Kyle Cavanaugh

Chances are, they are probably using digital circuitry to keep prices cheap. Obviously they won't sound quite as good as the orginals, but worh it if you're on a budget. If they are in fact analog though, there's no way I won't try them out, I think I will even if they are digital LOL

Yeah I figured it sounded shady, forget what I said. I hope the RIAA doesn't hear about my MP3 player BTW!

One of the main reasons I have been keeping away from making my own necks was the cost of the tools for pressing in frets. I have all the tools I need to make one of those so I most certainly will be building one! BTW, you could use steel round stock if you had to, right? Although I would be a little scared it'd damage the caul and the aluminum possibly.

put a few layers of duct tape over the area and try beating it with a mallet. Make sure you have tape covering enough area so that you don't damage the wood and\or finish. You might want to actually remove the stud and sand in the hole as such to widen it just a tad, allowing a flush fit nice and easily.

I've made it 2 or 3 times! It's a great circuit. I use a 10K pot as a volume control AFTER the preamp. It makes a guitar with PAF sounding humbuckers sound like EMG's, and no clipping like the 81 can!!

Here's my idea for a headstock, and imagine using a real battle axe for a headstock! The added mass of the steel would increase your sustain pretty well! Just watch you don't cut off your fretting hand while playing it, though!

Now if only someone would take the time to figure out how to do that with a 12-way rotary switch with a couple of waffers on it, then we'll have a winner! remembering those switch positions could be too much of a pain for the gigging guitarist!

You're saying you don't like feedback, I don't think those any of those pickups will do that on their own, instead the interaction between the speaker(s) and the pickup(s) will cause the string(s) to vibrate allowing sustain normally unobtainable. Of all those I like the lipstick tubes best, but it's your guitar. The lipstick pickup is actually one 2 1/4ish " long alnico magnet with the wire wrapped around it popped in sideways. It's pretty low noise for a single coil too! I know SRV was known to have them in a strat of his and I saw Kenny Wayne Shepard doing the same thing live. Interesting sound. I've played a guitar with the Texas Specials in them and thought they a little bit muddy and had a peak that my ears found undesirable. As for the Noiseless pups, they are really low noise, like lower than a standard humbucker (it is actually a humbucker). Although they don't exactly nail the sound of a real single-coil, they sound good to me.

I've seen that done with cheap single-coils, a bar magnet beneath the poles. It has to be one of the poles directly beneath or on the side. That will probably saturate the bottom part of the coil with magnetism, I don't know about the rest. It will also make it more linear output-wise because there is a more uniform magnetic field acrossed the coil. Here's an idea, Nd 38 magnets can be used to recharge alnico magnets, right? how about putting 6 individual circular ones on the bottom of the poles. Super AlNiCo! Seriously though, someone's gotta try this! I don't use any alnico single coils myself, sorry. I'm addicted to humbuckers, especially now that I know how to build preamps allowing me to get just as much note definition while retaining it's wider harmonic spectrum.

Oh yeah,I forgot to mention, you might want to consider getting a wall wart power supply so you don't go wasting batteries.

I wouldn't connect the ground to the Rheostat. It will add a second load in parallel to it that draws about 360 mA; quite a lot from a 9v battery. In a series circuit, consider both the motor and the rheostat resistors. The higher resistance of the two will have more voltage going acrossed it, they will both have the same current. The voltages of the two (or more) will always sum up to 9V. As the resistance increases, the current drops. Obviously, with less voltage, comes less speed. If you want the lowest speed turned to the left and the highest speed turned to the right, wire it like this (shown from the back side, not the adjustment side): As well as that, I recomend wiring in series with that, a resistor 2-5 times the value of the motor resistance (I hope you have a multimeter!) and is able to handle the wattage. This will keep the voltage and current down and keep you from causing a short with you motor and blowing up your battery and\or motor (I'm guessing it's less than 5 ohms). It's also common practice to wire a .1uF (104) cap in parallel with the motor. I highly recommend reading up on Ohm's Law if you haven't done so already. Do a search, there's plenty of sites that give you that info for free.

I can't wait until that thing comes out once you find a manufacturer. I'll totally get one! I'd say Gotoh and Schaller would be two companies to inform about it. Comparing the design of Hipshot's Trem-Setter and your Tremol-no, I'd say yours looks like it might work more smoothly (not to mention you can turn off the trem) and doesn't require as much work to install. The Deep-C sounds like it'd be great for all the floating Floyds like on Ibanezes. I've installed a piece of wood to do what that does. Looks like anyone capable of a basic trem setup can install your invention. Wow, it's a bottle opener, too! LMAO Did you send a unit out to Floyd Rose? Do you have a patent? Maybe I'll get too axious and make my own! LOL

Fixed links: http://fullservesite.com/danc/lp%20guitar/lp1.bmp http://fullservesite.com/danc/lp%20guitar/lp2.bmp Looks pretty good for work done by a bunch of 12 and 13 year olds! Please tell me thogh that there is some sort of joint holding the neck and body together and not just a butt joint. Very weak unless maybe the fretboard and trussrod run beyond it into the body. What woods did you use? It looks like a bunch of strips of maybe Cherry for the and an Oak neck.

The Steve Morse sounds like an interesting pickup. It's 20.5K ohms! Looks like the screwed up and switched the specs on the neck and bridge. I wondered why there was a 10Kish pickup with 450 mV output! That's really high output! It looks like that and the FRED will make a good pair. BTW, I own the Baretta bass. The pickups went from weak and dull to rich and hi-fi simply by adding an active buffer in it. I love it now! http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data...-Bridge-01.html here's a link to some reviews. One guy says it's about the same output as an Evolution.

wheres the pic showing the Cherry back?

The output jack is a stereo jack wired up to disconnect the negative part of the battery when there's no plug inserted. It's basically a switch in it self. Stompboxes like Boss ones do the same thing with the input jack because the switching system is active, so even on bypass mode, it's using some juice.

Well, my technical school has a plastic injection molding machine and they have pink polyethylene,and that melts at about 400 degrees, it's probably what your bowl is made out of. However, I'd do what the other guy said and buy premade bobbins and put pink toppers on them. BTW, as for using a vacuum, it will allow for the wax to melt at a signifigantly lower temperature as well as making sure no air gaps are left. Air gaps allow for microphonics to happen. I've seen a vacuum chamber used to boil water, but when taken out, it was ice cold! I'm starting to wonder if I could make an enclosure where I can plug my shop vac on to it... The idea tickles my brain!

Also, if it's producing a hum when you touch the strings, you probably have the positive and negative\ground reverse on the output. Negative and ground are normally soldered to the back of one of the pots. and the positive is either coming out of the selector switch or out of the volume pot. If you're having that type of trouble with the volume pot, you might have damaged it with the heat of your soldering pen. That's what happened when I had that problem, back when I wasn't vey good at soldering. The risk of that happening can be reduced by learning proper soldering technique and using a heatsink. I actually put a my pots on a heatsink designed for 20-30 watt transistors where there's a 1/2" space between the risien-up parts. No way to worry about damage from soldering the back of the pot that way!

Thanks for the tip dude! Those look like great prices to me!

Hmm, I didn't know that the Duncan Custom was designed for Jason Becker, cool!

The patented technology making Evos the way they are, is by having little polepieces in-between the screws, hidden underneath the bobbin's top. Other than that I'm pretty sure they're Super Distortions with Alnico V magnets. BTW, I tried this with a PAF type pickup. It really makes the sound more linear and reduces the treble. Very interesting sound! OK, in your case, the EVO wont work well. If you insist on going with DiMarzio, I think a Tone Zone will work for you.

If you're trying to sound like Jack White, why don't you save yourself the trouble of messing with the acoustic and just get yourself a cheap 60's Japanese solid-body from a pawnshop. Trust me, you don't need a very expensive setup to sound like that guy. In fact, the cheaper the better, IMO.

http://www.bourns.com/pdfs/3306.pdf This would be considered micro, also known as trimpots. Their intended for use in circuit boards for fine tuning of resistance (used as a variable resistor, 2 legs) or for voltage division (potentiometer). You normally need a screwdriver to adjust them. I wouldn't recommend going with these for like volumeor tone control being mounted in a cavity to be adjusted by the hand, those would be panel mount pots. I've seen those as small as 1/4" diameter. If it's really packed in there, they're options.

I doubt Masonite is all that expensive, am I right? I've seen people make full guitar routing templates out of it. It's not acrylic though and of course isn't extremely solid. Sure must be easier to cut, though!

I wondered why the site looked so professional! Seriously, it looked like you were a company or something. As for the thongs, I got a laugh when I saw those, but they look pretty cool, I might just pick one up for my GF! Very awesome guitar, BTW! Sounds like you used a non-traditional process of constructing the body, sounds interesting! You seriously gotta make some sound clips, too!