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dmsean

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  1. So exactly when did Fender American Standard Strats become worthless piece of crap? My god I've been trying to trade this thing for a few month now and nothing. It's not like I'm trying to get a 58 gibson out of it But I'm not going to trade for a piece of crap for it either. Sorry I just needed to get that out anyway it's still available if anyone is interested. I'd like a LEFTY guitar, bass, or who knows. I perfer Hollow bodies, & Acoustics, or humbucker equiped. but I would just like this guitar to get used and appreciated.
  2. You may contact me at dmsean (at) msn.com
  3. Thanks for the info do you know if I can put contact info?
  4. Well I'm looking to trade my strat for another lefty guitar. There is nothing wrong with it I just never really connected with this guitar. I've changed out the pick up with GFS Cool Rails and changed the Pickgard the a red pearl but still have the original parts that will come with it it also has the OHSC. I bought this guitar new from GC in jan 95 I don't know how to post a pic here so if your interested shoot me an email
  5. I've used both types. the under the bridge is a piezo pickup, these work pretty well but can be kind of "quacky". I've also used the type that mount in the sound hole. I have a Dean Markly that I bounce between my sigma 12 string which had a piezo pickup in it, it sounded pretty crappy but it was also very old they are much different now, and my ovation. It sounds really good. I wired it thru the strap button that way there is no issue with the cable hanging out of the sound hole. Good luck!
  6. Well I tried to upload a few pics of her yesterday but was not successful. Today my stain came in so I went ahead and stained it. I used one of the tutoials from this site. I must say the flamed maple is OH MY GOD I think the house is on fire!!! I must say holy jeez I've never, yep I said never, seen a top like this before. I'm hoping to get some pictures uploaded soon.
  7. I think I would use a Accelorometer shaker table, then mount multiple accelomometers over the billet. This should give you a nice map of the actual variations of each area of the billet (MDF) in question. From there you could then take pieces of the same size with the grain running in different directions, and different densities, and see the variation from the original. This would give you the ability to predict with atleast some consistancy of how the resonant frequecies will come out. This in turn would give you the ability to try to find the perfect wood grains to get the "tone" you are looking for from any guitar you are building in theory anyway. As for how to suspend your billet, from the primary labs that I i have seen, I would suspend your piece from 4 corners (this will keep any outside noise from effecting you readings) and place a speaker directly below the billet and use a swept sinewave, one again you'll have to use multiple points to get a good mapping of your billet. Once again this is just my .02 I am not a physics major and I never played one on TV.
  8. Well this is my .02 part of my job is to figure out things that effect taking measurements. This is what I think is the reason that different woods effect tone. The pickup picks up the vibration of the string. The pickup doesn't notice any difference in the string, the vibration is what it is. the wood that the pickup is mounted to actually vibrates according to the sympathic frequency of the piece of wood. Wood densities, thickness, grain patterns ect. are all going to effect this vibration. because the pickup and the strings are vibrating at different rates they cause harmonics, this in turn is transmitted thru the pickup and to the amp. When tapping a piece of wood you will hear a "tone" the harder and stiffer the wood the higher the frequency will be. I spent a few years working with accelorometers, and acoustic setups. I could be wrong but this is my .02
  9. Ok I need to buy my last pick up I want to have an acoustic option on my guitar. So which is better LR Baggs or Graph Tech and why?
  10. indeed... but even with a short scale and humbuckers it has the potential to be a brighter mix than another short scale humbuckered guitar built with some other woods, and it still has the potential to be brighter than a bright telecaster depending on the individual woods was i really supposed to mention every last factor or possible outcome? or just the general idea of like was asked for!! This is the exact type of info I'm looking for thanks.
  11. Holy Crap, Ok let see I had already planned on chambering the body I figured it would help with the weight. I'm going with a 25.5 in. scale. I usually use 11s but might go heavier. I got a set of Seymour duncan hotrodded humbuckers the SH-2 & SH-4 combo. I've got a bugera 5150 copy tube amp. The Walnut is a fairly staight grained book matched piece about an inch thick, The maple is a highly flamed book matched piece about a 3/8 thick, the Coco is and extremely dark extremly resonant piece, it will be solid one piece except for the peg head joint except for the Pau Ferro.
  12. I'm doing my first build. I'm wondering what kind of tone I might get out of it. I've got a walnut body, Maple top, Cocobolo neck with a Pau ferro fret board. I'm going to deep set the neck just because. Let me know.
  13. Its listed as a stolen guitar on ed romans site http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...l%3Den%26sa%3DG
  14. Wow! Thanks guys I guess I'll get some real "Good" experience out of this. I have what I thought was a "Solid" Spruce top but it turns out to be a plywood Laminate. Should be fun. How often do you get to take a saw to a guitar and not have to worry about damage? Sean
  15. Hello, I'm new here and I've seen alot of posts that might help me. I have an older Ovation it was my first guitar. I loaned it to my cousin when he sent it back it was damaged in shipping (this was a few years ago) UPS pretty much screwed me by telling me I could not make a claim on it since my cousin sent it and they told my cousin he could not make a claim since he didn't own it. Anyway I need to replace the top. my main concern is removing the neck. I've seen alot of things about ovation necks on the web but nothing that really gives me a clue on if there will be problems. Lots of things saying extra care and effort needs to take place. Well like what? I don't have to worry about damage to the top since its shot anyway. but I don't want to damage the neck. Anyway thanks for anyhelp in advance dmsean
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