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Are you sure its the amp? if the pickups on your guitar are active you may need new batteried in it, that happened to me recently

LOL just thought if you really want some free parts for your guitar do a search on dumpster diving, I remember reading a topic on it here lol!

ive never seen a V kit, but im my opinion with the kind of budget your talkin about id wait a while, just get a cheap strat copy while you save your money, and play the guitar all the time so youll have a really good idea of what will suite you when you have the funds to do so

because seriously if it was possible to build a custom flying V for under 100 bucks with just a screwdriver we'd all be doin it! lol

You never know someone may be feeling generous an give you some wood or something but even still tools are expensive, so go get a part time job!! lol

'Using a photo of the original Duck

to replicate each and every scratch'

lol, if you look at your guitar an then the orignal the main wear on the front of it is a good 1 and a half inches lower on yours than on the original

as for tips check out all the tutorials on www.projectguitar.com and once youve read them do a search on the forum on anything you need more help on, and if you cant find anything then ask the members, in that order, lol, youll get a better reception of the members that way, thats what i do as im still a newbie guitar builder myself

I want to do a sunburst finish on the guitar im refinishing, and im wondering if rather than spraying the burst i could use a heat gun to burn the edges of the guitar, then stain over the whole thing

any reasons why not? and do you think it would look good?

Thanks

Dave

I dont know if your aware of this but LGM is a member of this board

My friend gave me this guitar, he didnt want it anymore so i said id have it to mess around with and modify, anyway i want to file down the neck as it is quite bulky and im just wondering how much I would be able to take of it before it 1.weakens the neck and 2. i file into the truss rod cavity bit

I know the depth of the truss rod cavity is gonna vary due to what truss rod it is an other factors, but is there a general amount that is ok to take off?

Thanks

Dave

but im not too keen on the colour, im gonna have to pass...

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Your on a website dedicated to making and re finishing guitars, lol

If you dont like the colour you could always refinish it to your tastes

Yer it does,thanks a lot

Ive read a few threads of people saying they use pictures of abalone in photoshop to create there decal, I was just wondering if anyone has any links to sites with pictures of abalone an mop on so i can see what this would turn out like

Thanks

Dave

I dont know but im sure ive read someone elses post that says no, because the flakes are too big to fit threw the nossle of the cap or not enough pressure? something like that, not sure of the reason but im pretty sure its a no, could be wrong though

You can put banners above the topics on this type of forum, it may be an idea to make one with big letters sayin 'please use search function before poting questions'- or something along those lines just so any new members dotn make the same mistakes

Squiers arent exactly the same bodys as the fenders, i remember reading it in one of the tutorials here when he compared his squire to the real template of a strat he bought

the nut to the 12th fret is supposed to be the same distance as the 12th fret to the bridge

Ive gotta say I didnt even realise there was a search function till about a week after I joined! lol

Yer i had a look at that post but i didnt think the parts were the same an the prs style one as on the strat style one, are they?

Ive been researching into making my own guitar for a while now, and ive decided on buying a kit at first to get a general feel for it then make one from scratch

any way just wondering what peoples thoughts were on this kit?

http://www.universaljems.com/cart/ht10/ht10.htm

Obviously its not gonna have top of the line parts i know! lol but is there anything you would advise definately changing when i make it?

Once ive put new strings on before tuning up i gently 'pull' them up from the fret board to stretch them, and also tune to a higher pitch then down to concert pitch, this is just because im impatient and like it to stay in tune straight away, if you are going to do this stretch them very gently!!

my point is that it works on paint with out doing anything to it, of course I could of messed around with the size on photoshop but im lazy,lol and yer it was the size coz I printed it off and the tip of the horn filled the whole page!! lol

classic rock definately

They were huge in photoshop but it worked in paint, thanks

How do you get them the right size, i printed them out an there huge! lol

hated basswood (which by the way is used as a cheap substitute for other more expensive cabinet woods)

Ibanez use basswood on some of there top of the range guitars, The $900 rg's are made of basswood, and im sure one of the jem models is too

Just checked and the JEM7d,77,555 are all made of basswood bodies and so is the uv777p

Im not talking about any cheap korean import, im talkin about the USA (the supposed best ones) which as i referred to didnt not sound well or feel that nicely made, I could go out and buycouple of these so called 'top of the line' bc rich's but Im not goin to because in my opinion they are not good guitars

But that is my opinion if you like them and of course many people do i really dont care 'each to there own' and all that but just in my opinion there no good

****Edited beacause i started to rant!! lol****

Oh and of course I havent tried the entire bc rich line of products so i cant say there all definatley bad, but from the 4 or 5 I have tried personally didnt like them

Are you sure you arent doing something wrong? or your electrics are blowing the circuit or something...because to have them all do it? seems rather strange, and surely it isnt a model defect or marshall should have called them all back in