TGwaH

Give Canada a break - historically, they've always given about as good as they got. Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Buffy St. Marie, Ian & Sylvia, Steppenwolf, the Guess Who, Chilliwack, April Wine, Lighthouse, the Stampeders, Max Webster, Trooper, Red Rider, A Foot In Coldwater and Saga, just off the top of my head

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You know April Wine AND The Stampeders? Dude, that's just awesome.

On a side note, Lighthouse was supposed to play at Woodstock, but their manager talked them out of it.

The guy that broke up with Allanus causing her to do that "men suck" album

Rumour has it that it was Uncle Joey from Full House that is responsible for that album. But if you want some real entertainment, look up Alanis's teeny bopper stuff before she hit it big time

So Neil Young is a canadian, eh? . I didn't realise canada could produce such hill billies. Then again, you guys can get pretty isolated up there I suppose. They should reshoot Deliverance in the sub arctic.

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I've lived in the Arctic and sub-arctic, you'd be surprised how inbred they can get

Boy, you've got a real purty mouth... I'm gonna make you bark like a seal!

Er, yeah... Celine is a black mark on our musical reputation. But don't Rush, The Band, Neil Young and/or Joni Mitchell, more than make up for it?

Besides, I want an apology for Backstreet Britney Agueilra and company.

Well my next guitar is going to be A vintage style flying V body with A 3d green flamed maple top,I think it's going to be A semi hollow body 14 string guitar

(Just like A 12-string but bassed on A 7-string) Im also thinking that it may be fun to try Some kind of A cool F hole thing, I think I'll be useing An EMG for the pickup

but Im not sure yet,  So I want it to be something new for me and still have A modern look

!!METAL MATT!!

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A 14 string? Very cool idea. I'd like to hear some sound clips once you get that done.

Not to toot my own horn, but I'm rather proud of the patriotic f hole I have on my build right now. F hole with a maple leaf in the centre.

How about a nice soft n' curvy guitar for your next project?  Pink would be a nice color.

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I laughed at the idea of a pink guitar once, then I saw a pink strat and liked it. What does Fender call it? Shell pink?

EDIT:

Ha, found it...

Pink Strat

I've got an update. Admittedly this is rough, and obviously there is no HTML code inserted yet, but I just wanted to give you guys an idea of where I'm at and what's going on. There is of course much, MUCH more information to be added. And as I was doing this, it became not so much a traditional FAQ, but more a list of definitions. So, if someone wondered what a truss rod was, they click on 'T' and it takes them to all the enteries under T.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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AANJ -- all access neck joint

B

Books – There are a handful of books with will prove to be well worth their weight in gold. Not all of these books are necessary, but you’d be well advised to spend a few dollars and get at least one of them:

Make Your Own Electric Guitar by Melvyn Hiscock ISBN: 0953104907

The Luthiers Handbook by Roger Siminoff ISBN: 0634014684

Building Electric Guitars by Martin Koch ISBN: 3901314075

Steel String Guitar Construction by Irving Sloane ISBN: 0933224168

Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology by William Cumpiano and Jonathan Natelson ISBN: 0811806405

C

CA – cyanoacrylates. A chemical adhesive. [tradenames: Hot Stuff, Zap, Crazy Glue, etc.]

D

E

Electronics – A list of some of the more common guitar electronics short hand.

H/H} When talking about pickup configuration

S/S} S denotes single coil,

S/S/S} H denotes humbucker.

H/S/S} The first letter is the pickup nearest the bridge.

dpdt double pole double throw}

spdt single pole double throw } types of switches

spst single pole single throw }

F

G

Guitar – You’re kidding right? Put down that router, slap yourself in the face and go find yourself a dictionary and a music store.

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

PUP – Short hand for Pick UP.

Pick Up -- device acts as a detector and captures mechanical vibrations. Some common types of pick ups include: single coil, humbuckers, P-90s and PAF.

Q

R

S

Scale Length – The distance between a guitar’s nut or zero fret and the bridge’s saddle. This can have profound effects on the tone and tuning stability of a guitar. The twelfth fret will lay equidistant between the saddle and the nut.

Common Scale Lengths:

Fender

Jaguar -- 24" or 609.6mm

Strat/Tele -- 25 1/2" or 647.7 mm

Jazz Bass -- 34" or 863.6 mm

Gibson

Byrdland -- 23 1/2" or 596.9 mm

Les Paul -- 24 9/16" or 623.888 mm

PRS

Santana -- 24.5" or 622.3 mm

Tremonti -- 25" or 635.0 mm

Supplies – (insert link from main page)

T

Truss Rod – INSERT DEFINTION FROM BOOK

Tools – Tools need not be overly expensive and expansive, but some of the basic tools you will need to make a guitar are as follows:

INSERT LIST OF TOOLS

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

All the Rock/Pop/Top40 stuff I know is on the Oldies station now.

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Now there is a question, when does something become Oldies? I mean I'm hearing the Tragically Hip circa Fully Completely on the Classic Rock station. Hell, they play the new U2 stuff on that station. But I digress...

I've auccually never heard a green day song

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Have you NOT turned on a rock (and more recently pop/top 40) station, ever?!

I enjoy Green Day. That being said, when their first album came out I definately didn't think they'd be around 10 years later winning grammies. Is there music, musically speaking simplistic? Well yeah, but then what punk music isn't?

As for the new album? Well, I won't discuss that. You cannot discuss this new album without it leading up to a discussion on politics and the state of society today. So, I won't do it.

What are pants?

Based on the votes from last month, this thing could be far from over. More than twice as many people voted last month as have voted so far this month. This could still be a race yet.

I had to go for unclej's semi-hollow body. It just makes me want to go strive further on my semi-hollow build.

Just wanted to wish all our American friends a Happy Thanksgiving from all us here in Canada. Enjoy the family, food, friends and fun... not necessarily in that order.

That would be like pouring 55 gallon drums of jet fuel on a raging forest fire.

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Geez, you say that like it's a bad thing. What kid in Scouts didn't get a kick out of pouring white gas on to stuff to watch it burn?

GuitarFrenzy and Maiden get my nods. I wanna throw erikbojerik and Greg P's hat into the ring too.

How long is your course running?

I saw this like 10 minutes after it was put up and I was still to late

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I lucked out and saw it 2 minutes after it was posted

I hope whoever got it builds a nice acoustic.

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I've started the preliminary research on building an acoustic. Hope I can do right by the wood

Looking good my man, looking good.

How are their guitars coming so far?

I've got more pictures!

I've got the rest of the body and neck roughed out and my F hole shaped. There is some sanding that needs to be done obvously, especially on the f hole but I'm really digging the way it came out.

Louie, Louie by the Kingsmen. Even if you screw up, who the heck is going to notice?

Hmm, something tells me you guys aren't taking this topic seriously. 

Oh no, you get those guitars out of here, we're talking about beer now

guiness my friends, now thats a beer.

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I agree 100%, I loves a beer that's like a liquid bread. My poor North American gut can't handle drinking more than a few of those in a night. And Keiths makes for a better entertaining beer.

Tried Leffe Brun the other night and was quite fond of that.

First ever blues song with the word baugette in it.

Real beer^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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+1

That reminds me, I need to pick up a two-four. Thanks for that, eh?

We call 'em lugs, but you can call 'em hooks

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You sure hooks isn't the technical term?

Just to make sure I'm wrapping my sleep deprived brain around this

So the smaller inner knob on top is connected via the lower set of lugs, and the larger outer ring is via the upper lugs?

Anyhow, I'll take a shaved woman over whatever upsides your french women have, anyday.

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They must do something right, they've got a kiss named after 'em