty positive that is a decal on the headstock and not original. The body of this guitar is from a Fender Roland ready Stratocaster. I located a new neck but it cost almost as much as a new guitar. For sale is a used Fender Roland Ready Partscaster Black Fender Body With Scalloped Neck. When I suggested it he immediately got excited and agreed. Why he never considered replacing the neck, or why no one else suggested it, I don't know. When I saw it years later, I agreed with them. It was not a clean break, so no one he asked would agree to repair it. It landed on the head and snapped it off just below the nut. One day while putting it on to play he had a seizure and dropped it. He later sold it to another neighbor of ours. They did, with a silver permanent marker he had.
He walked up to the pair and asked them to autograph it. A neighbor of mine happened to be at the diner and happened to have his Oscar Schmidt OE-30 with him. I used to use a variety of metal files to do the initial shaping, but they can take off too much wood too quickly and roughly, and there's no putting it back on! I can now get the early steps done pretty quickly with the dowels and rough grit sandpaper.Not mine, but a neighbor's, with a happy ending.ĭavid Crosby and Graham Nash stopped for lunch in Monticello, Indiana, on their way to Purdue where Crosby's son was studying and was involved in the biodiesel project that Crosby became a champion for.
*I've read too many horror stories about Dremel mishaps to try that. I also have to figure out how I'd refinish it.
#WESTONE GUITAR BLACK SCALLOPED NECK HOW TO#
I really don't know how to finish a neck, though my dad did my one maple one for me using Tru Oil and that turned out great.Īnyone else have techniques they can share? I've got an Ibanez Prestige maple neck crying out to be scalloped, but I have to wait for the warmth of spring to work in my garage.
#WESTONE GUITAR BLACK SCALLOPED NECK PLUS#
Rosewood being less dense than maple makes that a much easier fretboard to work on, plus no finish required once you remove all the dust just add a couple drops of oil and it's good to go. While you're at it, you can also very easily roll your fretboard edges (with some of the finer grit sandpaper(s) only), if you like 'em that way. It's not a hard thing to do, and with a little practice (I used a throwaway neck, which I partially butchered while learning some technique) and plenty of patience you can get it to come out as nicely as you want.
I also use a small, flat file to wrap in paper and get right up against the (masked off, I do triple layers of masking tape trimmed w/xacto knife) frets. To do the rough shaping I wrap the paper around wooden dowels, 1/4" for upper frets and 3/8" for the rest.
#WESTONE GUITAR BLACK SCALLOPED NECK SERIES#
I've done four myself, and I've gravitated to using hand sanding only*, through a series of grits from about 80 to 800.
I'm also curious how people prefer to do their own.