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I think he means the heel. I don't know about those necks, all I can find is strat templates

I like the wood grain, it's gonna look pretty cool. What kind of pickups?

I tried a search of "intonation" but too much came up, and I couldn't find my answer. Just a simple question, about my bridge placement. I bought a strat neck from Mighty Mite (Ebay) which is 25.5" scale, and I read another more recent thread about where to meaure from the nut to the saddles and stuff. My real question is if your intonation is set up perfectly with say 10-46 strings, and then you throw on some 12-56 strings, will you have to move the saddles toward the neck, or away from the neck to get the perfect intonation?

that would be good, for a smaller workshop. If it was built, a barrel sander should also be integrated with the drill press, and have a special shop-vac attachment for sawdust.

I started off doing a curvy practice cut on an old piece of wood that had a bunch of huge flaws(same thickness, 1-3/4) and even my tight curves were perfectly square... So I went at it on my real wood, and it worked:) also, I did pick a pretty light wood, one of the guys that works at the store I got it from recommended it for a first guitar because it's easy to work with and still has a nice tone, it's called Obeche, so the wood might have helped me... also it was a new blade. I do agree though, that a bandsaw would have turned out better.

I just can't seem to find that charger! Just a question, can a member like me enter in those monthly contests? For... Guitar of the Month? I probably won't win, I'd just want to see how I do. Comment: I don't understand why so many people think that a jigsaw is inefficient... I had no bending-of-blade issues. It's also probably the top of the line jigsaw though, so that might have had something to do wth it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Sobot/Picture7.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Sobot/Picture3.png *Please, don't copy that Les Paul, it's my DREEEAAAMMM GUITAR!!! It's mine!

I was going to use a CNC table for my guitar, but I was only going to do the main shape of my guitar. Turns out all 3 tables are too busy around the workplace, so i can't. but I did get a chance to get an aluminum template cut out. I used autocad, and did a simple 2D drawing, making sure all my measuremnts were right, and then a guy that works for my dad put it into the CNC software and got it cut out for me, out of aluminum. I only know how to use AutoCAD from a first year grade 10 Tech design class. That all the training I needed. But I don't know how they do depths and stuff for CNCing... meh, that's why I just did the main shape. oh, and they might need to change the CNC bit for wood and the depth and stuff. I don't know what the CNC software itself involves... so I can't say aything there. Altogether, I don't know much about the process either, but I'm posting just in case I say something important that someone else didn't say:)

I cut it out with a jigsaw this morning, it turned out great. I was roghly 2mm away from the line all the way around. Everything is square aswell Time for sanding, I'll take pictures when I find my camera re-charger

Wow, none of this is sounding good. I'm looking at getting a les paul custom made for me within the next 5 years.... Of course that will be a lot more expensive, but I don't want no standard that you see all the time. Anyone know if the customs have quality issues?

Depending on what pickup(s) you are getting, the seymour duncan website has a lot of good schematics... http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/suppo...chematics.shtml That's where I was directed when I asked a question like that

Yeah, I was thinking of that. I also realized that I have a drill press... and I could always get a robo-sander (barrel sander attachment) for it and clean it up that way.

Sorry guys, I didn't go too much into detail about using the CNC machine. My dad owns a large buisness which is growing rapidly. I went there on thursday (yesterday) to get the actual wood cut out in the CNC. there are 3 CNC tables, and I waited from 7 AM to 4 PM to TRY to get it cut out. My dad has so many clients, he doesn't have time for just one wood cut out, it takes a while because it has to go through certain passes, you have to change the CNC bit, you have to stop the continuous "circuit" of panels being cut, and you have to line everything up with the wood, etc. It's not a short process, because the machines are designed for something completely different than wood. I can't even go in on a weekend because my dad doesn't know how to set it up with the software, he's too busy with other stuff. There's my other reasoning for no CNC. Now, given the idea of using the router to do it all... I might just try that. I've also realized how ineffecient a jigsaw will be. If the blade bends inward, towards the body, the relationship between the top of the wood and the side edge won't be 90º Which leads to lots of sanding with a Barrel sander I guess, which I don't have. And then my bevelled edges would be f-ed up because the side of the body isn't uniform. So I guess I'll use the router

Some of you (maybe not) might know that I'm building my first guitar right now, and I was going to CNC the main shape of the body. Well, I've scrapped that idea, because I tested out my shape on a piece of *Alucobond*, which is a building material made of of 2 pieces of Aluminum and a plastic compound or something in between. But that's not important. My shape turned out fine, and all the measurements are perfect. So I've decided that I don't want to CNC it anymore, it's just too easy for me. I'm going to use the piece as a template and trace around it onto my wood (actually, I already did that). if you're interested, this is what it looks like: http://photobucket.com/albums/v215/Sobot/?...nt=P1010004.jpg Now, you see, I don't have a bandsaw, but I do in fact have a very nice very new jigsaw. Is it a really bad idea to cut it out using a jigsaw? I'm aware that the blade may bend if I go too fast and stuff, but is it easy to pull off successfully? And yes, I know there will be sanding involved. Thanks.

If you are looking for humbuckers, I know everyone will say this (but it's true). A Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB model for the bridge pickup can produce a really wide range of sounds. I'm not sure about neck pickups but I know a lot of people like the SH-2 Jazz pickup, especially combined with the JB. (That combo is apparently Seymour duncan's actual combination) I think Slash uses '59s if that helps at all. All I'm gonna say is that Seymour Duncan makes some really good quality stuff.

Okay thanks guys. it seemed so much more complicated in my head.

Another thread... Alright, due to the fact that my bridge will be a hard tail bridge, and I have no pickguard, I believe that it would be hard to get a ground to go to the bridge. Now I drew a picture on the computer, it's not very complex, but it works. The picture is the "bottom" of a guitar (you can see because I put a the strap button in) and it kinda shows the inside where it'll be hollowed out for controls Picture: http://photobucket.com/albums/v215/Sobot/?...rent=ground.jpg now the question is, can I put a ground wire to one of the bridge screws instead of the actual bridge... like drill a hole to the hole I drilled for the screw and put a wire through and then put the screw in so the bare part of the wire is stuck to the screw.... hard to explain, look at the picture. Thank you for answering my questions....

ok thanks, I'm just making sure. thanks for the replies everyone, I'm just asking questions now so I don't screw up (as much) later on my first guitar...

Okay, another question, instead of grounding everything to the bridge, what if I put a screw somewhere on the inside (screwed in of course) and soldered the ground to that? Or does it have to touch the bridge?

Sorry for not replying earlier (I've been doing/studying for 3 exams) My set up will be just 1 JB humbucker. 1 tone, 1 vol, 500K pots (one of those dual concentric pots or whatever they are called. It'll have no pickguard, just a back plate, and the body will look like an ibanez AX series... like this: [url=http://www.ibanez.com/guitars/zoom/AX120AB.jpg but with just a treble pickup thanks for the help... and I don't know if I have to shield the back plate, I thought that you have to do that for single coils so they don't hum as much.... (maybe I'm wrong) Thanks

Yeah, I got all my stuff from Stewmac recently and I ordered one of them basiv wiring packages with 2 capacitors and 3 different wires Ok, I have a white non shielded and a black non shielded. But I also got a black shielded wire. I don't know when to use them, or what to use them for... like should I use a shielded wire to go from the ground to the bridge? or a non shielded... or should I use shieled for wiring between tone and volume or what? Does it really matter? Another question... with all the ground connections (I have 4) do you have to solder them to the back of a pot, or can I just solder them together, then solder another wire going from that to the bridge? Thank you.

ebay!!! They have their own store, I don't have time now to link you... but their ebay store is called quickconnect or something... just search mighty mite neck or something and you'll probably find the store, under all their items (in the description) is a link to their store.... Good luck finding it.

at least they have more style than a strat,explorer,sg,or les paul ← You like style eh? It's a natural thing about me... I just like simple stuff. and in my opinion I don't like pointy black guitars. It's all opinion

alright, this is hard to explain why I need to do this, but I have one of those knobs like this: http://www.stewmac.com/catalog/images_1lg/3479_1lg.jpg and I want to know if it's possible to keep the volume part of the knob normal, but the tone to be "Backward" so you turn it "up" to turn it down and vice versa... hard to explain. so the volume one will be the outside, and the tone will be the inner one, and I want to be able to turn up the volume while turnng down the tone at the same time, and I believe that this is the best way to do it. I might already know the answer, but I'm using this: http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/suppo...1vol_1tone.html so what I'm thinking I should do is just flip the two connections to the tone knob... right? Thanks for the help.