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You don't necessarily need a plunge attachment for your router. You can still use the one you got. Just drill a starting hole for your cavity, insert your router bit and have at 'er.

well the bit that's on it now (I borrowed it) is about 3/4" thick, so I cant pre-drill holes for it or anything, its not long at all, its short and wide, wrong type for pickup routing I believe.

cool thanks guys.....that website helped a lot, gonna go get a bit tomorrow and then start routing after practice

Would you guys steer me away from a floating tremolo bridge for my first guitar? Just because if I made a crappy neck it'll wreck my whole guitar etc? Any thoughts or ideas? I really do want a floyd rose floating tremolo guitar, but it's not like if I don't make one im gonna go buy one. I can always do it for a second guitar etc.

I have a "router", it's a Black and Decker, it looks just like the router used in Melvyn Hiscock's book. I need to route my pickup cavities and tremolo area, but I heard I need a "plunge" router from some Hardware store Genious, I went in looking for a router bit that would suit my needs and he said routers are for going along edgers, and a normal router (where you loosen the nut and then move the unit up or down) won't do depth into wood like pickup cavities.....which is what I have(normal one)

I'm out practicing on my two-by-four now, but now im starting to use the drill and chisel's more because Im nervous with the router. any help please.

Id like to see the plans or hear more about it in detail.

email: weezer_ocks@hotmail.com

alright thanks you two and ill try searching (although I hate searching forums)

Was watching Vai's Astoria DVD and saw his inlays on his JEM are blue neon lights, could I do this? Where exactly would you get the small neon lights?

And is it fiber optics or what? Stupid question, but can someone kind of explain "fiber-optic(s)" to me? I know how to use it but im not 100% on the definition of it, Thanks

right here man is best pot.."NOW GIVE ME MY MONEY SON,OR ITS ON LIKE DONKEY KONG..."oh you me pots like vol knobs and stuff i dont know good luck...

uhm....wow thanks....

another question, push/pull pots? is this similar to a blend knob?

kind of like prs' push pull pot that gives you a strat or LP sound?

i need some help, I want the best pots I can get, so i have a couple questions. The only 3 sites I know are stewmac, warmoth, and universal jems, so lemme know if theres some others I should check out for pots.

1.) What's the different between 500/250K pots? which is better?

2.) Brands of pots?

3.) Whats the fender/gibson of pots, etc.

I just ordered the Single Coil and Humbucker routing templates from stewmac.............erm quesiton, dont the control cavities go all the way through like on my Gibson LP? isnt that what the plates are for behind...

everything on my guitar is going to be standard. standard vintage tremolo, ill look into pots so I can get some good measurements now.

My body is cut out, its two pieces of mahagony, glued nicely together and bandsawed out, it's an Ibanez Jem shape. (When I got it back from being bandsawed, I actually forgot it had been two pieces glued together, that's how good they did at their glueing job )

Anyways I'm renting a router for 8 or 24hours, not sure yet, it's about 20bucks. Im not sure if I should just do the pickup cavities, or should I do the knob cavities too? All the body cavities at once or what?

question # 2 is, I don't want a pickguard, so im routing through the whole body, I know I will need a routing jig, is there any longer attachment I'm going to need to get through the whole body? Its about 1 3/4"

thanks for any help, comments, tips before I route etc

wait do you laminate wood and THEN cut the neck out or cut the neck out thin and then laminate pieces on top of that etc and then fretboard ?

wait if you're just painting your guitar with a solid color you dont have to sand it a bunch?

Well I looked in my book but theres not a bunch of help on truss rods...so a couple questions

What would the best kind of truss rod be for a maple/rosewood fretboard neck. It's a bolt on...

Most importantly though I believe the tool used is a router? or a small router...so how exactly would i do this. I would cut my neck out of the maple block.....then rout the truss rod valley (valley...holy bad word choice ) anyways, would i then insert the truss rod, and THEN glue the fretboard ontop? how exactly does the process go?

thanks so much

that'd be great, thanks a lot.

Hey. I know next to nothing about the actual wood, and how to craft the wood, of guitars. I knwo a pretty good deal about the parts, specs, that sort of stuff. But I can't tell one tool from the next. Are there any books you guys could reccomend? Thanks.

And also, things like glueing wood together, sanding, making fretboards, everything. im clueless

I love the book i got, "make your own electric guitar" by melvyn hiscock, he goes in depth in every aspect of making your electric guitar, tools you'll need, woods, fretting, electronics and wiring, inlays, pickups, bridges. He even goes step by step through building three different types of guitars that he built, this book has lots of pictures and is very easy to read fast. It's about 200pages and cost me 25$, get it, it will be worth it.

ok someone gave me the site www.alliedluthiere.com for Brazilian rosewood (which is what my fretboard is going to be. And my body is mahagony, and my neck/headstock is maple) Im not sure how to order it...

http://www.alliedlutherie.com/other_fingerboards.htm

that gives you the ordering list, if you dont want to goto the link the different choices are:

Vintage look - straight - tight grain (which is what i'd think i would get)

standard AAA-quartered, 21"x3"

standard AA, 21"x3"

and a couple others

I'd assume i get the Vintage look, tight grain but it doesnt have dimensions, do you guys think its 21"x3" also?

PS

For pickups Im going for S/H not S/S/H because I dont intend to use a middle pickup. I was going to get a Seymour Duncan Quarter Flat Single Coil and a DiMarzio Breed, Evolution, or FRED Humbucker