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Apparently you can no longer get naphtha or mineral spirits in CA, and the acetone they sell here has extra crap in it.  What do I use to clean my Tele body before finishing if I can't get that stuff?  I have some older lacquer thinner that is pre-nanny state ban, would that work? 

Hey guys.  Long time since I've been on the forum.  What did I miss?  Have you been having waffles without me?  How are you all?  I missed you all.  My mind has been other places and I've had to take a break from almost everything I was doing including working.  I've been having some health...

Hi all, I haven't been on the forum in forever, but I'll post another thread about that later.  Right now my husband has a finishing question for a coffee table he is building, and I thought there would be some good advice for him on the forum considering how good some of you all are at...

This is a really strange problem.  I think I figured out how to fix it when it pops up, but I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on what would cause this. I like to listen to the Marc Maron WTF podcast when I'm driving to work.  I have a premium membership to the podcast, which runs from an...

Hey guys, I need some ideas.  My husband and I started building a Telecaster body with some mahogany we had lying around.  It's a 3 piece body (hey, it's our first guitar body) and the mahogany isn't overly nice looking, so I'm thinking something translucent or opaque would be good.  I think...

Hey guys, it's been a while for me.  I've been really busy, still playing guitar but not doing all that much with gear other than some BYOC pedal kits.  Recently one of my cats (my favorite cat, actually) ran away after a traumatic experience and I've been going crazy looking for him.  I think...

I never win anything, but I just won a BYOC Analog Bass Chorus kit for liking and sharing their page on facebook.  It was a really crappy day too, so it was nice to come home to find that out.  :toothy10:  Just thought I'd share because I'm excited about it. 

Hey guys.  So I inherited some cash from my great uncle Norman.  He was awesome, and he was one of the few people in my family who encouraged me to play guitar.  I talked it over with the husband and we decided that I could go to the guitar shop and get a new toy, so I did.  It's name is Norman...

I'm finishing a pedal kit from BYOC.  I primed, then sprayed white gloss, then sprayed a glittery silver in a very fine mist from a couple feet away.  I wanted to make a white pearl kind of look, and it worked great.  Then I drew on the box with Sharpie, and that also looks good.  Here's the...

Is anyone going to NAMM?  I *might* be able to get in through my work at the art school (it never occurred to me that I could do that, but my boss got in that way last year, so it's worth a shot).  Update - talked to the boss man, he thinks he can get me in.  Anyone else going?

What's your favorite Thanksgiving dishes?  Crazy old family recipes? We have cranberry sauce with orange liqueur in it, family recipe stuffing (with bacon, apples, and water chestnuts), cauliflower gratin, lots of yummy things.  Tomorrow is gonna be good.

WARNING! TONAR-FINISHED CONTENT:  These photos are not recommended for viewers with a heart condition or extreme GAS. Yeah, so it's pretty much done.  I'm just waiting on a truss rod cover I ordered, and I haven't gotten around to installing the strap buttons yet.  But holy moly, this thing is...

Does anyone here brew?  I was just wondering.  If so, what are you making? My husband and I are gearing up for fall and winter (aka "Party Season") by brewing about 200 bottles of beer and hard cider.  He is really into this stuff, he built a fermentation chamber in our garage and everything. ...

Some of you guys might get a kick out of this.  My great uncle Norman passed away recently, and he and his brothers all had a tendency to keep EVERYTHING, and had a lot of receipts that they were hoarding in boxes in their attics.  My cousin is still looking through my uncle's boxes full of...

... so when I'm am 87 year old blue-hair, I can stroll into a guitar shop and do the guitar equivalent of what this lady did in this drum shop...

I just stumbled across this thread.  This beast be pleasin' to me eye. 

A poll just for fun.  I was just curious how many other members use their guitars as their backgrounds.  Feel free to post up your desktop pics here too!  And if you answered #5 - Mom, what are you doing on this forum?! 

Anyone here used Spectraflex cables?  They look pretty well built, and while they're not bargain basement cheap, they're not overly expensive either.  I'm looking for something built a little more rugged than the super cheap ones I have now and thought I might give em a shot next time I buy a cable.

Any recommendations for a speaker updgrade on a Fender Blues Deluxe (40w, 1x12)?  I'm looking for something pretty versatile, not too harsh on the higher end but not muddy either, with nice warm mids.  Thanks in advance.

The B and G strings on my Strat go out of tune pretty quickly when I bend them - way more than any of my other strings.  It's not a huge problem, but it still annoys me.  Any ideas on what the problem is and how to fix this?  I have Gotoh tuners, but they're not locking or anything.