Duff Beer Man

Well, dumb ole me made a huge mistake today. I was finishing my routing of my back cavity for my tremolo when my meassure ments got off and to make a long story short i routed to far deep down and ended up routing into one of the pick up cavitys. I didnt compensate for the thinkness of the mirror acrylic when i got measurre mesnt of another guitar and this is what happened. Luckily i imedately realized what i was doing and stopped after i had only take a small piece of it out. So tomarrow i will take a clean piece of 1/4 alder and glue it in each one of the pick up holes. Then one that is dry i will finish my route of my trem cavity. I can really post of of my mistake if you want, but i wanna see if you guys can notice that i did after its fix. Let me know if you want a pic.

Im soooo very close to having everything routed out. Ive spent all day today and yesterday routing. Here are the pics i have so far.

All the pics are here

So your pushing a book for us to buy eh? Are you the same guy that sells these on ebay?

I do realize i just cant swap out trems, but i was just saying if i wanted to change it down the line i would get one of those. I might change it i might not, who knows lol. I dont mind fillin and redrilling holes and routing, thats the least of my worries right now lol, but thanks for the heads up.

Im going out to route my bodies right now. I have all my shite figure out with my new bridge and the trem and all the problems i have are finally resolved. I have an interesting and different looking cavity for my electronics but everything fits so im happy. I will post pics later on today when everything is done.

Anyone know where to get one of these. Prs uses these and im thinking of using some of there pickups and want to beable to install them correctly.

Alright, well i changed my set up a little bit. The tailpiece im going to use one my V is this one instead of just a standard tom tailpiece. My only question now is what string ferrules to use? Which do you guys use and which are your guys favorites.

That is a good point. I dont know, im just worried that the trem or something wont fit right is what im scared of, i think im going to make it fit right going off my other guitar that has a trem on it (kirk hammett esp).

Yeah, you understand exactly what im talking about, i was just thinking about extending the back of it a little not everything around the bridge. The reason i want to extend the back is if one day i want to go back and put in a lions claw.

Quick question, does it matter how big the area around the tremolo is? Here is a pic to show you what im talking about. I was just wonder if it mattered how big it was as along as the bridge and everything was still right on and in the correct place. I might have confussed some of you with this but just let me know if you understand what im talking about.

Well, i had 10-20 min free the other day and got out my templates and started looking at my jem neck template. Now im thinking about giving my jem a reverse headstock to kinda set it off from the other production jems out there. Kinda give my jem some orgininality and not be seen as just another copy(imitation, look alike) project (even though it is). I still havent made up my mind. Give me your opinion guys.

Yeah, i really want a ibanez trem, those things are soooooo nice. When i get a good one and replace the cheap one, ive gonna be deciding between an ibanez one and a ofr. I hear the ibanez ones are very very good trems. Also thanks for the heads up about the guy who makes the flying v's im gonna check him out and see his work.

Thats just a temp trem till i get more money to buy the real thing. I will prolly get a real floyd rose in about 3 months. Till then this thing will have to do.

I was planing on using the templates off the website. I havent routed it out yet, those are pencil lines. Mine is a "licenseced under floyd rose" brdige not a OFR. This is the bridge that im getting. Would i need to adjust the bridge, also i have it so i can take some pics of it if you want to see a better view to tell me.

Got my bridge yesterday, which makes me happy. Its a very nice looking floyd rose. I messed up on my necks when i glued them up so i am fixing this. Gonna have to stick a couple dowels in them but they will be fine, im glad i can fix it cause i have a lot of money in the wood for them. Its spring break and i plan on getting a lot done so check back here for up dates.

Yeah, the edges are going to have a binding around them. For the JEM its gonna be a pearloid binding and for the V its gonna be a white binding.

Yeah, i see what your saying about the stuff being too low. lol, i wish i had a guitar to go off of. All i had was pics that i could find. Oh well, the tailpiece fits perfect for a rest for my hand so it worked out good in the end.

Ok guys, i know ive been promising pics for a while now and here they are. Like ive said before im not the best with a camara but i try my best. So if there is something in paticular that u want to see that i didnt take a pic of let me know. And as always questions are more then welcome and appreciated. Here they are...

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Btw, the maple in there is the flamed maple neck im doing for the JEM, i know it looks kind outta place but thought i would snap a couple shots of it so you could see the figure. Let me know what you guys think.

In progress pics i posted a while back, you have already seen them. However here is the link just in case u havent.

Pics

I finally got around to taking some pics of my explorer that i finished last year. Here they are, let me know what you guys think. Im not the best with a camara but i tried, if you guys want anymore pics let me know and any questions i would be more then happy to answer.

Specs:

Gibson Explorer

Alder body/ with mohogany neck

Rosewood fretboard with dot inlay

Tom bridge and tailpiece

SD 59's in bridge and neck

Just thought i would share this with you guys. My cousin was looking around ebay and came across these two guys who do insane fretboard work and some how sell them for hella cheap. Granted they are made in taiwan so it probably slave labor, but still they are really nice. So just thought i would share with my fellow guitar building brothers. Here are the links to there stuff

Guy #1

Guy #2

Well, im going to be a little behind because ive been hit with a sickness that had laid me out good. So i doubt anything will get done this weekend, sorry guys. I am however getting my bro's digital camara tomarrow, so expect some pics.

Ok, i got to looking at some pics of the wolfgang and stuff and i see what you mean. Thanks for the answer.

Can you give a couple examples of recessed and non recessed cavs? Can a cav be recessed too much?

Are the point of scalloped frets to the the strings more then usuall? or is it just to acess the upper frets with more ease?