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  1. Some questions about my Frankenguitar

    in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat

    Posted

    A quick update to this 3 year old thread. I now know what a nut is! lol Also, I've built 3 Strats from different parts sources and haven't used a Bigsby on any of them. (I bought a semi-hollow Cort with a nice Bigsby on it.) I've decided to stick with the vintage trems on the Strats. Anyway, I've learned alot from reading books and especially from all you guys here at Project Guitar, so THANK YOU so much for all your posts!

    Peace,

    -Coolcat

    :D

  10. Loaded Fender Strat Body

    in The Marketplace

    Posted

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    Mint BRAND NEW Fender Standard Stratocaster Body Loaded! JUST ADD A NECK! Great for that home custom guitar project! Why buy an aftermarket body when you can have an actual Fender? THIS IS THE REAL DEAL! I bought this on Memorial Day as a whole guitar and decided to sell it and keep the neck. (I have WAY too many guitars!) It's a beautiful color - I think Fender calls it "Agave Blue" It's a light blue metallic color.

    On eBay:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=7420121982

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  11. Walnut-cocobolo Hollow Strat-style Body

    in The Marketplace

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    FMT....??? :D

    The deal is this; I have a great local lumber guy who has just about everything, but it is all in the rough and he won't normally cross-cut his stock. Which means I am typically buying 7' (which are his 'shorts') to 12' long boards whenever I start a project. So I use enough for my own project, and make stuff out of the rest of the lumber to make back some of the cost.

    Given that it takes me about a year per project, I don't have a garage big enough to store it all!!

    Right now I am sitting on a ~4 b.f. of bocote, a little alder, a little cocobolo, some of the 100-year old walnut, and some flame maple.

    I also have ~7 b.f. of flatsawn brazilian rosewood with sapwood, and some definite ideas for it, but this would require a truly $pecial $et of circum$tance$ to part with (replacement cost, basically).

    As for this particular body, it went to Nigel from Billericay, Essex (UK). The shipping cost was over $50 (!!!), but he was happy to pay it. Man...is it really that hard to get those woods in the UK??

    I'm not even sure what bocote, cocobolo look like. do you put your creations on ebay or just sell them by word-of-mouth?

  15. For Sale ~ Dimebag Hand Signed Guitar

    in The Marketplace

    Posted

    2004 Washburn Trendkill Limited Edition signed guitar

    This guitar was made exclusively for Music123.com before the untimely and tragic death of Dimebag Darrell. He hand signed 125 of them. This is an Alder body, set-neck Dime333 special edition Camo model with Floyd Rose locking trem. (not to be confused with the cheaper made bolt-on basswood Dime332 model). Please email for more info and pics. The guitar is in brand new condition and has never been played. Serious inquires only please. creativeguy@cheerful.com

    PRICE: $3,500.00

    USA ONLY!!!! ~ NO Overseas Buyers

  17. Surf Guitar!

    in Players Corner

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    Hey - if you live in New York - check out Link Wray this Tuesday May 10th @ BBKings! He was one of the greatest surf-instro guitarists and was considered the "Godfather of Garage" and the inventor of the power chord!!! I heard his song "Rumble" (which can be heard in Pulp Fiction) was banned from radio in the 50's because it was considered sexually suggestive AND IT DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ANY LYRICS!!!!!

    :D

  21. Surf Guitar!

    in Players Corner

    Posted

    Check out anything by Los Straitjackets. They are THE surf/instrumental band out there right now! And of course, Dick Dale, the King of surf guitar (check out his duet with SRV on "Pipeline"). Also pick up some CDs of Link Wray for some instrumentals that'll blow your socks off!

    As for equipment - anything that rocks with a whole lot of REVERB!

    I have a vintage '66 Teisco Del Rey "sharkfin" Japanese surf guitar, but my 60's Strat does it the best...

  23. Wiring to Independent Switches / general wiring

    in Electronics Chat

    Posted

    The pickup hot wires go to each switch. Connect all the pickup ground wires to the star ground point, usually the back of the volume pot. I'd set up the switches to disconnect the pickups ( open the circuit) - I'm afraid setting them up to short to ground will kill all three when any one switch is closed, but it's easy enough to try both ways and see what happens. Wire the volume and tone pots just like you would for a single pickup, and connect all three switch outputs where you would connect the pickup in a single pickup setup. I loved my Kramer Focus, but I never opened it up, so I can't tell you how they did it. Here's the Pacer Custom, which was similar.

    I have no idea why they used the DPDT switches for this, they could have done the same thing with SPSTs. No tone pot, but you can just use a standard tone setup.

    That was very informative! Thanks for the chart! Can I ask you another question, however? Being a complete newbie to wiring, I've decided to make my life difficult by completely rewiring my Strat using three small SPST Slide switches from Radio shack. I want to be able to turn on/off each pickup independently. Your chart show this , but I'm not sure what to do with all those wires coming from the tone/volume pots that go to the 5-way switch right now. Can you explain the setup for a standard Strat Volume/Tone/Tone?

    Thanks for your input!!!

    [G]

    :D

  24. Wiring Nightmares

    in Electronics Chat

    Posted

    Help!

    I've attempted my first wiring job...

    Basically, here's the deal: I followed Fender Standard wiring schematics to a "T". The 5-way switch was already wired to the pots, so I was just swapping out the pu's. At first, the neck pu wouldn't work, so I switched t with the bridge, to see if it was faulty. Then it wouldn't work in the bridge. I tried another old pu and it worked. But, then I took it out and put the new ones in the bridge and middle (nothing in the neck). When it was like that , the switch was useless. they sounded exactly the same in ALL FIVE POSITIONS! Shouldn't I have gotten NO SOUND when I had the selector switched in the neck position? Now I'm wondering if my "faulty" pickup is faulty at all!? UGH!!!! Any clues?

    Thanks for your help!

    [G]

    :D

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