Crusader
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From the album: LPC1
Squared it off and glued a piece of Rosewood in -
From the album: LPC1
When routing the cutout I touched the fretboard and I had no ideas how to fix it. Doing the Binding gave me the opportunity to do something about it -
From the album: LPC1
Sand off and its barely noticeable -
From the album: LPC1
Glue in -
From the album: LPC1
Chose piece with grain to suit and cut to size -
From the album: LPC1
Piece taken from off cut -
From the album: LPC1
Squared off with chisel -
From the album: LPC1
Chip caused by drill chuck -
Its taking a long time but I've had some progress on my "Les Paul Copy 1". I decided to put Binding on the guitar after it is finished. Perry said don't do it but I had to, the Maple cap he sold me deserves it. Here are pictures of the progress Last time I posted it looked like this, a bit plain The Maple is paper thin in some places and thicker in others I made a template to go over the Cap I managed to get the routing done with no disasters I started at the cutaway using Super Glue The end result was not perfect but looks a lot better. And I'm glad I did it!
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From the album: LPC1
The binding has turned this Plain-Jane into a looker -
From the album: LPC1
The Binding hides variations in Cap thickness -
From the album: LPC1
Binding in progress starting at cutaway -
From the album: LPC1
Ready for Binding -
From the album: LPC1
Sits over the contoured Maple cap -
From the album: LPC1
Made a template to route the binding -
From the album: LPC1
Maple cap paper thin in some places -
From the album: LPC1
The LPC1 looks a bit plain -
Early this year I sprayed my guitar with Nitro and followed all the safety warnings. I wore a mask during the whole operation and I did it outside keeping upwind of the breeze. The guitar has dried out for a few weeks and now I have put the hardware on and strung it up The smell of the Nitro is still quite strong and I'm wondering if it can have anything to do with me feeling ill. I have read a lot about Nitro making people sick but its usually problems with breathing. But I have not experienced this at all, its in my stomach Can Nitro make you sick in the stomach?
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Superimposition, that's the word Apart from Googling 'superimposition' and so forth, I've just been playing around with harmonics. And when you play the 8th harmonic (or any harmonic for that matter) the string barely moves at all, they're just ripples. This helps me understand how all the harmonics can be on the string at the same time What I find most amazing is the pickup can read these microscopic movements, all thanks to electromagnetism! Well I think my question has been answered and I thank you all for your contributions. The other night when I posted this question I didn't think it would go for so long and the more I think about it, the more questions I find. Now its giving me a bit of a headache Lets us conclude, "IT JUST DOES"
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Just want to explain those last two diagrams again. I pondered if the Bridge pickup was brighter because of the string cutting across on an angle. That was just one of the ideas I came up with a couple of years ago.....hang on, I just checked when I made those diagrams. It was 5 years ago! But my main point, it was just a theory I think Curtisa explained it best and its perfectly logical, its exactly the same as for accoustics I think it gets confusing when you start to think about higher frequencies (upper harmonics) How does the pickup read all the different harmonics at the same time? I was just thinking its like when you're on the telephone, you can hear people at the other end and they can hear you at the same time, all on the same wire
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Yes I realise I'm only looking at basics and I might not be quite right about the 440Hz etc. But at times in the past I've been told (quite emphatically) that these points of maximum and no displacement in harmonics have nothing to do with the tone you get from pickup position, its just "distance from the bridge" So I looked for other reasons why pickup position changes tone This picture shows a vibrating string and as you can see it forms a "V" shape closer to the bridge, and I thought the bridge pickup might be brighter because of this. But now I realise these pictures only show the Fundamental mode of vibration Neck pickup. String passes more evenly Bridge pickup. String passes unevenly I want to say more but its getting late and I have some heavy work tomorrow
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Harmonics
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From the album: Pickups
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From the album: Pickups
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From the album: Pickups
