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Hey meeg, i'm in the same position, i'm building a replacement neck for my jackson PS2 (along with doing a whole load of other stuff to it!) I will measure my jackson neck and work out the geometry a bit later on today, when i do i'll post it on here for you. I think the higher the angle the better to be honest, surely more downward pressure is a good thing! Though if you are worried about it don't some locking nuts come with a bar that sits just behind the nut? This would look pretty old school and could be used to apply the downward pressure without any neck angle? Let me know what you think.

Hey everyone, i don't know if anyone has tried this but it seems possible to me, basically i want to have some piezos in a guitar i'm planning but i am using a tone pros tune o matic bridge which is being re radiused to about 19", doing this to piezo saddles will apparently make the volume different for each string. So i got thinking...what about piezos under the nut? I know its slightly more awkward for wiring but surely sound wise it should be as good as piezos in the bridge right? Has anyone attempted this before? Or got a good reason its a really shoddy idea? Cheers

Hey man cheers for all ure help! I'm sure it will really come in handy That makes a lot of sense about the different radii on different sections of the board, hey and it satch does it, it must be cool! j/k i spoke to tone pros and they recon its a no gower doing that to the saddles or doing anything else to the bridge to get that radius for that matter, so think i'll probably go for something a bit different...... I still really want the piezos....so i am thinking maybe a strat hardtail style bridge (saves recessing the TOM at least as i don't intend to have a neck angle) with a GHOST system. If not just a crazy thought.....but have any of u guys tried using piezos in the nut.... the wires could feed through the neck somehow? Thinking that would be as good a place sound wise as the bridge surely? Has anyone got much experience with hardtail strat style bridges? I've only used floyds up til now (had a bit of a dodgy metal phase ) Whats the advantage of the string through ones? Also which piezo system preamp?

Hi Frank, thanks for the info, do u sand all of the freboard by hand then? Just changing blocks as you go up the neck? Do you find it hard to get the cone shape accurate? I can really imagine myself making a mess out of that, doesn't it need to be incredibly precise? I think i'll definately stick with the ebony and the deep set neck then I'm glad someone other than Ed Roman uses the deep set neck, i never know whether to actually listen to a word he says. I see the logic in stopping it before the bridge tho, have you got any pictures of any guitars you have built like that? Thats a good idea with the saddles but I'm planning to use a tone pros with piezos in there...do you recon i'll have enough depth to cut the slots before i start damaging the electronics? Have you ever tried this yourself? Thanks again!

Hey everyone I'm a bit new to this but have been researching building my first guitar for a pretty long time now (a couple of years) and have pretty much decided on the spec and done a few sketches (might post later on). I won't bore u all with a detailed list of exactly what shape jack socket i plan to use etc but i do have a few questions i hope u can all help me out with 1. I want to make a 24 fret 7 ply neck (maple and bubinga) with an ebony fret board and ideally i would like to make it compound radius...I can see all the advantages for this design and have a read a few of the previous posts on it but practically am i gonna make it well enough to actually get the rewards of a superior design? Or would i be better to stick with a standard radius? I have basic woodworking skills and am a pretty practical person, probably more valuable than this i have access to my uni engineering workshop and the help of some very skilled ppl in there (not guitar builders or players). Is there any way to radius a TOM bridge to the 19" or so that is needed for a 25 1/2" scale 10" - 16" compound radius fretboard. Is the ebony gonna be so hard i'm gonna piss all the guys in engineering off by breaking all the tools? 2. I really like the idea of a deep set neck i couldn't see much about that on here, has anyone else made one? Or is it just a crap concept and i've been taken in too much by Ed Roman.....(please don't turn this into an Ed bashing!) This is my first project and I know it sounds quite ambitious but i'm willing to spend a lot of time to get it right and experiment on cheap woods first. Thanks everyone! Reading the threads here has been a real help!