Warmoth Strat Kit Build EP3

[@joseluisorellano69]

Looking great. Thanks for the video. Cheers from Puerto Rico!!!!!!

[@theNextProject]

Jose, thanks for watching and the message too. Cheers from Florida!

[@kmichaelp4508]

10.3K!!! A plack is on the way. Show it proudly my friend. Hi Laura 😁

[@theNextProject]

Hey Mike! Whoop, whoop, 10.3k !!! I really can't imagine that number ,but it is cool knowing some folks are interested in my tinkering. Thank you for your friendship over the years, 3 moves, a couple dozen projects .. Thank you! I'll tell Laura you say hi.

[@MuseumsBloke]

Nice recovery on the tuner holes. Some headstock shapes & details are sexy, some aren’t - those front recessed tuner washers are, as you said, definitely sexy.

[@theNextProject]

Museums Bloke, good to hear from you and thanks for watching! Yes, I was very lucky with that situation. Honestly, at a glance all the little pilot holes looked good... then they didn't, gulp! I got sooo lucky. Hope all is well, be safe my friend!

[@34guitars]

Another great video John! Keep the great content coming.

[@theNextProject]

Dave, good to hear from you and thanks for watchin! I'll keep cuttin' stuff up, then covering it up. Hope all is well, take care my friend!

[@hueffel987]

Hello John, as always a great episode. Thanks for that. I've been waiting for a sign of life from you the whole time after Hurricane Milton. And I didn't even notice that you released a video two weeks ago. Take care! Jens

[@theNextProject]

Jens, greeting my friend! Yep, all safe and sound here, Milton went around me, so I was very lucky. Many people to the north and south were hit pretty hard. I'm in the garage again tomorrow, more work coming soon. Take care my friend!

[@TheGuitarCurator]

You have a lot of cool ideas. I think that plate near the bridge is one of them. I didn’t even question your use of “the depressor”. My 1992 Ibanez RG560 has one, and it does exactly what it needs to. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

[@theNextProject]

Curator, thanks for watching! I pretty much borrowed the bridge post plate idea from Ibanez. I've seen too many FR bridges with tore out posts. Thai should do the trick. Hope you are doing well, be safe my friend!

[@andersonrowland]

Great video!

[@theNextProject]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the show. Hope all is well, be safe and take care!

[@eddiejr540]

We take a drink every time you say “start the next project”🤣

[@theNextProject]

LOL, I think that's a great new drinking game! I should make a shirt with a dozen "Start the next project" lines of copy. Hmm, I'll have to work on that! Be safe and take care!

[@hannuhanhi183]

Best of the day and a can of good beer.

[@theNextProject]

Hannu, good to hear from you and thanks for watching! Cheers my friend!

[@JoeR203]

I vote for a swirl paint job on the body. 🙂

[@theNextProject]

Hey Joe, thanks for watching! A swirl paint job, hmm - interesting! Swirl stain, maybe on this highly figured veneer. Oh, I saw something that may work...instagram: instagram.com/reel/C-pSdEQyfVL/?igsh=MXAwc2s1emYzOHVuaA%3D%3D Maybe not what you had in mind, but pretty cool.

[@Patrick.B223]

Hello from Iowa!

[@theNextProject]

Hey Patrick, good to hear from you and thanks for watching! So, what part of Iowa you calling home? I'm from Ft. Dodge, way back in time. Hope all is well, be safe and take care!

[@Patrick.B223]

@ I live in Guthrie Center but I grew up in Oskaloosa. I’ve always been interested in music and guitars. Nice to meet you. Take care.

[@theNextProject]

Small world. Same here, I've always had interests in music and guitars. I'm not a player, but I like to tinker with things. Guitars are a good scale of hobby to have. I like old cars too, but I can't get a car in my apartment, nor on my kitchen table. So, I'll stick with guitar projects for now. Good meeting you, and glad you found the channel. Be safe and take care!

[@PTRarch]

Our guitar is getting a lot of TLC there John! Keep it up! All the best!

[@theNextProject]

It is getting some love, gonna try to do it right. Hope you are doing well, be safe and take care my friend!

[@dimitarmitev5135]

Great. Another video. Putting on the kettle.

[@theNextProject]

Dimitar, enjoy your refreshing beverage and thanks for watching! Hope you are doing well. Take care

[@jimclark7917]

Great job!

[@theNextProject]

Jim, good to hear from you again and thanks for watching! I'll get is ready to box up and send off to you soon. ; )

[@achimdg6335]

It's a great day today because you've made a new video! And also, I can watch it right away, because November first is All Saints Day and holiday for over 50 % of the population living in Germany, though it's only 5 of 16 federal lands, 9 others had a holiday yesterday, Reformation Day, reminding of Martin Luther's Reformation. (you pronounce the 'th' in Luther as a 't', not as an English 'th') Only Berlin and Hesse neither had yesterday nor have today. Too bad for them, I guess.

[@theNextProject]

Achim, good to hear from you and Happy All Saints Day to you! Glad there was a video ready for ya, and hope you enjoy it too. Very interesting to hear of the holiday scheduling and how works across the land. Also, pronunciation of words, interesting to me even though I often butcher what I'm saying. You've been good to work with me on that : ) Really hope you are doing well, enjoy your holiday. Be safe and take care!

[@benpuss]

Looks great!

[@theNextProject]

Ben, thanks for watching! It's gonna be great... if I don't mess it up, LOL

[@oldmanzen6682]

First thought I had was, oh god, he's going to have to plug that hole and redo the headstock veneer. Talk about luck though. Looking good. The guitar, that is.

[@theNextProject]

OMZ, that is EXACTLY what went through my mind, right after #@F%G$#I*?!!!! After my eye stopped twitching, and I was able to see what I had done... I went through the "fix-it" list, also realized had the wrong size bit (whew!), and I needed to go up one size of forstner bit anyway. Put a dowel in the hole, found "true" center and fixed the issue. WHEW! Got lucky!

[@robertruamps5680]

❤

[@theNextProject]

Hey Robert, thanks for watching, take care my friend!

[@stealingtomorrowband]

I am like 2 episodes behind thanks to being out of town and no time to keep up.. But looking good my friend

[@theNextProject]

Welcome back, and I hope training is going well. Be safe, take care and have fun!

[@stealingtomorrowband]

@theNextProject most definitely is going well, I've got 2 more weeks left ... It's very fun and hard at the same time

[@musterionsurly]

neck is looking great. no point someone like me using anything but stainless steel frets as i wear 'em out way too quick otherwise. my main guitar is a warmoth neck with dunlop ss6100, the original fretjob is still going strong after years of abuse.

[@theNextProject]

Thanks for watching and good to hear the durability you're getting from the fret wire!!! Hope all is well, be safe and take care!

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

19:15 .. I made a few from Coke cans, easy to cut, they don't last long but easy to make another...

[@theNextProject]

Hey Man, good to hear from you! Aluminum cans are great shim material, refreshing too! Be safe and take care!

[@wjewell63]

👍

[@theNextProject]

wjewell, thanks for watching. Take care!

[@josefodium8888]

Having steel to steel mechanical contacts (like on that tremolo plate) is not the best idea, since they tend to wear out. Fortunately, in the mechanical world they’ve found a solution. Two actually. Using bronze is the first one (for medium to heavy load joints). Copper plating one of the metal parts is the other. Having two different metals on contact surfaces reduces friction substantially, minimizing the wear. The second method is also more user friendly because there are chemical solutions for cold coper plating. You just dip a steel part in them and get a light copper coating. No electrodes or anything. Looks cool on warmer tone wood too. Used it few times purely for aesthetics. Don’t really know if it’s necessary in this case, because you will probably paint the thing. So, it would probably be ok, if your customer isn’t Steve Vai. But since you are good kind of obsessive (with quality), copperplating that plate wouldn’t hurt either. …Yeah, it’s probably me who is obsessive. Just hate those steel to steel mechanical joints. Being an engineer changes you in all kinds of ways. :)

[@theNextProject]

Josef, thanks for watching and the great write-up too. I'll have to look into the coating process you mentioned, sound pretty cool. That little retainer plate between the pivot post will be getting a black-oxide type coating. The product is called Insta-blak. I'll be coating the truss rod spoke wheel with that stuff too. So many things to try and learn. Fun times. I hope you are doing well, be safe and take care!

[@josefodium8888]

@@theNextProject Thank you for taking us along on your projects. Always a pleasure to watch. There probably are companies or chemists selling that solution in the US. I went for the DIY approach (found video guide here on KZbin and tried it out). Not advisable, but if you are willing to take the risks: H20 (distilled water) - 450 grams Car chemical supplies. CuSO4 (cupric sulfate) - 100 grams Not sure about the US, in eastern Europe you can get it as one of the gardening chemical supplies. NFPA 704 - hazardous and unstable if heated. But here it is considered safe enough to be send by regular mail delivery services. H2SO4 (1.27-1.28 grams per cubic centimeter) - 100 grams It’s a car battery acid. So, car chemical supplies, same as distilled water. Handle with care. Mixed in that order. Thoroughly. Step by step. Don’t use steel (or other dissolvable in acid) containers to mix or store. Don’t try to pour water in the acid (it is safe only the other way around). Eyes and skin protection is a must. Also, a respirator. Especially while dealing with the acid. Overall, the solution is highly stable and lightly to mildly acidic. Not an alien blood, but one probably would not enjoy it on their skin very much. Oh, the steel thing should be rust free and degreased for the plating to stick properly. Other than that, it works like magic. Steel thing in - copper thing out. Light plating takes seconds at best, but it gets heavier the longer it is submerged. Only for steel though, other conductive things will require electrodes. If you are using it for aesthetics (copper guitar hardware for example) and don’t like green-blue patina, use clear coating. Because it tends to patina from touching. Can also patina it on purpose and clearcoat for it to stay the way it is. Take care and stay safe. The world is better with good people and interesting projects around.

[@theNextProject]

That's a really great write-up on the process. I'll do some reading to learn more, many out of curiosity. I'm not a chemist, nor engineer, nor electronics specialist.... Just a guy who finds all for this stuff fascinating. As I've gotten older, I realize how much education I missed, or skipped, when I was a kid. So, I'm doing it all the hard way now, and working on my education. Good times! Thanks again for the message . Be safe and take care!

[@VoyeurGuitars]

doesn't the bees wax get pushed into the slot tho? 🤔🤨🧐

[@theNextProject]

Voyeur, thanks for watching! The wax could get mashed in there, but if the finger smearing it about is paying attention there isn't any issue. So, yes it could happen, and that would not be ideal. The wax does keep any CA from sticking to the fingerboard surface, which is especially important if using a thin viscosity CA glue or if hammering in frets, which could splatter the CA about. Thanks for the question. Be safe and take care!

[@chriscutress1702]

I've got more time. Do we have to stop now ???

[@theNextProject]

Hey Chris, good to hear from you and thanks for watching all the way to the "time" reference. I'm in the garage working on more...fun. Hope you are doing well, take care my friend!