Andreas

So it operates like an equilizer for midrange frequencies? (what excactly is a notch filter?)

How good is it? What excactly does it do that a tone pot doesnt do?

hehe...we are all guitarists in the end. All the same under one god (the six stringed one )

No no its ok..im sorry for my ignorance when I didnt search beforehand. Im like that as well...nothimg is more anyoing than having to repeat yourself.

Im sorry you are correct I didnt search first about neck thickness and now that I have I found a lot of results that im going throught at the moment. But it was a two part question...Does anyone have a tip or tutorial for an assymetrical neck built?...so far im thinking of doing a slightly thicker neck than stantart warmoth neck and just sand a bit the treble side but this would be a totaly freehand shaping which I really dont like. One other option is to make a sanding block that will have the desired shape of the neckand sand it down to get as perfect shape as possible.

I just spented some time looking at common neck thicknesses and all I could see is that it should be around 2 cm. The wizard neck that is super thin it is 1.9cm and chunckier necks are 2.1cm. Does this difference of 0.1 cm really affects the playing so much?...To be honest what I would like to do is an assymetrical neck and what I plan is to do a 2 - 2.3 cm neck and then sand it down towards the treble side (like a peavy wolfgang). The problem is that it will be freehand shaping and I hoped if any of you tryied this before can lend me a tip or something.

I want a preamp that will overdrive my guitar. I dont want it as an onboard distortion/overdrive unit but as something that will enhance the distortion coming off the effects line. Since as you said tryied others which one do you suggest? As for clean boost from all I know this is the one: http://www.muzique.com/schem/mosfet.htm http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/v2/dia..._amz_mosfet.gif

Maybe he spoke underrated about it for it`s highly frequency of use. Most probably my uncle thought that you need very rare and extra special wood to make guitars. Ill see what I can do when I speak to him. For now im making the plans yet. I took a huge cardboard and im drawing everything life size. Finally my school exams are over so I have alot of free time unlit I have to go to the army in a few days. I hope I finish the plans until then and work on the building on my exits. One question off topic...Im drawing side views and a central crossectional view. On the side views I want to draw the contours but I dont know how much to write down as wood removed. Where can I find some photos showing some dimentions of side guitar views to get an idea?

Yes that was what I was thinking so thats why I included oak which is a lighter in color wood. The only reason I would like to have mahogany in it is for "tradition" as it is used in gibson guitars. I love tho the look of the neck having a mixture of woods so I let me tell you what I think: Neck : |cherry|lighter color wood thin veneer|walnut|lighter color wood veneer|cherry| Body : A light color wood thicker venner joining the neck to the body wings. The body wings would be mahogany and walnut top. Altho im conserned of using 4 (6 including the veneers) pieces for body. Tell me what you think so far. PS: For light color wood I think maple would be great but I dont know under what name to ask for it around here. You see my main language is greek and the name here for maple I think it is "sfentamnos". When I asked my uncle who is an expierenced carpender his answer seemed like maple is an underrated wood. For those who know is maple not used in carpentry?

Im thinking which wood to put in the body area of a neckthrough guitar...mahogany or walnut? The neck I will do it a three piece laminate and im thinking of putting in the center walnut and in the sides cherry. I dont know if this is going to make the guitar look very dark. So im thinking of putting oak for neck center and walnut for the sides. What do you suggest with the compination of Walnut, Cherry, Mahogany and Oak. (Im not sure if I can find maple.)

the string from my physics knowledge will only form one antinode and that is excactly the half distance between the freted or open note and the bridge.

Excactly. Ill see what I will come up with.

I cant waste the wood...altho if I find some cheap wood I might do a bolt on first with the same shape and see what evolves. I checked it out in a guitar shop today. I can still do the contouring of the PRS and further remove the wood nessesary to get the better feel of the stratocaster contour. I suspect it will look a bit unbalanced and thats why im asking here this question to get opinions. Im not sure tho since that bit extra of removed wood normally shouldn`t affect the physical balance. I might go with the normal PRS contouring and see if I later deside that it would be more comftable to do an upper stratocaster contour.

Im thinking of contouring the sides of a PRS-alike body like this: The top half will resemple the contouring on a stratocaster and the bottom half will be like a normal PRS contour. What do you thing? Good Idea or should I go with the original?

Im missing out for a few days and you go and finish the sustainer. so selfish I see you made some serious progress in this. I haven`t read all of it yet and I dont have time now. Im back to organic, inorganic chemistry...chemical kinetics mass spectroscopy , nuclear magnetic resonance (has absolutelly nothing to do with either magnets or sound resonance) and a lot of other crap I have to shovel down my brain for tomorrow. Keep up the good work, I cant wait to read in detail the progress that it is made. Cheers, Andreas.