syndromet

Well, here I am, still planing my tohanded tapping guitar. I've now decided on the design and set up, witch will be a reverse Rickenbacker bass design. The drawing is just to give you an idea of what it would look like, and was drawn in 3 minnutes. Now I'm realy wondering where to put the knobs and switces. I have figured I want seperate volume and tone controls for each pickup, so I have desided to go for the stacked knobs with wolume and tone in one knob. I also want a GIbson-style 3-way switch for the lower part of the guitar and a switch wich givs me the oppertunity to shut of all signals from the upper guitar without touchin the volume. In addition to this I need a switch wich lets me choose if I will seperate the two signals to two diffrent outputs, or blend both signals to one input. This means there will be three knobs, a 3-way switch and two on/off switches. I'm now wondering where to put it all without anything being in the way of the rest, and eas hoping you guys could help me figure it out. I'm also thankfull for inpus on design and specs.

Progrock.... Specialy the Canterburry scene. Love bands like Egg, Kahn and Caravan. I'm also into Classic rock and Metal. To check out my noise-prog project, listen to Mesopotamian prophet or Native noises This music is not for everybody, though. All music made with guitar and samples. Sounds realy dull but is realy complex.

I'm now planning my first real project, and I have figured I want to build a two handed tapping guitar. The guitar will be somewhat simular to the Michael Bianco two handed guitar(Michael Bianco guitar), witch means it will have 14 strings and two necks. I am still unsure weather i will build the two necks as two seperate or one broad neck. It will be a 26 fret neck, sort of a barriton, so that i can dampen the strings at the second fret and still have the whole tonal range of a normal guitar. I am planning it to be a neckthrough, slightly broader than two seven string necks, so that there will be a gap betwin the two sets of strings. I am thinking of a Maple-cherry-maple-cherry-maple laminate with two trus rods and carbon rods for adding strenght. Since this is my first project I was wondering if anyone has any ideas, do's or dont's, so I wont f*** up the entire project. Since I live in Norway, and wood is quite expensive here, I can't afford to go wrong...

I'm almost finnished modding my old hondo strat-copy. I've scalloped it, repainted it, changed the bridge, the tuners, the nut, pickups, the lot... So I finaly restrung it, after wiering the new electronics (duhh...), plugg it in my amp, and it hizz and fizz like nothing I've heard before. So I opened it again, checked the wiering, soldered some bad points and replugged it. still hizzing.. I then opened it again, changed the wires and soldered everything once more, checked that everything was right about 987 times, restrung and plugged. Same noise! So ofcourse, my first question is why? the chematics I have used works fine with my other guitars. It is with a push/pull pot, by the way. Next question is about pickup spacing. This guitar has a standard fender size bridge, and a les paul size nut. Therefore the poles on the pickups, witch are fender spaced, does not mach the strings. Is there any pickups made for this, or do I have to use blade style pickups? Hope anyone can help me out on this. It's driving me mad!!!

I was thinking of building a tapping instrument, somewhat simular to the chapmanstick. Anyone tried anything like that before? I was just thinking about an 8 strind verson. Anyone know the lenght of such an instrument?

I never thougt of that before i started, but midway the paint floted out on one of the leafs. I was quite happy when I discovered that it was just on the top of the fretboard, and sanded of realy easily. Now problem at all, and quite fast.

I did not seal, so I hope it will stay the way it is now. I'm a little afraid that the paint will shrink with time and crack, but if it does I'll just cut it out and paint it all over again. I'll try to get my hands on a digital camera and post some picks.

Ok, I was going to do a custom inlay job on a cheap corean strat copy. I live in Norway, where inlay material are almost impossible to find, and EXTREMLY expensive if you do. The only option is to import it yourself, witch will add another 50$ for shipping and taxes in addition to the original cost of the material. This would actualy make the inlay worth more than the guitar..... An other problem is that the fretboard is scalloped, witch would make inlaying MOP-blanks realy hard, and would also take a lot of time. In order to make a cheap inlay witch would look pretty professional, I decided to go for a mother-of-perl imitation paint, made for interior painting. I cut out the inlay cavitys, painted them with several layer of the paint to get the MOP-effect and sealed it all with epoxy. This turned out to look pretty amazing, since The MOP-paint comes in any colour you want. So now my cheap korea-strat have a three-colored Mother-of-pearl wine inlay, for the cost of 20$. And i still have paint for more than thousands of guitar.

Thanks for the help. I will practice a lot before I start the project. I will also get help from a professional wood-worker. I'll post pics as soon as I start.

I just started using everly B52 Rockers, and I realy like them. Good, cheap and doesn't need tuning. I'll switch to them on all my guitars. I spent about 45$ on a set of elexir string (that's what the cost here in norway....9, and I don't like them at all. But I do like DR an d'addario.

I am planing my first home made guitar, and it will be somewhat simular to a pgm 300, but with a neck-through. Anyone know where i can get a template for the neck? I dont know how long it would have to be, or the diferences in height where the fingerboard starts. It will be a tune-o-matick bridge. Marius

And I would realy want a Ibanez PGM 300 and a laney 100 watt head. And I'm also planing a saga ht.

Now own Epi les paul with DiMarzio's Samick something - Realy good shred guitar, beats most Ibanezes A homemade strat all over my kitchen with strat pickups Digitech pro 21 samick la40r amp - This thing realy sucks! Ok clean, though. Clasical guitar Ibanez acoustick piezo set with preamp In the future Blow up my amp Get a stereo power amp and a cabinett get a floorboard for the digiteck Installing mastertone SUPA PHAT ASS in the epi changing to sperzel on the epi. Installing emg's in the samick. Asemble the strat Installing the ibanez pu in the classical guitar

The one, the original, the man who got it all.... Robert Fripp!

Hi, I`m a newbie to this forum, but I must say I find it realy helpfull. Anyway, there was one thing i could not find in here, and that is a description on how to do a binding. I`m curently refinnishing my epiphone Les paul to a Carriburst, and I want a binding around the edge. Anyone know how to do this, and what material to use? Hope someone can help me on this.... Syndromet Norway