PaulNeeds

Ditto! Got some quilt for mine!

What fish you keep? I used to breed discus, but lost interest after I got some pandas to raise their young naturally (I'd read it was impossible - it isn't - just needs lateral thinking and lateral lighting!).

If anyone wants to outbid me on the Klusons, go ahead - I mis-read and thought they were 3 a side ones... $30.05 will do it...

Sounds like the frets need doing, as the grit you feel is probably some scratches on them. I'm no expert - but I'd mask off the fingerboard, and then use a good fine oiled oilstone to take out those scratches, then give them a polish with some wire wool and or metal polish - such as brasso. I'm sure an expert will be along in a minute!

What kind of 'rock sound'? Screaming Les Paul sound - mahogany with humbucker pickups. Super-strats (pointy ibanez etc (shudder ) Maples and alder I'd have thought. You sound like youwant high-output pickups.. there are many here better suited to advise on these than I - my Fenders are pretty traditional. Even though I changed the pickups, I didn't go for the ultra-high output kinds.

[quote name='rob' date='Jun 30 2004, 05:41 PM'] The Isle of wight!...thats right at the bottom of england if you didn't know [/quote]

Amazing first instrument!

In mine I keep a lighting controller, Minidisk recorder and a TC Electronics multifx. In the future, I aim to get a bigger one so I can add a stereo power amp. But it's mostly PA orientated, rather than guitar. Neither my guitar amp nor my Pod fit a rack.

Just occurred to me that any female voters may (or may not) skew the result somewhat...

lovely maple!!!

Yeah! The structure and density of the wood will affect how the vibrations travel through it. Therefore, as TR says, because ultimately the strings are in contact with the wood, this will have an effect on how the string vibrates - eg if it dies away quickly because vibration is absorbed almost totally, or sustains or rings for a long time because the wood is dense and uniform in structure. There are then tradeoffs in what wood you'd use - weight being an obvious one, but also tone, the size and therefore playablilty of the neck for you, and so on. Guitarists are a pretty conservative bunch - I believe most of us find a look or sound we like, and pretty well stick with it. So if we like a Les Paul type of sound, we'd go for mahogany neck/body with a maple top because that's the wood that helps get that sound (as well as pickups). Hope that helps a bit...

Brilliant work Setch - and the photogrpahy is amazing and more helpful than any book I've read. Brian - this is surely worth stripping and adding to the main site tutorials - with Setch's permission, of course?!

The Les Paul is what Gibson called "Sapphire" - It's a Studio Gem. I agree though - fab colour! Most of my guitars seem to be blue... MZi - yeah - that's why I got the hot rod truss rod exactly so I don't have to deal with the curved channel.

OK. First cuts made today. Have reduced a lovely 40 year-old mahogany shelf to two lovely neck-through blanks. One I've squared off and started marking up, the other is for 'next time'. Pretty much have all my components now, apart from tuners, P/U switch and maybe a truss rod cover. I've decided to go against using the carbon fibre rods, as this is to be a two piece neck - the wood is really settled and dense, so I don't see any need to cut it further and then re-glue to make a laminated neck. If I turn out to be wrong, I've more of the same wood so the situation would (wood) be retrievable as far as the guitar is concerned. Using a Stew-Mac hot rod, as this curved channel business looks far too complicated for my first whole build - and first neck. I intend putting a quilt top on the instrument, finished with tru-oil, and the inlay will be as above - paua abalone 'v's on a LP scale rosewood fretboard. Matched pair of Gibson Pickups, with a thru-body string V tailpiece and Gibson ABR-1 bridge. This may need recessing - not certain as yet. I may fit either Graph-Tech or Baggs piezo bridge to the ABR later - so I've bought one of the 4 pots in a pull-switch type, so I can hook the acoustic sound in when I want.

If you don't mind a bit of work, look for KiwiCrafterNZ EBay store on Ebay. Some lovely Paua Abalone, both the medium shell and buttons are wel usable! And MUCH cheaper than StewMac, or anywhere else I've seen...

Flying Pig's still advertising in the UK...

42 Watts?

Thinking of trying to inlay these - I'm sure I've seen something similar here before. Have some nice NZ Paua which I expect to have immense fun cutting and inlaying, so don't be suprised if you hear of a new fingerboard being imported from StewMac...

How about a unit to switch between/combine guitar output to two or more amps (with no signal loss if to two amps), with instant, no-lag switching?

I thought you were only 19?

Nice to see you back Alex!

Wes is correct in this, because this is a double action truss rod - it has two rods in opposition to each other, so the neck can be made to 'move' in either direction.

Anyone know if there are any TurboCad tutorials for getting it to print out 1-1 accurately, or even to get measurements off the drawing?!?! f@!<ing program...

ditto.

Peanut butter and Jehle surely?