Luckis Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 HEY ALL OF YA! IM FROM ARGENTINA AND THIS IS MY FIRST TOPIC HERE, I GOTTA TELL YA THAT ALL OF THIS REALLY HELPS A GUY IN A COUNTRY WITH ZERO RESOURCES FOR GUITARBUILDING! I HAVE BUILD A COUPLE OF THEM (TELES AND BASSES) BY NOW, USING IMPROVISED METHODS DUE TO THE SAME LACK OF RESOURCES TODAY IM STARTING TWO: A LES PAUL BODY WITH A STRAT TREM AND A PRS HOLLOWBODY BODY FOR A FRIEND O`MINE. COUPLE OF THINGS I NEED TO KNOW. 1) DRAWBACKS OF A TREM IN A LES PAUL? THINGS THAT I SHOULD REALLY PAY ATTENTION TO WHILE DOING IT? (CONSIDERING I´M A ROOKIE SO FAR) 2) I NEED PLANS OR MEASUREMENTS OF BOTH DESIGNS, ESPECIALLY CAUSE THE ARCHTOPS ARE GIVING ME HEADACHES, SINCE I HAVE A LP AROUND BUT NOT A PRS TO LOOK AT IT! THANKS AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR HELP IN THIS!!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiago Brasil Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hi, im from Brasil. If you do some search on this forum and on the net, you´ll be able to find what you want. I know that on www.guitarbuild.com there´s an outline of a semi-hollowed PRS, wich is the same as the normal. I built a PRS copy and did the carved top looking in every picture of a PRS that I could find on the net, for example on ebay. For the les paul search in the mimf forum - www.mimf.com About the trem on a les paul, you have to be careful that LP bridges are higher than tremolos, hence the neck angle. One alternative would do the carving of the top so that the bridge sits on the same plane of the neck, so virtually there´s no neck angle. Tiago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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