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you could get a schematic for your amp possibly. at some point in that amp, 120AC is getting converted to around 12V DC after the amps transformer. You could *probably* get away with simply tapping off of that 12V source, due to the low current draw of your LEDs. you best be damn sure you've got your wiring correct though.

there is already a thread on this in the electronics section...

Capacitors act like a filter, and the differences in sound you hear when using a capacitor is because some range of the sound spectrum is being attenuated, meaning that your 'knocking down' a particular frequencies range's amplitude. in a low-pass filter, for instance, your letting the original voltage of the lower (bass) frequencies through, and attenuating the higher (treble) frequencies. you can search on the net and find all kinds of diagrams using capacitors and inductors in filter design for audio electronics. if youre going to be designing anything in audio, it pays to buy the best parts possible as far as tolerances for resistors, caps , etc as far as the power goes.... most of the barrell shaped caps should be fine for what your doing...

might as well buy the higher power resistors, better to be safe than sorry. the rating determines the total power dissipation before the resistor breaks down. heres some formulas... Power = voltage*current Power = voltage^2/resistance Power = current^2 * resistance what kind of voltages and currents are we talking about here??

I was casually following that lazyderek thread, i noticed a link to his webpage where he went through the steps along with some nice pictures. From what I can gather from the pictures, he did a pretty nice job (albeit a bit on the late side) then I noticed the price, $90!. Doesn't this seem a bit on the cheap side? It seems like anything else hand made, its a pretty labour intensive process and youve got to at least pay yourself a decent rate for doing it. Im just curious, no need to give away secrets, but what would you have charged for a neck job similar to dereks? EDIT: im really not trying to open up a can of worms here, so lets not crank up the flames

one word buddy -- Charo!!!!!

My amp dont go to 11 lol, its still loud though Curtis "But these here go to elevun"

i like the medley idea mentioned earlier.. how about finding a cheese ball emo song, and then find an old school metallica song which is in the same key. 20 seconds in you drop the hammer and turn the amps to 11.

how did your problem with tear-out end up? just a word of advice if you go the hand plane route. MAKE sure the plane is set-up and sharpened. I ruined some wood the other day because my blade was dull. Find yourself a nice older Stanley no5 or no4 plane. I think a guy is selling one on PG somewhere.

Hi Guys, I sent out an email to the guy that owns TimTone guitars TimTone homepage, Tim Diebert, as well as a bunch of other guitar makers on the web. This is the first reply I got back from him personally, so I figured I'd post it: His Quote: "Hi Scott. Thanks for the compliments. My website is built and designed to expose my work to potential clients. The more visitors I get, the better. Even under your described circumstances. But having said that....I would like to add that though I don't consider the use of my images for viewing as 'theft', I do mind folks blatantly copying my designs and construction details. Not at a home hobbyist level, but at a commercial level. Have fun. Cheers, TT" I'll post the others as soon as I get replies.

boy that's a red herring if i've ever seen one... bottom line is you guys should try to act like adults and back up your arguments with facts instead of acting like children. and no, asm im not trying to point you out. but it seems from the argumentative tone that your taking the argument personally.

My, what a can of worms this picture posting has opened up. Firstly there are a few scenarios here that need to be clarified, and I'm not sure they have been yet: 1) Hot-linking pictures from the guitar makers site: issue a): bandwidth 'stealing' from original guitar maker issue b ): load time for project guitar browsers on 56k phone lines. 2) Posting a URL to original guitar makers pictures through a text url link. issue a) still taking bandwidth should a PG browser click the link issue b ) non-issue ... only text link is loaded, instead of image. 3) Hot-linking to ones own work on ones own website/free host issue a) non-issue, person who posted the hotlink pays for bandwidth issue b ) load time still a problem for PG browser on 56k line 4) Posting a url to ones OWN work on ones OWN website/free host issue a) non-issue, person who posted the hotlink pays for bandwidth issue b ) non-issue 56ker's have a choice of which link to click and which to not click Judging by the various points that have been brought up, its seems like scenario 4) is the only acceptable solution. In all the other scenarios you're either taking bandwidth or swamping a topic with images that a 56ker has no chance of loading in a reasonable amount of time. Let's do some math regarding hotlinking or test url linking to another site. I have a domain hosted through register.com. its $19.95/month. I get 9Gb of bandwidth. Let's say the average sized pic i'm serving out is 100k. In order for all of my bandwidth to be consumed I would have to serve out 90,000 pics in one month. Is it possible that even 1/10 of my bandwidth could be taken by PG linking and hotlinking? maybe? Is it a problem for a site owner come bill time? maybe. In my opinion there is little, if any difference from a 'bandwidth stealing' point of view between hotlinking and normal linking. With regard to bandwidth usage, it's the damn same thing. A simple right click on an image tells you all you need to know about where it came from. Also, I don't know about you guys but when I see a url ending in .jpg, I click it. There is still a 'serving' of a picture from an owners site through a "path" not normally used. i.e. the image wasn't found using the traditional: visit to the makers home page; then a click to the gallery page; and a click on an image in on a gallery page. Arguments can be made for and against this kind of linking. Of course theres the fact that some obscure maker's work could all of a sudden be exposed to people all across the country and globe. Could it drum up some business? maybe and possibly. I think any guitar maker would consider this as free advertising, even if a chunk of bandwidth is taken. I certainly would. Then there's the ego boost and respect issue associated with someone actually taking time to post a link to an image on your website work because they liked it so much. Then there's the ridiculous argument that an image should be copied from an originators website and then hosted somewhere else in order to save the originator his bandwidth. This seems just plain silly. As soon as that image ends up on another server, the 'link' between guitar and maker is suddenly blurred and you've got a moral and legal issue on your hands. Unless the name on the headstock can be plainly seen, someone looking at the image isnt going to have a snowballs chance in hell of determining a maker. This just shouldn't be done unless permission has been granted. The bottom line: Hotlinking shouldn't be done for the benefit of 56k people out there. And due to bandwidth issues ... (that are still and wont be tangible unless someone actually takes some statistics from one of the more-viewed threads on PG in order to determine just how much bandwidth is getting taken unknowingly from a site) anyway just trying to stick my nose in here, make a couple points, and try to clarify the situation.

congrats , pics of said guitars?

but ill post it anyway.. http://www.bobbyyang.com/video/750kb.htm

sounds good man, congrats. post some more clips

hmm, that's too bad because now we're only able to see half the conversation in the thread. Some of them looked like decent threads too.

are all gone?

Ahh, ok, wasn't aware of the difference between a text url link and a "hot" link.

Just a quick question/comment. I posted a link to the TimTone site instead of just grabbing and posting individual links to pictures. You seem to be saying that it's OK to grab the pic, save it, alter it by resizing, and then hosting the pics on your own, so its your bandwidth being used. yes? But, I can only imagine (of course I really can't speak for him) that the Timtone guy would want people to somehow associate his guitar with his site, if for no other reason than for the sake of good advertising. For instance, I would much rather have someone look at my original picture at www.timtone.com/mypic.jpg, rather than a smaller version of my pic being hosted at some www.geocities.com/xyz/mypic.jpg website. Who knows if someone lurking on this site sees a custom guitar, wants to look into buying one, but can't because the pic is hosted at someplace other than the craftsman's own site, therefore all association between maker and guitar is lost. anyhow, it sounds like this topic has been beaten to death, but it was unclear in my mind why the hotlinking to pics on other sites was a no-no. -Scott

I have a late-model SG standard. I was thinking of sanding the neck down. I've been playing my friends strat lately, and i just seem to fly on that neck, whereas on the SG it just seems like my hand is impeded by the paint. Maybe it's just me. Also, I've seen an interview where Zakk Wylde raves about how he's sanded down all his necks. Has anyone done this? I'd like to hear some comments about playability.

I'd have to say that this guy produces some of the nicest stuff i've ever seen. Tim Tone

actually i think i am wrong about how i came across ProE...Thinking back to a year ago, I'm pretty sure my friend brought it back from China... They were selling full copies on the street for $15.00. mastercam? wow. i've been looking at their site for a couple months now. they have some cool stuff.

HAHAH! You running the latest solidworks? im trying to use one of the programs to download said program. I got ProE using a similar method a while back, awesome program...

At this point I think it would be best to forget about the CNC until you've done some serious reading (like a few hours a day for a few weeks) on the subject. What are you trying to do? carve one guitar? If thats the case take your time and do it by hand. period. Or get a cheap CAD program and attempt to design it, and then get someone to rout the body. heres some of what youre going to need to do in order to accomplish your goal: 1. Read, read, read 2. Download or purchase a CAD program like Autocad, after all a guitar is 3 dimensions and you're going to need to know how to come up with a realization of the guitar using some sort of CAD program. You'll probably need to take a lot of time to learn this step, otherwise you'll need to get a file from someone. How are you going to represent oddly curved surfaces? drawing cavities for pickups == easy.... representing a whole guitar in 3 dimensions for routing == an order of magnitude harder. You can buy software to make this step easier, but its going to blow your budget. 3. now there is the learning curve for the cnc machine itself. setup, maintenance, etc, etc. youll need to dig through application manuals, have specialized training in setting up and prepping your work pieces and work area.... be prepared to have tons of scrap pieces to experiment on. because when your cnc is set up on day 1, youre not going to get anthing decent until you learn the machine and the application software. could take a few weeks. why dont you google some of these keywords: "wood" "woodworking" "wood lathe" "milling" "CNC" "stepper motor" "servo motor" "linear rail" "ball screw" "vacuum table" etc, etc, etc Contact a mid to large size sign shop in your area and ask them to give you a demonstration if they have a CNC machine, or even a manual milling machine. Youll gain some insight there. Youre in High school right? volunteer a couple days a week at a local machine shop, even if it is just looking over a guys shoulder and asking questions. in return youll sweep up some metal chips or something. You'll gain an understanding of the difficulty and expense of what youre trying to do. If you can't answer simple questions like "what is an 'axis'?" "what the heck is meant by 3-axis" "whats a gantry" "whats a G code" "whats a router" "what does CAD stand for" etc, etc. then you need to hit the net and the books, junior....

monkey, You seem to want dive into the CNC pool before dipping your toe in first. The bottom line is this: You need to do a literal CRAPLOAD (for lack of a better term) of research before buying any kind of cnc machine. $3000 for a cnc machine? I'd say the $3000 cnc machine is a bit of a pipe dream, unless it is of questionable quality. The development costs alone make a $3k machine impossible. You'll see base machines advertised for $5000-7500, but by the time you add on all the additional items in order to make the machine do what you want it to do... you've all of a sudden broken $10k ... easily. Plus you really need to be fluent in CNC-ese before talking to any of these sales guys or engineers. There are several books Id be happy to recommend if youre really interested. I'm about $1200 into my endevour, and I still need to by quite a few more parts before I can start putting things together. Then, I'll need to shell out some money for milling work, luckily I know some people in the business, so this won't be too bad. After that, I'll still need to demo and purchase software. And while there are packages out there for $100-500 that will provide the bare bones milling routines, eventually I'm going to have to spend some serious cake if I want the machine to be able do anything close to serious. My interest in CNCs is turning into a really serious hobby, rather than just some idea i thought up one afternoon. I'm willing to spend some cash to make a machine that ultimately will be able to give me a bit of return on my investment. If not, then I have a cool machine that I can make all kinds of stuff with. Guitars are really, and have always been an afterthought as far as the machine goes. I got interested in guitar building so I could hand craft guitars, not so I could have a machine do all the work. Im not against using the machine to rough out bodies and necks now and then though, or perform some scary cuts that I dont have the guts to make yet, or rout out necks and bodies for other people. But ill probably stick to the sharp chisel method.