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  1. american_jesus
    man, that looks GREAT! i love the look of the maple, a very distinct, but very minimal, figure(whatever it is) with some crazy cool grain underneath. nice looking top. definately a candidate for a clear finish.
  2. american_jesus
    mmkay, you're doing a neck through right? if i were you, i would have put the top as a solid piece, covering the neck through part, unless you're doing some nifty laminations. also, are you going to bevel(i think that's the word) the edges, so it's like a normal SG, or are the sides going to be sharp like they are?
  3. american_jesus
    dont forget the belt buckle rash on the back... should be cool. i've always like blue guitars, and LPB is quite possibly the secksiest color there is. hope you do a good job on the relicing. i want to see pics when you're done man! LOTS!
  4. american_jesus
    you're using a 24 fret neck, that's the problem. you're going to have to move the neck pickup to accomidate the extra 2 frets.
  5. american_jesus
    question for you, how did you get the checking in the finish? it looks like something that actually happened naturally, rather than reliced. and maybe it's just me, but if you want the look of a 62, you need to dull down the paint a little bit. still very bright and shiny(at least in those pictures).
  6. american_jesus
    His neck joint is loose, that's why we need to do this. well...good lcuk.
  7. american_jesus
    it looks very nice, bet it plays well too. just a question tho, doesn't really matter, but did you buy the body and neck, then just assemble the amp and parts? or did you build the whole thing from scratch?
  8. american_jesus
    nice finish. since i first saw someone do a finish like that(no prep on an open grain, to show the frain through the paint) i've liked it. carvins are notoriously good, so i'm glad you got one.
  9. american_jesus
    looks great! gonne be orange?! eh....no thanks...but it does look nice natural.
  10. american_jesus
    that thing's gonna sound...weird... ebony body?! good luck dude...gonna be just a BIT on the heavy side. ya know, about 16 pounds...shouldn't be TOO aweful bad.
  11. american_jesus
    that is a VERY nice looking piece setch. the color is beautiful. the only thing i would change on that would be a very slighly flamed top. nothing extreme, no AAA tops, just some very light flame.
  12. american_jesus
    what do all the knobs do..i'm confuzzled...
  13. american_jesus
    sand her off, get the decal, put it on, cover in laqeur, and sand to bury.
  14. american_jesus
    "Why would harder Maple be tonally superior to a softer variety?" Density my friend. sound waves can travel through a denser material much easier than it can a less dense material, allowing more of the wood tone to be produced.
  15. american_jesus
    there's a guy on ebay that'll chrome a bolt neck guitar body for you. i can't seem to find him right now, but if i run into it, i'll post up in here again
  16. american_jesus
    i was thinking more taking off the octave strings, to use the wider neck as a 6 stringer
  17. american_jesus
    well, it's got a wide neck, and if he wanted 1/4 inch action or so, it very well could have been the makings of a slide guitar.
  18. american_jesus
    i was thinking about this last night. Strat style body ash body maple neck/fretboard color would be a black burst, with black in the middle and a fringe of deep green towards the edge of the guitar, non transparent. controls routed from back, and pickup routes for 3 single coils with pickup rings and chrome pickup covers. fender 2 pt trem clear plexiglass pickguard like aregular strat pickguard, with enlarged holes for the pickups(due to the rings), and nothing over the controls. pretty much it...
  19. american_jesus
    i figured it'd be balanced, but that was the first thing that struck me in that picture, it looks a little lopsided. how does she sound? i think that's the real question.
  20. american_jesus
    ..........................wow...that looks like it'd be uncomfortable to play tho, all the little edges grabbing your forearm...
  21. american_jesus
    looks nice, but seems a bit unbalanced. the left side(on the bottom photo) looks like it's larger, and the recesses for the knee and whatever look kind of off. still looks nice, but the body just struck me a little weird. what wood is that on the back? looks beautiful!
  22. american_jesus
    i doodle constantly. most of the time it's nonsensical drawings, and random patters that have nothing to do with anything, but every now and then i stumble onot something cool, like a finish idea i had. a gradient color from light to dark, OVER a burst, with the headstock being black and a very light haze over the middle to top of the body. looked pretty cool, but it has absolutely no practical way to be painted.
  23. american_jesus
    yeah, but just because it's a guitar as well, doesn't mean it has to have an obtrusive piece of metal.
  24. american_jesus
    it could also be that the peghead was too thin for the tuners they were about to put on, and needed a thicker piece of wood there.
  25. american_jesus
    very cool looking, does it sound much different?
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