Dirge for november

Building a guitar might be a good option depending on what woods

Another option is to clamp two pieces of wood or other material with flat surface and straight edges to the top, creating an L shape for one side of the pickup cavity. Then do the same on the other side. Oh wait, forgot a moment that you are using single coils. This is a way for humbuckers I use.

Best solution is to make some! I always maken mine from thin mdf. Take a jigsaw and after that a lot of sanding until you have the right shape!

Nice! Mine was just 40 euro's and it works great even with the dull bits that where included. I did the roundover on the body of my current project with that combo. No burns, and don't underestimate the hardness of bamboo! Only downside of mine is that one of the screws in the baseplate sticks out just a fraction so it leaves scratches. Should do something about that.

I see a cable running from you router... Or am I wrong. If I'm right, it's a good sign!!

Interesting concept! Looking forward to seeing the real deal!

As usual it looks much better in real life. Excuse the sucky pictures.

Awesome! I used one of these: while using my dremel tool to sand away the top of the headstock near the trussrod head. Worked a charm, no more cleaning myself. Also used a towel folded as a triangle to cover my nose and mouth gangster style. Must have been quite a sight, equipped with the deadly dremel as a weapon. The dremel keeps surprising me, what a handy tool with the tiny sanding drum to waste away wood in areas that need to be hollowed out. It eats away when you press hard. It evens out ever so subtly when lightly pushing. Pics coming up in a minute.

The reversed rear pickup, I like it! . It's something I always thought illogical about fender strats and the like. On my straight pupped guitars I miss body with my thin strings. This would compensate a bit. If I ever end up building an SSS guitar I'll do the same without second thought!

In that case, your results are even more stunning!

Haha, I know I know. No knobs isn't exactly conventional. Nice ideas, but in case of knobs and switches I do want them reachable and changeable while playing! In any case, when I play metal I never use any knobs. And this guitar is a small experiment with all my leftover hardware. The metal justifiable EMG I had lying about is the reason why this will be a metal guitar. I do want to build a guitar with Brian May style switching one day to compensate Indeed I hardly have any tools! Actually I find it surprisingly doable with hand tools. And surprisingly fun as well. I did recently get a column drill or I believe it might be called a drill press? This way my drilling won't be crooked!

Loving this build so far! Can't wait to see how it turns out!

I Opened it up today! And surprisingly enough, the reverb that doesn't work is a spring reverb made in the US.

Lot's of neck progress! All the progress pics and explanation on my blog: www.willemvantuijl.wordpress.com This neck is different from the others I did before. Because I do most of it by hand it starts out butt ugly but becomes nicer and nicer.

I agree, couldn't be more difficult. Definitely no Hell cat for me, though it's an absolutely fabulous build. I still don't understand why, but I simply hate the look of wood pickup covers and bridges except when very subtle. Sorry, can't help it (A). The others are all also very good looking. Best build would be Hell Cat. Yet I chose Imago Bane. No further thoughts behind the choice, all where lovely.

Got to ask, why did you buy it? I couldn't test it there, and it was made in Holland of a brand I never heard of. Price tag 17,50. Who wouldn't? Might be an unknown gem. Besides, the clean is miraculously decent! Can't wait to try this through a good cabinet. And even if it would have sucked more, I would be happy with it because it's old and funny! Think of it as those 60' era Japanese guitars in the other topic. Although I must say, those clearly beat this in coolness haha...

I did find these! Thanks though. I used translate but there wasn't a whole lot of info. BTW, the P20 looks a lot more like mine. I'm guessing the playmate prefix is important somehow haha.

Hey Guys, I bought this solid state amp for the ridiculous price of 17,50 euros. It has pre gain, post gain, high and low tone controls and a master reverb that doesn't produce any reverb. Clean sounds surprisingly fine. Dirt expectedly bad. It's a dutch amplifier by the way. Here's a pic: I'm just wondering if anybody knows anything about this amp as when I enter the brand name + model in google it turns up exactly zero hits. Searches on the brandname does find some mostly useless pages.

It's been ages. A quote from my blog: [Entropic Junior] The return of the previously extremely lazy guitar builder! I’m back! Well, to be truthful, I’ve never been gone… I have been very lazy on the guitar, because problem solving is the least appealing work to be done on a guitar. Fixing your own stupid mistakes is confronting, and very tedious work in this case. Well, it might not be the right thing to do, but I didn’t solve any of the problems. Instead I did some work that is very pleasing as it takes little time yet the result makes me enthusiastic. I rounded over all the edges with a round over bit on my router. After this I (against all rhyme or reason) routed the pickup cavity. Why would this be wrong? Well, the neck cavity hasn’t been routed yet, so I’m risking the danger that my neck won’t be in line with my pickup. It’s a risk I’m willing to take this time around. I did some very careful measuring. Hopefully things will turn out right. Problems remaining: the little dips I made while routing the shape of the body. I filled them up with filler, but it turned out to be useless stuff as it crumbled. I’m now thinking of filling up the dips with epoxy glue. Something for a rainy day. Pics can be found on my photobucket: http://s602.photobucket.com/albums/tt110/dirgefornov/Entropic%20Junior/ Just one to tease you into clicking the link:

It took me a while to gather up the courage, but I fixed the problem! With some dual action ironing and reclamping (without removing the fretboard). Problem surprisingly enough solved! I guess the next step is to fix the mistakes on the body. Something I'm not looking forward to, but it'll get me where I want to be. Then the remaining steps are fun.

This thing definitely blows my mind .

Hang in there Avenger! Things 'll turn out right eventually! So far I'm loving this build, never thought this theme would work so well.

And the headstock being straightened out with the rasp: and now... Confession time!! As you can see in my previous post I used six clamps to clamp the entire fretboard to the neck blank. One side I used a single piece of wood under the clamps. On the other side I used smaller individual pieces. The side with the one piece turned out great, the clamping force was evened out across the entire fretboard. The other side however.. Well, the pictures are bad, but they show the problem allright. The fretboard ‘waves’ a bit. The places where it was clamped are fine, but in between the FB rises up a bit. I’m going to try to solve this tomorrow. I’ll keep you posted on how and on the results!!