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First I will carve the shape out of a very hard wax kind of substance. Then I will stick it to some kind of a tube and drown it in plaster. When the plaster hardens, the machine will pour the liquid silver inside the mold throgh the tube. The hot silver will melt away the wax that is still inside the mold and the wax will float up the tube due to it's smaller density. Afterwards I will break the plaster, get out the silver and sand it etc.

Unlike skibum, actually I was considering making the base of the bridge out of silver and the saddles from ebony. Are ebony saddles or nuts any good?

How is the process of fibreglass body making? Is it extremely off topic or not?

Anyone tried this? Two more weeks of school and exams then I'm free and this will be what I will try. My moms making silver rings and I will try to to perhaps a custom silver tailpiece with her stuff. Maybe later I'll try to do a bridge but it seems to me that it will aquire some practice for the that.

Any suggestions? Is silver a good choice for instance? Actually it is not very expensive. $50 for 4 ounces which will be cheaper than bought hardware

What about a 5A figured marble top?

Are emg preamps worth the buying or is it possible to make them for a cheaper price by hand?

Does this have anythigh to do with the effects loop jack which I asked about in the alembic thread?

Plan everything douring the building, improvise when you are playing the finished guitar

Keep your cat away from your work area.

Don't clamp the neck too tight when you are gluing it, especially on a semi hollow body. I cracked the body into two pieces

Don't sand near your computer unless you want to be cleaning the sawdust from the motherboard and the circuits of the cpu.

Don't make your neck too long.

Think twice before cutting, gluing, finnishing, routing,...........

DON'T sand your finger. It hurts. And when you are furiously sanding, you CAN burn your finger, because the paper gets seriously hot.

After some research I realized too that it wasn't so unusual but I still don't get the effects loop.

Anyone get whats going on in these guitars or is it just me?

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What does it do and what will you do with it? And whats a buzzer?

Are you sure that people will want to come to a shop owned by a zombie?

What about this: Maybe I could do small nice inlay between the headstock and the nut?

My first guitar was nowhere near that. My second guitar was probably worse than that. My third will be as good as that perhaps a tiny bit better.

Also you should add a mini switch somewhere in the electronics for the emg 89 because it works as two seperate single coils as far as I know.

Did you red my mind when desinging the soundhole? I was just thinking about something like that but one side fatter so it would look like a sperm!

The baritone idea is the best ever, and I've always wanted a baritone guitar, but the fingerboard slots are unfortunately cut. If the filling the slots with chips of wood and reslotting the sucker advice was hundred persent serious or not, i do not know. But I will try the scarf joint thing. What is it?

Thanks.

I was inspired by the PRS Santana a few weeks back and made a design similar to it but neck through.

Everything seemed to be going well. Too well infact when I noticed that I made the neck too long! When I realized that when I use a 25 inch scale lenght, the bridge is comes so near the end of the body that I can hardly fit 2 humbuckers. Thats not so serious, but then I realized that the fingerboard I get from stewmac is too short for the neck I flipped. Well it can't be too short, of course, but when I allign it with the headstock and put the bridge to where I planned it to be, the fingerboard ends before the body begins!!!

But if I move the bridge more towards the body, and close that small space there, there will be a nice little gap between where the nut is and the headstock begins. Which one will be more ridiculous looking? Please help me!

How does the guy do those carvings?

Did you check out the banjo in his site it's the best!

I found the most exceptional looking piece of figured walnut ever!

But unfortunately it's stuck to the loundry sofa. It is more flamed than most of the guitars I've ever seen.

A pity that it's wasted in such a way. I will get a picture of and post it as soon as I can sell the guitar that I will make out of it and get enough money to buy a digital camera

What happens when you start to wonder what kind of a guitar will come out of the trees in your school campus? And to see, actually cut down one of them? It is possibly a serious phsycologic ilness.

I cut down an ancient tree which was planted when our school was established in 1800-something. At that time the Ottoman Empire still reigned in these lands! You might think I am evil but the trunk was mostly rotten and the tree had fallen down in the blizzard. I only cut what was left out of it.

I plan to gift the guitar I make out of it to the school but it doesn't look good. Nobody figured out what wood it was and it is very weird. It doesn't seem to have any grain?!

By the way I'm not talking about the guys in the picture above

It's the guitars...

They are gorgeous indeed but my favourite is still the driskill guy.

Driskill guitars

I get my desings from my english notebook.

I have been doing the exact same desing but with a wenge back, mahogany top and a maple neck with a wenge laminate but the difference is the neck, I'm doing it neckthrough.

I have no ideas.

Mybe you could do so by soldering a resistor to the dual concentric pot?

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