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I think it's great. I didn't notice any trouble with the delay on the rythm guitar - did you re-mix it?

Keep at it - you have got talent and potential.

P.S. - since I'm an old man by this site's standards - is that style of music fairly popular with the younger crowd or is it still considered "alternative"? It doesn't matter at all - just curious.

Not at all, in fact (From what i've heard, this style is fairly original)

I don't hear much else like it unless is small key stuff...

The music I like:

DMB, Mudvayne, 30 Seconds to Mars, Before Braille, Blue Man Group, Smashing Pumkpins....this list goes on but be sure that none of it sounds anything like this particular spectrum of my writing...

Thank you all for whatever comments you've had!

it looks to be a killer bass...I can't wait man, congrats early on your good work and quick progress!

Glad you decided to go with that shape.

Just wondering if the mahogany would be a non issue being it would just be wings glued on to the neck. The neck would produce most (if not all) of the tone being it is a neck through. Again I'm just wondering.

Although it seems logical (the strings are not connected directly to the mahongany) i don't think that is a correct assumption.

Given that the wings are properly jointed and glued, the vibrations would transfer from the bridge to the body the same as it would if they were a single piece of wood.

I'm sure wood density, weight, (and maybe porousness) in the wings have their effects on the vibrations of the wood. An instrument with no wings would surely sound less whole than one with wings?

Saying the wings have no effect on the tone would be similar to this scenario:

Say you have a neck 5 pc, maple, ebony, bubinga, walnut, mahogany

The neck would no doubt produce a distinct tone, but it is highly unlikely (has anyone tried this?) that playing your b and e strings produce a completely different sonic sound than the a and d strings just because they above a different sort of wood.

I could be way wrong, I'm just trying to be logical...

I have no experience with heat damaged guitars, just to start off.

The binding shouldn't be too hard to replace. You would just need to reroute the channel that the binding fits in, get new binding, bend (if needed) and glue it in.

As far as the finish goes, you'd be fine to just sand through the lacquer and refinish.

How is the wood of the guitar? Is the blistering you mentioned in the actual wood? Is the action OK? It plays alright?

IF you see nothing wrong with the actual construction and stability of the instrument, I don't think that you'll have any kind of problem on your hands, a quick refinish and a binding job.

I would still recommend taking it to a local guitar shop and have them do a setup and intonation on it whenst you're finished, just to be sure everything is still good and proper.

Other than that...it's a Martin eh? Not a bad deal...seems they go for about $250 to $400 on the 'bay.

I recorded this a couple months back, cuz I wanted to see how it would turn out. All instruments and parts are played and sung and written by me.

It definately has its flaws, let me know what you think though, all open opinions. (Negative, too)...

...and yes, I do suck at the drums.

Right Click - Save As...or Just Click, both should work "Detritus"

I'm also surprised they don't do an extra-exotic compound radius for the PRS fretboards.

um....PRS boards have a 10" radius all the way down...

I've done it several times, and its not a huge problem. It does make it a little more difficult as there is no support for the router when you get out over the edge, but yes, it can be done. How much for...? the body that is?

I like the revised shapes MUCH better.

The "ALTERNATIVE" is my personal favorite, however, i do very much like the (swung?) look of the lower body contour on the revised version. If you could somehow find a happy median between those two...

the "ALTERNATIVE" reminds me VERY much of the Plume Singlecuts found at JPBasses.com, but then again, most singlecut basses look the same.

Keep up the good work bro, I honestly can't wait to see what you end up with for a budy cut out on the pretty spalt...

that neck...me want......ahhhh......you dog, you.

The woods and layout look great!

I very much dislike the lower horn, however, thats just my opinion. Like others, can't wait for updates!

I voted for 2. It looks the best, though the horn formage looks much like the PRS singlecuts....(don't get sued!)

If i were to build one, I would go with #2...but I probably wouldn't build one. Not entirely original enough for me...

But then did you just tell us? How confusing....

AH, ITS A DEAD HEAT! Only HOURS remaining! Who will break the tie....?

is that ANOTHER guitar hanging in the background....

I was planning on voting for Matt's bass since he started building it, I'm just a huge sucker for hollowbodies....and Morben's is just gorgeous.

GOOD JOB ANYWAY MATT!

After doing some looking, I'm pretty sure that these tuners are NOT actually vintage, but the "vintage" look tuners. They are not stamped with Kluson or any other likeness, so I suppose I can just be happy I got a $5 set of tuners...

What are Kluson Deluxe...?

Long quote from Drak.....

Yeah I believe this looks about like the 2nd attempt. I have some nice veneer I'd like to try, and as this guitar is not mine (AHHH!) I do want it to be very nice when I return it.....

Also, haha, in English class I always turn in the first draft, and its always perfect....

I suppose I'm not quite as good at guitars as I am at doing my native language....

ive been looking everywhere for some PRS project parts!! ARGHHH CANT FIND ANY

Where have you been looking? PRS sells a lot of their stuff right out of production. The guitar that I've got here came with chrome no name tuners, the Korean trem, etc. The guy that owns it bought the PRS locking tuners ($120) and you can buy any pickup that PRS makes right off their website....

The Korean trem is not that much different than the american (I was comparing the two last night and did not really notice very many differences....)

yeah, on wednesday most likely. I'll have to sand through what i've done

JAMES! I was wondering when you were gonna sign up for this. Welcome my lawyer friend...

haha you might get paul smith in your basement, screaming at you about covering up his beautiful flame maple...

but then he would calm down and ask you what kind of borax you were using...

I have this beautiful flamed maple veneer, but its very wavy...

How will I go about flattening it? Water and an iron?

Help!

Actually, for those of you who said i should veneer it, I was already planning on doing this. Kirk found a pile of about 5A flame veneers in his basement...The longer the guitar sits, the uglier i feel its presence....

i should have that ready for a reshow by wednesday..

i'm not gonna sell as of now.

Most of it i can really make use of.

Matt i'll try to get some pics of the vintage onese sometime this week. You can verify that they are real for me . I'm sure it would be ideal if i said they came off a 60's strat, but i really have no clue. The guy did say they came off a strat, though.

its a korean PRS, a santana SE

Note the no carved top. I plan on doing some touch up on the finish a little. I agree with the whole too much white thing.

I will probably just scrap the whole thing however, the "marble" finish was actually just an accident, but i thought i'd try it to see what kinda response it got...

BLS....PRS has only 1 model thats a bolt on. The rest are s/n. The bolt on is the CE series, 22 and 24.

yeah, its kind of a experimental thing....kinda supposed to look "Grunge" if you will. Doesn't look as disjaunted in life i suppose...