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Hey its no problem. Thanks for the advice. Im going to talk it through with the builder of my guitar to see how much he recommends I do myself. I plan to have a one piece mahogany body. How do you do the little holes between the pickup cavity and the control cavity. My control cavity will be rear routed, picup cavities front routed but the holes connecting the two are right through the middle on my current guitar. So i'm not sure how he did them. Ok, yeah waiting for the pieces seems like a sensible idea. Im going to carefully plan it anyway. I want it to be as close to perfect as possible, I want a very playable guitar at the end of it.

Hi guys, I've been away from these forums for months. Had to take a long break. Don't know if many of you remember me. Anyway, I had a custom guitar made for me a year back and i'm planning on not doing my own project based on my custom I had made. Basically, I will have the same neck made, and I would like to make the body myself. What do you guys think is the easiest wat for me to get all the measurements right for the neck pocket, pickups and bridge (which was a gibson style tune-o-matic)? The body is my own design, but all I really need to do is to get the measurements for bridge, pickups and neck pocket correct since they are what is really important. If I decide to go ahead with it then I will be able to use tools here at uni to work on it with so it shouldnt cost me a lot. Cheers for any help.

Jesus christ havent been on this forum (or any of the other ones im a member of) for ages. Took a big break due to college work loads becoming stupidly high. Good too see all the hard work and enthusiasm is still in you guys. Its all incredible stuff.

I was under the impression most guitarists WOULD actually pay the extra for a valve amp over solid state.

Whats happening to your internet connection? The austrailian government aren't taking you away are they due to threats to national security with your crazy devices . Anyway, good stuff psw, keep it up, i'm still watching and reading this thread.

Can I aska question to you guys. How come valve amps are so expensive. From prices i've seen, it certainly isn't the valves/tubes that push the cost right up. What the hell is the deal with it?

psw, every thought you have is a mile long straight line, you're not thinking in circles. You've inspired so many people throughout this project (myself included) so even if this sustainer of yours implodes tomorrow, you've already had a massive sucess. Everyone throughout this thread has been captivated by you're stories, progress, reports etc, and look, you've now got two guys who want to do something that isn't out there on the market yet. Good luck to those two guys who want to try a bass sustainer and a seven string sustainer, I don't know whether it would be as simple as just adding a bit more to a sustain to account for the 7th string, but i'm sure we'd all be interested in reading your progress with this, as we have been doing with psw's progress. Good luck to you all!!!

Lol, don't mention Wix hehe. He's full of arrogance so you wont get anything out of him even if he spoke all languages in the world fluently. I think his head is three times up his own ass, but thats another story. Nice work psw, can't wait to see what this thing sounds like once the circuit has had a bit of the old LK magic on it. Since there is talk from you now about going onto something else. I still think it would be beneficial to you to finish this project first, but the main point is that I just want to wish you luck with any future projects and hope I can play any kind of part in future projects. It's been a pleasure following this through the development, its been real fun and i would guess i've learned something from it too. Cheers psw for the sustainer and much more!!!!!

Wow, ace thread. Cheers for the recommended equipment.

****ING FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well done psw, ace sound clips, although I do kind of agree with the criticisms of the distortion. But the very fact that you have it working and producing those sounds means you deserve an incredible round of applause (sustained by the device indefinately ).

Hi guys, rather than start a new thread, i thought i'd just as my tone pot related question in this thread, by apologise if it seems like i'm hijacking the thread. I have a Fuzz Factory built into my guitar, my guitar has mater vol and tone, and two fuzz factory pots. Now, I dont ever use my tone knob, I just have it on 10 all the time like most people do, how would I wire up the guitar so the tone was in the guitar cavity, no pot, so i could replace that space with a third fuzz factory control? thanks.

Hey, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WELL DONE PSW . LETS CELEBRATE. I can't wait for the sound clips, its all comming together. YAY. I read that post by Mr Coffee and was very pleased with what I read. It's nice to see some skeptecism, i class myself as having a skeptical mind, but I had faith in psw's project. As for Wix. I'm not as patient as our good friend psw here. Despite you having a picture (only i might add) of a sustainer. You're still, in my opinion, an arrogant little twat who tends to contradict himself 9 times out of 10. I agree with psw, if you know all about psw's sustainer, then tell us, come on, let us know. I'd also like to know how YOURS sounds, so come on, exlain your system and psw's system which you know so much about. Your a waste of bloody time.

I agree with you completely psw. And yes, this is fascinating. Good job!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, nice stuff. Well done for getting the op-amp stuff!!! No, i dont think you should throw more complications into the loop by adding two drivers per string. Keep to what was planned, you'll have more success. the circuitry might need to change if you changed the driver. Keep up the good work

Wow, excellent progress psw. By the way, I can wait to see if the thing definately needs to be played using string dampening techniques. It's just that personally, I wouldn't want to use a sustainer that could only work while string dampening. Although I can still guess it sounds awsome, and i'd be tempted. Excellent progress anyway, you are getting there bit by bit. Thats a good thing, you cant expect something like this to materialise overnight. you're making efficient progress and its nice to see a drier that small now, that really is an improvement over anything else on the market. Even if this thing never gets off the ground, you've still acheived such an amazing product that you can feel proud of yourself for the rest of your days. That thing is probably years ahead of anything currently under development. So even though there is no finished working product yet, let me say: CONGRATULATIONS PSW!!!!! Keep up the hard work, it will pay off in the very near future. I can see it on the horizon already

Probably, microfarads is what uf stands for. That is the universal standard for showing microfarads. But I guess mf is the same. Tell small bear to start using the standard and not confuse people.

Cool, cheers. Yes they are 1280 x 800 WXGA Widescreen TFT's. The Tiny goes to 1280 x 800 and the ASUS 1400 x 900 I think.

Wow, cool stuff guys. First of all thanks for the responses to my previous post guys. The progress is comming on fast. About the ability to move the knob from behind the bridge when string dampening, I don't think it will be at all possible in a practical situation. A question about that though, is there any way you can get away without dampening the strings while using this sustainer. Because ultimately, that would be a big selling point for me and no doubt others.

What about screen resolutions suitable for Cubase, Sonar, etc? Is 1280 x 800 too small?

Hi guys, one quick last question. In my research I found out that screen resolution and graphics would be important when using a sequencer software. Would 64MB be enough for graphics (ATI or NVIDIA) or would 128MB be needed? As for screen resolution, would 1280 x 800 WXGA do or would you need something higher (I am also assuming that 15.4" is what would need too, or of course higher)?

Hi psw. First of all i'll start off by saying i didn't understand those posts about the transducer driver thing and about vibrating the entire guitar. I didnt understand much of it at all, plus that DIY site wasnt very helpful to me, i didn't see anything clear that you could build yourself . That box by Tim is cool (the Les Paul one). However, it wont work. There is no way you can control the knob from behind the tailpiece, which is itself a few inches behind the bridge. The box would HAVE to go over the top of the tailpiece just behind the bridge. About the touchpad idea, well this is something I feel could work. You stick it wherever you want on the guitar, and you push the little switches depending on the power of sustain you want, have i understood that correctly? As for it being remote control, I really dont think you should be going there. You're going to be making it far more complex, why not just connected by wires? I think it may be a good idea to scrap the LED idea for now, its taking up too much time and thought and would take up too much battery power. I'd concentrate on getting it to all work in a finished product casing.

Ok, thats an amazing graphic there emre. It looks great, just have to see if it would be practical with the circuitry and battery etc. Psw, I think when asking people about the external vs internal issue, you may be going about it in the wrong way. Neither one will win over the other because there is always going to be some people on either side of the fence. What you need to do is to be able to sort out a product for both these situations. The external fans and the internal fans. Then there isnt an excuse for people to get one .

Cool stuff psw. So is it just the circuitry that you have to master before this thing is finished (in terms of the working product, not in terms of packaging etc).?

As far as I know, the Les pauls toggle switches are only in SPDT format.

Wow, excellent stuff! Well, good to see you back psw. I think the modular idea of adding effects onto this thing etc, is a great idea, it certainly could be a good thing in the selling side of things too. But just in terms of actually building it and with practicality, it is still very cool sounding. Nice to see you've sorted out and finalised some things while you've been away. I think it shows that if you take a break from something, but still give an hour or so independent thinking, you can clear up any confusion in your head and completely focus and get results. Basically, welcome back and good luck with what i'm sure are the final stages of this project. Are these parts you've ordered in to re-make the driver just so you can make a better model, or is this for the new devious way of magnetically moving the strings?