Alexander Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Good news - another clueless newbie! I'm in England (Yorkshire to be precise) about to embark upon my first project guitar as soon as Royal Mail see their way to delivering my bits and bobs. So yeah, hello. Quote Link to comment
GregP Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Welcome to the forum. Quote Link to comment
themikestro Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Greetings from a fellow Yorkshireman! May all your guitar making be blessed with success.... may I ask what you are building and from what? If you haven't already ordered all your kit i'd recommend craft supplies and highlystrung.co.uk as good places to start. But I guess you probably already know that. Quote Link to comment
Alexander Posted June 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Thanks chaps, yeah I've discovered highlystrung and axesrus for some more bits, the rest is coming from good old ebay! I've got two guitars in the pipeline. First is going to be a pretty standard stratalike, with a nice hot kent armstrong pickup (one humbucker in the bridge, nothing else). For this I've got hold of a cheapie strat copy body and a generic neck (I'm no where near good enough to start doing any woodword, I'm afraid), so I'm basically building a frankenguitar just to get the hang of the electronics, and what have you. I also have a swamp ash soloist body and a 13 degree angled headstock neck ordered from warmoth, and that's going to be a real beast - I have that all planned out on paper. The idea being, the stratalike is going to be my "stunt guitar" upon which I can make lots of newbie mistakes, and then by that time I might be in a position to make a really nice instrument out of the warmoth pieces. Eek! Quote Link to comment
Hotrock Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Greetings from Leicester Welcome to the forum and try not to spill bread and dripping on your new project Quote Link to comment
CodFather Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 welcome Alexander and i hope you enjoy your stay here btw Hotrock, is it possible to spill bread? Quote Link to comment
Sacred Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Welcome, hope you enjoy it here Quote Link to comment
skibum5545 Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 I haven't heard anyone say bits and bobs for a long time!! You just made my day. I'm American (Michigan to be precise), and it's not fair. You english chaps 'cross the pond get all the girls... Quote Link to comment
dcamp67 Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 skibum, They may get them all, but do they REALLY know what to do with them..... Quote Link to comment
Brian Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Welcome to the forum Alexander Quote Link to comment
Alexander Posted June 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Wow, nice friendly place here. It's not the bread and dripping you have to worry about in Yorkshire, it's making sure you don't get whippet hairs in your finish. Got some more bits today.... quite exciting, but rather daunting. I'm always reading about how other people build guitars, pitfalls they've encountered etc. and sometimes I think "Well, this can't be that hard, loads of people do it" and other times I think "crap, I've got no chance here - I can't even sand straight!". My philosophy is to give it my best shot and if at first I don't succeed, try try again... Quote Link to comment
Hotrock Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Wow, nice friendly place here. It's not the bread and dripping you have to worry about in Yorkshire, it's making sure you don't get whippet hairs in your finish. Don't worry, you'll be able to sand strainght by the time you're done. You need to get yourself a big level bit of wood I use a big old plane with the blade removed. Have fun Quote Link to comment
fizzy_elephant Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 Greetings from Durham. South Durham to be precise - Barnard Castle. So many people from the same areas. Small world innit? Quote Link to comment
Alexander Posted June 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 Howdy! Yes indeed it is - all these millions of people on the 'net and you still end up talking to your next door neighbour. Quote Link to comment
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