PiousPoet

You know your a guitar dork when you cry when you have to be without your guitar for a week.

A carvin bass. Hurray for carvinites. In the process of getting a bolt kit.

It shows up on my computer as well.

Yeah I have a friend who built his own guitar except for the neck helping me build mine and so i should be ok in the wiring department. As to remembering each switch, that's not a rpoblem. i have a really good memory and I doubt I'd be changing the settings too much on stage. maybe in between songs and such, but I have fairly adept hands as I also make chainmail. thanks for all the help, and I'm glad that it seems my plan sounds good except for some peoples dislike of push-pull pots.

Yes you will have to take into account how much fret will be ground away, but usually, it isn't bad unless you have very deep divots such as from heavy capo use.

Yeah I guess I don't need a DPDT switch for the kill. Sorry, I'm fairly new to the wiring world. The need for the kill switfch is this. I play a lot of praise and worship music, and if we are praying or something in between songs I can simply flick the switch to eradicate any possible feedback and then switch it back on afterwards. Regarding the push pull pot user friendly part, I don't see what my other options would be. I could drill into the pickguard for more switches but other than that I don't know what i can do to get the options I want. Do you have any suggestions?

Alright, so I'm planning on getting a carvin bolt on kit and here are my plans for it. I'm curious to know of your opinons. I may be getting some aftermarket parts from stewmac as I'm not sure if carvin will give me all of the parts as the pickguard for the kit is prewired. So basically I may be doing some minor surgeries to the pickguard wiring. here's the plan. I'll get a 500k push pull volume pot and use the switch for splitting the neck and bridge humbuckers. Then I'll get another push pull pot for the tone and use it's switch for a series/parallel switch. Then the one single DPDT switch I get I'll use as a kill switch. What do you think? Does this sound like a good plan, or should I change or add other things on?

You may not need to refret your neck. That started happening to me and I didn't need to refret. The thing is, if the divots aren't too deep, you can have them sand down the frets and recrown them. i had that done for about $75. It's different froma refret as instead of removing and replacing the frets, they are just sanded and recrowned.

I'm guessing you got a MTS amp. Just a guess. My suggestion is to play with the knobs some more. The MTS series are very versatile. Well there's no pleasing everyone, but Carvin sure does a good job of pleasing almost everybody.

Alright, let me clarify the carvin kit expense thing. On the question of expensive, they are a steal. I'm getting a completely custom guitar kit for like $2000 less than if was a PRS or other big company. the base kit is currently $300, as it is on sale until Aug 30. The stock pickups in the kit are awesome, and it's easy enough to get different upgrades. Whethr you want humbuckers, different body woods, or a birds eye fretboard, they can accomodate your needs. Check out the sound files here: http://www.carvin.com/jamroom/ and the kit is located here: http://www.carvin.com/products/part.php?ItemNumber=GK1 I'd go with a carvin personally. They do ship over seas and if you order now, you only have to pay standard shipping fees (usually any place outside the main 48 states is double shipping). that's cuz the main 48 states are getting free shipping, so everyone else gets the normal 48 state shipping.