NamelessOne

staying off topic... texans eh? Here in Alberta, we're Texas squared where it's good, and Canada where Texas isn't good. We got cattle gaurds (call 'em Texas gates... credit where credit's due). We got the best beef on the continent. We got oil... more than Texas, probably. We got a premier who actually speaks his mind from time to time. We've got boomtowns. Several. We also got ski resorts. contest over.

nice invisible tuner...

I"m worried about the bottom left-most spike... that's a big area supported by a significant amount of cross-grain, and it's in a place very likely to get knocked around. repeat that thought, though a lot less so, for each of the spikes on the sides. on the other hand, it's very metal. VERY METAL. \m/ \m/

isn't 1 3/4 inch pretty standard? it looks a lot thicker than it is because of the contour. you have to look a bit closer... doesn't look to bad to me. I'd be VERY cautious if you do the scooped back. you might get white poplar showing up in the middle in weird ways, which might not look too good...

well, apparently Vancouver got hit recently... it's still +10 C and EXTREMELY windy here in Calgary. Only a bit of ice left on the groud, but it's nice and slick, it's surface polished by the sublimation.

ever seen a bongo bass? that's what popped into my head when I looked at that today... a metal bongo.

I've seen worse. Of course, I'm in calgary, so we get a chinook every couple months or so which melts everything on the ground... it's about 10 degrees C out here right now, with the ground soaked from meltwater.

heh.. you have the same first year german curriculum as I do... heh... Ich bin Conrad. Ich bin vierzehn auch. Ich spiele gern Bassguitarre. In meine freitzeit, ich spiele Bassguitarre. Ich Spiele keine Sport. while we've hijacked the thread, any other linguists here? Je parle un peu de français. Je voudrais étudier plus, mais mon professeuse de français n'est pas un bon professeuse. J'ai déja visité la France, et l'Allemange aussi. Ich parle badly...

is there supposed to be a "patent applied for" sticker on the bottom of a tele single coil? I thought that the PAFs were gibson...

well, there was another poster here recently who had the core grain perpendicular to the strings... his turned out, so it should work. However, it was a one piece core, so there was no end grain glue joint, which is what I'm worried about more. waiting for the input of someone who's actually done this before...

dude, if you want to cuss people out in germanic languages, just learn a bunch of really innocent, pointless phrases like (in german): Franzosich ist mein Lieblingsfach french is my favorate subject Gehen Sie eine Bissien weiter go a bit farther Das ist in der Schweiz that's in switzerland Bratwurst mit Brote, bitte sausage on a bun, please sorry for the spelling errors, and don't forget the gutterals and "Z"s BTW, this only works on people who don't know german. if they do, they'll just laugh. it's not about cussing people out, it's about NOT cussing people out and making them think they just got burned in german. oh yeah, and... ,, Luke, ich bin dein Vater.... HA! NICHT! ''

in the body? that's a new use... unless you're thinking about the neck, in which case, I was talking about the body (the one with the flamed claro top) the whole time.

I'm just wondering if there's any problems with doing the bookmatch with perpendicular grain. What about the center join, which would end up being an end grain joint (weak)? stability? other than that, I like them. especially the walnut ones.

well, if you built the neck, props for doing so on your first. If not, I'm not overly impressed. You've got a body cut out of softwoods. It's got a decent neck pocket (which does take some skill). it still needs pickup routs, a control cavity, and suchlike. However, I would like to stress one point. PLANNING IS HALF THE WORK. it looks like a turtle, and you find it too big. you won't be able to solo much. it'll be uncomfortable to sit with. it doesn't match the headstock. my first was in planning for several months before I made the first cut for it. now, I still like the plan, it's got amazing access to the top frets, and nice looks. probably the typical teen desire for instant gratification, but then again, who am I to talk, as I'm just 14.

As far as I can tell... We agree. We've agreed the whole time. Don't you hate it when that happens? Except, I claim that the "peak" of the fretboard, the point where the ruler lies completely touching the jar, as you put it, varies from string to string, and has nothing to do with the thickest point on the fretboard. It's the individual string's ideal path, not the center of the fretboard, that defines where it ceases becoming farther from the fretboard when you bend. This ideal path may be closer to the center, farther from the the center, or even not on the board at all. the flat bridge stuff and other cases you (rather diligently) argued against were ideas of situations where the thickest point on the fretboard actually defines where a string starts getting closer to the fretboard on a bend. My examples given were trying to illustrate my point, made above. The first bit you quoted, about the model, sort of agreeing with me. You're just using CAD-speak when I'm using geometry-speak. I lost a bit in translation, but it appears you calculated (using a rather powerful calculator) the distance between a plane (?) (finding Z-coordinate, since Z=0 is a plane) and the fretboard at various points, or is it a string and the fretboard? Have fun with your binding, the friend I'm working on my guitar with hates it... THE CONCLUSION OF THE THREAD: flat fretboards: never cause complex mathematical discussions. they should be made standard on all guitars.