JimRayden

Sure, I'll post pics when it's ready, but it probably won't be ready until end of the year. Not in a band I'm afraid. In fact the building of the guitar has made me play again after a long break, just to be able to play something cool with the guitar when it's finished

Wierd, whenever I get caught up in a project, I do everything except guitar playing. And the last few months have been full of projects. Amps repairs, guitars restorations, schoolwork, etc. I finally got some time today to just sit down and relax and noodle some nice tunes. Haven't had a band rehearsal in a long time also. We finally found a new singer and we're gonna start jamming with him on sundays. So I guess I'm back on track. A gig comin' up on the 4th June.

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Jimbo

Bright n' cold, I'd say. But we have yet to hear one in action. An all-ceramic guitar. Heat up your pottery shops!

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Jimbo

I won't do another thread for this, I'll ask here. Are there any tutorials about converting from non-AANJ to AANJ? I reckon I'd just shape the neck and body accordingly, find right sized screws and screw it down?

But I guess it's more complex than that.

EDIT: Also, is there a way to seamlessly refinish only the sanded part?

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Jimbo

I found these two pieces of nicely shaped sheet metal that I'd like to put on my guitar. The pieces have some sweet screw holes in them but I don't want to harm the body. So I though of glueing them down. But I'm afraid some glue types would ruin the clear coat. (Don't wanna use Super Attak, eh? ) I have a choice between an extra-strong wood glue (PVA) and rubber cement. wich one of those would hold on tight enough and wouldn't harm the paint job?

I don't want it falling off in the middle of a gig also.

Any other choice of securely fixing it to the body without any nasty holes that would left behind if I decide to take it off afterwards?

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Jimbo

Yea, pretty nice idea. That fretboard on the pics has a "different" look to it. Though it only allowes sliding your finger in only one direction. The other direction wouldn't be too comfortable.

Hey, what about a bent sheet metal fretboard with bent-in scallops instead of frets.

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Jimbo

I am building a guitar with 2 humbuckers and a warmoth pro neck, what kind of bridges do you guys recommend for this set up ( I know nothing )

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And if to consider the fact that you know nothing, you should choose the bridge by the body routing you have on the body. Or will you be searching for a suitable body after you've decided the bridge?

You should take the TOM if you "know nothing". Less routing.

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Jimbo

Pohjanmaa is Northern Land, damnit. It's supposed to be in the north, not west.

Ok, ok, enough of bragging with my Finnish skills.

Hyvä päivää to all... and stuff.

Any chance of seeing that sweet guitar of yours after it's done? Are you in a band? I'd love to come and see a gig.

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Jimbo

I was just talking theory, nothing more. The pickup has an area of magnetic field wide enough to pick up the string vibrating, even if it's not doing so right above it. I'm guessing again.

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Jimbo

Yeah, that's the headstock. You don't have to cut it though.

Well, it's up for you to decide. Strat and Tele kits are for like 100 bucks. LP is a carved-top, so it's more expensive. And the saga kits include absolutely everything down to strings.

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Jimbo

Chiquita looks like a.... blob... Lazer looks pretty cool. Like a micro-V. I think I'll do my own design since the travel guitars I've seen are really ugly and unshapey. A lil' LP or Jaguar version maybe.

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Jimbo

Oh and I would leave the neck as it is. and change the headstock, as the fender-o-phile I am.

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Jimbo

Lol, Like this?

http://www.home-wrecker.com/table.html

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Jimbo

Yea but I would have an amazing sounding 50's Strat single coil rather than a cheapo with a humbucker any time. Never mind if it hums like hell. It sounds like heaven itself.

Yea, the metal box idea is pretty good. Just leave an opening, so you could have an access to the box and electronics. You don't wanna start de-glueing your top when you have a pot to change.

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Jimbo

What you could do is find some body wood and build a V body. Then finish it and put the Explorer hardware on that. I bet some of your friends or relatives have access to a woodshop to make a body for you. Then take it to a car shop to have it finished.

Oh you wanted to create a guitar yourself...

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Jimbo

Well, what used to annoy me most in this guitar's old appearance was its dirty and worn out look.

It used to look so messed up with all those stickers, dents and spots.

Now people with this attitude are destroying relics. "I found this old ugly guitar in the attic. It had Fender something written on the head thingy... it had so much paint peeled off and the neck was so ugly yellow. I took an axe and chopped the ugly thing into firewood. And then I found a guitar in the store that was so beautiful and shiny and it cost only like 80 bucks. So I bought that and I'm loving it."

Geesh

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Jimbo

to think of it, it's pretty possible to do. Using super-small super-bright Leds, with some smart wiring, programming a PIC chip to make a digital control for the leds, then program all the alternate tunings, scales and stuf on the chip and add a few numerical LED-displays for easy selection... it's a cool idea actually.

Actually I think it's extremely dumb and unpractical. Or not.

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Jimbo

No Saga kit for V. But there are Strats, Teles, LP's and another shape, I can't remember what that was called.

And yes, Sagas are more-less buildable with a screwdriver. Go to flEaBay, search for "saga kit" and you're set.

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Jimbo

The placement of pickups is actually a complex science of harmonics, but basically it like this: the more apart you place the pickups, the more varied sounds you have. If you place them too close together, you might not even notice the sound difference between pickups.

That's why people started adding more pickups than one. To have more tones to choose from.

Now, as to harmonics, a badly placed pickup can start blocking certain harmonics. For example, if you place your pickup right on the place of 24th fret, you lose your 4th harmonic. And the loss of even harmonics is the last thing we need.

Though the change in tone because of these harmonic changes might be unhearable, I don't know. I'm just using some theory to assume this.

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Jimbo

Yes, I know he's finnish. I was just wondering about his origin.

Once more, the inlays look amazing. Say, you wanna sell that neck? I didn't think so.

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Jimbo

It can't be too old, since the pickups have "The Original" written on them. I'm assuming this is some sort of a reissue... The guitar might be from somewhere 70's to 80's. Can anyone go there and ask the seller?

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Jimbo

OT: OT: Yea, I've looked at them for a while myself. I couldn't get my eyes off that lava-looking top on that electric. Oh and the second "Instrument In Progress" has some SWEET lookin' top to it.

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Jimbo

I'm thinking on buying it. That'll be the most expensive guitar for me to restore.

Cool.

Anyone know what year this might be from?

Edit: On the other hand, the luthiers on these forums will drive the price up to the guitar's actual value. That's a tad too much for a poor musician like me. :\

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Jimbo

Yea, that's what I thought also. Saggy like hell.

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Jimbo

25" is a bit big for my intentions. I want to be able to carry it around without any special bag for it. I want to be able to slip it out of my backpack and having no extra containers for the guitar.

Oh boy will this one look cheesy.

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Jimbo

Ok, can anyone answer some questions in the starter post please?

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Jimbo