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zayk

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  1. Alright! This things really heating up, i have everything planned out(after about a week of head clawing) here is the specs, down to the minor minor minor details! Starting from body to neck, going up Start specs Mohagany body Quilted maple top (MAYBE) Blue sunburst with a gloss finish Wraparound bridge made from steel tubing(square) with springs under the anchoring holes for action ajusting and a nail for the bridge 2 band artec equilizer(from guitarfuel, had some good exp with them and artec) which has balance, bass .treble and volume Sustainer! sustainer on a bass is genius, especialy for my playing style, I'm going to use this circut, so that means a sustainer knob http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/sustainer.htm artec bass humbucker, the mini one found on ebay steel pickguard( if i have room xD) Curly maple neck and fingerboard so it'll look pretty bolt on neck with 6 neck screws, because i want a solid neck joint ( and i mean, really solid....)because my insturments go through alot, and i mean, ALOT and so i can ajust the neck angle pretty well. 20 frets, mainly because i have a rather, short neck(its acctualy 19, not counting the 0 fret) Warmoth double expanding bass truss rod gibson-size frets(med jumbo i think) 160 degree headstock(about, i dident measure the angle, but it looks like 160 degrees) which is the gibson standard Something new: an inside nut. What i mean by that is i drill 8 holes into the headstock, two of each holes will be intersecting eachother, like an L...So i can put the strings through the holes to hold them in place. Some 50$ bass tuners i found at a music store, i dont know how they lock, but we'll see And last, but not least.... "Zee B-bass" written in a walnut stain marker on the headstock. End specs I have alot of work to do on it, i have not bought the electronics and other stuff, so that may change. I need to smooth the sides, rout the pups and lectronics, do the final sanding and then. it'll be finished Now, i have a two questions if all is good, should i sell this bass? i'm a lefty..And this bass is a lefty. so it might be hard, but with all the mods, people may flock to it. And also, do ya'll like artec? Because i bought one of they're acoustic preamps, and i liked it, im not trained enough to hear tones, i can only compare between the two. so, lets cut to the chase, how do the pickups sound? and i'm also using one of they're EQs. how does that sound? I'll update this thread with some pictures and updates, once this damn needle(I.V) is out of my arm, medical people/people who have done it know what i'm talking about. Bye! Peace - Zayk Sorry bout no pix
  2. Ok, thanks. That was the answer i dident want to hear, but at least it was streightforward. Farewell, 16 dollars!
  3. I'm back from my little cave, improving from my last guitar..alot. and i have a question Could i get away with JUST a stiffining rod on a 4 string bass? Hard curly maple neck...Or will it bend up still? because my trussrod broke(i need to watch where i step ) , and all i have is these steel rods, i think they're carbon somthinged for strength they have a 1/2 inch diamiter(or the other one...Sorry, i'm very young and suck at math vocab) Thank you, and peace.
  4. COLLLORR!!!!!!!!!!! I want something that will be very cool(not in the awesome kind of way, in the temmpiture kind of way), yet very pretty, colorful, whatever. Btw, i'm painting THIS ukulele(sorry if this is a guitar forum, i build all sorts of insturments, and there not much difrent with construction!) http://img300.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img00159.jpg
  5. Thanks zayk that is exactly what i was looking for thanks again steveco No problem! Post it when its done
  6. Pickups should be placed at a Harmonic, to find the harmonic, mesure the distance from the nut, to any fret, and mesure that same distance from the bridge...That will be Your pickups new home
  7. When it comes to strenght and accuricy, machine...But everything else, a man Beats ,machine by a mile.
  8. I'll tell you what, if you can PROVE to me, that Thomas Edison Failed at the lightbulb...Then I'll tell you that you cant do it, all i have to say is.... You got the damn(Scoose me if i',m not allowed to curse, i 'm about to read that) hammer! Dont be afraid of it, just hit it.. Congradulations, you just learned my style of encouragement And welcome, i just joined JUST now....So i guess were both on the same page.
  9. Self explanitory,and now, to tell a little bit about myself.. My name is zach, i am 13 years old...and i've been being a luthier for a while..My first guitar was as good as if you were to take a shoebox, a peice of wood, and some guitar strings.. and put it all together...but thats acctualy what i did, my first lesson: Warning, cardboard should not be used as guitar parts! exept a banjo head...but thats another story, eventuly, i just keeped on doing crap, untill i found this box, made out of mohagany , and my dads friend, told me "That mohagany will make it sound really good" and so i thought of that...And i looked some more stuff about that...And learned that Tonewoods are used in insturment making...and so, i ordered a Guitar body blank, and worked from there....so then, i started using tonewoods, and shortly after, i ordered alot of mohagony...And recently ran out...So now im stuck...>.> But, because i was SO nice, and told my dads friend(same one that told me about the mawgany)that i would build his son, who wants to play guitar, and who happens to be tiny,( even though i shouldent be talking) so, i'm building Him a small guitar, short scale, 23.5" and, his father said, he would buy me a same size piece of cherry, so i can make his sons guitar...Being nice does pay off... anyways, i'm obsessed with radical shapes, i love to think outside the box, and i SUCK at finishing, sanding, stuff like that... I love humbuckers...And also, I am a REALLY nice person... that means, when i'm not asking a question, i will be browsing EVERY forum..exept electronics and Finishing(>.<), looking for someone to help, Its satisfieing...For some random reason... and two more things, i'm a Picture person, i will post a picture for Alot of situations, and also... I CANT SPELL!!!!! Ok, i'm done, and one thing you could probably tell....I go too far...sometimes...
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