nonamemx

Hi.

I need a router of some sort. I am very low on cash, I cant go out and buy a whole router table.

I need something where I can route pickup cavities and stuff like that on solidbody guitars.

Can anyone share with me the most cost effective way to route?

I did a project before, trying to make a MIM strat body routing accomidate a Humbucker in the neck, and I used just my drill and a drill bit and. . ."went at it", lol.

Needless to say, that was pretty wreckless.

What if I got a router bit and mounted it to an Electric drill, would that work? It doesn't need to be perfectly measured, just fairly clean. Would that work if I just held the drill steady?

Or would that be just as wreckless as the drill bit?

THANK YOU MUCH!

Well, hmm

Im 16, an electronics guy, not really a woodworker. Im not sure if I have the know-how to do this, how hard would it be to fix this?

I know you cant give me a price, but in what neighborhood would the cost be to have it fixed? Just the top is warped. I looked inside, vacuumed a big wad of spider's nest/dust clump (ew. . .a bug fell out . . ) and I couldn't tell if anything was unglued like you said.

It has bizarre aysemmetrical bracings, something like this: (red is the bracings on the top) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/nona...abracingtop.jpg

Thank you for your help

Hmm. Thats pretty close to the problem, but its almost the whole face of the guitar.

That job would be a nightmare without his handy little camera, would the wet towel Idea work?

Oh, Shoot, Im sorry for the triple post, I kept getting a "Mail error" when I posted it, so I didn't think it worked.

Hello wise people.

I have a 1969 Yamaha FG-230 12string acoustic.

I got it for $100 at a pawnshop, about a year ago. Wow. That was last summer. Last month of school. Wow, time flies.

But anyways, The body. . . .is warped

Its not the neck, its the body. The part of the body where the bridge rests is risen up. I could get some pictures if they are absolutely necessary, but there isn't much to see besides a warped body.

How can I fix this?

Somebody told me I should get a damp rag, put the rag in the body, let the moisture absorb into the wood, and put a brick wrapped in another rag to flatten out the body.

Would this be a good Idea?

It only cost me $100, Its got scratches and dings all over it, I dont really care about appearance, Just playability.

Thank you SO MUCH!.

No its not needed.

I haven't ever taken one off, but I think all you have to do is unscrew the pole pieces, and somehow work it off I think it will be gummed up with wax and will stick.

Yeah, you can make your own.

Plastic, Foil, Glue, and an X-acto knife.

www.radioshack.com has them. They aren't green, but essentially what your looking for.

IM not the expert on them, I have made threads before but was rudely told to go "use the search function"

but here goes.

1. Yes. Anything that makes a vibration

2. AnyWHERE that makes a vibration

3. both. Anywhere that makes a vibration

basically, your looking for a surface with the strongest vibrations

Try experimenting all over the guitar. On solidbody, the common thing to do is epoxy the piezo's to the weighted stock of the tremolo on both vintage and FR trems.

So where can you get sheets of Lead?

Without stealing the doctor's X-ray blanket.

I dont really want to build one, I just want to buy one and put it into a smaller box.

Well, i want a big muff, but I have a certain concern.

They are too big for my pedalboard, I made it myself, and there isn't a lot of spare room on it.

Is the PC board in the muff small enought to be placed in a smaller encloseure?

or are the electonics as big as the pedal?

Thanks.

Residential mostly. Rarely do they put their branches on the curb downtown. . .

I looked around today, nothing but cardboard, branches, rotted old fence wood, and 2 busted vaccum cleaners.

Suburbs of Dallas, Texas

All they have in my neightborhood is branches and cardboard

so what do you do?just take a wire and attach it to the bridge?also i look at diagrams and their are four wires but i see on most pickups its just 1, it is just later on split into 4?sorry for the newb questions, just trying to learn

IF you strip away some of the single wire, you will find that there are 5 wires crammed in there.

There should be a hole leading to the tremolo cavity, ground a wire from any ground point in your guitar, (probably the back of the volume pot), and solder it to the claw of the tremolo.

See here, this is the back of my peavey. You may want to scratch yourself a rough spot on the tremolo anchor claw, the solder will stick easier on the rough surface. Otherwise, the smooth surface may not hold the solder at all.

they dont work. Stupid Image station!

try www.photobucket.com for you photo hosting needs.

carvin pickups man they have super clarity.  and would transfer the tone to it.

Any recommendations, Ansil?

BTW, there are ways to express an opinion without coming across like an arrogant prick.

I have played several Carvins. The guitars are nice, but the pickups, IMO, are pretty bad.

Duncan Invader. I don't think any other pickups can touch it for low end.

Thats what I immediately thought of.

Try reversing the leads of the noisy pickup.

I didn't see any foil on the pickguard, coin toss if there is any form of shielding paint in the cavity, so its likely to pickup a lot of RF, TV, and Florecent light interference. A grounded lining of foil in the cavity may be needed.

Or the pickup may be microphonic. It is old.

So what you want is a 2 pickups w/ individual switches, Volumes for each pickup (2), and a master Volume and a Master tone?

Mmkay,

really? how much stuff does Radio Shack toss out?

oh. okay. nifty.

no need for the capslock.

you can pick the lock at Radio Shack. . .

what exactly do it do?