westhemann

i understood the joke right away...it didn't seem like a flame in any form or fashion...only gentle ribbing. p.c. lingo makes me ill.i promise when you talk to your buddies you rib each other

kahler trems are easier to install than a floyd...all you need is a small-ish rout 1 " deep. regular duracell 9 volt batteries last me over a year in all of my emg equipped guitars,so forget about that problem...bass,mid,and treble?i just don't get this...your sound would change every time you bumped a control by accident.... mahogany is great with emg...so is alder

i think you did a fine job...having tried to teach a 10 y/o before on guitar,i know what a challenge it is for those tiny hands and arms to reach everything right...and it is definately more important to do it like you did it.at 24.75" scale(same as a les paul)it is still a full size guitar....so she will still be able to use it after she is grown

that's a pretty decent idea...iwas thinking of a modified vacuum cleaner attachment to do the same thing...but i think on this one i wil use a small angled finger groove...mostly because of the tiny bit in the corner of the cavity cover recess where the template slid a hair. it's funny...it only moved like 1/64" or so,yet it sticks out like a sore thumb

what type of paint? my guess is that by the time i finish the clearcoats on my exploder,i will be up to about 800 to 900 cc./..body,neck,maple fretoard,everything i already have about 600 cc in color coats...but i like a thick finish,and there is alot of overspray involved with the preval sprayers i am using...plus alot of level sanding between coats...so only about 1/2 or less of what i spray ends up on the guitar(i am not very practiced at this yet,and i don't have the right equipment) i am using catalyzed varnish if you buy a quart of 2 part or catalyzed,you should have enough for the guitar plus expirimenting with colors and tecniques on scraps before you start also depends on the wood and if you seal it with the finish itself or another sealer.i sealed mine with ca glueso the body was already sealed and leveled before painting

i think salesmen will say anything.in all my years of floyd usage,i have never had a string break at the nut...and all i use are hardened nuts.they tend to break down where the string leaves the block,behind the saddle.

no you really can't

keep in mind those woodburst colors are very cartoonie...i bought some a long time ago and they look horrible....imo

that carvin v is upside down...very unappealing.carvin is good quality though,much better than those kramers musicyo stocks the vangaurd is a jackson rr clone...the jacksons are much nicer..but they are more than $270... but you should know the "floyd" that kramer has on it is very sub-par...there are many better rr clones out there...iwould look around,many are available with t.o.m.

the better the match,the better the playability....if everything is perfectly matched(within reason)the guitar will have better action along the length of the fretboard,and the guitar will play like butter... i originally bought the rear mount from stewmac,and screwed up a neck trying to install it...topmount is the only way to go... i have found some imports that might be the right specs,but the machining is so godawful poor i can't see using one

i am looking high and low for a floyd style locking nut...black,1 5/8" wide,topmount,with a 14" radius...and i absolutely can not find it. i know it exists,because i already have one in chrome...i bought it from krazyderek a few years ago,and he no longer runs that business... every one i have found has been either a 10" radius,or with the radius unlisted...the import 42 mm would work,if it's the right radius,but i can't find anyone who lists it anyone know this?

sweet.i see no issues at all. how do you manage to build it so playable(aside from the upper fret access)without being able to play?or do you just mean you don't consider yourself very good?

the original question"why a big amp" i can tell you why...the more speakers you are pushing to the limit,the better the sound for me i don't care if you take a 15 watt amp and push one speaker until it blends with the drums,it still won't sound as good to me as a stack of 4 by 12s at the same "volume"...it's about how much air you push...it's a fuller sound. 8 12" speakers will always push a higher volume of air than one of them...whether you can hear a small amp over the drums is irrelevant...i can promise you somewhere in the room you can't hear that amp properly.if you mic that speaker and put it through the monitors,then you are no longer running 15 watts,you are running through the wattage of the house sound system.... but i just don't like high gain amps at less than 100 watts...they don't have the headroom i want.i push alot of air with my system...but my 100 watt engl(newest amp) is still louder than my 350 watt mode 4 in practical use...but that's because the mode 4 in amp gain sucks,so i use a pedal and keep the amp gain very low... the engl has good gain,so no pedal and i can use all of the preamp volume but one other note...i hate power tube breakup...i run my amps right up to that point,but never past.

i buy my wood usually a few months ahead of time and set it in a corner to settle a while...just to be sure

well then that is what you should do..no reason to please us,it's your guitar in the end

i just got them in the mail yesterday,so i don't know...they seem like they will hold it without being too much. yeah garehanman...i think i can put a knotch in one corner...there is a spot where the cover matches a little less than perfectly with the rout...i could just put it there and solve both problems i could always invent an airbag with a co2 canister which would blow off the cover at the flck of a switch...hehe

cool.i suspected as much.it seems very nice...the fretboard for some reason does not appear to be tapered enough in the pic,but maybe that is just the picture. out of curiousity,what is the nut width?is it standard?

some guitars are like that...it is because the frets are too beveled. could be from normal wear,could be a bad fret job...could be alot of things...but i notice alot of the custom shop fenders are way too close on the high e side. my ibanez sabre did that from fret wear after about 7 years...i swapped out the neck with a warmoth(mostly becauseit was a special and it had ss frets) and now i don't have that problem

i'll be 35 in a couple of months...mickgaurd speaks the truth...i have calmed down alot since i was in my mid 20s to be honest...i am a little surprised at the age variance i see in the poll...i know there are a TON of under 18s around here...i just don't see them speaking up right now. summer is when the teen presence is most felt

yeah...there is no excuse for the new tactic...it pretty much says "i know you don't want me here,so i will hide my trash where it's harder to find"

hey...the spammers have started putting spam posts in already existing topics...so we can't set the entire topic invisible without losing the legitimate part...but we can still deal with it. the problem is,they are harder to find,because they are hidden inside a topic that is already familiar,so we don't always find them. so if you see this "amazing video" crap or any type of spam in a topic you are reading,please report it so we can get rid of it...and refrain from clicking on it...that's how they get paid

are you going to fix the string spread so the bass string runs even down the neck?

it does sound like the guitar needs a setup

oh...i was thinking of different ways to achieve that...i was considering a small hole in the center of the cover...just enough to slip an allen wrench into. also i guess i could do the finger groove thing on one edge...if i was real inventive,i would drill a hole in the side of the body and put in something permanent that when turned would push the cover up...

well...i was as p.c. as a person could possibly be.i think possibly you are just not used to internet forums.the average age of the people on this forum is between 13 to 25(i am one of the older guys,at 35,but not the oldest)...so maybe you are just not used to the way teenagers talk....i don't know.there was absolutely nothing wrong with the posting before you had your first problem...you just didn't get the answer you wanted. but in all honesty,your daughter may be better suited to conversing with these people.there are alot of father/son-father/daughter builds going on here all the time... but i seriously don't see the problem...except that i think you may be lacking patience. mickgaurd...there is no reason to fuel the fire...just stay out of it ...same goes for everyone else. by the way.i believe you can go to kinkos with a picture of the guitar(from the front),tell them how far it is from the nut(fretboard side) to 12th fret(12.75"),and they have the capability to blow it up propportionally...which is what these guys were telling you.