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Thanks for the advice guys! But yes I think I understand scale length and how it applies to the guitar's dimensions etc. The 25.5" scale i'm using means nut to saddles is 637.5 mm and nut to 24th fret is 485.77 mm, pretty positive about that. I wanted the nut to the end of the fretboard length just to make the designs loyal to the original jem in finding the length of the little fret overhang thing at the end (does it have a name)?

Anyway, I made a neck out of some fine carpentry wood (forgot the name), just to test if my methods were ok; in a day i produced the base of the neck (without the fretboard), and a neck slot to test if my aanj joint looks ok... It came out exactly how i wanted it

Will be ordering some maple soon to start work on the real neck! On the subject of neck, i'm thinking backlit vine inlays, but I need somebody elses opinion...

Thanks for those! You learn something new every day (0.5 degree neck angle)!

I think i've figured out 1. at 494.86mm long... Can anyone verify this?

Also, i'll pass on the rg7 plans, but thanks anyway. I managed to cobble together an annj blueprint based on the original model, and based of these measurements from the body tutorial on the main page:

I was just curious if you had any good local guitar shops. I know when making my own RG template I went down and got all the specs and actually the guys were really cool and let me carefully trace a floor model, which was a great help. While this RG had a regular neck joint, I played with the area until it felt the same as the aanj models. Even, if you have a store, they might not have any Jems, but it might be worth a try or at least a call. Just helping ya brainstorm as I went through the same thoughts when I first started looking into building. I wanted nothing more than to build either a jem or rg and for some reason now I have no desire, I much rather make up my own design, whether if it does look like another guitar or not, just as long as I like every aspect of it. In that sense if I do an RG or Jem shape it would more likely have specs that suit me and not the orginal. Anyhow, I wish you the best of luck in finding what you want and hope to see it all built and finished on here. J

Thanks, i'll definately phone around some guitar shops today! And I'm probably not going to completely immitate a jem, I want something unique. Unique inlays, unique paint, unique pickup arrangement, etc etc. This is definately a Custom Jem

For inlays i'm thinking something lit with LED's (maybe light up tree of life, im sure nobody has done that before )

For paint, maybe a swirl, maybe a custom paintjob, but I'd like to base the colours around the white and gold of the jem7v

Pickup arrangement maybe evo on the bridge, something warmer in the middle and a sustainer on the neck.

It's all in my head at the moment but it's hard to decide exactly what I want first

Awwwwww....

Help the guy out!

Theres one in the download section if you donate to the project guitar site.

S

Oooh! With the neck aswell?

Ok, I've come to the realisation i'm not going to get one as easy as I first thought!

I need one last thing of you guys...

To get me started on recreating the original jem plans into aanj ones (which I will post on here for you guys), I need these dimensions if anyone wouldnt mind please

1. Distance from end of fretboard to start of nut

2. Distance from the end of the fretboard to where strings first touch the trem

3. Height of fingerboard

4. Height of main neck peice at the body

5. Depth of where neck fits into the body

Thanks alot guys

Did you know that by donating $58 (plus shipping) to GuitarBuildingTemplates.com you can have your very own set of Jem templates? Not just paper blueprints, mind you, but hard templates that are yours to have and hold forever and ever amen.

http://www.guitarbuildingtemplates.com/777.htm

Now, before you get all "thanks but I said blueprints, you (insert epithet here), and I don't have $58 (plus shipping) anyway, so just answer my question," let me just say this:

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks for the welcome, but I said blueprints you ****. No but seriously, shipping to the UK for those templates is as much as the templates themselves ! (and the neck isn't great)

I've been scouring these and other forums for months now, looking for a blueprint of the ibanez jem with annj (all access neck joint, which is the curved join not the square one), and come to the conclusion that such a blueprint doesnt even exist! I've found the non aanj blueprint, but I don't think it will be of any use too me. Also, a blueprint of the neck for the aanj ibanez jem would be something special!

What I would like to ask, to all donating members, is if there is a blueprint of the aanj ibanez jem body AND neck in the donators section of the forum?

Also, after looking through many forums (here and elsewhere) for these, i've noticed that there are hundreds of topics regarding the aanj jem blueprints, and i'm sure there would be a sudden spike in donators if both body and neck (aanj is the keyword here) blueprints were put into the donators section.

On the topic of the donators forum, I think somewhere in this forum should be a sticky outlining what there is up for download, to entice more people (like me) to donate, for the blueprints.

Thanks in advance!

Tom