Daniel Sorbera

why would yoy want one? they sound like crap.

ok I know this is stupid but I cant find anywhere where it says this.

o come on drak we wanna see

wow I just changed my mind. I'm going to put a cocobolo top on my guitar. The heck with maple

The difference in pots is the restince, A higher number (ie 1000K) would make your guitar sound brighter than say a 500K, whick would still be brighter than a 250K

you could always add a veneer to the back of the head stock.

ok drak sorry I diddnt know, I will deffinitly do this in the future.

I thought of a super secert idea so basicly i'm closing this thred until it's patented.

ok I'm building a semi hollow body electric. It will have a 1/4" maple top, if I used this pickup and mounted it to the top would I get good acoustic sound? or would it just sound like crap because it is mounted to a 1/4" peice of maple?

sorry I just couldent resist posting a pic of my guitar, I love it. It plays and looks soooo much better than anything in the store I tried(even the other godins) So I think I Just got REALLY lucky as the other godins were not quite as good as this one.

Auccually I want to make my electric i'm building right now into a solid body acoustic.

What do I need to do to accomplish this? IS it just that I need to install like a peizo loaded bridge like the lr baggs things? I want it to sound like the tom anderson crowdster which BTW sounds better than any "real" acoustic i've ever heard(there also $3000 dollars so I want to build one) I'm prety sure the bridge plays a big part in it. So if I just got an acoustic bridge and a peizo would my electric sound as good as an acoustic? (or is it that anderson put a "real" acoustic top that is real thin and braced on a very small back and sides? but than wouldent this not sound any better than a thin bodied acoustic? i'm so cunfused)

ok I just cut out the fingerboard and it fits perfect. Also I sanded out the insides of the body to look nice. I can't do anything more until either the truss rod arrives(orded yesterday from stew mac) or I go and buy the maple top.

ok I was just checking thicknesses and I'm thinking mabye a 1/4" of maple would be too flimsy to use as a top. IS this the case or should it be fine? (I'm not going to carve the top and I REALLY dont want to have to brace it)

I just noticed something. The heel section on yours is flat but mine is all curvey. It makes it much easit to play if it is all curvey.

gee that shape looks kinda farmiler (check my name ) Dude godins are freakin awesome but I would get a different headstock, thats the only thing I dont like about mine. (BTW that cocobolo is AWESOME, my next guitar I build will have a cocobolo body(yes the whole body)

Ok just a LIITLE bit off topic but check out these pics of my guitar (which I love

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lower bout

upper bout

full

dude the action on my guitar is half a milimeter at the 24th fret on the treble side and .9 of a millimeter on the bass side (with absautly NO buzzing)

YA!!!!!!!! haha I have it and you dont

wait a minute you got a bansaw for 15? did you guy used?

ok lets say noise is absalutly no issue(because I know how to shield so thers NO noise, I have a guitar with singles and a humbucker and now I cant tell any difference in noise when I switch beteween the two) And I would be getting the seymour duncan Vintage P-90 Soapbar. Also my hollow body has a block down the center that the pickup is screwed into so there should be no feedback.

dude check this out 12 string. Just take off the pickguard to get rid of that country look(very easy just use a blow dryer) IT sounds AWESOME and looks good too boot. O and it is only about $500 bucks

auccually kench, mahogany is prety bright as tonewoods go. It is warmer than most solidbody woods, but acoustic woods (ie rosewood) are much warmer/bassier

Rosewood has the most bass. If I had an unlimited budget I would build a guitar out of cocobolo. Right now i'm building one with a cocobolo neck but thats just a neck

also KTL, spruce is NOT softer than pine. And the reason it is used in acoustic guitar tops is they need the warmth of a less dense wood as the top matters most in an acoustic. (do you see a acoustic guitar top made out of rosewood or ebony?) My brother has a guitar with mahognay back and red ceder top(now thers a SOFT wood) that ceder has got so many dents it is un belivable, It is unavodiable with ceder. It is just too darn soft.

never mind, I just got my site working. Ok heres the pics

body

neck

(note. these pics are just after routing and havent been sanded, thats why they look crapy. I will fix all this later today once it warms up a bit. I dont feel like sanding in 40 degrees)

yesterday I routed out the insides of the mahogany and routed out the rough shape of the neck

Unfortunatly I am having a problem with my website and I cant post pics

LAter today I'll sadn the neck flat

I would leave out the cloak. other than that It looks awesome!

ok AS most of you know I am building a semi hollow guitar. I was wondering how yall think a P-90 would stack up compared to a humbucker. Which one do you think would work better in a hollowbody? and how do you mount the P-90? thers no mounting tabs for screws or anything.

umm no i'm an american, and thats in USD. (is USD less or more than candian? so like if I bought wood in canada for $160 how much USD would I have spent?

EDIT: ok I just calculated it and $160 canadian would would be $134 USD

but than I really only spent $116 and $116 candaain would be $97 USD

(Just in case this confused you more, I am a american and I paid american dollars for my wood)

And ya javacody, poplar costs almost nothing. Genuine mahogany on the other hand A one peice of black limba will run you about $100 USD

hey you said here that the body is swamp ash but on your site it says it's alder

so which is right?

well basicly the pros is

1 it looks cool

2 it makes it so you cant feel the board (some claim it makes them faster)

cons:

1 it makes playing a chord in tune VERY hard, so If you want to just play lead it helps, but rythem players hate it (hence why some people scallop the upp frets but leave the lowers untouched)

thats all the cons I can think of

ok I got a update.

Earlier today I made the template for routing out the innerds of the mahogany. Right now i'm off to my youth group so I wont do any more today. Hopefully I Can finish routing out the innerds (and not screw it up ) tomorow

I will take more pics after I rout out the innerds(hopefully evreything goes well)