Primal
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Personally, I think LPs are coolest.
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Bigsbies are only good for vibrato. Personally, I would go with the TOM.
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LMI fretboards should be plenty wide enough for a 7 string. I'm not sure about scale for a 7 string but they offer a baritone scale which is 27.5". I would think that would work well.
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I think (unless emgs are different) that you don't have to supply power to the pickup itself. The only reason you need power is to boost the pickups signal in the guitar's preamp before it gets sent to the amp. In which case it shouldn't take more power than usual. Correct me if I am wrong.
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Time, patience, and a picky hand in my opinion. While I did use my eyes a lot of the time, I mostly relied on my hand to tell me where I needed to sand or rasp, etc. I find that your hand can pick out many more things than your eye can.
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Shouldn't effect the shielding at all.
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I highly recommend you take a look at the Musical Instrument Makers Forum at www.mimf.com. They were a GREAT asset (and still are) to me when I was wanting to build my first. They even have plans that you can order (Most of them are only $15.00 + shipping). Great forum, great people.
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Problem with my nech-thru guitar
Primal replied to Metalgoth's topic in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat
Floyd Rose bridge? If not you could put on a different nut. -
Go with the ducans!
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Well, it has been awhile but I finally took some more pictures. This time I took them outside. Hope you like them. Again, I apologize for the low quality pictures.
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I used walnut for the neck on my bass (1/4" stripe of maple down the center). Walnut does have pores but since I like the look and feel of wood with pores it doesn't bother me. Not sure about what type of walnut mine is, but I think it is either Black Walnut or Peruvian walnut. Bass can be viewed here.
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Sounds like maybe you wired the pickups out of phase. One coil "should" be black/white and the other blue/red. See if reversing the wires on one coil fixes it.
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Okay, I didn't word that very well. Here it goes again: Instead of creating a device that will sustain a string at a certain pitch (i.e. a field that oscillates at 440 Hz to maintain the note A), create one that will emit "pulses" strong enough to get the string vibrating (or to maintain the vibration of the string). This would keep the device from fighting the vibration of the string when notes are changed. Does this make more sense?
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Why not just replace the input jack?
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Your set screw may be broken as well. feylya is probably right though, the split shaft may have been squeezed together (possibly by over tightening the set screw? )
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I've heard that their bass bridges were nice (although by looking at them I can't really tell why). It looks like a solid brigde but I think I would go with a nice Schaller ( ::drools::)
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Definately use #1. If you do that, then when you clamp the outside edges, the cup will clamp itself so to speak.
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Personally, I would go with the Allied (also the same as the LMII) since it is not as tall as the hotrod.
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Why not build something that, instead of trying to keep a constant signal going, have it "ping" the string?
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Hey hyunsu, have you thought about making any bass guitars? I would LOVE to see a bass built by you. Chris P.S. I LOVE your guitars. Keep up the fantastic work!
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But if you pluck an open string, it will vibrate longer than if you were fingering the note. Anyway, we are both right is some respects. The string doesn't vibrate long because (1) there are no frets which means that your finger will dampen the strings and (2) the strings are shorter, which means that there is less mass vibrating and therefore less energy in the strings. I only mentioned a bow because some people may not be familiar with pizzicato technique. Most people associate violins with the sound that a violin makes when played with a bow. And yes, violin necks are MUCH shorter than guitars. I believe they are somewhere around the 13-14" scale. That reinforces number 2 above about the vibrating mass being less. With a guitar, you will have a longer length of string vibrating so there will be more energy to keep the string vibrating longer.
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A violin's strings are played with a bow which keeps the string vibrating. If you have ever heard pizzicato strings (where they pluck the strings) you would know that the string will not vibrate much at all. Also, violin strings are a bit larger I think.
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Personally, I wouldn't risk having the fretboard replaced. It might be easier (and cheaper) to replace the pickups to get a punchier, bassier tone.
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This really doesn't have much to do with anything, but I have some questions that have been buggin' me. 1. How do you pronounce volute? vol-yoot? 2. How do you pronounce wenge? Seems like I read that it was pronounce wen-gay. If so, how many people pronounce it wenge anyway? There was another question but I can't remember it.
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Skibum: Ya, that was taken right after the initial shaping of the neck. I plan to smooth it out quite a bit. Thanks for the compliments! I just fretted (delicately POUNDED them in; tried to be gentle but they just wouldn't go that way! ) and dressed the frets today. I will try to take some pictures tomorrow. I didn't do a very good job at fretting, but I don't think its that bad for a first try.