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BRAVO JOB WELL DONE WITH GREAT CARE I have to hand it to you. You are extremely thorough, intelligent, with a mild mannered delivery of all the information and all the knowledge. After all these years, I have most of this stuff down pretty cold. However, you can always learn more....someone always has another trick or a tool or something and I appreciate people who work clean. I'm amazed, how dirty and unkempt the workspace is how much inherent vrisk there is with some guys who don't protect the balance of the instrument from damage when they're working. Easy Does it.... Speed kills ‼️ Think your way through every project and treat the instrument with respect. Even if it has a lot of wear when you're working on a guitar is not the time to add wear to it......

I was told u made a custom white cloud guitar and was wondering how much it would be to get one?

Tremolo <-- if you fix the spelling in your title you may get more hits on your vid.

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What a beautiful instrument. I'm finishing some project guitars soon and this helps a bunch. Thanks 🎉

Great work! This helps a lot, I now feel very confident about Setting up my new guitar :)

well… a year later, how has it held up?

I just ordered my Fender American Pro II Strat from Sweetwater! Watching this video is a great perspective of where my guitar is coming from!

Definitely with!!!

Is StewMac stuff made out of gold? Over 100 dollars for those templates?!

How much do you sell your guitars for? Also can you make a guitar kit unfinished?

Awesome work!!

Great video. Thanks for a lot of great tips! I am about to attempt a 4A flame maple cap strat and want it predominantly Transtint Blue, but wanted the grain to be Transtint Green that showed through in the grain details. Would you suggest any order of application or other tips to bring out the flame? Thanks again!

Bring back Geasfest

I love that Schaller bridge. I used one on the only guitar that I've ever built back in '83 or so. They work very well, and are a higher quality bridge than a "Bad Ass" bridge, IMO.

How did you finish the neck after applying the stain? Also does miniwax hold up alright after time?

I want a cloud so bad

This system is horribe in my opinion. Bought an ibanez RG 320 fm without thinking about it might have a different bridgesystem. I tried to tune it to drop C, and have not been able to play it since haha. Why do they make this system ? Can't really see the benefit.

A true masterpiece! ❤

Floyd approved trems will all have 3 adjustment intonation positions for the Floyd saddles. You missed the key trick with Floyds, you leave the springs in and block it in the back to keep the trem perfectly level while you're working on it. It essentially turns into a hardtail and completely eliminates the hours of frustration people go through tying to balance it. You then do the typical relief, action, nut triage, then intonation, and finally at the end, you leave the block in the trem, then very slowly start loosening the springs at the back until the block falls out. The block with be tilted ever so slightly forwards, but just retune it and it'll balance out to perfectly level. Boom perfect Floyd rose setup in under an hour. Any tech charging extra for Floyd setups either has no idea what they are doing or are gouging.

How can I place an order on a guitar like this?

How thick are your veneers?

Thanks for sharing I was born in Danang live in Maryland, and I've been down that street

Where can I order a cloud guitar from you. Do You have a website that I can place a order?

Some of the anchors available have got oversize slots and use adjusting screws to get the anchor in just the right place. Also important to get the distance from the nut correct, else you will experience intonation problems. I ran into this problem with a very good top of the line Squire, perfect in every detail, except that the bridge was set too far from the nut and two of the individual bridge pieces were contacting the hold down screws. The complete bridge and tremolo had to be moved forward by about 2.5mm in order to correctly intonate the guitar.

Oh.. The VN guy knows me.

yooo. I just realized a Cloud Semi-Hollow would be amazing. Will you make one of these via order

One trick is to use a damp rag or paper towel. Slightly moist .. not wet at all .... and run it back and forth across the fret and a tiny bit of moisture will seep just under the fret lip ... this will really reduce chipout a lot .... especially if it's a super dry fretboard that no one has ever oiled.. It really makes a difference.... try it next time you start to see chipout when pulling frets .. But remember "slightly moist" ! Warm water ... Not wet... It's usually the really dry fretboards that do the chipout.. that's why they chip ... Or the luthier before you glued them in .... instead of repair the fret slots..

Hey great video. I have a question. What do you do if the hols for your old inlays go all the way through the fretboard and you have no "floor" to pour the glue? I just found out that my inlay holes are like that. What do I do????

I've always set the bridge it the correct location and used the appropriately sized transfer punch to create pilot holes for drilling.

Thank you so much for this! I've been working on a guitar, swapping out a Tune o Matic with a wrap around and was afraid of messing it up. Subscribed!

hey man, not sure if this channel is still active, I need advice on how to set up a head crasher type trem, the type where the string ball ends get left behind the trem right below the fine tuners, a bit easier to restring but wanted to know your thoughts

Do you sell the schaller 457 bridge? Otherwise, what is the Gotoh replacement bridge?

I hate seeing the seam on guitars down the middle. It always looks horrible no matter what the wood looks like.

Beautiful! Thanks for posting.

Excellent

Try Mohaks Pre-catalyzed lacquer clear coat. I use it exclusively.

For a cool Dupli-Color white try Volkswagen Candy White.

I thought they had saxophones but it looks like just another guitar store.

Thanks so much. Now it's my turn to go from .10s to 09s, wish me luck.

This was lovely to watch; I was in Saigon last March and stayed about 3 blocks from that street. It was one of the first places I sought out. It was fun seeing you try and find your way on some of the exact same streets I was on nearly every day. Saigon is an amazing place; a little overwhelming at first but the people are great and they make all the difference.

Just what v Gary said vv 🙂

Good stuff. Learned a lot. Mostly what not to do. HUGE benefit there. Thank you sir

Amazing. You are blessed!

Beautiful but I obviously can’t do that on my own lmao

Did you mix both stains together, or did you layer them? Beautiful neck!

nice video, just a word of caution, try to avoid raising and lowering the action on a Floyd with strings/springs at full tension. Minor adjustments are inevitable but lowering a few turns like you did ruins the knife edges of the floyd. Best to loosen the strings and remove a spring or two before doing major action adjustments

Potvin templates work well.

Awesome video

Is 1 can of primer, 1 can of color, 1 can of clear, sandpaper, and a tac cloth good enough? I'm not sure how many coats you can get from one can