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  1. Can anyone recommend the best pots and cap for a LP Jnr type guitar with 1 x P90 and 1 each x Vol and Tone? Many thanks
  2. Personally, I like you original drawing better. but I'd go for the 3-a-side headstock rather than the 6-a-side.
  3. 250K for singles, 500K for buckers, that's what I thought, too. Is it true that using a lower value (say 250K rather thatn 500K) will give you a warmer tone? so 250K could give the thing a warnmer sound? In any case I like the sound just as it coomes, so if 500K is what's recommended, that's what I'll stick with. Thanks, both
  4. Can anyone advise on the electrics I'll need to get that LP Jnr vibe (mellow and woody down one end, screaming up the other end) on a 1 x P90 guitar? What value and/or type of pots and all-important cap for that tone control? Thanks for your help
  5. Whereabouts are you? Brandoni in the UK does LP necks (unfinished I believe) for aboout £75
  6. Can anyone give me any info on walnut for a solid body, namely tone, weight, workability. Also, as it's a fairly dense wood I presume it doesn't need grainfilling, is this right? Any suggestions for finishing? Thanks
  7. Yep, if my routing's OK! THese will be my first guitar projects, so I hope I can get the cavities just right. I've got some experience with routing, and I've had pretty clean results so far, so hopefully I'll have no problems routing the cavities to the exact size of the P90's, but as ever I'll practice on some scrap first - better to nalls up a scrap of pine than a £40 slab of mahogany! Thanks for the help.
  8. Yes, I've got 2 ideas on the go. One's a mahogany tele with P90's, the other's a shape I've designed myself based loosely on a Mosrite shape with a few changes. They'll both use pickguards, but obviously the pups will be mounted into the body. Thanks to everyone for all your v helpful advice.
  9. So if I understand OK, the fact that the pup is only coming into contact with the pads and not the wood won't make much difference to the sound. In the same way that the pups on a strat are mounted onto the pickguard and are basically suspended inside the pup cavity without touching the wood - is this the same sort of idea?
  10. So the rubber pads will act as spacers and allow some "springiness" to move the pups higher or lower?
  11. I've got a set of P90 soapbars to fit into a solid body. Can anyone give me advice on how best to do this? Obviously the depth of the pup cavity will dictate the distance of the gap between the pup and the strings - what is the ideal distance for this gap? Also, should teh P90 be bolted flat right up against the bottom of the pup cavity? My P90's came with a pair of rubber pads each, so I'm wondering if these should act as spacers between teh pup and the bottom of teh pup cavity, i.e. pup not bolted straight up against the wood. Many thanks
  12. http://www.feederweb.com/photos/new_photos/index.php?img=127 http://www.feederweb.com/photos/photos/index.php?img=8
  13. The guy from the band Feeder plays some custom guitar with a Firebird body and a Strat neck (actually it's more like a Jaguar neck with block inlays), and I have to say it works (IMHO) and it's a design I've considered myself. Maybe you could Google an image search and see if you can find a pic of him to assess what the finished article might look like. Re the pickups, if you don't want mini-humbuckers and humbuckers just don't seem to look right, have you thought of P90's?
  14. Yes, I've noticed a number of posts from users who have good results from MDF. I found it OK for machining (it takes a router cutter and leaves a smooth finish) but when I tried to sand it it just went fuzzy and soft, and when I later tested out the template on scrap the guide bearing just sank into it. The MDF I used was not brand new, I salvaged it - it looked and felt solid enough, but even so maybe it could have been damp. Or maybe MDF is good for many things but sanding it is a no-no? Like one of the earlier posts that said it's not a good idea to use a rasp. Anyway, having read all these helpful posts I'll give MDF another chance - with some brand new stuff fresh out of the wood-shop!
  15. I'm only a Newbie, just started my first project, but after having made my first couple of routing templates I would give this advice: STAY AWAY FROM MDF!! I tried to make a routing template for a neck pocket, and found the stuff totally unworkable. Try to shape it with surform and/or sandpaper, and it just turns into mush. The best surface I could achieve was fuzzy and unreliable - the bearing of the guided router cutter just sank into it. Lucky I was only practicing on scrap! Later I tried it with a nice sheet of ply-wood, with much more pleasing results - easy to rout and sand, with a nice finish. Now I've got a nice neck pocket template - it's a perfect fit for the neck heel and the surface that will contact the router cutter bearing is nice and solid. I'm v pleased with it as a first attempt, I just wish I hadn't waster an evening messing about with MDF - but as this thread is all about, mistakes are part of the learning process. It's true - mistakes are another way of saying "I am wiser today than I was yesterday!"
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