kpcrash Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 After reading this thread again, and getting a basic diagram of how to run the circuit for 10 leds, my thought on this is couldn't I route the ground of the LED to the fretwire (yes I realize I'll have to remove/replace it) so that the circuit is grounded through the bridge when the string contacts the fretwire? Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borge Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 cool idea, I hope you don't like elixirs I would fit sockets for the LED's so you don't have to tear out frets to trace faults or replace LED's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reinhold Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Or you could just go the fiber optic route and only have to replace one led in the control cavity in case something ever goes wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marossy Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Or you could just go the fiber optic route and only have to replace one led in the control cavity in case something ever goes wrong. Oh yeah, fiber optics sounds like the way to go to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcrash Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Or you could just go the fiber optic route and only have to replace one led in the control cavity in case something ever goes wrong. Oh yeah, fiber optics sounds like the way to go to me. I have no objections to anything at this point, but how then would I activate the fiber at each fret so that it only lights that fret marker? Think FretLight in reverse, and only using the ten inlay slots existing on a 21 (22) fret neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billm90 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 (edited) After reading this thread again, and getting a basic diagram of how to run the circuit for 10 leds, my thought on this is couldn't I route the ground of the LED to the fretwire (yes I realize I'll have to remove/replace it) so that the circuit is grounded through the bridge when the string contacts the fretwire? Thoughts? Thats how I would do it. Does not mean I am right. Edited June 23, 2010 by billm90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcrash Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Glad to see you're still around Bill Depending on how this works, I may try a variant of Ace's Les Paul, but instead of just having it flash as his does, perhaps having an override that changes light intensity based on pickup output. I know, I know... cheesy, but could be cool as hell to have a "mood" sensitive guitar for stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo009 Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Probably a moronic question, but how would you actually get the fiber optics into the fretboard? A slot on the bottom before you glue it in or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcrash Posted July 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Probably a moronic question, but how would you actually get the fiber optics into the fretboard? A slot on the bottom before you glue it in or something? Or remove the existing one and channel it accordingly. Which is what I'll be doing for the LEDs in this project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo009 Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Probably a moronic question, but how would you actually get the fiber optics into the fretboard? A slot on the bottom before you glue it in or something? Or remove the existing one and channel it accordingly. Which is what I'll be doing for the LEDs in this project. So would need to be a reasonably thick fretboard I'm guessing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcrash Posted July 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Standard 1/4". The routes aren't very big at all. Just enough to absorb the wire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Glad to see you're still around Bill Depending on how this works, I may try a variant of Ace's Les Paul, but instead of just having it flash as his does, perhaps having an override that changes light intensity based on pickup output. I know, I know... cheesy, but could be cool as hell to have a "mood" sensitive guitar for stage. You might want to see if you can find one of those "color organ" electronic kits. Remember those things...the different lights and are triggered by harmonic content...so high notes some lights, low another, chords lots of lights...hahahha I also used to get these cheap pens from the $2 shop here that were mostly a plastic prisim with a tiny circuit that had several modes. I got them because they were cheaper to by than a single blue LED and quite bright. However, if you had fiber optics and bring them all together, you could use such a circuit to mix the colors or sequence through them or flash or the other things this pen would do and run it up the optics. Which reminds me they also sold those fiber optic "hairy lamps" that rotated through the colors...a source of fiber optics perhaps though very thin and the ones my kids bought me a little short! You know, my sustainer guitar has a blue LED in it when the device is on and I always feel a bit silly with my guitar shining like that...but then I don't have the makeup to hide the blush and acne like Ace, perhaps that's my problem... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcrash Posted July 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Ha! Indeed Pete I may just have to play around with that idea a bit. I'm taking my time on this one since it's just for fun. I had actually considered finding/disassembling one of those fibreoptic "trees" that you frequently still see here at flea markets and such. I think perhaps this will come in handy on those times when I'm playing guitar (vs. bass) for a party-type crowd just to be obnoxious more than anything else. Have fun with the drunks as it were Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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