swirlslave

hello, i was fooling around with turbocad today to learn how it work and made this little template of a 24.76 length scale. ive placed the fret basing myself from the online calculator and they are as close as possible with 3 decimal after the zero that turbocad would let me. just print it on multiple page and paste them then put on your fretboard and youve got the exact point where to mark the fretboard. hope this will help people and newbie like me, teel me what you think...... ****EDITED**** i have just printed and checked with my digital caliper and even if the drawing is accurate, the printed version is not on scale even thought i choose 1:1 when i printed...... ive removed the links for now maybe someone who knows this program more have a solution or maybe a home printer cant be accurate enough for this,i dont know.... sorry people, hope noone has used this and slotted a fretboard with it..

there some tip on this at stew-mac site, heres the link with photo , look at the middle of the page. stew-mac and heres is some quote from there : Avoiding wood tear-out Running a router around the entire guitar body in one pass is not a good idea; at various points, the cutter bit will face end grain from a direction that's likely to tear out wood. Wood tear-out is always possible when routing, but it's especially likely with long-grain tonewoods such as spruce tops. The solution to this problem is to cut the channel in a planned series of passes. Referring to Diagram A, first cut the four areas marked with arrows, cutting in the direction of the arrows. These are the spots where tear-out is most likely, and cutting in the direction shown minimizes the possibility. (theres a picture in stew mac site here to demonstrate) After making these four cuts, make one long cut around the entire guitar moving in the other direction, Diagram B. Because the first four areas are already cut, the router won't encounter likely tear-out spots on this long pass.

im not an evh expert, but im pretty sure its a volume......

montreal, quebec, canada

LOL, i dont think so.....

thx ! as for the body i didnt started to work on it yet, or actually didnt even bought wood yet, but it will probably solid color and i dont have access to spray paint equipment so i will use dupli-color paint i guess....

WOW, definitely a GOTM candidate you got there, everything is gorgeous and blend really well togheter, i like the inlay also. Really nice work !!!!

it seems to come along very smooth and nicely, great work !!!!

the weakest and most crucial element of the floyd is the post and when they begin to be worn out and eated by the edge of the tremolo, it wont return to the zero floating point and thats when you get sharp/flat note after using it. hardened post is a must like daveq said !!!! a well tune floyd rose type of bridge stays in tune for a long time and can take lots of abuse ...

LOL !!!! thats totally insane, and it looks good. i want one of those seymour duncan pick-up, hehehe

heres a little update of what ive done this week-end : started to sanding/shaping the neck and headstock with my drum sander attachment for my press drill (i looove this thing,lol) close to the marks and cut the thickness of the neck with the table saw, put an ear on headstock cause it wasnt wide enough and i still need to bring down the thickness of the headstock down. it starting to take shape pretty well. as for the led im still far from doing them but ill surely try to make a little tutorial on those even with my shitty camera, hehehe, i dont really know how i will do those yet, gonna have to put some thinking into this when times come.... take care people.

just got myself a dozen of ultra bright blue led. $1.50 each can dollars plus a 2xAAA battery holder. those led runs on 3 volt dc and have a diameter of 3mm. im looking forward to put those in my fretboard !!! thx everyone for checking out . @the plague = looking forward to see some of your progress pics...

check on the main site, theres a tutorial for this....

you got my vote too lgm, truly beautiful !!!!!

heres some pic of my two fretboard blank the one on the left is indian rosewood, the one on the right is morado. ill be using the indian rosewood for this project and keeping the morado for another one.

well, i dont think its a good idea to have frets before the inlays cause it will be real hard to get them level and sand them in the tiny space betwwen 2 frets and you got to sand with the grain so......

yes your right its maple, 4 piece laminate for neck and 2 piece for headstock. i started this as an experiment and bought my maple at home depot, the neck seems more difficult to build than the body for me so i wanted to try it out without spending too much on wood, if all goes good maybe it will good enough. the next one ill build will surely be 1 or 3 piece with a bubinga stripe. and yes thats betty boop back there, lol, my wife likes her and thats the only place where the pics where coming out decent with the neon light under the kitchen cabinet, hehehehe..

congratulation !!! i guess guitar building time will shrink a little these days, LOL beautiful little baby .

sorry about that... link is good now

hi everyone , just wanted to show you where im at with my first project.. so far i would say its going pretty good for a first time, im at building my neck for start and after that i will do the body. just routed the channel for the hot-rod truss rod tonight, like the topic says i want an ESP mkII type of neck with reverse headstock and white binding on neck and headstock. i didnt buy the special bit from stew-mac, i used a 3/16 freud bit and made it wider by doing 2 channels sort of, width of my channel is .224 inch and depth is .465 inch when i read on my digital caliper. i also didnt make a channel all the way, i left some wood underneath where the locknut will be place and drilled a hole beneath for the allen nut to pass. i will put other update in this thread when i will have some, its going slow but surely. thx for reading hers some pics = p.s. sorry for the crappy pics but i only have a $20 bucks digital cam, LOL take care....

thanks a lot for sharing.

guitar pro is also not bad for midi playing of tablature and theres lot of tab for it around.

thanks a lot !!! you got a huge and very nice selection ... should keep me busy for a year, LOL .

i would really like to see a tutorial on how to install these.... thanks !!!

you should check the straightness of your neck, my guess is that it has a back-bow. check tutorial of main site for guitar adjustement.