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MES_C

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  1. voted for the tri-caster. I also like jaycee's Dread-Niamh. All the entries this month are guitars I'd like to own, great job everyone!
  2. I think I can take it from here, but I appreciate your interest so here is a link to the thread on this guitar. The body is low quality pine, neck is maple, and pickups are some unknown brand off of eBay.(bridge= ~16K, neck= 5-6K) I looked up "Q-value" you mentioned, and I found some information under resonant filters. How does it apply this filter? Also, here are some plot spectrums from audacity, they may or may not be helpful... initial full bass cut full treble cut thanks
  3. Thanks for the help everyone, it never occurred to me that the formula borge gave would apply to my filter. I'll pick up a handful of caps next time I'm at radioshack and try to find a good break frequency in the range suggested. looking forward to talking with you all again
  4. hello all, I finished my last build a few months ago. I wasn’t completely happy with my passive bass cut knob because it cut too much volume. But I was tired of fiddling with the thing, so I just called it good. But now I was wondering if anyone could suggest a way to reduce the volume loss. Heres a rough diagram of what it looks like: (If its unclear let me know) thanks for your help The thing does sound cool for songs with lots of fast strumming, so its not a complete waste.
  5. voted for davee's koa semi-hollow, just first rate work. The Z1 is pretty cool too, but we can only vote once.
  6. voted for JHM-7, very cool, love the purple stain. I like avenger's curious blue too, but the top wood could be a bit darker, or the neck could be lighter. They don't seem to go together as they are.
  7. The diagram you posted looks alight to me. Although I didn't completely follow your question in the first post, it sounds like there could be a short to ground somewhere in the circuit. Maybe a close up of your guitar's control cavity would be helpful. good luck with your troubleshooting
  8. Maybe stew-mac sent you a center detent off instead of a center detent full blend pot. You could try a new blend pot, or test the one you have.
  9. I like the "toneflow", original and still a good design. Being a 12-string makes it kinda special too. Its one pretty guitar. The finkelstein is a close second. Its cool but the big horns look out of place.
  10. My first build was playable at best. All the measurement were a little off, the tone was kinda dead sounding, and I just didn't do a very good work on it. You can see how the body is lop-sided from me not paying attention when I was sanding. It was well worth doing because of all that i learned. I wanted to post it because recently I went back and shimmed the neck and put way heavier strings on it, which fixed the intonation and action issues. So, I'm kinda excited to have a "new" guitar. With the active pickups and the graphic it is good for a heavy metal sound at least. Imagine how bad it would sound if it just had a black paint job!
  11. I wasn't nearly as "done" with this guitar as I thought. I took it apart again and did additional routing so the pickguard would fit better, and shielded it. The wiring got a great deal of attention, redid a bunch of joints, switched out pots, switched out several connection, and generally cleaned up under there. I also shimmed the neck a little, and set the intonation. Now that I have it the way I like it I can say that the blender knob and lead switch are very cool features. The variable coil split doesn't give as wide a variety of tones like I was hoping for, so I'll probably stick to switches in the future, but this one can stay. Someone asked about the bass cut. The meg pot and 0.001uf cap did end up working, but they also cut the output by a quarter or so. Its handy when you want to take a little muddy-ness out of your tone. I had a load of fun this morning playing with all the tones that this thing can give(so many). I love guitars with lots of options. Maybe someday I'll do a one pickup/one killswitch guitar just for the hell of it... Anyway here are some nicer outdoor pics I took today:
  12. Thanks for the replies. ^I got the blender pot wiring strait from stewmac's free information section. Works like a charm. Here is a link:http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Electronics/Pots/i-4137.html The bass cut is one of those things that still needs work. It is a capacitor across the first two lugs of a pot, a hot wire is attached to one of those lugs, and the other is attached to the jack tip. The pot and cap I am using now are 250K and 0.02uF, and I can't easily hear any effect. Next is to change them to a 1 meg and a 0.002uF. I found those values somewhere on the internet recently, but can't remember where. I'll post an update when I make those changes. And here's a diagram. EDIT: the first one had an error
  13. Hello PG, I just finished my third build and thought showing it off to Project Guitar would be a good excuse to finally start an account here. I have been looking through these forums for a year or two now, and have learned a great deal. So thanks many times for that, and here is the build. Controls: blender knob instead of a three way selector switch, master volume, bass cut knob, treble cut knob, and a variable coil split for the bridge hum. Next to that is a switch that bypasses all the controls and sends both pups directly to the jack. The pups are from eBay, but so far they have been acceptable. The stop bar and tune-o-matic are both recessed. I made the body and pickguard, but purchased the neck. Did some steel wool-ing on it, which improved the feel a bit. I drew the template for the body by hand from a small snap shot of a firebird. It seems to have come out somewhat ... different, I'm still getting used to it. The finish came out good. Started with wood filler, then primer, then paint(three coats each I think), with wet sanding between paint coats. The paint came out glossy and durable enough not to require a clear coat. Brand was rustoleum glossy enamel, same for the primer. As can be expected it still needs plenty of little adjustments, but it is basically done. Thanks for looking! I only have a few progress pics, but I'll throw them up here is anyone is interested. I also want to get some good outdoor shots of it the next time there is a sunny day where I live.
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