Tim37

i had a set of the wilkinson ez locks on a guitar it was more a pita to do all the looping and crap they ended up being used as normal tuners. i dont think you need to pay a ton but you need to get good ones that wont unwind (yes that has happened to me bend a string and it goes out of tune because it acutaly turned backwards)

in my opinion tuners arnt something to go cheap on, bite the bullet and get some good ones its well worth the extra cash.

Then dont look at the red and white wires on the diagram

1 - 2 - 3 - Slash 4 - Jimi hendrix 5 - 6 - 7 - Stevie Ray Vaughan 8 - Eric clapton 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - Chuck Berry 15 - Angus Young 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - Ace Frehley 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - Kurt Cobain 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - Bo Diddly 32 - 33 - 34 - 35 -

Well then build a strat and put them to use

heres the secret i have discovered to keeping a trem in tune. good springs. thats it forget all the locking and rolling crap.

Doesnt kahler make a trem that replaces a tom?

if the body had sharper edges it would remind me of a schecter.

feel the music

I see provlems with powder coat, that stuff is thick and will have to be cleaned off befor you can assemble it.

Pan did make a good point if you are looking to make an effect at certian fret locations i guess sitting down and figureing out the node points would needed.

All that 24a fret node crap is a bunch of bs as soon as you fret a string the nodes change. Put your middle pickup where it looks the best.

Kill is right just look in the at work section find an acoustic build and look at what is envolved.

first you need to find a site to host i use photo bucket. from there you just need to get the link to the pic then for larger photos post a link if you want to pic to show up in the thread hit the button that looks like a old polaroid then post the link in there and it will show.

i think i would go with wes's idea theres not much to a bridge other than the saddles.

Look up the fabric cover tutorial on the main page paper works very similar. Also do a search for the comic poster guitar

i did almost the exact same thing once i cut a piece of wood and glued it back in the cavity then reworked it. you could still get away with a burst if your not wanting to paint.

I saw a interview with mike mathews on youtube about the mig 30 it was the exact same schematic as the mig 50 mike said they put a weak power tranny in it and it would only put out 30 watts. Mike said it sounded better.

I have seen multi piece fretboards but dont know if they have issues

You get the idea anyway. I have always thought those 212 100 watt combos where funny.

Polish it

If your transformers are good i would just use them and save my money. For a given cab to double the volume you need approximately 10x's the wattage. So a 5 watt amp is gonna give you half the volume of a 50pain watt amp through the same cab.

well i think your on the right track. and really people have argued for years on what makes good amp tone there are guys out there that will argue that tweed coverings sound better than tolex, in the end its all up to you and what you like. i think your on the right track now you have got it narrowed down to a style sound that you like now look at what they where doing to get that sound and build a amp. very true very true. i actually shudder to think what that would sound like. but then again who knows some of the best transistor amps were cheap under built crappy things and they have some amazing tone. i have some little blue thing from the 70's and it is a killer sounding amp. natural breakup and all but the reason is cheap parts the powersupply can not keep up with the amps demands. so now i am building a clone of it. and then fixing the original. its interesting that you don't see more distortion circuits that have a better hi end response. have you noticed that. wouldn't it be lovely if we could have non harsh multi band distortion. until i messed the little amp up trying to make it a pedal i used to run a danelectro honey tone mini amp through a 1x10 open back cab. i would turn the gain all the way down turn the tone all the way up and crank the volume, it made some great bluey tones. dam i need to pick another one of those up.

just remember most of what people think make a guitar sound "good" is based on what was happening in the 50's if the transistor had replaced tubes befor the electric guitar was invented our idea of what a electric guitar should should like would be completly different.

Hifi audio is ment to reproduce sound. Guitar cabs are used to produce sound and there for are used as part of your tone shaping just like pickups wood and amp. Studio and hifi stuff will also be made of mdf where guitar cabs will be plywood or solid wood. Most of your speakers are aimed to emulate the speakers from the 50's and 60's to be honest leo fender probably just baught the cheapest things jensen made the same thing that went in to home sterios and tvs but as technology progressed so did speaker quality and guitar players liked the way the older speakers shaped there sound so at some point makers had to back up and make them like they used to.