stevenhoneywell

+1

also read the tutorials on this site.

maybe pick-up a cheap squier (or similar) and practice on that

depends on what you really want to do really

try contacting http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk/alanhistory.html

although they don't mention their entire range of pickups on their site I have bought vox pickups from them in the past and they are really nice and helpful

my first mistake was trying to fret a lined fretless bass neck. Did a terrible job so I removed the frets and tried to "electric" plane the fingerboard off. Went too deep, too fast and completely hashed it up.

I still have the neck but I only use for chasing mice out of my shed!

Epiphone Valve Junior seems OK for the money. It's a bit noisy but it's 5W all tube. I picked mine up for £85 here in the UK.

I've heard of some people using Cumin on pickguards/ pickups. Your guitar would smell like a surry house though

Great work. Especially someone so young. Keep up the good work and I'll look forward to buying your guitars from a shop in the near future

I bet the string section at your guitar shop are going to love you

What about producing body blanks with neck pocket/ tremolo pre routed leaving your customer to shape the rest as they like?

You would certainly avoid any copyright issues!

Warmoth will do just that (bottom of the page).

I wish I had known that when I first started....I would have saved a small forest from destruction

What about producing body blanks with neck pocket/ tremolo pre routed leaving your customer to shape the rest as they like?

You would certainly avoid any copyright issues!

Nice idea. I'm working on a tele with a forearm contour and a slightly larger cutawat at the moment from some scrap Swamp ash. I must get another camera usb cable and post some pics

I'm sure Dan Armstrong did a sliding pickup on a guitar.

Thanks all your input. I've got some mahogany dowels in the cupboard ready to use.

what do you think is a better way of filling the holes left by the big screws on a bolt-on.

1: Drill and dowel them and finish flat

2: Fill with epoxy and finish flat

3: or is there a better way?

I'm using an old neck on a prototype that I'm building but I want the neck to be really secure and I want to redrill these holes....possibly in a different position.

Many thanks in advance,

Steve

Gordon Smith Guitars (uk) ahve come up a way to do a true one piece neck for a f***er type guitar (no "skunk strip"). Unfortuately he won't reveal how he does it.

Thanks everybody. I'm switching to decaff as we speak

I'm gonna try the booster idea and see how it goes. Upon further reflection I don't want to be one of those people who tinkered with a future "classic" (imagine being one of those people who had an early strat refinished....I would never forgive myslef).

If it doesn't work out the way I want I'll sell it and put the money towards a ax84.com project or similar and have some "painful fun" tinkering with a designed kit. I'll probably learn loads from it aswell

shame no-one here can help. I may have to chuck on evailbay and get rid.

Thanks anyway folks

Hi and thanks Pete,

My mind started wondering. I had an idea years to "take an pickup which had it's own circuit into a buzzer which would vibrate at the same pitch as note being played and mounted onto the guitar body to try and resonant at the same frequency" I never worked it any further as I thought it wouldn't work on multiple notes unless I had multiple pickups with their own buzzers.......and I quickly knocked that idea on it's head.

One day a good idea may come out of my crazy thoughts

I've got an old tube amp "Selmer Treble & Bass 50w reverb" which I would like to tinker with.

It hasn't got a input gain control so I can only get power amp distortion from the output valves at full whack

If I were to change the the 68K to variable pot of a same / lesser value would I have control of the gain or would i be killing me and / or the amp

here's a link to a copy of the circuit diagram

http://www.drtube.com/schematics/selmer/t-and-b50rvbsv.gif

Thanks in advance

Wow Pete...many thanks for a clear and detailed explaination.

This would be "crazy" on a bass!!!!!...which brings me to another question. I've no intention of doing it but I would thought I would throw it into the "melting pot"

If you used a pickup cover like the old jazz basses, would that make the sustainer more effective by ensuring the field is more contained.....apologies if this doesn't make much sense

Hi,

Firstly can I say WOW at the previous 77 pages!

I'm interested in taking part in the sustainer project but I have a very simple question.

Why does the sustainer "pickup" have to be a the neck position? I'm planning on a using the sustainer in the middle position on a H-S-S configuration. I love the sound of my neck pickup and I only use either the neck or bridge pickups so I probably wouldn't bother if I couldn't use the sustainer in the middle position.

Many thanks inadvance and many thanks for the previous pages....I feel that I'm much more informed due to all your comments

im usually more impressed by performers that have the smaller brand guitars, because that makes me think they are working to make it sound good instead of a gibson which would always sound good

I've got a strat copy with a swamp ash body, kinman pickups and put an 'encore' logo on it. I love getting whispers/ sniggers from other bands when they think I'm playing a sub £100 guitar.

I love the look on their faces even more when they realise it sounds better than their fenders/squires

If your doing it on the cheap, a home-made scratch plate would cover it

are you using a pre-made pickguard? That would solve the issue for the neck p/up placement

Yes, i would love to do that but here where i am is really hard to find wood even for body and not to talk about fine wood. So that solution is off. And i am really sorry that is!

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I got some from Germany and it worked out cheaper than getting here in the UK (including postage)

Try http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=19579. Lot's of companies that I didn't know existed listed.

I'm loving the 12th Fret marker as well. It \m/ \m/'s