Upgrading An Intermediate Guitar To A PRO-Level Instrument 

I'm waiting for him to see this and come claim it from me! 🤣

🙋‍♂Yes please. 😁@@LucasFowler

NO kidding! I've been rear-ended twice in 4 years. $4k in damage to the car, $50k in damage to ME!

I tell you what, my stepdad would say "I sucked all the cotton out of my seat" when I saw that truck barreling towards us! The gloss finished neck is really cool :)

Thank you!

I haven't done a video on fret sprout specifically, but I will make one the next time a guitar comes across my bench that needs it. I do have a short snippet about it in this video(time stamp included) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tWG31HJpyS8.htmlsi=39skW6f_kVn_oDfi&t=179

@@LucasFowler thank you!

Great questions. The capacitor is a Mojotone .047 cap that I had in a box that I figured I'd try, I usually just use an orange drop .047 for singles and .022 for humbuckers, though I've had some .033's that I like too. The reason I didn't ask for a new neck is that mine is a 25.5" scale and the production models are 24.75". Presumably, the bridge placement would not be correct if I switched the scale of the neck as such. Thanks for the questions and compliments!

@@LucasFowler Thank You Sir and have a great weekend!

I'm not sure if Bootlegger offers replacement necks but if you were to have a problem with your guitar, you could of course return the whole thing for a replacement, I'm sure. I suspect because mine is a prototype with a longer scale, the new shorter scale necks would not intonate correctly on my body with it's bridge placement.

Basically, I just measure the height of the first fret, add .012" to the wound string slots and .010" to the unwound string slots, and then use feeler gauges as a depth stop with my nut files, so I get precisely the slot height I like. I'll add "cutting nut slots" to my video to-do list! Thanks :)

@@LucasFowler I saw what looked like some sort of device attached to the neck with rubber bands or something and I thought it might be a special tool. Phil McKnight has a tool(s) he invented by cutting the tang off various size frets, radiusing them and epoxying them into the plastic tips from Strat trems. I'm lazy and uncoordinated, looking for an easy way out.... Thanks for the info!

@@TheDrunkenScoundrel oh I misunderstood what you were asking, yes it is a special tool! I used to hold the feeler gauges with one hand and file with the other but I've been using this stewmac jig for a few months now and I like it a lot. www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/tools-by-job/tools-for-nuts-and-saddles/stewmac-safe-slot-nut-guard/

Generally speaking, I get the neck as straight as I can get it without fret buzz on the first 3-4 frets. I cut the nut slots to .012" above the fret height on the wound strings and .010" of clearance on the unwound strings. Then I set the high and low "e" strings to approximately .050" at the 12th fret _while_ holding down the string at the first fret(to take the nut out of the equation). Then I set the rest of the string heights to the correct radius of the guitar based off the high and low "e" strings. On some guitars, like my 10" radius PRS's, I find I can actually run my strings at closer to a 12" radius that way and still have no problems, allowing for a slightly lower action, so I do that if I can! Hope that helps!