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Did you know that by donating $58 (plus shipping) to GuitarBuildingTemplates.com you can have your very own set of Jem templates? Not just paper blueprints, mind you, but hard templates that are yours to have and hold forever and ever amen.

http://www.guitarbuildingtemplates.com/777.htm

Now, before you get all "thanks but I said blueprints, you (insert epithet here), and I don't have $58 (plus shipping) anyway, so just answer my question," let me just say this:

Welcome to the forum.

Dave Weiner (Steve Vai's band) has a pictorial on his forum on building a custom iso box. Unfortunately, the forum is down.

Here's the link for when it comes back up. Use the search function.

http://daveweiner.com/phpBB2/index.php

Here's how one guy does his. Resto/conversion on a beat up SG:

http://www.freewebs.com/stmoritzguitars/re...sinprogress.htm

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=prod...&lpage=none

I found this stuff at lowes, and its a bondo product. I use bondo just about every day because i do paint repair on cars and the stuff work great on plastic. But im not sure how this stuff here would work as a grain filler. I cant get any grainfiller locally where i am, but i can get this stuff, so what do u guys think

First of all, where are you located that you can't get grain filler? Second, what kind of wood are you using? If it's a closed-grain wood like alder you don't need filler at all, just a sealer.

I've used it and the Rusto clear. Not bad, and the price is right. Pretty sure they're acrylic lacquer, not nitro.

Bright green & black.

Apply black, then sand out almost all the color. Apply the green over that to the desired darkness. Clear, cure, polish, assemble, rock.

I'm getting a Floyd Rose Pro installed on my JEM. And I am getting DiMarzio pickups. Question is do I need f-spaced pickups? Or standard spacing?

I've read some posts on this subject. Tho they are opinions, some say Floyd Rose = F spaced pickups. When others say it does not matter.

Does anyone REALLY know. Or what?

The answer to your question is "yes." In other words, last I heard a Floyd Rose is Fender-spaced, so you'd need Fender-spaced pickups. (Or not. Back in the day, EVH tilted his bridge pickup to compensate for the bridge spacing.)

Now I have a couple of questions:

1. Doesn't the Jem come with factory-installed DiMarzio pickups?

2. Why replace the Edge Pro with a FR Pro?

3. Is this really an Ibanez Jem?

4. How many is a couple?

You could always do like Hohner did on the Tele copy that Prince likes so much.

It uses a Strat style hardtail and a pickguard material filler panel type thing to hold the Strat style pickup. Of course, that's assuming the S pup will fit the T rout.

The toggle switch is held by metal ring with tiny notches on it. I can't seem to get it to budge so I can't install creme toggle ring on the lp axe.

You know it's a nut, right? Lefty loosey, righty tighty.

I suppose you could always buy one of these.

Vintage Fender style. Load it up with springs, stick a hunk of wood in there, and you're gold. Gold, Jerry.

Well shoot, hang around those Jemfesters long enough and someone might hook you up. Kevan, you listening?

Krylon.

-or-

Lend it to this guy for a few months.

There are whole forums full of people who are chomping at the bit to screw up a perfectly good guitar. They won't listen to good advice, either, just the really really really bad stuff from people who know absolutely jack about what they're doing. I'm tellin' ya, it'll make blood shoot right out of your eyes.

So like, if I went back to the front of this topic and copied word for word the first question, would anybody notice? Or even care? Who would get sued, me or Fender?

THis is a lightweight ash body (STILL trying to fill it perfectly, using epoxy) 4.2 lbs. And I wanted to make it basically pretty traditional, with a few exceptions. The neck on it is a '63 I've played since I was a teenager. No Floyd.s No fulcrums. Does anyone make a vintage trem that is decent l, maybe this Wilkinson made tream at guitarfetish?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=180125097654

or a more modern design like the stainless steal trm that dancing dragon sells (a mighty mite?) for around $44 http://cgi.ebay.com/Chrome-Deluxe-Tremolo-...emZ300035326265.

It's an odd color guitar, reranch faded fiesta. It looks salmon pink. It seems to me that a Kahler wouldn't really fit on it stylwise unliess I wanted it to be kind of an 80s MIJ guitar, which would be fine. But the body is so light, I like the idea of using lighter parts and keeping the look more traditional.

anybody got an opinion? all welcome!

Uglogirl

Ash body, 63 neck. Not a lot to go on. What pickups? Tuners? Vintage style or modern? Are you going top shelf with everything else?

If I'm building a beater, I go cheap. GFS or Mighty Mite will work and you can always upgrade later.

If this is your dream guitar, save up and get the best. Callaham is arguably the best out there right now, or Genuine Fender.

I applied for a job at GC a few years ago. The manager was probably 22 and looked every bit of 12. He looked at the application, my resume, then at me real superior like and said, "You ever work commission sales before?"

"Yeah, once or twice (20 years, more or less)."

"Well, you have to have experience to work here," he said.

"Okay then," I said, then I left and haven't been back.

Visit your local big box guitar stores. The only way to know how each one sounds and feels is to play them back to back. Make notes so you can remember what you like and dislike about each one. Take a friend to get a front-of-soundhole perspective. Play them amplified too, through as many different acoustic amps as they have. Then go home and sleep on it. Go back and try them on another day and take your notes with you. See if your first impressions were right.

Here's a quote from a guy who used to be featured on the PYOG website:

As for the "Paint your own Guitar" book ...

I strongly suggest you avoid doing any paintjobs with Krylon (or any other spraypaint).

The pics in the book are pretty, but they're not a true representation of what those guitars are going to look like in a very short period of time (I'm talking weeks). Save yourself ALOT of time and frustration and do it right the first time with 2-pac urethane or an instrument grade lacquer.

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...st&p=272852

Definitely Steve Morse of Deep Purple... I´ve made copy of his signature guitar http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...ry+first+guitar

Just when you think can't possibly get any older.

When most people my age think Steve Morse they think Dixie Dregs, and when I saw that you had made a copy of Morse's guitar, I thought of this:

What are they getting used for then? :-D

They have several uses, fretboards included.

Drop it in a router on a router table, adjust the height so the bottom edge of the bearing rides just a tad above the centerline (you want the top of the cut to be just south of centerline), mount the fretboard blank centered on the side of a square hunk o' wood (which is higher than the fretboard width), rout, flip and rout again. Zero-to-radius in about 60 seconds. Knock down the tiny ridge in the center with sandpaper, then slot-taper-buff-fret.

PM me if you want more info.

Yeah, that's what I thought they were for.

Pignose G40V. Tubes, loud as you want, compact. $320.

Oh man... I'm REALLY torn here... with #1 and the last one... the details on that explorer are stellar, pure execution. However, the carving guitar is just SO original, and still has some great execution and some cool insight on how a guitar SHOULD be done.

But... I gotta say, the win goes to the carving guitar.

Chris

+1

Seems like there's one of these every few months. Different name, different product, but otherwise nearly a carbon copy.

Maybe we could have a fill-in-the-blank thread for this sorta thing?

+1. Brent Spiner rocks.