frankie

wow, you're great. I don't know if they'll believe me, just a kid. Maybe I can talk my dad into it.....Thanks for the info, great stuff. I think we need to pin this at the top...

I think that would be cool, for questions like I have. I am making my own design, it's kinda a mix between one of those black and white danelectros and a tele. I have it drawn out on paper, but it's like 1/2 big. Is there a place where you can bring it in, and they blow it up onto poster board?? I've tried redrawing it bigger, but they aren't as good as the first design. thanks

Dude, take it easy i wasn't making fun of boyscouts (heheheheh).. Fine you guys are right, Fender deserves to not have their headstock designs used. They deserve that respect. I wouldn't like it if i was in my huge mansion driving all my cars, and i found out some guy used my headstock design. That would probably spoil my day

Yeah, there could be small businesses. Plus I never said i hate big businesses. But when fender is making like 3 or 400% profit on their guitars, then can turn their shoulder to a couple people who want to use their headstock.

uhhh you sound uninformed (my way of calling you dumb, jk) my mom works for the state, and my dad doesn't have a job because he's lazy and fat

I agree, just finish up the wings. That's what I'm gonna do.

so what, I'm tired of boyscout nancy boys ruining life. if you wanna be a 100% legit nacy boy, then make your own headstock. if your tired of major companies screwing you and everyone else, then stand up for yourself and steal their design. lol i sound evil.....

GOTM!!! GOTM!!!

c'mon everybody chant with me

what the heck are you guys talking about????? I see you guys stealing Ibanez's JEM headstock all the time. I've seen the gibson les paul headstock design stole, and a tele.....

yeah princeton choruses rule. mines 2 10's

Dude, those billionaires up in the Fender office buildings aren't gonna give a crap if there are some guitars made like theirs. As long as you don't make a ton it's okay. And as for the luthier making it, still nobody's gonnna care just go for it.

time to whip out the fake i.d. Ramone Esvesteze meets guitar center.

Oh yeah I need a big piece of hard rock maple for my neck, I know I'm supposed to look around and stuff (which I have) I just can't find any big enough. It needs to be around 40" X 2" X 2".

Isn't that armrest kinda screwed up???

Yeah at my store there won't be idiots who like the White Stripes. Anybody who thinks the White Stripes are awesome should get beat up.

Hey thanks, that guy rules. I like his diamond plate control cavity covers. I'm gonna get my rings from him.

lol, i was just kidding about the burstbuckers............

lol, you do both...what do you say to them??? "Ummm excuse me sir, I would like to rummage through the company dumpster"????

Alright, I want white metal humbucker rings (universal jems are only plastic i think), i want metal dome knobs (you know the kind on an sg) that go to 11 (again universal jems are plastic i think). And I need some gibson burstbucker pros for like 5 bucks................lol

thanks

I'm gonna build a guitar from scratch, and it's gonna be awesome dangit

Personally, I want a guitar that I can be proud of and say, "hey, I built that".

Also the custom guitar shop here has crap for teles (and molasses necks)

Well, most of us here probably can agree with that, but you might find yourself out a few thousand in tools and a few years in time before you reach the level of being able to knock out something of really high quality.

So for what he was asking, for a once-off shot, a luthier (a good one with credentials and references BTW) would be the way to go, and I'll have to disagree with GM.

A good luthier will take those same parts and build a very high-quality, well-playing, valuable, beautiful INSTRUMENT out of those parts.

An amateur could take those same parts and build a pile of unplayable poop with them.

A seasoned luthier who's been at it for years and years will know things that some amateur just buying the raw parts would be -completely- clueless of, and if all you want is -one- incredibly good guitar, it's those intangibles that a seasoned luthier brings to the table that make it very worthwhile to hire one and do your 'one' for you.

That's why I stated it so matter-of-factly, there's no contest really.

i noticed you said "poop"

save that for the poop forum

Screw it, I'll just start my own chain of musical equipment called " Better Than Guitar Center" It'll be awesome.

Maybe they just didn't wanna hire him?? I looked at their online application and there was a space that said something like

Are you under the age of 18? ____________________

so, do they just throw all those out or something??? that's messed up

go fish go