JimRayden

Ewwww... I hate the body shape of little steinbergers. Besides. I'm not looking for a travel guitar. I'm looking for a cool project to pull off next.

And I'm not gonna buy a small amp, I'm gonna build one. I build stompboxes, so that's not a challenge for me.

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Jimbo

Still, one ego-solar-system next to yours is bigger. It's the singer. In my band he's the ultimate ego guy. The two of us have the biggest egos in the band, the drummer's ego is near zero and the bassist's ego is negative.

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Jimbo

Thanks. I'm off to my woodshop to dig in the old wood I have there. I might find some sweet pieces.

While I'm at it, I might mess around in the wood ment for the fireplace. Who knows.

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Jimbo

Now, I've decided to build a travel-sized guitar since I'm forced to leave all my guitar gear at home when we go on a trip with the family. I want to build a tiny amp and a tiny guitar to take with me everywhere.

I was thinking of 1/2 at first but then I tried to play the chords at the 12th fret and decided it's too tiny for my plows. I'm thinking 3/4 is a bit too small for me. So I tried around the fretboard and decided a 14-15" scale to fit my hands best.

Do this size guitars need a truss rod?

What about tuner options? what's the most compact headstock I can make? (I can't have them on the body because I'm propably gonna have a tremolo on it.)

I thought of also building an amp in there. So I wouldn't have cables in the way.

What strings do you suggest for that scale? Is there an option of having the tuning in the right octave, not octave up? Would that take extra-thick strings?

This guitar is gonna be a lifesaver at places.

Thanks in advance.

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Jimbo

Something like this came up at taaviaudio.com a month ago:

http://www.taaviaudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90

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Jimbo

LOL, you sure don't see vintage Gibsons built into lamps everyday.

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Jimbo

Ojala - more or less "I hope" in Spanish, no?

I don't think so. "Oja" is finnish for ditch or a stream.

Timo, don't you happen to have any ancestors from Estonia? Because Ojala is as Estonian name as it gets.

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Jimbo

What the hell do you carve the curves with? My tools give me trouble cutting the inner curves near the neck pocket of a strat.

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Jimbo

Yes. Bad memory is one importand ingredience of successful drying. I have no problems drying wood at all. I just found a huge drying piece that I had totally forgotten about. It was behind my closet.

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Jimbo

Dude you can eat a whole pound of bacon and a whole pot of coffee??? Geez your nuts

And yes, I am nuts, just ask my wife Nuts goes with being a bass player too....it's how we put up with guitar players egos!!

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Jimbo

You are seriously destined to destroy that guitar, aren't you.

Glad to hear you like it. Yea the Iba Radius looks alot like a "too much sanded strat".

It's good to hear that someone is having fun being a "luthier". Usually the fun comes after the building, when you start playing the thing.

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Jimbo

http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/gnn_image...enome/Agro3.jpg

Now THESE things make you a sweet lookin' top.

There is a tree tumor on a tree at the local park but I don't think they'd let me saw it off.

PS: This is not me. It is just a picture I found on the internet.

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Jimbo

Lol, you're funny. Take a chainsaw and cut off the upper "horn" and have a Les Paul instead. No offence.

And yes, bassists are just like drummers, I just didn't want to mention them since these forums are full of 'em.

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Jimbo

that arse has got 24,500 collected

No he doesn't. It's just a big joke. He hasen't got any money donated, infact paypal closed his account There was an EXTENSIVE thred on a violin forum and it's all bogus.

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That's good.

I wonder if what he is doing is illegal...

still, ------>

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Jimbo

Ok, a few questions: Firstly, how are you gonna mount the middle tuners on that headstock?

Secondly, how do you play a fretless 6-string?

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Jimbo

How about some nice fresh Toby?

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LOFL

that arse has got 24,500 collected... These kinds of pages always make me feel good not to be american. No offense.

An idea: Let's offer him 50,000 to join his meal in June.

Whacko

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Jimbo

Sweet looking, as all your work. Flaming V, I like that. Is that gonna be a bass? Cause I was actually wondering about a fretless solo/rythm guitar. Any of those exist?

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Jimbo

That reminds me, I've tried to explain the drummer-jokes to my band's drummer. I explained that the stuff is all about stereotypes. While everyone else in the band was laughing their arses off, he didn't get it. The funniest thing is, although he has a considerable amount of musical education and stuff, he fits SO perfectly into the jokes.

Then the drummer did a few pathetic attempts to insult guitarists and we had some more fun...

"The second a human being grabs drumsticks into his hands, his level of intelligence and manner of behaving sets back three million years." -Jim Rayden

I hope noone gets offended.

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Jimbo

You sure got the point to me the first time I read your post.

Drummers are actually fun... after you've teached them to fetch stuff.

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Jimbo

I've always thought neck angles are cool. The more the angle, the cooler the guitar. Anyway, a neck-through will be without a neck angle.

By the way, anyone know if there are such things as fretless guitars? (I don't mean lap steel) I'm having a creative period right now.

I'm having a feeling of building something different from a regular guitar. I have regular guitars. I want something different. Something to spice up my show, whenever I get the band back together. Something that would be really different to play, yet would allow something a guitar can't.

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Jimbo

Hey, can anyone say, why do the hardware in the second pic look pinker than the first. Looks cheesy if I put them side by side. Is this actually so or is it a picture processing fault?

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Jimbo

That's a really good lookin' one you've got there. I remember myself considering a tweed-covered guitar, with no clear coat. It was a loong time ago.

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Jimbo

Here's for those who don't get the point:

Traditional bigsby:

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/g...s/G6136T_xl.jpg

Wire trem arm:

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/g...es/G7593_xl.jpg

I could stay looking at these pics forever.

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Jimbo

Yea, B50 is about 100 bucks. That's cheap. But I found alot cheaper clone. I won't reveal the source until I got it tight in my little greedy hands.

Actually I'm just surfing around on the well-known online fleamarket for some good offers. If you see a user named "taaviaudio" bidding, please don't ruin it for me.

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Jimbo

Bigsbys should be included as stock defaults for all the guitars.

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Jimbo