gw_guitars

Hi,

Not finished my first guitar but can't stop thinking of the next.

I've decided that the second one I built will have a tremolo.

None of my guitars have a tremolo so I was browsing trough the Ibanez pictures and got a little confused.

Ibanez has a locking nut. This I can understand. It doesn't have a 'normal' nut. In other words: the width of the neck should always be the same to fit the locking nut. Is this correct or am I missing something.

Second, if there's a locking nut what is the purpose of the bar that is located just after the locking nut and before the machine heads. It can't be to press the strings towards the head because the locking nut doesn't need that. I mean: on a stratocaster are those string guide thingies to compensate that there's no tilted head stock.

So what's the use?

Maybe a stupid question?

Gerard

Any of you guys live near a nuclear power plant?

What I forgot.

I really like the concept of the neck thru body. I wanted to do that myself but I got an ESP Fender style neck from a friend. Well, the Guitar I'm building is the first (of many, I hope) so I thought let's make it a fender style head.

I glued the neck though. Maybe it is a little misfunction in my brain but I'm a little neurotic for bolted necks. My Fender has a bolted neck and it works perfectly, but it gives me an unnatural feeling.

Gerard

I know what you mean, I wanted an explorer style head. The problem is that the high E and B strings are getting a nasty curve due too the shape of the head. Further I agree with the fact that it's gives an unwanted tension on the top nut.

Gerard

Maybe it's nice to 'mirror' the headstock with the body although it may look a little a dean guitar.

Gerard

Coen,

Have you tried spraying the surroundings with water so the dust can't whirl around?

Gerard

What finish will your feet get?

(most of my pictures have one of my fingers on it)

I like it.

The color on the linked guitar is real nice specially because it's a little transparant.

The stained red with black could be nice too.

So many people, so many opinions.

Anyway what you've build so far looks good.

What will the shape of the head look like? standard v-head?

Gerard

I think I'm in love!!

I'm so glad you don't have a shop in Holland because there would be a long haired weerdo sticking with his tongue on the window, drooling.

Beautifull!!

By the way,

Westhemann is completely correct.

Gerard

Hoi Coen,

Never found a supplier in Holland. I only know there's a kind of tape (made by Bison) which has a aluminium or copper coating on it, but even that is hard to find.

It is a little bit like paintable silicon kit. Everybody knows it exist but nobody knows where to get it.

When I find something I let you know off course

Gerard

Thanx Guys!!

Got a Dremel for my birthday!!!

I really love my wife!

Gerard

Try this,

Connect your guitar with a speaker cable to the amp.

You will get interference and noise and hum of all kind.

Put the guitar cable in and it's gone.

It's the shielding effect of the woven( correct?, to weave) thin cables in the guitar cable.

This is the use of shielding paint.

Gerard

Hi,

It doesn't matter there's paint over it. You just make sure the paint doesn't make chemical reaction's you don't won't.

The shielding paint is used to make a 'cage of Faraday'. This is to get rid of interference. Like noise from TL-lighting, amateur radio stations and so on.

You just have to make sure that on some part the shielding paint has to connect to the earth wire, usually found on the back of the volume pot, or the wire that runs from the bridge.

I hope that answers your question.

Gerard

Hey,

That's the way to do it. Specially 'the dog licking the dishes'

My dog is gettin' jealous. Golden Retriever. No retrieving this one. Too lazy.

Gerard

Just curious,

What have you decided?

Gerard

kutkind!

Jongens toch!! Foei!

What kind of language is that!

Go wash your mouth with soap!

Gerard

Hi, thanks for the swift reply

The width of the neck is 4,2 cm

Yes it looks like a strat neck. It is an ESP neck.

The obvious thing to do was to measure the neck on my stratocaster.

(Silver anniversary stratocaster)

I did, but the original strat neck is smaller and I don't like the string spacing.

I hope it is not a 'monday morning' guitar but what I don't like is that the high E string is much shorter to the side of the neck than the low E string.

The spacing is not even.

I believe the material of the nut is a hard kind of plastic.

I got it of a Hopf guitar which was completely ruined and was found by the garbage. I took it home (10 years ago) because there where schaller machine heads on it.

Gerard

Hi,

I'm still in the process of painting but I'm thinking of the next step. Which is (among other things) making the top nut.

I have some questions, maybe someone could give me a hint.

Is there some kind of formula to determine the string spacing of the top nut?

What are the measurment of the slots in the top nut?

And finally, Has anybody made his nut files of a set of feeler gauges?

Gerard

Hi,

I think it's a little dangerous.

With a sander you don't know how much wood you will be taking off. Specially a disc sander can grind (correct word?) in.

Furthermore it's hard to keep a disc sander nice flat.

From what I understand you will be taking off 1 cm of wood.

I think that is dangerous at that ppoint of the guitar because it will make the neck/body joint a little fragile.

maybe it's better to use a router and just take out what you think will be necessary.

Hope this will help.

Gerard

Hi,

In Holland (The Netherlands) we have:

http://www.voxhumana.nl

They suplly: Guitar kits

Hardware

Paint

Pickguards

Specialties

Tools

Woods

On there home page you can choose the language

They ship worldwide

It is a firm that looks like stew mac

Hope this scores some points

Gerard

I forgot something.

Before you start measuring the pick up you have to make sure it is not connected to anything because you will measure through your volume pot for instance. So you have to de solder (good english??) it.

Gerard

Hi Ben,

I just thought of it. Maybe it is possible to measure the resistance of the pick up. I don't know the English word for it. It's a meter that can determine what the resistance of a electronic part/device is. It's scale is in ohm's.

What I mean is: you measure a pick up what is quite similar to the 'broken' pick up. Let's say you measure something about 8 Kohm (eight Kilo Ohm).

Then do the same thing on the 'broken' pick up. If it's nowhere near 8Kohm you could assume the pick up is broken.

I hope this is a little understandible if not let me know.

Gerard

Hi,

Maybe it's possible the paint solvent can damage the coating of copper wire.

So you get a short cut in the pick up and thus less windings with as a consequence a lower output.

In that case the pick up would be ruined.

(I hope it's not)

It's just a theory. I'm not a electrician.

Gerard

I loved the tour,

It doesn't matter the photo's load slow. It's worth it.

Wished i had a workshop like this.

I work in my barn and on the living room table.

( my poor kids have to eat between the guitar parts..........,just kiddin)

Gerard