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Thanks, I'm going to work some more on it tonight, hopefully get it stringed up and see if it's playable at all

...btw I heard Finland was the land of a thousand lakes...

You shure are a quiet bunch...

anyway, I routed for the floyd rose now and if you look close enough you can see I installed 3 tuners as well.

I noticed on the tutorial that you glue 2 pieces of wood together for a body, can't you just use 1 big piece? :S

Of course you can...it's just more exensive

I'm gonna build my first guitar soon and plan on making most bad-ass guitar I've ever played.

Sounds like a pretty much standard RG though...

For your questions, you probably have to make them a lot more specified.

Help with tuning knobs?...what sort of help do you want?

Same with neck material, what sort of help are you looking for. Maple is fine and is probably the most common neck material.

Use the search feature and your questions will probably be answered ten times over.

The effects you spoke of does seem like the way to go for a profit margin. Have you ever looked at the price boutique effects are selling for, and the price of the components. The margin is huge!

If you built a good sounding effect the size of a rackmount you'd probably be able to sell that for quite a lot of money, if you market it right.

Of course, you arent taking into consideration, a bunch of other factors that determine just how much your profit will be, AND how many you'll sell:

rent

hourly rate and time to assemble per unit

design time

marketting (adverts, websites, posters, pamphlets)

markup (retail takes 40% MINIMUM on large $$$ items, more for smaller items)

product failure

product warranty

tools for production

stock

distribution costs

time setting up distribution

business registration costs

insurance

bla bla bla

true if you wanted to start up a business on a bigger scale. If you want to make effect pedals and sell them one by one as a side thing a lot of the factors are rationalized

rent - I don't see why no-one couldn't solder at home.

hourly rate and time to assemble per unit - this wasn't intended to make a living off. But yeah, you probably have to realize that you might not have the greatest houryly salary.

design time - He did say he already had some designs.

marketting (adverts, websites, posters, pamphlets). Selling on-line would probably be the way to go.

markup (retail takes 40% MINIMUM on large $$$ items, more for smaller items) - Doesn't seem like he wanted to sell his stuff through a retailer though...

product failure - good point, gotta make shure that everything you send out the door is good enough not to come back.

product warranty - good point

tools for production - Assuming since he's an electronics geek he'd have most of the required stuff.

stock - small scale would probably be smarter to sell them as they're finished.

distribution costs - Customer pays for shipping??

time setting up distribution - not a major factor on such a small scale.

business registration costs- different due to what country you live in. On a very small scale this could probably be overlooked.

insurance - not a big worry on a very small scale either.

bla bla bla

I'd say don't spend large amounts of your money at once and be desperate to sell it.

And also reading your last post made it seem like you were still going with the "putting expensive parts in cheap guitars"-idea. Honestly it is a very bad idea, why would someone pay someone else, with no experience, to put extra stuff that they don't get to choose themselves , into a guitar that they don't get to choose.

The probability of you finding a customer who wants that exact combination of hardware and guitar, and who is willing to pay more than the guitar+parts for you to install them, is very slim.

I still say go with the effects pedals.

i've a few ideas for them, but they're really awkward to make, and would end up pretty big (like the size of a rackmount). I was tempted to have a go at building a pedal into a guitar? like take one apart and just wire the circuit into the guitar's body?

I have serious doubt that that would be profitable.

The effects you spoke of does seem like the way to go for a profit margin. Have you ever looked at the price boutique effects are selling for, and the price of the components. The margin is huge!

If you built a good sounding effect the size of a rackmount you'd probably be able to sell that for quite a lot of money, if you market it right.

Finally took some progress pictures with a real camera.

Since that picture I've also routed for the neck pickup.

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headstock view

I bought an AC30 yesterday and the thing is extremely loud, when I wanted to play at low volume i had to turn the volume knob to 0 and then breathe lightly on it.

Their shipping to sweden was both fast and cheap. Nothing but good things to say about the shipping and products.

No it's not the brushscript font. Just look at the E's

I've now planed the boards and I really love the grain pattern. I will probably put an oil finish on this one.

hello...i like your username.

all you swedes are cool anyway...gotta love acountry full of metalheads

Gotta agree with you that Swedes are cool.....But this guy's Swiss...

dude...that's a sick-ass 'tar. Keep the body as is. Cept paint it black.

are you missing some keys?

Bought ash for the body today, found a nice supplier for wood now....

Do you mind sharing the name? I have a very good lokal suplier (stockholm) for Mahogany (even for one piece bodies), valnut, maple (got some flamed maple last time) and some other spieces. Only proble is that I have to buy whole planks. A 22" wide, 2" thick and 8 meters long board costed me like 6000 Swedish crowns last time. Maybee I can sell you some from my stash in the futute and vice verse

Interwood in Gothenburg. they had a pretty big warehouse...I was in a bit of a hurry and didn't really look around for that long, but it looked like they had lots of stuff.

Many sizes of mahogany.

I bought a 2,5m long 5cm thick and 16 cm wide board for 400 crowns (american ash).

I'll contact you for future projects if you've got some spare wood to sell.

Out of curiosity, what did you end up doing with the fretboard/scale length?

I bought new wood for the neck and kept it at the original scalelength.

I like the shape...

but what happened to the routes? did you end up not using the templates?

Bought ash for the body today, found a nice supplier for wood now....

any progress?

I'm pretty shure the US has officially converted 4 times already...

Sweden...

About inches and mm?...can't everyone just agree to use mm's instead

...give me one advantage that using inches and feet has over the SI system.

I don't think this guy is really serious with his black and white views on everything...he sounds like a christian defending creationism.

Anyway...this is a quote from his website

if they are using some solid state or, god forbid, a digital amp, they should not get a Zach.

And this is a picture apparently taken at the guy's house.

Gotta get my parents to pick these up...

Progressive isn't a generic term at all - it's a label for technical playing, odd time signatures, and frequent tempo changes. Nothing generic about that at all.

Dream Theater and Opeth got a good start in the music scene around the same time, I wouldn't imagine either being influncial to each other at the start of their work.

Why can't progress be made in any other way than making music harder to play?...Shouldn't progressive music be about makin better music? As far as I'm concerned, just because you're the only one who can play a certain piece doesn't mean that that music is the best you can play. If you define progressive music as odd time signatures and technical playing etc, I think that that's just gonna be an obstruction for making truly progressive music.

Why set up guidelines along wich one should progress?...seems contradictary to me.

The thing is that there's often no evidence at all to back these 'theories'...they are just theories that made enough sense to someone for them to actually write it down. Just because someone wrote it doesn't make it true. That's the biggest problem with the internet, there is noone to stop articles from being published. And you have to be at least 10x as critical to things you read than usual.