Mr.Churchyard

With dial-up it won't work as it was conceived to do so don't even try it. (Fortunately, I am not on dialup)

maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel lol.

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Yeah, it's a neon light sign with the words "No exit" written on it.

Aren't there any other resources on winding pickups? This cannot be...

I would like to add that perhaps the veterans and pros don't realize anymore the incredible quantity and quality of information on this board, for which they are responsible most of the time... When I got Hiscocks book I already knew most of what was written inside just by reading the posts on the forum and the tutorials on the main site... I firmly believe that if one reads up all that is written here, asks a few question, works with good material and is careful leaving all the time needed to do it he can do a great work...

You CAN advertise it as "a guitar built with the following parts: bla bla"...

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I think you SHOULD

I always get a better impression out of guitars where there is accurate information about the parts it was built with... And especially if the information is accurate, you are on the safer side, or am I wrong?

With a normal humbucker, the magnetic pull should be negligible.  Adding a strat style pickup with Alnico5 polepieces might, but that's another thing.

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Wouldn't that just diminish the sustain instead of changing the tone? (I am asking)

The Planet Waves Auto-Trim Locking Tuners are just awesome. They stay in tune just like the Sperzels (imho even better) and as a great extra they automatically cut the string! I am just in love with them and would definitely recommend you to check them out... This tuners at Stew-Mac

But Kirk hammet's setup has 2 EMG 81's and a five way switch so they have to be able to split....right?

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AFAIK it has a three way switch. (And in fact: ESP specifications of Kirk's guitar). Besides, except those EMGs with dual output (e.g. EMG 89, don't know if there are others), none of them is able to split the coils.

If you want to go for versatility I would definitely not suggest EMG 81s. And the Kirk Hammett Signature is not exactly what I would define "versatile"...

The Evos are able to split for sure... If you go for passive pickups, you cannot use (or at least it is not advisable) to use an active EMG singlecoil extra...

The real question is, what should your guitar be able to do? What do you want her to be?

i think this would definitely be a field that the us would have to start looking into. seeing as how the supply of the worlds trees is dwindling and we really should leave some for the environment. i am by no means against luthiery i think it is a fantastic thing to do, but technology is in our midst and if this can eliminate a lot of the problems with wood and also help the environment then why not look into it right?

-RAF

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Using Graphite-reinforce PLASTIC is not the most ecological thing I could think of. I would much much more advocate the use of wood from controlled origin (like Gibsons Smartwood concept).

On a sidenote, it's not exactly technology which is saving the environment.

What kind of music do you play?

No it's just about practice and learning through experience what movement is right if you want to hit a certain amount of strings...

Not bad, only very repetitive. I just wonder where the NuMetal is, and more than that I wonder where the shred is... The only part which is a bit faster is around 2:40... But it's not even shred...

What about mahogany like this?

mahogany I was considering to buy

I think it looks quite interesting, and there were better pieces. Or is more or less figured mahogany less suited for a good guitar than plain looking mahogany?

Just out of intrest where would you get the flamed maple fretboard from??? Noddy 

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I suppose it's a one piece neck out of flamed maple that is meant...

I don't feel like looking for that picture of the strat being dragged behind a pickup truck again.

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This has been done for real?

...........I dont think you can find a saga for that 

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Sure you can. Even less. Here, for example

big muff pi ----> jackhammer

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A Bif Muff Pi AND a Jackhammer???

1) read up on things, Hiscocks book for instance is great. There is so much info needed for this that we could not possibly tell you every thing you should consider here in reply, although buying premade parts helps a lot, BUT

2) DO NOT buy anything yet! For instance not every neck works with every body, you could not buy a Stratocaster-type neck to put on a Les Paul-type body for the scale length, the neck pocket, the neck attachment type, the widths and heights and even the neck angle are all different... What is the fingerboard radius? Will it work with the bridge? and so on...

3) Read all the tutorials on the main projectguitar.com site, it should help a lot to get an idea beforehand before the book arrives, and

4) Check out the supply section on www.projectguitar.com before buying anything...

5) Clear up ideas and make yourself as clear as possible... (for instance what does the Fender pickguard have to do with the black Les Paul? I don't understand...)

6) With the "switchlike thing the pickups are attached to": Do you mean the pickup selector switch?

Thanks pal. Also, how do the bigsby tremolos compare? I hear they have the same sustain as a normal bridge. But can they dive as far?

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LOL!!!

No ABSOLUTELY not!

Wow Blues. You, my girlfriend and I seem to be the only ones I don't know anyone else that listens to the Real McKenzies.

There's one song, called Death of a Space Piper, and it sounds like a bagpipe with a whammy lol. Probably squeezing the bag a bit harder now and then.

-Jamie

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To be honest, the Real McKenzies are quite famous in their genre... Funny band

Nope, that's the wrong guitar.

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Idch, you obviously just looked at the pic and did not read the text accompanying

My point exactly was that it was some POS... :-)

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...7338198344&rd=1

it says fender on the headstock, but stratocaster is spelt wrong? so im guessing its a copy?

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Fender starcaster look at the end of the text: "The original Starcaster is unrelated in design to another guitar called the "Starcaster by Fender", manufactured overseas and sold as part of a starter electric guitar package at Costco outlets starting in the early 2000s. That guitar resembles a Stratocaster with a triangular headstock, and seems to be a rebranding of one of Fender's Squier budget instruments."

idch, where did you buy it?

Could be.  Although (and I don't expect anyone to be a mind reader to have known this for certain even though it makes sense) if I were talking about a bass, I would have dispensed with the word "high" altogether and asked, "Is it on the E side or the G side"?

Greg

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Perhaps he was meaning a piccolo bass.

Seriously though, perhaps what he meant was that it would not be symmetrical with the symmetrical line right along the middle of the neck, between d and g strings so to speal, but slightly more in the direction of the high e, which would be - with a bit of visualization - under the high g string? Anyway...

I don't know where he got High G. I think he's trying to me a smart a$$. Obviously it's not going too well for him.

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Bass perhaps?