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Ive only made 7 necks so far, but they all turned out fine using the levelling beam, never seen anyone do it your way, not saying your wrong but it doesn't make sense to me. By he way you could pass as my younger brother, uncanny look alike.

Great video, sir. Amazing skills. I'm in the middle of a build with a top too pretty to cover with a traditional, metal bridge. This looks like the answer. You've inspired me to step outside my comfort zone and give this a go. Thank you!

As a bassist who usually likes more strings, I can't imagine playing a 2 string after playing a 6 string it would feel crazy

makes so much sense now thank you! explains the bad results i’ve had from following the flat as heck techniques

Growing up this was my dream guitar in the Ruby red colour

Sorry man but I think your doing this completely wrong. You could really mess up a guitar with your technique here who ever told you this method. It doesn't make sense. The guitar neck needs to be completely flat, before you level the frets. If you level the frets with relief in the neck you sand off more fret material on the frets near the nut than the rest of the frets. You need a completely flat leveling beam at least twice the length if what you have to get an accurate leveling of the frets. You use that beam in the opposite direction to what your doing, as in sand back and forth between nut and saddle. There could be major discrepancys from one end of the fretboard to the other. This is a new guitar but what about an older one?

I've also seen somebody use a new Stanley knife blade as an impormptu fret rocker - works great where the frets are closer together. Just have to remember to take the sharp edge off the blade by scraping it across some wet and dry first. Thanks for posting.

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Come on dude, you have high fret spots all over that neck, seriously there every where, and your saying in your other video you dont need to level the fret board, mate thats going to take you hours to spot level that board, and with those tiny frets 😆 Save yourself some time and just level the whole board, its no rocket science

One other point, there some tiny frets on that guitar, I wonder how you would go with jumbo stainless, basically and depending on the guitar, spot leveling can take longer than just leveling them all in one go, you even said yourself that if you get buzzing then go back to spot leveling, you could end up going back and forth with spot leveling for a long time, then you have strings to deal with to find the buzzing, Ill stick to what i know works, but hey if that works for you 👍🏼

I believe the truss rod is there for different weather as when its cold the neck straitens under tension and when it is hot the timber bends under tension, with a duel truss rod less so.. musicians that travel the globe and guitars that are distributed around the world also 7 & 8 string hold more tension hence duel truss rods, I own a EVH Wolfgang it has graphite rods and a truss rod because its maple which is soft and a short scale with a minimal headstock, it also runs from a 12 ich radius to a 16 ich radius hence the need for the graphite rods.. As far as leveling frets, i also disagree with you, respectfully, yes there should be a slight back bow to get the right action but the frets need to be level completely so with a good low action there is no fret buzz which eventually will occur with wear, if there is a perfectly set up guitar from new, which ive owned many eventually with years of playing fret buzz does occur, you lower the fret in front of the buzz and then the next fret will buzz, ive repaired many and refretted dozens, fret leveling is a nessesary step. Thats not to say that if you have a fret press and are building from new it cant be minimised but I would argue that also depends on the timbre you use, the climate you're working in and the fret size and material you use and the longevity of the guitar also where it ends up around the globe, Its not just as simple as you make out when you consider these issues.

Soz for being fick Why?

Is this bass for sale?

That’s sick!

Miss your construction videos. More please. Cheers.

owning a JL mini bass is the goal

Wow they look and sound awesome!

That’s a proper “Dad” remark 😄

Is the 5-string on video for sale?

Whoa, 25 frets in that beast. This is interesting because I have a brand-new acoustic guitar and the frets appear to have been leveled while the guitar neck was adjusted with too much relief in it. It makes more sense to level the frets first with the neck perfectly flat. I was shocked when I adjusted my neck to be more on the flat side and then every fret was rocking while using a fret rocker tool. Strangely the guitar plays well down in the lower frets and only has problems on the D and A strings more in the middle of the neck. I cannot get the neck to go flat with any amount of truss rod adjustment when the strings are under normal tension. I can get it flat when there is no string tension. Very frustrating. I understand that the neck needs to have relief, but shouldn't it be a very small amount? You also didn't mention anything about fallaway on the 12th through higher frets and claim that it should be level without explaining anything. Why would you want that area flat and level and not fall away from level? I'm trying to decide if I should send the guitar back or do fret work on it. I like the way the guitar sounds, so I hate to send it back, but I wasn't planning on doing this much work to a brand-new guitar.

Dude these are amazing! If you ever got a 4 string in the making lmk... I love seeing your 5 string purpleheart it's beautiful

yo these are sick!

Nice Jon! 👍🏼

very cool

The issue is wavy boards.. ski jumps on bolt ons.. slight twists(or significant).. Etc.. The idea is the get it flat. Then INTRODUCE the relief. When spot leveling, you may catch high frets from the next frets. But you replicate the twist and waviness it twist right back into the frets. Which isn't helpful

Thought i recognized that remco bass line

love your videos, Jon! Why do you opt for epoxy vs hard wax finishes like osmo / rubio? which grit do you sand the epoxy finish down to once it's cured to achieve the matte finish?

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Bruh wouldn't last a day in a gibson factory

Can’t wait to get my new bass that has been dropped on the floor several times lol

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Lighting may be shit but at least we can't see all of those dings it's now got from those butter fingers 😂

Brilliant intro! 😂 Do not change this!

i realy like pointy body shape

What are you doing??

Sick

I have double the strings and I'm not even that good.

just awesome

Very well played my friend! Love your bass sound🎸

sick riff too

Ideal for Orc Metal

I want to build something similar, with a 38=40" scale and some uber thick strings, like over .200", tuned to E0. Bonus points if I can incorporate a whammy bar.

Dude I love your work. Bought one of your instruments a couple of years back. Have been playing it often and cherishing it. Nice surprise to see your video recommended!

is that a guitar humbucker