ZorgBlaubaer

i will do... i am doing my "abitur" (i think its called a-levels in english) at the moment, but in two weeks im finished and then i will make photos... (and also finish my second project...)

that guitar on the picture is actually a venus with white marble finish, but don't mind ^^ i will follow your project X)

thanks ^^ i prefer the original design as well, but i cant afford a "real" one and my building skills are not good enough till now to do a real replica.. id like to see how your marcury will look like when its finished X) ah and by the way, do the kana on the guitar have a special meaning or is this just some random stuff?

thanks guys for you probs! i will try to answer all the questions as good as i can.. the wood is mahagony with an oiled and waxed finish i didnt raise the fretboard in the fretless part, but now when i play it, i get constantly reminded that i should have ^^ the top isn really carved, but as you maybe see, it is built in two "layers" with a carved "connection" (sorry, these words arejust used due to lack of english vocabluary) so the body is, as i said mahagony, there is no top, just one big piece of wood. the neck is a one piece maple neck with a ebony fretboard (a really old and beautyful one, in my opinion, ill make close ups) the pickups are an esp lh-206 and a shadow sh 661 (humbucker in single coil format). its a bolt on neck i dont intend to do much with the fretless part.. this guitar was meant to be a cool looking and deep hanging power cord guitar ^^ but i will surely try some things out with the fretless part. i already recognized that is will only sound good if you use really really much gain because you need much of sustain coming from the amp for the fingers stops the sound imideatly (i also play violin for 12 years, thats why i thought it would be intersting to try it...) the neck heel is so long because i thought it would look nice if the body ends where the frets end. i still think so X) the black stuff is actually black velvet... i thought it would look noble (dont know the right english word.. sorry..) but it only looks crappy... i built the guitar when i was 17 so i did not think far enpugh.. i will make pick up cavitys out of light (the opposite of dark.. if light isn the right word..) wood because i reyll dont want a pickguard to be in front of the mahagony.... i hope i answered all your questions, thanks for your comments a lot again, and please sorry my bad english.... yes.. oh and i will make the close ups when my dad comes home and brings his camera, for i dont have an own..

thank you ^^ actually, it was meant to be a replica of a caparison venus, thats why the headstock is the same. but in the end i made that many customisations, it does not have that much in common with the original guitar... ah and the controls... it just has no controls... there is this little dot on the left lower part of the guitar which you can see... this is a 2 way switch to switch between the pickups, but thats it.. when i make detailed photos you will see X) thanks already for your interest

hey. this is my first finished project. i will make some better and more detailed photos in a few days if anyone wants to see more oft it... i hope you like it.. this is the second version of the guitar... some of you guys helped me building the "first version" a year before, and now i found time to redo some major things, like make the cutaway and oiling the whole thing..

hey im sorry for getting back to a thread of that age, but i wasnt here for some time, and this seemed interesting for me.. because.. infact, my first built guitar WAS a copy of the carapison venus.. today it is slightly modified, for example i made a les paul style cutaway to reach the fretless section more easily.. if any of you are interested in pictures i could post some ^^ btw: at the moment im working on a neckthrough version of hides acryl mockingbirds.. but with many leds X)

well i think its really only a matter of practice.. when i startet to play guitar and sing at the same time, i became really screwed up every time we met with the band.. but without any special "training", after a year i was already able to play soli (also fast soli) and sing at the same time... just try over and over again X)

i cant listen to any of the audio files.. seems that they all have been removed from server... i really would like to have a try ^^

hey cool ^^ so its settled.. neck through with acryl wings.. your idea with the leds is EDIT great xD if you have more of these ideas, tell em to me i love putting stuff like that into my guitars! and if you remember how, maybe you could give me a small advice how to glue them together? would be realy nice ^^ hey buddy,this site is rated pg

hi there.. im will soon start with my second guitar project.. and at the moment i try to make my mind up what exactly i want to build. so my first thought was to build a hybrid between mockingbird an iceman, cause i really loved the guitars hide from x-japan was playing... but now i have a few questions.. i want to use it for hard rock and metal/speed metal.. would it be clever to build it neck through or would you say a bolt on would be better for that? and now to my main question: if i decide to build neck through, would it be possible to build the neck out of wood and the wings out of acrylic? i have never seen someone playing a guitar like that and it may be a nice experience to me working with both on the same time... yeah.. thanks for your time already ^^ zorg

thanks to all of you guys X) my mistake was really that i mixed up the hot and the ground contact at the output jack... now its all working perfect... also the grounding of bridge and stuff. i dont know where i was without you all ;D

why should it hum if the guitar isn't even connected to the amp?? i didn't ground the bridge because when i connect the bridge to my grounding circuit it does hum even more. and i also cant ground to a potchase cause i dont have any pots. only 2 pickups, a two way switch and an output.

so ive got another problem with my eletrics... since i get a sound now, its really crappy. as long as i stay in a clean sound, its mainly allright, hum is just a bit above normal level. but whern i switch to distortion, its humming nearly as loud as my guitar sound is... a allready tried to shield and stuff, and while doing it i realized that if i touch the ground while playing the hum grows to an enermous amount.. i always thought it had to be the other way round O_o please help me otherwise i will go insane X)

yeah after another 2 hours of trying i figured exactly out this X) anyway thanks for your help X) maybe i will post some pictures of the guitar...