68 lost souls

Ok its about time I say a few things about this as I posed the question.

The guitar Im aiming for is to have it as versitile as possible. I hace the electronics mostly sorted out and the shape of the body (apart from the thickness) sorted out aswel as the neck, fingerboard and headstock. I have the woods pretty much picked out. The fret wire picked out, the truss rod etc. I just need to decide on the bridge and nut and possibly tuners.

If I get a floyd I will user black grover tuners and a OFR locking nut. At the moment on my favourate guitar I have a TOM with a stop tail. I miss a trem though because I want to be able to get that sound. I figured that a OFR was the best trem around.

What are your thoughts on the TOM trem that they sell on STEW MAC but not sure. http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bridges,_tailp...es.html#details

If I use this with locking tuners would it stay in tune and is there anyway to make them black?

What are your thoughts on the mustang tremelo?

What else would you suggest?

Thanks

The inlay has cjanged a little. Its not exactly that but the basic heart is the same. I am changing the things sticking out, dunno what to call them.

Ill try and post pics of the inlay ideas once I get a chance.

Yeah the wood I said earlier is red aswel thats why I was using it because Im putting the gibson finish on aswel.

No the strings I should change are my bros spanish guitars, 12 years and going strong. They sound horribal and are all grimy and stuff. Got new strings just have to get my hands on it.

Yeah but I have had my epi sg with a TOM in it and only had to change 1 string in it since I got it last december, so haveing to change it twice would be twice the more breakage

Huge congratulations!!!

Lots of different types.

Why not check gibson.com

The main wood used though is mahogany.

I have read alot about floyd rose trems and there seems to be alot of negative feedback about them. I want to know if I should put one into my guitar, theres alot of people saying they dont stay intune and the strings break easily, is this true?

How hard is it to change strings?

I will be getting original floyd rose (if any) as I dont want to risk with a lower quality replica and I dont want to have to buy special strings for the speedloader.

Please

Thanks

It kind of stops working after you put on the vineer.

Site dont work

Heres the inlay Im planning on putting on the 11th - 13th frets (stretching across them)

What do you think of using bobunga or goncalo alvez with a black ebony?

If I use guncalo alvez I wont have to buy much extra wood as I am using that for the neck anyway.

Im going to be putting an macasar ebony fingerboard on my guitar and I will be doing some custom inlay on both the fingerboard and the head of the guitar. I dont want to use MOP or any other standard inlay material as I want something different.

I was thinking of using a different type of wood to make the inlays out of. What wood do you think would look good?

I may use the same wood I inlay the fingerboard with to laminate the headstock and use ebony to inlay that. Any thoughts?

Thanks

Check guitarbuild.com they have a download section with a cad programe available for download and also they have alot of plans already done for you.

Im putting in a floyd. I think that should cover the neck angle otherwise ill just cut the neck at an angle. And I was planning on recessing the floyd.

Also would it be ok then to make the mahogany 1 1/4" so as to make the body the standard 1 3/4" thickness.

Will push pull pots fit in a 1 3?4" body?

Im thinking of making my neckthrough out of a Goncalo alves neck with mahogany wings. I want to finish it using the gibson voodoo finish so Im going to put a top of swamp ash on it and also to hide the two tone wood at the back Ill put another laminate of swamp ash. My quesion is what thickness should I use for things. I was thinking of 1 1/2" mahogany with the laminates being 1/4" . That would meen that the goncalo alves (the neck) will only be 1 1/2" through the body.

Is that thick enough?

Have you got any other suggestions that would help?

Thanks

I read in a tutorial on making templates that this guy sanded a pencil in half to trace the guitar accuritly i.e. to keep the pencil flush at all times. My question is do you just stick some tape on the side so that the led doesnt rub onto the finished guitar your tracing?

Thanks

Does the placement of tuning heads matter. If so could you direct me to information about it please,

thanks.

Do you know what type of saw if not could you describe it and or post pics. Not all saws are suitable for guitar building.

It will be a floyd rose original, Im only drawing up the plans at the mo and Im trying to figure out the best place to get the fingerboard etc. is. SO as it is I dont have any of the parts so measuring things is not an option.

Mellmo thanks for the link

LMII sells fingerboard that are preslotted. They have 1/2" before the first fret slot on the one I want. Is this enough space to put in a floyd rose nut?

Thanks super-jag

I was wondering if anyone could link to that painting supplies site that people always refer to I cant ember the name of it?

EDIT: OK founfd it. Reranch isnt it?

Whats the best thing to use to paint a body if you dont have access to a spray?

Whats the trem on it like, does it stay in tune at all and what is the sustain like with it compared to floyd.

Dunno which I should get a floyd or mustang bridge, the mustang bridge should be cheaper thats the main thing but I want to get the better of the two?

Im trying to solve this problome aswel because Im planning my neckthrough sg, I think one way of doing it is getting a thicker neck then normal and then cutting it at the angle until the point it meets the body

Could you please elaborate on those calculations and there methods,

Thanks

Also is that a wood covered pup