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Thanks very much! I don't think it was bad advice, I just didn't see it as that much advice, I thought it was more... "Your doing everthing wrong..." If I doing things wrong I hope I can learn how to do it right.... The stuff mesca bug said was realy helpful... So I absolutley have to use a floyd...? The neck i was planning on getting was a floating trem... what causes the floyd or kahler trems to be able to work with non-angled necks and not start style trems.... Maybe I can do something diffrent... I was going to build the guitar as an exchange of doing the normal projects instead in my woodshop class.... but we have enough wood to build about three guitar bodies... and I was planning on building another guitar after this guitar... A six string bolt-on... maybe I could do that in my class...? just do the body... I realy want my seven string to come out great, but I don't realy wanna wait cuz i have been waiting for years.... I am planning on getting the book...melvyn hiscock book... is this the best book...? Does anybody know anything else that might help...????

See that's that kinda stuff I need to know...... I have to have a recesed bridge to avoid having a angled headstock? I didn't know that.... But actually the neck does have an angled headstock.... I donno...maybe I confused you.... I am using this neck... https://www.carvinguitars.com/products/sing...php?product=NT7 It's is a prebuild neck... Ya I figured you thought I was building the neck when you were talking about fretting.... ....I feel like there is alot of hostility here....Maybe I should explain myself better.... I am in high school and I am building a guitar with my woodshop teacher... He has extensive woodworking experience, and extensive CNC experience...22 years.... The only thing we are using the CNC for is the routing of the wings and the cavitys for pickups and bridge and electronics...I don't see that i could do anything else with the CNC... I understand if any of you are frustrated, I know how you feel, I feel the same way when a noob trys to pickup a guitar and look like an expert... But i am not arrogant... I am not a fool... I do know quiet a bit about guitars.....I understand that the guitar will not be perfectly the way I want it... and I understand you frustration in the "shortcuts" I am taking by using a CNC and a prebuild neck... but I am doing these things for two reasons.... 1. I want a guitar with the options that other guitars don't have... and no it isn't anymore expensiveto build it... It's alot cheaper... well about $500 dollars cheaper... that's alot to me.... 2. I do want to learn about building guitars but I know that I am challenged because I have not done this before... that's why I am buying a neck and using CNC... If I should buy a kit and then just assemble that first...isn't this somewhat better in the realm of learning I know that the art of luthering (sorry if that's the wrong Suffix) is a sacred art to many people and it is very honered...I understand that.... and I have no intention of dishonoring it... I just want to learn about guitars and get the guitar that has the features I want.... because it's really frustrating not having the creative tools you need available to you.... So I ask that if anyone has anything they can offer as help to please help me..... there is no way I am doing this guitar without using a CNC and a pre built neckthrough carvin neck.... I hope that I didn't offend anyone and I hope I can receive some sort of assistance.... I appreciate everything everybody has help me with SO MUCH!

I never said I don't care, I said I am not worried about it because I wanted people to help me with the stuff I need, I didn't want to be helped with tips on how to route. Of coarse I care... I want the guitar to come out nice, I am a player, not necasarily a luthier...nor do i have any want to be. I guess you guys don't realy understand..... I am not worried about the excicution because I don't need to worry about slipping...and destroying the whole thing... Also I probably won't mess up with a CNC (unless something freaky happened) because... for 1. building a bunch of scrap builds first, and were using mastercam, which has a program that will show you what your doing before you do it. 2. I am building it with someone who has been doing this kinda stuff for 22 years... 3. if the drawings are right, which they will be, because we'll make sure before we do it, the worst thing, aside from some freak accident, is that it gets set at the wrong place. But that won't happen Check reason 2. Finaly, Yes, I am building this to have a guitar. I mean ya I wanna do it by hand, and I am going to, but the reason i want to do build this guitar is because I want the options that I can put on it that wouldn't be available from any guitar unless i had a huge check book. I mean it's gonna be a neck through, seven string with a non locking floating tremolo. If I wanted to do this for learning how, I think I would start on something easy.

Wow! I didn't know I was so ignorant, (sigh) The scale length is 25.5 and the guitar is going to be 38.5 inches long. I donno...w/e...

HEllo! My name is Joshua I am building my first 7 string guitar and I need help. We are using black walnut, and carvin maple neck, It is a neck-through. We are gonna use a CNC machine, (thank God we can) So the actualy exicution of everything is no worry to me. I need help with stuff like pickup, and bridge placement, the size of the wholes, and the hole in the back for tremolo and for all the electronics. We are going to use this tremolo http://www.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=...etail&p=187 I think.... I don't wanna use a floyd or kahler, tired of all the hassel with locking, plus i am gonna use GHOST piezo later on, and they don't work on floyds or kahlers. HA! I probably should have said it's the normal, soloist kinda body, with a little twist. I think were gonna cut a indent kinda thing in the bum, like steineys (steinberger) with wings. So if anybody has any help with that also. And I looked at the tutorial on the main page, "Building an electric guitar body," I have one question, Are the holes for the pots the norm? Finally, I don't know if it matters, but i am gonna get some form of 7-string dimarzio pickups for it, I really need help on the placement, (Sorry i have already said this) on the pickups and the bridge, and the size and depths of the cuts. THANKS SO MUCH!!!! I will post pics when I get a lil farther along, right now the neck is on it's way, and the wood for the body is sitting on a disasembled lazy body in my shed this is gonna take a realy long time though, to completely finish, cause i don't have the finances realy for this at all.