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Hey, I like that LTD!!

Nice lookin guitars everyone, but, wheres everyones beater? i know someone on here has a really beat up guitar they play alot, heres mine, i let it to my friend so she can learn on it until she gets her own.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/cur...s/NewStereo.jpg

Its the acoustic, i will one day sand it all down and refinish it, but i have to mend the to HUGE cracks in the back

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make that another vote for Jehle.

If he declines, my vote goes to Matt Vinson

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^^ i think thats a good one, except, your payin for materials, but, dont let me rain on your parade

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Yea, the Washburn is gone, now i got this Explorer copy!

Now, if only i can get the seymour duncan pickups i put in it to work!!

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not wood, or even guitar related, but i had once was given a 1984 ATC110 3 wheeler, ran ok, smoked bad, and needed 3 tires, i had it given to me because the owner (neighbour) said it just quit on him one day and it never started up again. Cleaned the carb, fresh gas, had it goin in 4 pulls

sold that bike for about 250 bucks (maybe it was only 200?)

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ok, tommorow night i will hook in a ground wire

Thanks

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ok, this is confusin me alot, i will say it in the best way i know how.

I took the pickguard off, there was about 4 wires, 1 yellow for the neck pickup, it went to the neck volume knob, there was a red wire coming from the bridge pickup, it went to the bridge volume knob, i am assuming that they both were fused together later towards the jack at the tone knob to change the tone, and then it went to the jack, the other wires were for the 3 way selector.

There was only 1 wire coming from the pickups, no ground wire, no nothing, they were not grounded to anything, i found that strange...

I really dont want to put my old ones back in, they sounded like poop, and i dont want to take it to a tech guy, he will make me pay alot...

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no no no. There is one wire coming from the pickup, i spliced the wires together from the old pickups.

Starting at the neck pickup:

I removed the pickguard and pickup ring, there was a yellow wire comming from the pickup, it went from the pickup to the pots and then the jack. I cut the pick up wire and spliced in the new pickup wire (this pickup wire was sheilded, the other one wasnt) and put the pickup back into the rout.

I did the very same to the bridge, only it was a red wire instead of a yellow one, the pickup wire on the new one (the seymour duncan) was sheilded, the stock pickup was not.

I think i have to ground the pickup wire too, to like, the bridge, or the jack, i do not know

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i can go to the 3 way switch, and move it back and forth, and it will switch between the pickups, but, no hum, no static, nothing, it just, it sounds like a grounding problem to me, but i dont know if they have to be grounded, or how to ground them, there was only one wire that came off the pickup and it was sheilded wire

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OK, i just put my Seymour Duncan 59's into my explorer, all i did was splice the wires together, the SD's where sheilded wire, the old ones where not, do i have to ground the sheilded wire? If so, how?

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Scott,

Just close this thread, I have found a used DOD equalizer, if i dont get it, i will be getting something else, my music store has a bunch of them

Thanks

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ok, well, i will put that statement on the back burner for a while, and wait till i see it cleared and buffed

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no, your bashing fed ex, and how they ship their guitars, its not harsh at all, in my eyes at least.

Thats a pretty nifty lookin git box there, i am sure it would look good hanging on a wall in a museum, or, look good hanging on the wall in my room

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About, 3 threads up

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i think its the picture to be honest

Its lookin killer bro

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this is only helpful critisism, it is not meant as a bash or anything. I think you should sand it all down and do it again, the back looks awfull (to me anyways) And it really looks like an ameature job. Not saying i could do better or anything, because frankly, i have never tried yet.

Thats just my 0.00002 cents

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well, looks like no one has got one for sale, thats ok, i will find one at a music store

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cool beans, will be using that site a bit...

Thanks!

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i thought you were going to be smart and show us a regular flying vee design, only with the controls on the opposite side, lol

Nice project, makes me wish i didnt botch mine

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Hi,

I am looking for a 10 band equalizer, preferably MXR, but will concider anything else, I have to offer an Digitech RP50 to trade with cash if needed..

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wow, that looks really good!

Any pics of the back? did you use the same finish on the oak as you did the maple?

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at what IDCH what saying....

If you have a well set up guitar with a GOOD trem in it, locking nut, you could simply let the strings go slack, swap out your pups, and bam, your in action

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i would like it, if it was, instead of the curves, if they were points, that could be cool too!!

But, in all seriousness, it is really cool design, i dig it

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loose the hooks, make the neck a bit beefier to match the body (it really is too thin on that mock up) and You will have a winner

Where can I order??

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A few people on here have made all maple guitars, Cherry is not as bright as maple, but has a similar characteristis to it.

My first guitar i made had a cherry body, maple neck and oak fingerboard (dont ask me why i used oak, but i did)

In my opinion, even though i butched up the scale length, it wasnt overly bright, it just sounded like crap.

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