pauliemc
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I like that bottom board. Cool bit of streaking to break up the blackness
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If anybody is going to the lengths of building machinery to create significant output like that, it shouldn't be too difficult to work out a reliable scatterwinding mechanism. A simple wire with 6-8 bent loops to move the feeds left-right on an oscillating basis would achieve the aim. Even a large spring could serve as a guide. It would even be feasible to build in a basic electronic randomiser to affect the left-right speed slightly to build in randomness within tolerable bounds. I would love to do this because I love the puzzle. Aspergers, represent. Well if you design it ill try build it. Though Id get lost with the electronics in the damned thing, Im still fairly certain that there is a global conspiracy of electricity fairys. that electrik stuff just baffels the hell outa me. Witch craft i tells ya.
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What are you using ? I would not go much further with it untill it gasses off for a few days. then cut it & apply your final coats for buffing & polishing. Iv found that you can have too much clear over green quilt. Usually I will go 12-16 coats but for green or dark blue quilt I use less, as the ultra deep gloss clear finish tends to filter the light reflecting back from the timber. So the ultra mobile rolling grain you have with the raw/planed timber can start to diminish with too much finish. The thinner the better I think, But only with quilt oddly
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BTW, any progress with this ? Those multiscale pups are not for in here, or am I missing something ?
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Yea, the time factor is what kills most boutique pup makers. So I end up going to established companies most of the time. But Its not all bad, the majority of what I build are not AEolian but for 2 other companies. Suits them better to have a custom builder off premises that they pay per guitar as opposed to on salery. Their custom shops are expensive enough to run so they are actualy fairly small & realy just a prestigue thing. So most of the custom stuff gets done by outside builders like me & then wired,serial Numbered & cased at the factory. But id still like to get back into pickups myself, Maby ill build a new winder that can run with 6-8 sets of bobbins at a go. But then the problem becomes - how to scatter wind 8 pups at once ?
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Broke my fooking camera Ill get some piks up tomorrow when I borrow another one.
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How many coats are you applying a day ? How long are you waiting between coats ?
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that boards prety cool, the dots should look groovey once the thing is polished up & the conditioning oil goes on there
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Always an option. But im fairly sure you would be bord witless prety soon with my avarage order. You know, something like - 20 A2 unpotted buckers, Nickle silver baseplate, maple spacers, black bobbins, awg42 wire, remaining componants to your own standard spec. 20 A4 unpotted buckers - similar makeup to above - overwind 10 by 500-800. Scatterwind the lot & put nickle covers on half. 2 wire setup for all.
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Its not sapele. If it was they would be making a very big deal of it. Factory built guitars usualy have a lot of the same materials in them due to the cost savings from buying in massive volume. the vast majority of PRS guitars are mahogany based, So its a good bet it is mahogany. As to honduras mahogany. Real honduras mahogany comes from Honduras - or at least it did untill it was almost wiped out. To buy it in quantities that would make large scale guitar production viable would not realy be feasable anymore. So I seriously doubt the claims of any builder producing in large numbers that they are using genuine Honduras mahogany. Usualy if you do a bit of digging & find out where it was grown, you find its from somewhere else.
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Ah the memories spool upon spool of junked wire gone to copper heaven, Armies of disassembled pickups just to try figure out the voodoo behind them - All to no avail. I liken them to machine heads, they look simple enough, strip one down & its all fairly basic. But just you try making your own - I fookin dare you !! Actualy - maby I wont start making my own pups again, I should just win the lottery & buy Seymore duncan
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The angle of the shot is not helping - But - I think the bottom horn looks a bit heavy, Lumpen even I think the situation is exagerated by the slight carve there making it look distended aswell. Also. The angle that is set up between the 2 innermost points of the cut outs does not match that of the tips of the horns. The bottom horn appears longer because of it. But this may all be due to the numerious profile edges on the top due to the carve. Id do as Scott suggests & trace it out. See it it has the same issues as an outline.
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Yea, I like un-potted A2 buckers, But I dont realy use too much gain. I use a Marshall MF400 with the gain set to about 5-6 so I get away with microphonic issues, & if I want a better behaved pup I just douse it in parafin wax. As to A8's, Iv always wondered about string pull on light gauge strings with a magnet like that, Say 24.625 scale with a set of D'Adario XL9 tuned to Eb. I used to have a book by Jason Loller about pups, I realy should try find it again & re-educate myself.
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A8 ? Iv never used them. mostly 2 & 4 with the occasional 5. But to be honest if my pup knowledge was anything near what yours appears to be (from the brief glimpses I get here) I would never have stopped making them. I used to make a fairly nice unpotted A2 humbucker, but it took so long to make them that it was financialy unviable for customer builds. Having said that, Im fairly sure that if you built a similar pup & we tested them side by side, mine would be more at home flowing thru a pipe to a treatment plant - if you get my drift
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Was talking to a customer today. The consultation went the usual way, with my standard Alpha bolt on spec as a start point. The guitar to be built for him is well off the standard mark at this point, But at the end of the session the guy asks if I have any standard Alphas or Omegas sitting around. Of course - I dont, as I have never actualy built one of my base models, They always get tweaked in some way. So I tell em "sorry, No I dont" To which he answers "well if you want to build some you can sell them from my shop" Tuns out the guy owns a guitar shop So. This will be a thread with 2 Alpha's & 2 Omegas, Body blanks are glued up & setting just now, Necks are coming out of the blanks pile. Ill get piks up as I can, Start tomorrow. nobody wants to see body blanks
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Pain in the ass when tools let you down. Still these look interesting. your gettin some big magnets in there I rekon. Alnico IV maby ? or are you lookin at ceramics ? Man I realy need to start makin my own pups again, havent made on in about 5 years
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Guitar Of The Month For August
pauliemc replied to ProjectGuitar.com's topic in Guitar Of The Month entry/poll archive
Its been Andy's for a while now as far as im concerned, Until I saw that late entry from Shad -
Groovey man. sounds realy good. should be realy nice when it settles into itself in a few months to a year. RAD is right about those Blues engines from Iron gear aswell. I had them in 2 guitars I built for myself (& then let go to customers) they realy are something else - especialy for the price.
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I don't shape my bodies with a router.Too much risk for me.Even the thought of it scares me. Its not all that bad. I take my bodies down to about 2-3mm from the finished profile with the band saw. with that little to take off the big router is easy to run around. But I only do 1/4 of a body at a time so that it never gets to a point where the router is held in a weak grip. & the depth is handled by going around 3 times (depending on the depth it could be more) So rout the front face - top horn about 12-15mm deep, reposition & reclamp the body, rout the forearm area, reposition & reclamp bla bla bla. Go all the way round once then reset the depth for the next 12-15mm & start over. So a body has about 24 distinct tasks to edge profile it, A neck has about 8. But still, Cant argue with your results - your stuff rocks.
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Looks good to me man. spacing is a pain sometimes. But so long as it feels right to play it doesnt matter a damned how it looks. I use one of those string spacing rules from stewie mac a lot. Groovey tool well worth its cost.
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Ha ha ha. I have a similar one here. I use it for pup & neck routing. I also have a big heavy Dewalt DW625EK for bodies & necks. Big evil 2000w thing that weighs about 10-11 lbs. But the ryobi is much easier to move about so it does all the fiddely work.
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Throw it out & get a heavy router with 2 big handles you can get a fookin good grip on. I went thru my tools a few years ago in a rage after ruining a guitar top with a dodgy router. Threw out anything I had even the slightest missgiving about, Best move I ever made. If a tool makes me nervous its going in the scrap bin - end of story. We need to be focused on what we are doing, & if you are afraid the tool you are using is going to jump up & shred your forearm you are not focused. Smash it with a sledge hammer. Chuck it out. Get a nice replacemant you can hold securly. Trust me - you will be so much happier when you do -_-
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Disappearing things is fun. I disappeared a 22 oz steak earlier today & that was great. Cool gitir so far, that maple looks a lot nicer than what im using here today, should be a nice gitir when its done
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Cool lookin thing. Kinda reminds me of something from David Myka, & lets be honest -when is that ever a bad thing. Should be realy cool to see this finished
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You might starve the joint with that.... Nonsense. I do a similar thing - except I sit on top of everest for a little extra weight -_- Hey Wes. im starting 2 cedar & birdseye gitirz aswell. I aints gots no spanish cedar, bitch to get here. But still - cedar/maple combo. Does yer mate know he's geting a cool present ? or you just gonna surprise em ?
