metalcarver

A couple of things to add. We should all be a little aware of the medium, i.e. internet/electronic. A serious beginner is going to be allowed the same space as a casual surfer who kind of dabbles in making things. Praise, sarcasm, and humor don't always translate from the spoken to the printed word. A question that is asked and then gets no answer is kind of self policing, kind of stands out like a fart in church.

Guitar, 6 -string, M1-A1 No wood at all. Manually machined billet aluminum body, Seymour Duncans, Moses graphite neck. Decorated for battle. For those who haven't seen ice feathers, they form when you have high humidity and very cold weather. Our lakes get a little stiff in the winter. Dave

It looks like a piece of brass that's been sitting around the shop for years. Make it out of brass and shine it up and everyone will ooh and ahh. Then a couple months of drool, beer, and sweat and you have one of them there patinas.

I get my ideas the old fashioned way... I steal them. Nice

If you take a look at the 22 fret bolt on necks, there is an over hang past the heel that holds the 22nd fret. That is, the fretboard overhangs the main part of the neck at the heel. Starting from scratch it'd be no problem but as a retrofit kinda sounds like a headache.

Guess I'm one of the few who can refer to you as being "south of the border"

Oh yes. Time. hm well I charged for 45 hours. But looking at the fuss over the neck, they were very long hours. I work metal so my shop reflects it. So when I have to work on some wood I have to clean everything wipe down etc. and then I get a beautiful piece of birdseye like on this one (they wink at you) and I feel like I'm transplanting a thumping bleeding heart into a new body. Add to that the fact that this was my first inlay job and the fact that I learned to cuss in an underground mine honed with years in the oil patch,... well there were some tense times...

Hey- Metallic Mathew- how cold there? Saskatoon is one of those chilly places I hear. Down south there in those little provinces that is... It's a balmy -25 C. here. Tongue got stuck to the gitar

Most of the pickups I[ve bought have several wiring diagrams or rather pictures of the individual pieces and which solder lugs the wires go to. The Stew Mac site has a bunch of stuff too. I think that guitar nuts had a picture page on howto. Anyway you don't need to understand it to make it work.

I think the Fender Mustang was 24" as well as others. The best info I've found on scale length is at : Novax Guitars technical article While your there check out his fanned frets...

All of the configuration details were requested by the customer. He plays strictly slide in an open G# tuning and he doesn't use the 6th string at all. He has several others set up the same way. He only finger frets the strings up to #15 so I suggested putting in markers for the high frets flush with the fingerboard. Gives a little more slapping room. The inlay is aluminum. Pretty easy to put in, but filing flat and polishing puts little specs of metal in the pores int rosewood and it oxidizes black so it was really hard to keep the wood clean. Probably work better with ebony or synthetic fingerboard. I'm about 60 air miles south of Anchorage = 180 miles through the mountains by road. Nikiski, Alaska about 1500 people scattered around the area. The onry ones are kind of hard to count though. After talking with MM a little I'm sure that if we were locked into a shop with plenty of tools and material some very strange things would come out = if we survived. He has an evil mind.

More pics at : Triestele

Would indentured servitude work with you?

At the bridge

A recently completed project for a client in Italy. Slightly different specs too. 5 String 24" scale neck two Jason Lollar pickups - the neck pickup is perpendicular to the strings 7lb. 4oz. - 3.2 kg 3 - way, volume, no tone control The owner was surprised by the acoustic volume and sustain. He said it rings clear on every fret. When I was setting it up I was really impressed with the Lollar pickups. I think I'm getting an idea of how a tone snob gets there. The design on the top was what happens when you leave a machinist at the end of the road in Alaska - unsupervised.