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  1. mailman
    okay, heres the size of mine vs. a gibson V am i in trouble or is this fine?
  2. mailman
    yeah, ive been ballparking it the whole time
  3. mailman
    i just got the template plotted, and ive got to say....it loos kinda small....
  4. mailman
    trust me, you dont want to see what happens when i try to use my hands to make...well....anything
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  6. mailman
    im sending the template via Fedex to Doug tomorow! or the next day...
  7. mailman
    thats why i said close to cuz i dont want to use redwood due to its softness... would bubinga be too dark to stain like that?
  8. mailman
    guys, what wood will get me as close to this kinda finish as possible?
  9. mailman
    i voted for the WOMD, but mattia's is a close second. extremely close.
  10. mailman
    reminds me of something Prince would play
  11. mailman
    try drawing it out on paper maybe (if you cant use a CAD program) or even photosohp using MS Paint looks to be limiting your ability to try different arc radiai and get some cool angles going
  12. mailman
    i ike it but i think that upper horn would get in the way too much
  13. mailman
    i dont like it looks too out of proportion and its more or less a warped out Warlock sorry
  14. mailman
    mines 15.7" @ the widest the body is 19.2" long the net length including headstock is 42.4" so from the looks of it yours is bigger than mine, as well as longer. considering i have what many people are calling a "huge" headstock....well you see where im going with this... im like you too. never "touched" a V really. when i started designing this though i went down to my local guitar shop and played around with one of the Jackson KV's they had on the shelf and found it pretty cool and something i could get used to so im just crossing my fingers from here on
  15. mailman
    aight, ill just go with 24. i barely go past 19 in use anyway i more or less wanted more just for aethetics since there is no neck pup and a lot of free space
  16. mailman
    yeah, thats what he told me another thread on here told me it was too heavy to do a whole guitar in so it seems kinda consensus (weight wise) we've been talking and right now it looks like im gonna go with a white limba neck with black limba body undecided on top as of yet
  17. mailman
    just talked to doug and read my thread about the camphor looks like camphors out and ill be going back to one of the quilt tops oh yeah, and doug says i shouldnt use Goncalo Alves as a neck primarily because of the weight, plus it wouldnt look right with the Black Limba so what should i use for the neck now? (he says a rosewood) oy vey, need to change the entire project around again! :-p
  18. mailman
    i guess this solves my questioning on Camphor burl as well now i just need to re-think my neck wood....gargh
  19. mailman
    oh yeah, this is gonna sound weird, but which one has a nicer crotch? http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/2886/crotchcheck4gs.gif the one on the left is closer to the bridge, the one on the right is slightly lowered when i made the size of the guitar bigger, i didnt compensate the er....crotch...and well i realized that the smaller one was a little more balanced and the bigger one a bit sharper and more pointy so i tried to compensate a bit and now i cant decide which looks more "right"
  20. mailman
    anyone have any experience working with this type of wood? i am considering using it for a top and doing it trans-black how will this turn out?.....good or bad? will it be transblack or will it be like "dark pink"?....eugh cuz my second choice for a top was bubinga/sapele/quilt maple, which i already know would finish nicely in trans-black....so i just wanna know if i should re-change my mind
  21. mailman
    i'd buy one!
  22. mailman
    edit: im gonna do custom "angled wide block" inlays havnt decided on color and im questioning how the trans-black will look on the camphor so im still considering the bubinga/sapele as a backup....damnit
  23. mailman
    +1
  24. mailman
    well considering my first choice when i started this design was to have a spalted top, tonally i dont think it this burl can be any worse :-p
  25. mailman
    *crosses fingers* i guess ill go over it with doug and see if this is a risky idea
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