blackjack

talking about scale length and stuff, got me thinking. if a longer scale length looses the tension, what effect does having a semi acoustic style tail peice, so the strings go beyond the bridge and down to the bottom of the guitar have?

your dramatically increasing the length of the strings, but does it not make any diffrence anyway, because anythign outside of the nut and bridge does affect it?

ive just been playing my friends fender strat, and it struck me how less the string tension was compared to my les paul.

both guitars have ernie ball 9 super slinkys.

obviously they are very diffrent guitars, but what exactly is that makes the les pauls strings so much tighter?

why does it only have five strings but empty space on the fretborad for an extra string?

its a lurvly guiter, but i dont see the point in not having 6 strings if the neck is still the same size

i saw a picture the other day of zakk wyld playing a les paul with the strings put through the "wrong" side of the bridge and then wrapped over the top going towards the TOM.

what does this do?

im guessing it relieves the tension slightly as the string is longer, but your only adding about 1.5cm's more string, so i dont see it making much of a diffrence.

thats alright, im not tryig to simulate the acoustic sound, it already has an acoustic pickup in the bridge. i want to create a sound similar to jack whites live sound.

i had a look and it appears there is no bracing near the bridge that im going to hit if i place it correctly.

i might use the soundhole cover idea seeing as its easy and means not damaging the guitar

i have an acoustic guitar that i hardly ever use, and some variety of humbucker i removed from my les paul ages ago.

i was thinking that for a bit of fun i could attach it to my old acoustic. it wouldnt be hard to do, and it i wouldnt be bothered if it messed up or sounded bad.

but just out of interest, does anyone have any idea what it would sound like? its just a standard acoustic guitar, nothing fancy and a normal les paul pickup.

how do pickups react with acoustic strings?

thanks for your time

i was just testing my pickups by putting them on a high output setting, and holding my tv remote over them while holding down a button. the tv remote creates a clicking sound.

im using a les paul with standard pickups, and i noticed somthing odd.

when i selected the individual pickups the clicking was significantly louder then when i had both pickups selected.

is this meant to be like this?

why does the neck get wider nearer the body?

i just broke my e string and i cant get to the shops for a while.

is okay to use a B string in its place and tune it to e?

obvously it will feel wierd, but will it do any damage to ym neck?

what paint was used on claptons fool sg?

anyone have any ideas on how i could could attach a sheet of broken glass to the top of my guitar?

when i say broken, i mean shattered rather than in peices.

i was at my friends my friends house using his amp, and i was getting some feedback from his amp. but i liked it, you could make some interesting sounds with it.

i tried it at home, with my marshall MG50 dfx and i could get no feedback at all.

why is this?

i was just looking at LPjr's when i noticed that they dont have a bridge, just the tailpeice.

what use does the bridge have and how does the LPjr get around not using one?

a friend gave me an epiphone acoustic neck, can i use this on a solid body?

obviously the heel needs cutting down, but other than that i cant see why i couldnt.

i have this hollow body guitar body with no neck, and seeing as i dont have a bass i though it would be nice to convert it to one.

however i am unsure about is the position of the bridge. and how it will affect the body. seeing as its hollow will the extra strain from the bass strings damage it?

will i even need to move the bridge? or can i just put in new one where the old one was. im guessing it needs to be moved due to the diffrent scale.

i was just wondering if it was possible to use my CDplayer as an amp.

can i plug my guitar straight into the headphone jack and wail away, or could i damage it doing this?

as an experiment i took one of my cd players speakers and put the wires against the outputjack coming from my zoom 505 multi effects pedel. to my supprise, it worked, and while it was very loud (volume defined by pedal) it worked. and on a clean setting it distorted naturaly. and sounded great.

after this i thought about making a mini amp.

all it would be is one of those headphone amps used to boost the volume of headphones connected to a small 2" speaker.

will this work, or am i missing something here?

ive ben playing for about a year now, and been taking lessons in classical acoustic. so far i dont know any songs all the way through, just little peices i learn each week, for my lessons.

the problem is that i dont feel like im getting anywhere. i want to play rock, but i dont have any direction, i dont know what to learn or where to go from where i am.

ive invested too much time and money to give up, and i just dont want to give up. i really want to play.

i dont really know what im expecting you to say, or why im posting this at all. but does anyone have any advice?

i was just looking at a p90 pickup and it looked chrome, alough i know it wasnt.

anyway i was wondering if it was the cover that was chrome or if the pickup itself was chrome.

the pickup is an magazine and i dont know what make it is, ill have to phone up the company to ask. but it says its an exact copy of the origional p90s, so i would imagine it would be the same as the others.

its okay, ive managed to print it full sized using turbocad

i still need to cut the margins off and stick the pieces togather, but it will be okay.

sorry to bother you guys, but im stil lnot getting the thing to scale to the correct size or print accross multiple pages.

volo view is a bit of a pain the ass, is theer something better?

thanks keith, i set to cm and it was the correct size.

sorry to be a pain in the ass, but i have another problem.

now its the correct size it is obviously bigger than one A4 sheet of paper. i cant work out how to get the whole image to print accross multiple sheets so i can stick them togather to make a full sized plan.

thanks for your time

ive downloaded the plans for the LPjr from guitarbuild.com, but i cant work out how to print them in full size, they are printed so small you cannot see them at all.

oh and im using volo view.

anyone know how to make them print full size?

i dont really like swirls, but that is very well done.

who is holding it in the first picture?

maybe this is a stupid thing to suggest, but what if the nylon strings had a metal covering over where the pickup is.

i have no idea how you would do this, but would it work?