westhemann
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the neck is gonna drop like pee wee herman if he was punched by mike tyson... all your weight is at the neck end of the body...the reason guitars are always heavier further from the neck is to counter for the neck weight.... the ONLY way that guitar would ever be playable in a standing position is if you run the strap all the way to the headstock...like an acoustic strap
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if that is the case,i personally would build it with a mahogany neck and an alder body...but i would make it a neck thru instead of a set neck like the original,because it is very difficult to get a proper heel on that body style with a set neck...plus the mahogany extending through the body will help balance the instrument. in my opinion,that wood combination is underutilized...it combines for a very warm,yet crisp tone ebony or pau ferro fretboard...and if you are using a trem,use a floyd original for a sharper "attack" all opinion...but that is why you asked,because you want an opinion...i think you should stay away from the more expensive woods on your first build...especially when the old standards tend to sound better anyway imo
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by the way...now that i am in a better service area and my internet does not kick me off i fixed your link...again...you make the same mistake every time...you write "post" where you should write "url" instead of typing out the link by hand,why don't you insert the link into the linking software at the top of the reply box?
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i think rhoads sells wood blanks...rhoads56 on this board he is in australia but to answer your question...the best woods in my opinion are straight grained mahogany or maple for the neck,alder or mahogany for the body,and ebony or pau ferro for the fretboard.... they are right with the "personal choice" thing...but i find these woods to please the ears of most people i know
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that is a bit thick actually...mine are usually 3/4"...with a 3/16" fretboard.that is behind thefirst fret...at about the 17th fret i take it out about another 1/16 7/8" i think is about average...but that 1/8" difference feels like a mile
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you could do the same thing with colored acrylic...
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you are tensing up to much...you must relax.these guys are right about warming up and practicing...but alot of the benefit of that is you learn to relax. especially in metal,pick hand workouts are essential...i don't know what style you play,but i practice my speed staccato picking religiously...
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i always build the neck first...i started doing that because i started on neck through guitars... plus this neck is very special...it's a 9 piece laminate of flamed maple,walnut,and castillo...with a flamed maple fretboard and a bubinga veneer on the fron and back of the headstock,curling up the volute.
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thanks spazzy,i guess you just confirmed what i was thinking...i just need to get a really good compressor and then i can do everything from sanding to spraying...need a compressor anyway for other stuff.
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Stipping Schecter C-7 Need Advice!
westhemann replied to Jeb's topic in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat
http://www.ibanezrules.com/new/jem7vwh.htm alder body with basswood laminate...i am not sure what that means...how much basswood does that equate to? tht is a special series guitar...i just mean the standard models we can get here...this one was specifically the rgt 5exfx -
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/3dinlay1.htm
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http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/logo.htm
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i thought the tutorial showed colored acrylic as the inlays?
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dremel
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Stipping Schecter C-7 Need Advice!
westhemann replied to Jeb's topic in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat
my advice is leave it alone...it sounds like you really like the guitar...i NEVER mess with a guitar i already like,except to change out pickups and hardware... you run a huge risk of turning the guitar into something you don't like. if i wanted a guitar with no paint,i would buy a warmoth body unpainted(they have ALOT)and add a neck to it i once took a schecter omen 6 that i really liked and stripped the paint...i never liked it as much again..now it just sits there... now,by the way i think the wood is most likely basswood or mahogany...i have never seen one in swamp ash...doesn't mean it doesn't exist...but i hear alot of people say a wood is something when it is not...guy at guitar center told me a guitar was alder...ibanez doesn't even use alder -
snipes...you should have left it at 1/2" the tuners will not work
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i am going to add my vote for a different body wood than maple....i built a maple bodied guitar and sanding the contours is a neverending saga of pain and frustration...it's like punching a cow...no wait.wrong analogy. i HIGHLY reccomend alder for a first build...failing that,mahogany.do make the neck out of maple...but straight lines are easier to sand. that body shape you need to have an easy wood to work...basswood is by far the easiest...but i don't like the tone...if you like the sound of basswood,use it.
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well...there does seem to be an led under the pickups....but i think it is both led and gitd paint
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if it was reflecting an led the streaks would be casting shadows...quite the opposite,the resin is just reflecting the light from the phosphourous you can see by the color of the streaks that they are the glow in the dark variety
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9/16" is standard..i make mine 1/2" 3/4"" is too thick...the tuners won't fit right..woah...i just reread...you have it 1" thick?why?where are you getting your dimensions from?do you have a guitar to measure?
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sample neck? good one
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i fixed your link. that is just a burst.there is a tutorial on the main site if you look
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i don't think those are "colors"...i think they are most likely phosphorous (glow in the dark) ribbons set into the epoxy resin...i think they are what makes it glow green when the lights go out
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by the way the guitar is freshly sanded to 120 grit...it is not clean or wet....the figure is not enhanced in any way...yet.
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no i am not painting over it...what i said was this was going to be the last natural finish i do.i did not buy $300 worth of flamed bubinga to paint over it. duffman...you could not be more wrong...the body weighs 4 pounds....the body is smaller in every dimension than a true explorer...as well as being only 1 3/8" thick.the entire guitar when painted and assembled should be less than 8 pounds...the neck is very thin as well...
