Customization, part 2. Selecting the mold.: My master plan of building my dream axe started with taking some cheap guitar, stripping it down, and basically using the leftover, hacked up debris for parts. I had every intention of surfing all of the parts sites until I found that perfect neck, with the perfect fretwork, the perfect headstock. When I got the Christmas edition of Musicians Friend, plans changed a little. The guitar I had pictured in my mind had a strat style body, normal scale (I don’t know what it is, but the shorter scale of a Les Paul makes me play like a Chicken Head), a nice wood grain finish, and a maple neck. I f...

It's the first of May. A new month. A brand new start!: We are basically finished with the roof! All that is left are some of the closures on the ends of the porch roof. These are to keep bees from making nests up inside the steel. We can do them from a ladder, easily enough. Thank You, Lord, for allowing us good weather so we could finish yesterday! The roof looks so nice now, and we'll do the other porch later.

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