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hey jeremy,

sounds like you got a lot of work to do on this new project. what i want to know is what are you going to do about the shape. it would be interesting to show up on a stage and rock out to a bow tie shaped guitar. hey, if a one of kind piece is what your looking for, sounds like you got it.

Thanks Brian,

That one piece looks like a steal. I have decided that a quarter inch lam. top would make the guitar nicely balanced, you know, give some brightness back. I have tried to balance everything out, so I have a mahogany neck, but with a bright ebony fretboard. And now, I have a mahogany body, but plan to but a maple top of about a quarter inch on it. I know arch tops, like my hamer, has a more than that but I don't want that much on it. The p-90s are all around evenly balanced pickup, so I think this guitar will be about the perfect blend of brightness and warmth. Just what I am looking for. Thanks for you help.

Do you think a maple top would be a good idea also, is too much mahogany a bad thing? I like a warm tones, but too much I read could make a guitar muddy.

Hey, I put up that link to that interesting guitar neck site, trekerguitars.com.

They have that tension free neck, I might give it a try on my next project.

Well, I have heard a lot of suggestions, which I really appreciate, and here is what I came up with. I am going to build this guitar and here is what I am thinking about using. So tell me what you guys think.

Les Paul DC style body carved out of mahogany

Mahogany neck with ebony fretboard

Seymour Duncan custom P-90 pickups

I will finish it transparent red, which will require me to find a good finishing guitar book, but besides that and fixing the nut I should be okay. Basically, I want a multi-purpose guitar, something for blues, classic and hard rock. To me this sounds like the perfect (well as close as you can get to perfect) guitar. Let me know your thoughts on this.

Hey guys, I thought this looked interesting. Something about a new type of neck, it is a tension free neck. The site says something about increased sustain and easier playability. Wonder if it is any good or if anyone has heard about this before. Looks like the headstock comes right off, weird.

www.trekerguitars.com

Thanks for the info Jeremy, I am still not one hundred percent sure on what to do. Those P-100s sound like a good idea though. I really don't know how to wire a push and pull pot unfortunately. Anyone else have any thoughts about good sounding pickups for this guitar?

Well, I am building my first guitar and I am confused on what to do. I carved the body out of swamp ash, and it is in the shape of a LPS. My main concern is that it really isn't a really heavy or dense piece of wood. It only weighs 4 lbs. So I was wondering if humbuckers or P-90s would be better for it. I have a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard, I guess that would factor into the overall sound of this guitar as well. I play alot of blues, classic rock, and sometimes hard rock. What I am looking for is a nice even tone guitar that I can play clean and at times use my RAT for some nice distortion. I have a strat and it is just too shrill sounding, I want to avoid that. I want some warm tones, not just treble.

Some of the pickups I have been looking at are the Seymour Duncan Hot P-90s, they have some high output and I am not sure if my light piece of wood can take it. The only other pickups I have looked at are some Bill Lawrence 500s. I am new to this of course so any help is very much appreciated. Thanks.