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Internet at its best! So now are you also going to say that my logo looks like Lord Sauron? I happen to know him personaly and he is very exited about it..... haha this made my day so bad! Oh no wait, Lord Sauron was influenced by the Mozer logo.... Oh wait, no, both have been influenced by Terminator 3.... damn, no, by an alien! oh no wait! its from HALO!!!!! damn For the records, my logo was created by a professional graphist and a wonderfull friend of mine who is a Buddhist living in India, try and explain to him that he was influenced by Neal Mozer....

Check out these 2 video in which Ervin Somogyi talks about tap tone and wood Q, its very interesting, enjoy Not sure this will help you (its mostly for acoustic guitar) or maybe it will, in both cases its very interesting and worth mentioning... Also: PRINCIPLES OF GUITAR DYNAMICS AND DESIGN

Hufschmid H8 Baritone Myrtlewood Top Hello everybody, I enjoy posting in this forum from time to time and help some members out Here is my new 8 string baritone scale creation, as a small artisan building 10 guitars a year, I am using basic tools... Specifications: -best possible grade one piece sapeli mahogany body. -integrated armrest bevel, super thin design with maxi contours. -best possible grade one piece sipo mahogany neck reinforced with my new invention, the HR neck reinforcement system. -double way adjustable truss rod. -master grade Pauo Ferro fingerboard, 24 frets, 28.31" baritone scale, 20" radius. -master grade flamed Oregon Myrtlewood bookmatched top. -high quality hipshot bridge and tuning machines. -Highest quality 18% nickel-silver jumbo fretwire. -The headstock logo is solid aluminium, the "H" was custom cut using a CNC to match the "H" of my custom pickups. -exclusive hufschmid string retainer and nut material. -exclusive hufschmid luminescent side dots system.(five times as bright as tritium!) -custom hufschmid neck pickup which was custom built to the customers specifications by my friend Kent Armstrong himself. -custom hufschmid bridge pickups, OTT model. -custom designed and expertly cast hufschmid pickup mounting rings. -the customer requested a specific wiring setup, each pickup has an individual volume control. -the instrument is oil finished. -final weight = only 3.7KG! a short video for the sound... H8 myrtlewood top Low F sharp abuse.... and now the pics, enjoy http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/9849/photo384.jpg http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc...5_3530851_n.jpg http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc...9_3003891_n.jpg http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc...2_8320497_n.jpg http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/5263/photo386h.jpg http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6417/photo379m.jpg

check this out: Custom Guitar Necks

Here is one of the best woods which I have ever used for building a body IMO - ELM It looks like Ash on steroïds with much more colour... (pretty much unknown in guitar building) Its hard to find a big enough piece for making a 1 piece body... Here is a guitar which I built using a 2 pieces of swiss elm, I also glued a crazy maple top on it (just in case your wondering what is that insane wood...) If you look at pic number 2 you can see that I jointed the body using a shark joint... The sustain is out of this world, and its extremely stable but pretty harsh on the tools. in the dark in the sunchine And here is an other guitar on which I used a unique piece of flamed Mukushi (Zambian Teak) for the fingerboard.... (again pretty unknown in guitar building) and some intense flamed oregon myrtlewood for the top!

On topic for the Off Topic, but your right, and here is a link after some research, its Teredo mollusk, also known as the Ship Worm: Il Teredo Benedetto Still a termited spruce top would also be killer. But here is some 150 years old termite ridden walnut which I used for building this 8 string guitar neck: And now... return to your regular programming Pat

Matsuda is an incredible guitar builder indeed, you hear about his incredible work more and more and his designs is stunning. Here is an awesome video for you http://exposureroom.com/members/crosswater...d1c1bf1a7f428a/

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Thought this may be of great interest! Ervin Somogyi is the best luthier ever IMO, this is an incredible source of information, check it out! The responsive guitar Here are some wonderfull videos: For those of you who are not familiar with the master's work:

When I started to build guitars I was using exactly that finish but at some point they had restrictions about inflammable material shipping which was a problem and they could not ship it anymore oversea... You can also find it at LMII Just be carefull it's not a true pore-filler, its only a thicker solution to make it easier when building a soundboard for exemple (or any softwood) to avoid saturation to prevent the wood from absorbing crazy the finish which would be detrimental on an acoustic instrument for exemple... BTW I could spend all day smelling that stuff, I love the smell

About pine... Select pine can give you great results... Remember this Benedetto? Bob claimed that it sounded better then any high end professional model he ever built: And Bob was cimpletely right, its more about the maker and his experience which will give the sound to the final product... On my side I have built this experimental guitar for fun a couple years ago using a 5$ 2 piece pine board for the body yet, I was incredibly suprised by its resonance... The most epic guitar Bob ever built was this termited spruce top archtop gutar...

So today I received some 7 string pickups from Kent, it's sunny outside, perfect time to make a short video to show the flame effect, enjoy click here for the video...

Quilt maple really does not really mean anything apart from describing a specific pattern / figurine which is found in a varietie of maple.... Here is an exemple of Maple Trees - Maple Tree Varieties Keep in mind that woods which have a lots of figurine tend to be pretty unstable, especially maple... a few things to consider: 1) is the wood perfectly seasoned? 2) is is quatersawn? 3) is is a hard or soft varietie that you will be using? Based on the second question: quilt refers to a type of "figure", It is seen on the tangential plane (flat-sawn)... Flat sawn necks are by far much less stable then quatersawn necks so this is already a hint.... Then even if you decide to use it, you will have to make sure that the wood is properly seasoned... Personaly I would never use quilt maple for building a neck... Most quilt maples often come from a softer variety of maple, its not as strong as birdseye for exemple which is a hard rock maple varietie (Acer saccharum)...

hehe yeah its like a tattoo I dunno, maybe in the futur when I will get more chops after some practice at chip carving thanks first off.... be sure to buy a pair of glasses, you may need some I'm afraid..... very similar indeed... thank you for your wonderfull and constructive tips

does this reply to your question Removed the images for brevity As long as it is an option I think it is a nice feature to offer. Personally I would not really want it on my guitar per say. Especially not that size. But I am a minimalist and like everything streamlined without any adornments. thanks man, glad you enjoy it however, the chip carving is not an option, this is a one of a kind instrument which I am building to celebrate my 15 years as a luthier and I wanted to test this idea on it ......

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er.... check the pictures in the thread....

Dont know if this is considered to be a finish so I'm not sure this is the correct forum area Anyway thought I would share, I decided to chip carve my logo in the back of one of my new creations and use to my advantage the finish in order to add some shading effects, enjoy Basically I am using an X-Acto and taking off chips one by one until it looks like my logo, took me over 6 hours... The logo is placed strategically to give the impression that it just fell on the guitar in a weird way I also took the center portion of my logo off to make it look more 3d'ish...

nope... rule #1 about electric guitar wiring: never, ever, disconnect the signal to the amp. If you want to shut the signal up, there are other ways to do it like the one I show in this thread... this way you will never get the "accidentally unplugged guitar buzz problem"...

I was recently installing one and took pics, maybe this can be useful for some members, cheers As a reference, I am using some Shielded Guitar Circuit Wire from stewmac, in my case the single conductor wire available here: http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_p...ictures#details So you can find a killswitch in any hardware store really, you dont have to ground the switch but its always better, so in this case I am using a simple on/off interruptor which has 2 connections + and - (this thype of switch is not polarised so it does not matter in which hole you place the shield and the hot wire. Start by stripping the wire this way so that you seperate the shield and the hot copper wire in the center. Then add some solder on both cables and simply connect the shield and the + in the holes. RED = hot Green = ground Now if your guitar cavity has enough room, try and find a place to drill a hole for the switch which does not interfear with your playing, on this picture you can see the back of the switch with the + and - sticking out from it... The bad thing to do is to connect the wire to the jack so you want to connect it to the volume pot, in my case I have add the + (red) wire to the extremity of the volume pot in which the main switch connects and the - (green) is the ground which is then soldered on the back of the pot... Thats all you have to do, now your guitar is cool! I recently changed the switch thype for a different design, having fun experimenting...

So we are installing my new 8 string dark flame maple pickups into Clive's Blackmachine 8, here are some cool vids, more to come: unpacking installing the pickups

Check out this interesting article from Mike Doolin of Doolin Guitars Here is the link to the ARTICLE

thank you There are many steps which I did not show in my videos. I am using an exclusive material for the side dots, a luminescent material which is only 0.5mm thick but 5 times more luminescent then the regular luminescent dots which you can find on the market. I must make a very superficial hole in order to inlay it using some super glue to hold it in place. Once its set and dry I then mask the fingerboard and neck to protect it because I then shoot some clear lacquer on top of the dots to protect them.

If a player get paid (en endorsement deal for exemple) to say that his pickups are the best he ever played, his fans will anyway listen to him and blindly follow him (this is how the guitar industry work and why most big companies who have tons of cash succeed. Most famous guitar players for exemple do not necessarely use their endorsement deal product to record their albums but they only use them for public exposure, gigs, media and interviews and pictures. I dunno man, I think its a lost cause really, but I would encourage a player to experiment as much as he can instead to simply follow ''a blind mass'' because the guitar world is trully facinating and there is really a lots of amazing things to discover then to simply follow our favourite musician. To be yourself takes a little more personality because you dont follow the blind mass and will anyway be put aside because you think differently but its worth the sacrifice