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  1. Wow...do they even sell that tremolo system somewhere or does it just come on the guitar?
  2. Ahh, that makes sense. I'm planning to modify the templates to allow me to build this explorer as a neck thru. It seems a little more complicated but I haven't seen a neck thru explorer and I wanted to see how it would play. And to get another opinion from you, I've been reading that when possible I should get quartersawn wood. I'm assuming this is very important for the neck but should I put the same importance for the wings of the body as well?
  3. Well the right combination of woods is a moot point for me haha. I'm planning to make it all mahogany except with an ebony finger board. I'm planning to get the 58 explorer template from guitarbuildingtemplates.com in about a week and I'm going to be calling my wood shop tomorrow to get a price for the wood. Since you have experience with a 1.9" guitar, is it obstructive in anyway? Specifically does it feel like the thickness gets in the way of your hand to any degree? Edit: And when I said tone I think I meant to say sustain. Does sustain get effected with more wood present to vibrate?
  4. Is there a difference in the sound when you add more wood like that? Obviously there's a difference in weight but is the possible increase to the tone and sound worth the increase in weight?
  5. Thanks for the info guitar2005. Stolysmaster: That's very interesting. I thought most guitar bodies, especially gibson, where 1.75" bodies. So now...I have no clue what the thickness of the explorer is haha. Anyone definitively know the answer to this new question?
  6. Does anyone happen to have the dimensions of the Gibson Explorer guitar? If you drew a box around the shape of it, excluding the neck, what would the width and length be? I want to call a hardwoods dealer around me and I need an estimate on the size of wood I'm going to need. I'm assuming that the width of the guitar is 1.75". Also, is there a big difference between Honduran and African Mahogany?
  7. So here's a question I have that I've been wondering for a while. The standard gibson explorer has 22 frets. The last 2 frets are right where the curve to the bottom horn starts which can potentially make it a little more difficult to play those higher notes. It's scale length is also 22 3/4 and I believe it has the standard width frets. My explorer guitar project is far in the future but I want to know this before I start. Is it possible, in building my own neck and guitar, to make an explorer a 24 fret neck where only 1 fret is in that starting curve? I would like it to also be the jumbo sized frets since I have big fingers and it feels more comfortable fitting several of my fingers in the bigger fret space. Is this possible to do at all or do I just have to stick with the 22 fret due to intonation and such?
  8. How does this not matter? If I'm playing at high volume and need to turn my bridge off to talk to the crowd or something and I hit a string, there's no reason why it should make a note. You're saying that it's ok but it's not. It should be completely silent when the bridge is turned off (with neck turned up) and the selector is in the bridge position.
  9. ?? Maybe I wasn't as clear as I thought I was. Of course you can't really notice the bleed through when the pickup selector is on the neck position and you have the neck volume up. I'm hearing bleed through when I have my pickup selector on say the bridge pickup, my bridge pickup volume is turned all the way down, and my neck volume is turned all the way up. I shouldn't hear any sound in this setup but I'm hearing the neck pick up bleed through a little bit.
  10. Yes. When the bridge was turned down and the neck turned up it bled through. Also in reverse, when the neck was turned down and the bridge was turned up it bled through.
  11. I've got an issue with my EMG 81's. I have two and they're active. At first there was some bleed through between the positions of the pickup selector. If I had it in the bridge position with my neck volume turned up and the bridge volume turned down, I'd get a very faint sound. As soon as I turned the neck down it went away. The same thing happened in the reverse of the pickups. I talked to an EMG tech and he had me take pictures and try re soldering but it didn't work. He ended up mailing me a diagram of my setup and a whole new set of wires to connect to the pickups and brand new pots. I followed the instructions but I still got some bleed through as before. When I talked to him again he suggested that I move the hot wire from the middle prong to another prong. Note: For people that don't know about EMG 81's. All the pots have 3 prongs (standard for every pot?). The instructions tell you to bend one of th prongs to touch the pot container and then solder a wire onto that prong. When I did this I was ecstatic that the bleed through was gone...but another problem happened. When I put my pickup selector in the middle position (3 way Gibson style selector) BOTH volumes have to be up for sound to come out of the guitar. This is a little frustrating because I liked having the ability to dynamically shape my sound with as much or as little bridge/neck sound that I wanted. Now I'm kind of locked into a set sound. My setup includes 3 pots. 2 pots for independent volumes of each pickup and 1 pot for a tone that's hidden on the inside of the guitar. It's got a Gibson style 3 way selector switch as well. It's also wired to take advantage of 2 batteries. I can't remember if it was parallel or series at the moment. One way gives it a longer battery life, the other gives it a little more head room. My setup is the one that gives it a little more head room. Any insight into this is appreciated.
  12. Hey guys. I've been a long time browser and decided to start asking questions. What's wrong with Gorilla Glue exactly. I read another post where someone said to not use it when joining wood but didn't clarify why. This post said that it's just a pain in the behind. Is there other reason for why not to use it or is it just too high maintenance to worry about? Edit: I'm curious because I've used Gorilla Glue on a few small house projects and I've never seemed to have a problem with it. Of course, they weren't as extensive or demanding as building a guitar either.
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