Mr.Churchyard

ZZounds.com has the 1620x for 579 i believe.. that's below cost as it lists for 1299.

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Yeah, that is quite cheap (quite because I want just the trem, eh!) - especially if one considers the weak dollar. Unfortunately, I prob won't have enough money to buy it before the last one is sold. ****. Or perhaps not - if Graphtech build one, I would definitely go that way - the GHOST system seem awesome. Hope it will be available in gold finish...

you can also buy an RG1820XGK.

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A little bit too expensive...

I haven't counted but that might give you 13 combinations..

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In fact, that's why it is called 513 - 5 pickups for thirteen sounds. As long as I remember the ad. But finding out more about it would be surely interesting, it's like splittable humbuckers the other way round, if you know what I mean. A new way of the old dream of combining strat and les pail. This is making me curious. But back to the topic, Godin have you decided what woods to use and why?

yes it's like a PRS 513 without the middle pickup.  And have you ever tried to find the wireing of a 513?  It's more guarded than fort knox!  It's impossiable to find it.  I would just have to go into a store (of a guy you REALLY know ) And open er up and see how it's wired...

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No, never tried to find it (as I said, I know almost nothing of the 513), but I thought somebody would have already done that because it sounds cool... But yet, it is still a fairly new guitar.

You'll surely tell us how your guitar will sound and how it is wired, yes?

would i be able to get a shape of a telecaster, but make the guitar a bass?

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Fender itself does/did it. The first and second one I came up googlinghttp://www.jimlawrence.net/BASSES/TeleBlonde.html andhttp://www.jimlawrence.net/TELE73BASS/1973TELE.html

have both very untelecasterily (is that even a word?) a horn. In fact, it doesn't look at all like a Tele, but more of a Precision. Probably it was just a marketing thing. ibanez did also copies, but they seem to have been like the Fender ones.

So I suppose there would be problems with neck heaviness using the standard telecaster shape. But perhaps you could try it - just don't make it an extra longscale, hmm? And look for more, I suppose someone must have tried it before.

Oh, don't stone me to death please, but one suggestion I just came up with: you could make it a headless perhaps?

ok so my guitar project is drawing to an end... And I already am planning to make another   I want it to have 4 single coils (2 next to each other so It looks like a humbucker) and than thell be wired up so I hit a switch and it goes beteween single coil and humbucker.

I may be wrong because I am not actually informed about it, but isn't that a approach similar to the PRS 513? If it is you may look up the wiring and perhaps decide to put also one in the middle (although I personally am against having too much pickups on one guitar, since it comes to a point where the sustain is decreased due to the strong magnetic fields of the PUs, and besides most times it looks crap), may be cool. As wood, I also suggest Paduak, or perhaps Koa. Surely interesting woods. Although a highly figured maple is still perhaps the most beautiful choice. Is it gonna be bolt-on/set-in or neck-through?

Think of it like art.  Hmm, a $50 canvas and $5 worth of oil paints don't really add up to the thousands of dollars some pieces of art go for.  The value is in the unseen.  The builders here who do custom work are CREATING something new, which has innate value in and of itself, something that can't really be broken down into dollars and cents.

Great comparison. And it should be also said that it is very fair that a great luthier makes a living out of his art.

I do not think it is the price of luthier-hand-made-guitars that we should be questioning, but that of certain "custom" guitars which I seriously doubt are handmade, or certain signature guitars like the Pagey one which I believe to be really too expensive for what they offer.

If someone believes he can do as well as an experienced luthier for less money, well then...

I thought Behringer did only amps and recording stuff?

they do. Hees joking. Begringer recently releaced pedals that look just like the BOSS pedals and BOSS is sueing behringer...

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Ah allright! I forgot it was Behringer and didn't know Boss sued them. I have seen them, though, and they sure do look very alike...

you can't buy a double edge, but there  is supposed to be a piezo system coming out from a well known company, not sure if I can drop the name yet.  I'll be talking to them this week though so I'll find out some more info if I can.

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That would be very kind!

I thought Behringer did only amps and recording stuff?

Oh and Kevan, though I am absolutely determined to build a guitar all by myself, it is supposed to be a very long-term project... Due to lack of experience in woodworking, inlaying, electronics and of money...

To buy an RG only to get its tremolo seems a bit awkward to me but is a great idea, perhaps that would be the way to go.

Well let me know. Very happy to have found you, great site & great work guys.

Hi to all,

I have found this website recently and thinking since that to build my own project guitar. As I came up with the "wish list", I found I would have liked, amongst other features:

-piezo acoustic sounds

-Floyd type Bridge

My problem is: I have done some research on the net and found lots of interesting vintage-type or fulcrum-type trems with piezo, but no Floyd Rose-type one. Except one: The Double Edge by Ibanez, which is also mentioned in one rewiring tutorial. Is it possible to buy it as a separate part from Ibanez or is it impossible (like the Jem necks)? And are there other ones which would meet this criteria? Or perhaps other possibilities to achieve this combination?

Thank you in advance for helping,

greetings from Berlin