thegarehanman

if you use this website to host your images, they give you the codes for the thumbnails automatically. actually, they give you tons of different codes so you can do just about whatever you want with your picture. this is the website i've been using:

http://xs.to/

I voted 10Mbps, but mine is more like 11. that makes me feel like the guitarist from spinal tap.

Oh and it has to be 3 demensions minimum.

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3 dimensions minimum?

1st dimension:width

2nd dimension: height

3rd dimension: depth

4th dimension: (are you ready for this?)... some would argue Tetraspace(don't ask), but it's most commonly accepted as time

So a fast CNC machine would cut in 4 dimensions because it cuts time! Get it?! hahaha

Anyhoo, I agree. Either get a really good CNC machine, or get a duplicarver. There's no point in sinking 10grand into a machine that only does marginal work.

that was me

edit: the thumbnails i mean

I'm with idch. I like more ornate guitars....but I also like having my own "unique" sound rather than trying to have tons of different sounds.

I think I will have to invest in one of those disks for my future projects. I got a dremel to literally light on fire while carving the top for my semi hollow neck through. I only paid $50 for a new dremel and the old one was from the 70's. So in the end, it was completely worth seeing that thing toast. It's gratifying in a weird way.

I use 2 biscuits in my bodies to help line them up when gluing.

headphone outputs don't have enough power to power computer monitors, that's why it sounds muddy.

it was sarcasm(hence the "n00b")...i'll let this one slide though

That reminds me...At the party after prom, my junior year of high school, I pissed on the wall in somebody's house. Honestly, I don't even remember doing it though. I got s*** faced and passed out after asking my date to marry me. My friends told me that about an hour after I passed out, I woke up, tripped over a coffee table, and proceded to take a piss on this girl's wall in front of everyone. Fortunately, before I had done too much damage I was escorted, by the only sober person there, to the bathroom. Ahhh, those were the days. Now all i have are LSU's parties, it's not like LSU is party school or anything(note sarcasm).

just out of curiosity, how many of those 4k are actually active members?

Screw everyone. Luthiery is an art, and this guy is quite an artist. I'm tired of people building 20 bare bones guitars(instead of one really nice one) with nothing but a block of wood and a pickup. Be creative for heavan's sake. Make something that will inspire people. Build something that someone could own and find something new they like about it every day.

I'd probably end up benefitting from getting banned. I spend too much time on this board and haven't really needed answers to anything. It's cutting into my sawdust making time.

flatwounds, yuck!

On a lighter note, violins, violas, cellos, and upright basses all use ebony nuts. I would say that I'd be afraid of the strings grinding down the ebony, but if that were the case, upright basses would need new nuts often. So I guess it'll work. I have no clue what it'll do to your tone though. I guess that just depends on its density.

I'll be quite honest with you here, if you're planning on cutting the blocks yourself, you might have a harder time doing that than with a pattern. straight lines can be tough at first. cuves are much easier to get clean. for you first inly i would go w/ a pattern that does not require engraving, then move onto engraving for the second one. I'll be doing quite a bit of engraving work on those leaves. I did put quite a bit of thought into this project before even laying foot in the shop, buuuuut...there have also been a lot of decisions I've made on the fly. Most of those decisions were about how I was going to execute certain tasks though. I figured out how to taper each neck laminate individually just hours before i did it(for instance).

oh yeah, he must want a template since he said he wanted thicknesses just two posts ago....n00b

I prefer to have a guitar that just puts out a super clean signal and then do whatever I want with it with my pedal board and amp quite honestly. but whatever boats your float.

The f-hole was routed with a 1/16" router bit before the top was carved. If there is anything I can do well, it's carving a top. Granted I killed a dremel(lit it on fire actually) while carving it, but it was from the 70's anyhow. I won't be putting purfing on the "launch pad"(cringe again) and there will be no inlays on the body...asside from a leaf on the back of the headstock. There will be the inlays on the neck and headstock, but none on the body itself. Right now I'm finshing up with the binding on the front...then I'll do just a tad bit your hand sanding and then the fretboard goes on. From there I'll do all of my inlays and fretting.Once I have all of my bridge and tailpiece holes drilled on the front, I will finish up the back and glue it on. Sadly, it takes the nitro about a month to dry so it won't be done by the time I go up to LSU for fall semester. Fortunately I only live an hour and a half away. Thanks for all of you comments guys...I feel special.

I meant to say...you could cut the f-hole after you carve the top. I really don't know how say benedetto does it, but I would think it would be very difficult to get the f-hole clean if you cut it after you carved it. At least it would be hard to get it clean with a power tool. regardless, my method worked like a charm.

red abalone, when you buy it, it actually has a lot of blue,green and purple mixed in, but you could easily find a piece w/ a square inch of all red(different tones of red mixed together, of course).

....or a red LED light! that'd be cool

just wait...patience idch. i have test fitted the hardware on it and it just makes the "launch pad"(i'm cringing...did I even spell that right?!) look amazing.

oh, and by hardware i meant the 4 knobs and 2 switches

this is covered in the tutorials section of the PG homepage. you just have to get one of those gel pens(ordinarily silver or gold, but i'm sure there are other colors) and fill in the clear spots. presto, now you can iron it onto a black headstock.

that's not a stereo jack, at least it shouldn't be. it's a mono jack w/ a built in on/off switch for the phaser. that way the battery isn't draining when the guitar isn't plugged in. you can use that jack for your output. just leave the connections for the battery and switch the wire going to it from the input to the out put of the phaser. then have your guitar's output going to the phaser's input. piece of pie, er...i mean cake

I like strategicly located wormoles...filled w/ black epoxy. it adds some natural character.

I always thought you were supposed to wait until pigs fly.

More useless than slainangel's post...but at least it doesn't make you

I think if I ate sushi today, got stabbed in the stomach right afterwards, and then threw up blood and sushi onto an ibanez...it would look like those ebay swirls. we should email him; ask him if he like sushi.