erikbojerik Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Okay, I'm looking up hardwood and softwoods and came up with BALSA wood as a hardwood. I don't think that that classification really has anything to do with it's use for the body of a guitar. The article I quoted is about weight of the wood effecting tone. I guess hard and soft statements by me should be looked at from a weight perspective, since I misinterpreted what hard and softwood meant. Hardwood for hard rock, softwood for soft rock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaData Posted June 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 According to my reading, it's the other way around... for the body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaData Posted July 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Here's a small update to the Photoshop design as I'm closing in on some sources for wood... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaData Posted September 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 I'd just like to update everyone here that I have the Butternut for the body. I'll have to piece it together... Butternut is apparently more rare than Ebony because of a disease that effects the trees. Anyway, I'm just narrowing down where to purchase the Ebony fingerboard from and I should be able to get the rest of the materials easily. If you have suggestions on sources for Ebony, I'm interested, but I may have to just pick and choose a place soon. Spending a month on pricing and purchasing each type of wood wasn't the plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikbojerik Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 StewMac for ebony boards; you can get them pre-slotted or blank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Wow, The plyboard cutout almost looks like a Jag-Stang! Wierd. Cant wait to see the finished product! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaData Posted October 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 It's been about a month since my last post. I bought the Black Walnut today. I'm creeping along slow and steady. I was hoping to use an alternative to Stewart-MacDonald for the Ebony Fingerboards... it may be easier to use them though. Some of these cheaper places just aren't very helpful or friendly. While I'm looking into that, does anyone have opinions on the best options for the transfer of my computer graphics onto the body/headstock? Should I use decals, handpaint the details with acrylics, or do something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaData Posted October 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 More slow than steady now. It's been a full year! I did go to Fiji to get married, among other things. Many life altering changes in the last year. Anywho, in keeping with the topic at hand, I finally broke down and ordered some fingerboards from Stewart McDonald. Body boards have been glued together and... in all this time, no one had any opinions on how I should transfer the graphics to the headstock, or body? Wow! How about advise on how to do the inlays? What tools should I use and what are some common mistakes to avoid? This is my first guitar project, after all. Updates for this, and other art projects, are listed in my profile on http://MegaData.gfxartist.com Before I forget, aren't there some kind of tuners that I can set in the body? I want volume and tone settings I can spin like a track-ball. Know what I mean? I think I've seen them on a guitar before, but I don't know where to get something like that. I'd really like to know, if anyone can point me in the right direction. I do have barrel knobs for this project, but there's enough wood for two guitar bodies. And that's how it starts. One idea grows into another... that's how I get overloaded with projects. Too many ideas to implement them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaData Posted October 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Okay, the "track-ball" knobs set in the body, which I referenced in my last post, appear to be on Maverick Electric Guitars which has been discussed, with no great detail, on Project Guitar Forums in thisThumbwheel Knobs thread. There are no technical plans on how to do this? It's just regular potentiometers mounted sideways with a larger barrel? Man... that'd be a headache just to wire them, let alone making a cavity for them to live in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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