Meegs666

if you already have the pickguard on your rg, you could just put it over the material and trace it with a grease pen or something and cut it out with a razor blade. i plan on making some cavity covers and stuff so this is what ill do, but im not really sure of any way to get the edges bevelled other than having to buy a bevel cutter that youre probably only going to use once or twice, and im sure they sell the same one at home depot for less than stewmac. i find some of their tools and router bits to be a bit pricey because they claim that they are specific to guitar making when most wood workers have many other uses for the tools and they sell them cheaper at home depot for general use and in more sizes and usually better quality.

56 mm string pitch if that helps.

it does need to be in close scale. im not sure about any dimensions, but ill look up the spread of that bridge and get back to you in a sec.

for most of the neck im going to use rasps, files, and fingerplanes. my trick to doing it is also making a radius type sanding block with a curve like that of a fat back strat neck to do some of the plane sanding to get the surface straight and even. if all else fails i can go to my friends house and use his workshop. he has a miliion zillion tools that can do the trick. i do need some tips on making the outline of the neck for when i cut it out. ive been trying to figure that part out and would like some tips.

the coolest part is that is 10.50$ worth of wood off of ebay, and im gonna go back to this guys warehouse when im done and buy enough to make a les paul.

pretty bad angled shot, but its all there. not sure if i want a straight headstock like the banana, only cut like a jackson or if i want to put it on an angle. probably the latter.

this is my first attempt at a neckthru. it is black limba and it is going to be a 7 string rhoads knockoff with a reverse headstock and a quilt top with blood red stain. i am still not sure about my bridge, either flatmount hardtail or floyd. im gonna add pics as soon as i get them up on a free site.

yeah, its my friend. im not a big fan of making basses, especially ones with that much detail in the cutaways. ive been having lots of trouble tracing stuff in cad because my drawings never end up in scale or whatnot. thanks for the help tho. he wants to do it entirely in bubinga, which is a pretty weird concept to me.

if you do go the ebay route i would recommend checking out the guy jholden420. he lives in my area and he is moving to texas and auctioning off some beautiful wood (swear to god he had a stack of purpleheart four feet tall when i was in his warehouse). i just won an auction on some of his beautiful korina for 10.50$. its enough to make an entire guitar. he has an amazing stock even if you want to contact him and buy direct becausehe sells cheap too.

could someone help me out? my friend wanted me to get him a template for an alembic bass he saw on ed romans site. could somebody trace it for me in cad? alembic triple omega bass

i have built a bolt on style guitar as practice, but ive never built a neck thru. i just aquired a nice piece of korina from a guy here in town for 10$. its enough to make the three pieces for a rhoads style neck thru 7string. ive made templates and set them on top of the wood. will a jigsaw be able to cut through 2 in korina or will i have to take it to my friends house and cut it on a table mount saw? im just making rough outlines for cutting as i will be sanding it into shape but i do have real full scale templates. also how would i shape the back of the neck, what kind of tools would i need?

ive been looking through the supply sites on here and i cant seem to find one that carries 1/4 inch quilted maple veneer tops. could somebody point me in the right direction. i want some cheap quilted maple veneer and all i can seem to find is curly.

if a normal guitar had holes like that i bet it would be more prone to damage and not just regular cracks and stuff, like tearing and splintering. if you dropped it it might shatter into a buttload of wooden splinters and pieces.

im thinking about buying a neck off of warmoth, its a seven string with a straight fender headstock not tilt back. i already own a strat and it has two string retainers on the four thinnest strings. i was wondering what i had to do on this seven string retainer-wise. would it be better to use a retainer bar like on the floyd rose equipped guitars (im using a hardtail)? i have no idea. ive seen the satriani guitars that have straight pegheads and he has a retainer bar.

didnt steve vai have a guitar with holes in it once?

ive actually seen gibson style flying v's that are boound so i guess a king v would be a helluva lot easier to bind because its just straight lines and angles thatll go together pretty easy.

i believe the acoustic preamp tuner is pretty common. the idea of having a tuner on your guitar is good in theory but you have to realize that the signal would have to go through the tuner and then to your amp or a line of stompboxes. does that little extra amount of hands free freedom mean more to you than your signal? its been proven that your guitar signal loses punch as it goes through bypasses on effects boxes and tuners. the only way that i think this would help is if it was one of those tuners that has a vibration module and it was somewhere less obtrusive like the back of the peghead.

here is my input for all three 1. alder or ash for teles can be a big question. in the end different strokes for different folks. alder is cheap and light in weight and can be obtained more easily in some areas and it gives a general electric guitar sound as it is used for many guitars like basswood is. ash can give a bubbly twangy tone to your playing and from my experience yields a more classic tele tone. 2. most signals are blocked by the paint and the sheilding but you can never be too reliant on them because paint chips and flakes over use and sometimes inside your cavities you will find dust from the paint and that is normal wear. 3. ive seen many colors with black hardware. my favorite color is black and all my guitars are black and nothing looks better with black than black metal parts. but if you prefer something else i would recomend a deep green like forest green or maybe a dark purple.

that is an extremely irrelevent question. but yes 39 is probably average as a strat is 39 and the strat was the basis for most solidbody guitars. i have many guitars and they are all in between 39 and 42. if you look at it this way, a fender vi was about the size of a strat but it was more than a full size guitar as it had 28 inches of scale length if im not mistaken. a tenor guitar can be pretty short and it is hardly full size. this measurement of a guitar has really nothing to do with the size or playability. that is the kind of measurement that a poor fool would take while emptying out his dead grandfathers attic and selling the stuff on egay.

thats what i was thinking because it seemed to me like an acoustic of that size and proportion with a centerblock for the bottom part wouldnt be very stable in construction. ive heard this thing too, its a real monster in tone.

i was wondering how you would go about making one of these. has anyone seen it? it has a solidbody electric for the bottom half and a 12 string acoustic for the top half. i was just wondering how one could be made?

well you can do it if you have a good printer that is specifically set up to your computer, i.e. length and width of standard printer sheet. in turbo cad you can just go up to options and select space units. if you are using one of the drawings from the guide to guitar building then select metric. this works for most drawings as metric is used everywhere except america. now it should be in full scale or pretty damn close. just print it out, but make sure you set it up in print preview and take away uneeded sheets as the program doesnt do this for you already. if you dont do that then you will be waiting for your printer to spit out 90 sheets of paper with nothing on them.

i really see nothing wrong with ed roman other than the fact that people have been desensitized by guitar marketing over the years and he only said something about it recently instead of back when people(real people) could respect fender. i really dont wanna hear stuff unless you got physical proof that hes ripping people off. in the guitar business you never get what you pay for unless its a piece of **** beginner guitar that was made by people in a poor ass country that can live off of 5 cents a day that is given to them by fender and royally shoved up their asses. i really have proof that he is selling above market quality for market value. have you seen his pearlcasters? the price of a custom shop fender for more than the fender custom shop could ever hope to give you. i know a man who owns his own music store and i go in very often when he calls me up their. he let me play a pearlcaster that was straight out of the box. it had superb action and perfectly intonated right out of the box. the highs were sparkly and the mids werent mellow or stale like standard fender pups. and the fact that it had a quilt top and gold hardware was even better. i believe that most people are fooled into believing that you have to pay a certain amount of money for a good guitar. at one point in time you could buy a real guitar for a working mans budget, nowadays youre paying custom shop price for a pos made in korea with steve vais name on it.

i am a collector of everythng danelectro. even though i only hav one dao guita i hae a million god things to say bout them. the are very very very feather light and very resonant. the brass nut is great for an added effect for slide and barre chords. there are so many slght overtones too. i know a lot about danos. jimmy page tuned to an open slide tuning.

the legal way to get around the headstock patents is to have the builder add an outward notch. this little bit of wood can easily be sanded off with a file. thats how ibanez used to do it and that is how saga and other companis can do it. if you are mass producing a legalized patented copyright and selling it directly into a market without consent it is extremely illegal although a bit stupid sounding. back in the 70s the little companies that didnt want to get sued would add a bit of wood onto the outside of the headstock. fender agreed to let this slide entirely because if the notch was sanded off it would be by the customer and not the business. i still think custom designs are the coolest. and about this whole "big business" thing, there is always going to be a company bigger than the rest. its not their fault if people buy their product. if we were to destroy all the big corporations and burn their factories down, then another company would come right in and take their place a the largest. at one point you have to draw a line that cannot be drawn. im tired of all these damn anarchist wannabes thinking they are so "punk" for thinking they know somthing about the govt and businesses when they cant see the forest though the trees. bitches like that are so pathetic.