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is it just too obvious or why hasn't anyone said/noticed that it's actually a Gibson (Zakk) + Dean (Dime) combination. I don't think he's really giving up on Gibsons, thats just a Dimebag tribute guitar or whatever. The looks in those V ends and the Dean headstock just have the big "dimebag" label on them. imo. Just my 2%

hey I damn liked the piano crushin' an burnin' scene. It was the first time I've seen it done properly. As for the song, I liked it, but only without the video.

28if i'm not completely sure what you mean, can you draw a picture for us explanation-impaired? Just remember, free hand is your worst tool

Woh, what an amazing thread! Someone with too much spare time and no guitar to work with should categorize this all and put to the PG main page. I've got one more piece of advice that I didn't find while skimming through this all -- ALWAYS buy your hardware before you rout the cavities. When you have the parts on your desk next to the soon-to-be-shredding-son-of-a-guitar, it's much easier to avoid mistakes. Also, you don't have to ask folks here on the forum questions like, "how high is the TOM bridge?"

The maple is not yet planed and it bent a little when I got it home and had it dry for several months. But it should be ok when I'll plane it to correct thickness. I've had one neck piece bent too much due to humidity and one mahogany neck blank I had was eaten by woodworms, so I've learned to be r e a l l y careful with neck woods . The inlay material is from StewMac, the MOP thing. As for the fretb inlay, I think I'm going to do a custom vine of life, something my own. I've done a few drawings and I'll post some pics for you all once it's final.

that design looks like a medieval shield with two short swords or scimitars crossed over it (the "horns" being the swords' handles) and I like it a lot!

ok so here's some pics of my woods. I'll get started with the project soon, maybe I'll get a chance to saw the body shape tomorrow. Some inlay material and fingerboard Pic how the monkey grip will be located on the top Plain maple for the neck Full shot of the neck blank Pic of body & fingerboard

ok so i've changed my mind about body contouring, I think I'll make a forearm contour, but not the back side, 'cause I think it would be quite impossible to make because of the hollowbody design. Or is the top bend possible if i have so much wood removed => less area for glue?

is that a leftie or just a reversed headstock? --Edit: ahh you posted pics of the body now. no answer needed

That headstock really has killer looks. Perfect midpoint between Jackson and new ESP headstocks, both which I dislike though. But this is elite

Hmh. I had a hard time deciding whether I'll post this here or the guitar chat forum, since this is not yet actually a tutorial, but when I'll move along with the project this shall be a some kind of tutorial. So I'll place it here for now, feel free to move it if needed. This is one odd kind of design I created on a boring lesson at school, and after a few minutes of planning I decided to actually build this. So here's the specs I have for now: body shape: Ibanez JEM body wood: mahogany with walnut top neck wood: plain maple neck join: bolt-on w/ AANJ scale length: 25,5" fretboard: dunno yet, ebony maybe or something more exotic frets: 24 Jumbo no body contours black binding on body & fingerboard flyod rose tremolo hollowbody design gold hardware two humbucker pickups (don't know yet which ones though) rear-routed controls and no pickguard So it's really going to be a hollowbody, the trick being that the "F-hole" is the shape of JEM's monkey grip. And oh, before I boast with 'my new great design', please tell me whether some you guys have already done this, so I wont claim this as my own idea. Didn't find any similiar with a quick Google search, though. I will post pics as I make progress, now the only thing I have is a few shots of my woods and the body blank planed with the JEM shape drawn. It still has the single-coil pickup cavity drawn, but I decided not to rout it and have it a H-H. I'll post them when I get them out of my camera Comments and suggestions are more than welcome, actually I'm not yet sure if I'll go with the walnut top, perhaps some other dark, more figured wood for the looks. What do you think of Koa? Cheers.

Well this is kinda my first whole-guitar-completely-from-scratch project, so maybe I'll do the purfling first on the fretboard only. It's all straight lines so it's not as hard to do as the whole body..

Yeah I know they're quite good for binding the fingerboard, but I need also curved pieces. I could just buy a piece of abalone and cut the pieces myself, but it would result in enormous amount of wasted abalone because it is sold in rectangle shaped pieces and i need to cut curved pieces. The thin pearl veneer thing is quite cheap and my question is whether people here have done well with it...

It depends on how much paint there is chipped off and how neat finish you want. I had the paint on my ESP's headstock chipped off just a little and I refinished it with a black marker pen . It was only a tiny chip so it can only be seen on close range... But when it comes to real big spots there's not much you can do without refinishing it completely... And you can always make a relic Strat

Audacity and Kristal are the programs I use at home. They're good enough for what I need at home, when I'm only recording guitar and stuff. Then I have Logic at school and it just kicks butt Too expensive for me to buy though....

Hi! I'm new to this forum and I thought it would be good to introduce myself with a sort of newbie question Well, I'm working on my Les Paul project guitar, it's going to be black with white plastic binding. Plus, what I thought would look good, would be a wide abalone stripe before the binding, like this one: (hope the pics work) Only thing close to this I could find was the abalone purfling on StewMac, but the precut purflings there are way too narrow for me, what I'm looking for is maybe twice that wide. So, the actual question: Does anyone know a place where to buy this kind of abalone binding? Would the cheap extra-thin pearl veneers work that I've seen on some stores? I know they don't require any cavity to install but I don't quite like the idea if the binding sticks out of the body, even a little if you know what I mean.