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Haha, sounds great unclej, I'll go do some reading up on it now. Thanks for the replies everyone, I wasn't entirely sure what that thing was but I think I get it now!

WOW! Thanks for all the good advice Maiden =)

Wow, I was going through the Stewmac site and saw these things under electronics...and all I can do is stare blankly at the screen and go "huh?" I never even knew these types of things existed. I always assumed any added stuff like gain, sustain, etc had to be done OUTSIDE of the guitar...but now you're telling me I can put a little cube in my guitar that'll give me some gain? I'm lost! Basically I don't want to have to use any battery operated stuff in my custom LP I'm making, but that Black Ice Overdrive sounds great! So it replaces the tone for one of my pickups...so say I used it for the Seymour Duncan JB in my bridge, I can be playing clean and get a little (or a lot?) distortion by turning this thing up? Totally lost, please help What are some other cool electronics like these?! My guitar project has just been opened up to a whole new level of customization! A quick edit: I also noticed that the Black Ice requires a 250k pot? What will be the consequences for using a 250k pot with a SD humbucker?

Okay guys I was looking into supplies online and was just a bit confused (big surprise, huh?) about what exactly I need and don't need... On reranch.com, under "Colors (Clear and now Satin) in Aerosol Cans" I can't tell which products to get... Now, assuming I do the paint myself, do I get the White Lacquer Based Primer? Their only other white is Olympic White which I don't want... I'm so confused...but basically, is that "primer" acceptable to use for the actual coloring part of the guitar? And then could I apply this to get an even more satin look and feel... But is that Clear Coat meant only for natural wood and not colored wood? So all I would need would be that white primer? Cuz it DID say it comes out to a matte finish...

Thank you so much everybody, First of all I am SO sorry for my attitude...I stayed up all night researching guitar stuff so between the hours of 4 and 6 when there weren't any replies I must have just let my lack of sleep and bad mood get the best of me, please forgive me! And I didn't even know there WAS satin paint, I was under the impression you had to do something to get the satin look/feel but wow that'll help tons...where can I get satin paint, btw?

yeah thanks for the help...

Hello everybody, I'm new to this forum., and to guitar building so please bare with me I recently decided upon ordering some parts from Warmoth.com to assemble my own custom Les Paul guitar. Basically, I'm going for a white body and neck, ebony fretboard, and all black hardware. I am going for a very modern, sleek look rather than anything remotely classic. A very big inspiration for the general design is the Gibson Gothic line of guitars...I always loved the satin black on them. It occured to me that since I don't want any "shiny" hardware, it'd be great if the paint job wasn't so classic looking either, and so I decided I'd like to get a satin finish. Now, basically, I know nothing about what to do with the body and neck once I recieve it, and am only going to do this paint/finish job on my own if it proves to be much more cost effective than having Warmoth do it. So to get a few things straight, the "finish" part actually has to do with what you put on the guitar after you've painted it, correct? So after I've painted the body and neck, I would apply the right finish to get that satin look/feel? Would it be possible to just buy the white paint in aerosol cans from, say, Reranch.com and after spraying, apply the right finish (I've heard tung(?) oil is the right way to go) myself? How many cans would be needed to do the body, neck, and peghead? I've also heard that I could bring it to an autobody place that does paint and they could spray it...would I then apply the right finish to get the satin effect? I'm sorry I know so little, I've used the search tool and read the tutorials and the stuff still sounds so foreign to me. I'm just trying to shave off a few hundred dollars from the overall price of this project. Thanks in advance!