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guitarmonky55

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  1. awesome thanks! thats exactly the one i was thinking of
  2. I remember a long while ago somebody here posted a tutorial for doing an LED fretmarker installation, but I cant find it because the stupid search wont let me use the word 'led' since it is less than 4 characters does anyone happen to have a link to it or can direct me to a good one? im particularly interested in the choice of what LED's were used and the way I remember the guy had placed the resistors in a channel or something but I cant remember exactly.
  3. theoretically it would. this bass however just allows many possiblities for thick harmonies across strings involving minor seconds.
  4. ooh ooh heres mine!(from ebay) Q: what is the body wood? also where did you get the pickup wound at? can you describe the sound of the bass a little more? what sort of structural support is there in the neck since theres 13 strings = about 450 lbs of pressure on the neck? A: THE BODY IS MADE OF PINE, I WOUND THE PICK-UP MYSELF, WHEN I DID HAVE IT WIRED UP IT WAS DEEP & THE NECK HAS GOT TWO TRUSS ROD'S INSIDE IT! HOPE THAT HELP'S, JIM.
  5. i almost feel like buying that bass just so i can 1) give him bad feedback and 2) see it in real life for myself for a good laugh. maybe we should all pitch in the money to buy it and make it a community humor piece. anybody notice it has a model number now? the sb13-p!
  6. so i was watching the first posted video and chuckling a bit, but then i started watching that photo slideshow and now i realize the big stink...did this dude seriously laminate a bunch of pine trim boards from home depot with duct tape and try to make a 13 string bass from it? this is a joke? haha he has a slipknot tatoo on his left arm. what a knob. for a second edit....what use is a truss rod if you gouge 2 channels in the neck and then glue plywood on top of them?
  7. http://www.thewoodwell.com/ ive gotten a few from these guys. really cheap and they sell pretty big ones. their flame maple veneer was big enough to cover a flying v!
  8. hondo huh. ok cool. there was a jackson logo on the headstock that i guess i took at face value but then again it did look kind of funny and i wonder if the guy who was working on it before me added it himself for whatever reason. he did alot of strange things to this guitar and basically trashed it and color-penciled really poorly drawn flames onto the top, along with adding alot of dents and gouges that i had to fill. he was a real knob who apparently always insisted on eating bananas onstage at shows because it made him play faster???
  9. thats a really old beat to **** jackson rhoads v that i bought almost 3 years ago for 25 bucks. i had posted a few questions about work on it 2 summers ago when i was working on it, and then i got really busy and had to leave it. anyways so i pulled it back out and finished the staining and am starting to clearcoat it. right now the photo you see it is drying from the grain filler i used to level out the flamed maple. that maple is just a paper thin veneer btw, the actual guitar is plywood underneath the staining was pretty simple, took me a while to figure out how to get it to not bleed though. I shot a really thin coat of clear nitro on it and then sanded with 400 grit, then drew the design on and cut thin grooves along the lines with an exacto knife. didnt bleed at all after i get the top sanded level ill start clearcoating hte whole thing. i like
  10. you know youre right it is galvanized steel. I was just running my mouth when I said aluminum. It came from a roll of that roof flashing that we had lying around. I dont have near as much time to tinker with guitars and such as I used to, as playing is my primary focus and takes up almost all of my time now. I like this single coil driver, and i may mess with some of hte more advanced drivers you guys are working with if time permits.
  11. So i dusted off some of my magnet wire and wound up a driver and such this morning since ive been toying with the idea of buying a fernandes for my ibanez s. I quickly wired up a (roughly) little gem circuit with parts i scrounged from various places and i have a really awesome sounding sustainer! I made the driver from magnet wire that i bought at a closing radio shack last year(30 awg), an alnico magnet from an old epiphone pickup and some cd cases. the core is a really thin piece of aluminum roof flashing. I think i may have just gotten lucky with the right combo of found parts, because this thing works really well! thanks to everyone who has spent so much time figuring this stuff out. its awesome! now im off to go permanent mount it in my guitar.
  12. An aside first..Ive been tinkering with drivers from the ongoing stream of conciousness on the sustainer thread over the last few years. really cool stuff, although ive never been able to put together a really good solid one, but thats just my own technical skills with building. I seriously want one of the fernandez sustainers. I have an ibanez s series and i wanted to see about putting in the sustainer kit for guitars with neck humbuckers. I was wondering 2 things - 1) does anyone know where to buy one, because they seem to be discontinued or massively out of stock and 2) has anyone installed one, and can give advice on problems/tricks installing them?
  13. actually taking out the zero point bar took care of my problem. Now it reacts to where I can whack the bar down and get that 'cat pur' sound like Vai does and its just much better all around. Thanks for the help everyone!
  14. hmm i suppose i should try disabling the zero point deal...is that just the metal bar with the small springs in the cavity? If youre familiar with it that is...i think ill try that first then.
  15. So I have an ibanez s1620 with a zr trem in it...and i dont really like it. Because of the unconventional mechanism it doesnt do alot of the out there whammy tricks ala steve vai that you can get with other trems like the edges and floyd rose and whatnot. So basically im looking for routing templates/size specs on the ZR and on preferably any of the edge bridges that have been used in the jem guitars over the years, ive been unable to find any so far. Im looking to see how much work it would be to switch the unit out, as I love the guitar and the whammy is an important part of what I do so i would like one that I am more comfortable with.
  16. steve vai most definitely doesnt have a gain in his guitar. i know what youre talking about though, he does it on the intro solo to 'i know youre here' on the g3 denver dvd. basically hes got that searing tone dialed in, but he kills his volume and throws some neck pickup in the mix. i approximate the same effect on my ibanez s1620 when i perform that song, you just hit the volume knob to get up to high gain.
  17. i had a cool idea for onboard wah stemming from a misconception i held in my early guitar days. i used to mistake the sound of a wah pedal for that of a whammy bar(i didnt know the difference between pitch change and tone change, seeing as i had absolutely NO musical background nor did my family). put a wah in the control cavity, and a small spring loaded mini whammy bar type contraption by the bridge. when you engage it the default position is the extreme toe position of a normal wah, and pushing to the body drops into the heel position of a regular wah. are those inductorless wahs any good? because if i can build one that sounds good ill add this to my frankenphone guitar instead of just talking about it all the time.
  18. damn that site is killer! i especially like the fact that it displays the note names on each note of the scale, as my biggest trouble is memorizing the actual notes of the scales.
  19. now ive never actually tried to do this but its just a suggestion im throwing out there. maybe you should leave some flat surfaces on the wings to give you something to clamp, and then after gluing is complete you can finish cutting out the body shape.
  20. thanks. bar magnet, ive got that part figured out. just wanted to double check before i wound my second coil. going well so far, 6.45k onthe first one, hand wound with a lego machine
  21. ok im winding my first humbucker. i did the first coil, and onto the second i realized im unsure of something. to get teh humbucking effect, do the coils have to be wound reverse? im unclear as ive read places that show diagrams clearly stating that both coils go the same direction but are wired up in a certain manner whereas some others show the coils wound in opposite directions. any help is greatly appreciated.
  22. ive got quite a few successful pedal builds under my belt, so unlike my lowly pitifuly lacking experience in luthiery areas, i can give advice here 1st off i would say, DONT buy your stuff from radio shack, you will pay way too much for mediocre parts. frys is good but still going to be a tad more than you will pay online. they do have hammond aluminum boxes for a good price, so you cant argue with that. dont even bother with their semiconductors though, its a headache and a half to work out which nte replacement you have to get. my suggestion, even though you say you would rather buy locally, is to order from steve at www.smallbearelec.com. his business is run with the intention of providing all the parts needed for guitar stompbox makers, and his prices and service are unbeatable! pretty much everyone in the DIY community goes to him for their stuff, especially when in need of more obscure parts like older NOS germanium trannies and such. good luck with the fuzz, and dont forget to put a blue led indicator in for that extra cool effect
  23. its mildly messy. i used a dremel and the cd case method ive read about in other threads here(hooray for a newb that uses the search ) once i got to cutting the shapes and such the plastic got a bit soft, i sanded the edges best i can but the blades have some room in their slots. http://photobucket.com/albums/b334/guitarmonky55/pickup/ <----pics there the base of the pickup and the magnet are pulled from an old epiphone pickup that came in my g-400. the core of the bobbin is made from popsicle sticks. i glued 3 together, slit them for the blade and then shaved them down with the sanding barrel of the dremel. the blades were some old hex wrench things i found in my garage(well technically parents, im only 17 ). i cut them down and ground with the dremel. they seem to conduct the magnetism very well, when i touch the magnet to them they have basically equal strength to the magnet alone. im quite anxious to get started on this. i plan on putting it in my long long time project of rebuilding a beat up old flying v(im working on a really cool stained-design right now, ill post pics when done). i built a hand winder from my old legos(i knew theyd be useful someday!). its relatively slow, i practiced with the wire i took off from an old epi coil that was around 5k(i think this is awg43 too not sure). it took about 20 minutes to wind. im content, i have nothing better to do anyway seeing as i have a buttload of wire for now, i plan on doing some experimental things. i want to try some of those rare earth magnets i see everyone discussing in the sustainer thread. and i have a few ideas for odd bobbin shapes/configurations/magnet placements and stuff. seeing as these pickups so far are costing me the price of wire i should be good to goof off for a while. and yeah psw if you mean diystompboxes.com or guitarlodge.com i frequent both of those(although im still a mega noob in pedals, only 4 built and they look like ass so i dont talk as much as listen over there) [edit] and about the electronics shops, ive searched high and low for a good one around houston and havent found one reasonably close enough(im out in sugar land, a suburb with too many rap fans) [2nd edit] and psw great job on those sustainers, im definitely going to build one over the next week or 2 as im very intrigued by this whole idea. im currently cooking up(the plans for) a 2 necked jem style guitar with a fretless neck and i think i may have found the perfect complement for the fretless.
  24. john355. he had some other 44 gauge up for like 21 bucks for 1.8lbs i think. may still be there i dont know.
  25. well...nvm! the same seller who had some 44 gauge wire up on ebay a few days back just listed a 1.6lb roll for 18.95 buy it now...so i bought it now! steal considering stewmac sells 1/2lb for 23 or so dollars.
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