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mickeysg

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  1. Hey just wondering what are those two grey lines in the neck under the fretboard
  2. I couldnt get a better picture of the joint but judging it today with it in my hands i think it will do. The next obstacle is making the truss rod and then routing the truss rod channel if anyone has any preferred ways of making them then please share the knowledge... i was scratching my noggin today for a long time
  3. So i got a up close picture of the joint... its a pritty bad picture but its the best i could do with my phone i'll try again tom. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...g/neckclose.jpg I will make the truss rod adjustment screw at the end of the neck instead of at the headstock so i wont have to route threw the joint which means more strength at the joint. I was planning on staining it a cherry red but the two different body woods are going to give me to different reds and i'll b able to make out the screwed up neck joint so i think im going to settle on painting the guitar.
  4. Its pritty embarassing but i'll do it anyways.. the joint unglued was tight enough so that the neck didnt fall off when holding the headstock so i think it was pritty tight somewhere in the middle but getting frustrated didnt help at all.
  5. So after the neck was clamped for a good 4 days I wasn't able to work on the guitar at all But ive come back with pictures of it glued. really not happy with the quality of work i did. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi.../neckglued2.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...g/neckglued.jpg
  6. The pickups actually have 3 wires coming out. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mickeysg/Pickups.jpg and i dont really know what you mean by... I'm guessing you've measured 3.76kohms and 3.8kohms per coil (making them 7.52kohms and 7.6kohms respectively When i measured 3.76 and 3.8 that was for the whole humbucker thats why im wondering what kind of sound im gunna get out of these pickups.
  7. Well work is slow as usual and this joint has taken me way longer then i had expected the small adjustments took forever and I was getting really frustrated i couldnt figure out why it wouldnt sit completely flush. In the end im not happy with this joint I think i could have done a lot better with more patients. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi.../Image003-2.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...neckclamped.jpg those are to different angles of the headstock and neck clamped up. It took forever to clamp and very awkward because of one side not being perpendicular to the other the clamps would slide off. This was the easiest way of clamping it up. Im not at school today because of health problems so there is no further progress on the guitar.
  8. I sanded off the paint on the neck and top of my les paul and the neck by coincidence has a joint similar to the one im making. Its a litttle hard to see in the pic but its the best i can do. Im told its made of mahogany. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi.../Image001-1.jpg heres the top sanded. not sure what kind of wood it is. I havent sanded the top all the way to bare wood yet i did a little on the right side thats why its two colors. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi.../Image003-1.jpg On the hollowbody project I only got half a hour of work done on it in class today so not to much progress on that.
  9. I was thinking about the clamping and i came to the conclusion that there will be one clamp holding the joint down and i have these straps that you can tighten which i'll run from the tip of the headstock down to the bottom of the body which will force the joint to be fully seated in the channels. I will also have a clamp on the sides of the neck. I dont know if that explaination makes sence to anyone else other then myself because im pritty bad with explaining things with out showing someone a picture.
  10. Can any one give me some help or guidence with my pickup problem.... if it is one
  11. I think its to late to start a scarf joint, i could have done one before but it would have taken up a lot of time and maybe even redoing the headstock. Is there anything i could do once im done the finger joint that would make it stronger. or would i just b wasting my time trying to make it stronger once its done. I originally thought that it would b strong enough with the joint being sandwiched between the neck wood and the fingerboard.
  12. Im not getting any comments but im pritty sure people have taken a look at my build Work has been slow in my shop class many classes wasted if i need to ask the teacher something, cleaning days or days the teachers not there. In the past week ive gotten the neck joint rough cut. I had to do it the old fashion way chisel and mallet and i think i did a pritty good job since its the first time ive chiselled anything in my life. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi.../Image017-1.jpg a pic of the joint on the headstock http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi.../Image015-1.jpg the reverse on the neck http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi.../Image016-2.jpg and the two together if everything goes to plan im going to file it down tom. and maybe have it glued if im lucky. I had to do this kind of joint because i didnt leave enough wood at one end to glue to the neck. It would really help if you guys have any comments, constructive criticism or any questions about the project.
  13. the pickups i got from ebay are at 3.76 and 3.8 k ohms resistance and comparing to my dimarzio pickup pumping almost 9 k ohms they seem a little low. Is this gunna b a problem and if so is there anything i could really do. If anyone can tell me the connection between resistance and the effect it has on the sound of the pickup it would help out a lot.
  14. well there hasn't been any progress on the hollowbody but i recently purchased a mann les paul a copy gibson from a local pawn shop for 50 dollars so too keep you PG'ers happy for the moment i'll post some pics. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi.../Image016-1.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...sg/Image020.jpg the guitar is from the 70's it has a lot of of problems. Theres a tuner missing, the nut is broken, the frets are worn, the paints cracked, the binding is cracked, the pickup ring is broken, theres saddles missing in the bridge, theres stickers all over it, the neck pickup volume doesnt stop spinning. the neck is made of mahogany and the body is plywood which is a bit of a bummer but it has a dimarzio pickup in the bridge which makes me happy. this is mainly a project to learn from. so far i learned that the finish is very thick and the bridge and tailpiece anchors are a bitch to take out. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...sg/bodyneck.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mickeysg/body2.jpg ive sanded off the finish off the neck and filled in the old tuner screw holes on the back of the headstock. all the stickers took me around 2 or 3 hours of peeling and rubbing off with alcohol to completely take off the residue. the guitar is now completely disassembled. the new finish will hopefully either be a yellow to red to black burst or a light to dark red. if that doesnt work out then i'll just gp with a very glossy black.
  15. The guitar in its current as is state is 50$ and weighs a lot so i think its made out of decent wood
  16. Here is a shot of the fretboard wood. Its a piece of walnut. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi.../fretboard1.jpg
  17. the les paul is very close to this one selling on ebay except imagine someone threw it out of a moving vehicle http://cgi.ebay.com/MANN-Ibanez-Vintage-El...3QQcmdZViewItem
  18. At my local pawn shop they have a really beat up Mann les paul. I tried researching the brand on the internet and all i found was that it was a lower level ibanez that ibanez had made for the canadian market from the early 70's till the early 80's. Its in really rough shape theres a tuner missing, the nut is broken, the frets are worn out, the electronics are all there but need replacing, the bridge is missing saddles. A perk is that it has a dimarzio pick up in the bridge position. Im all for fixing up this guitar. Can anyone give me some more info on this guitar, if its any good or even worth putting my money into it.
  19. I have started my own archtop hollowbody build. It is a harmony double cutway design. It will have a 24 3/4 scale with 24 frets. Specs: maple neck, cherry wings, cherry headstock with a walnut face, walnut fret board all parts ordered off ebay, gibson knock off pickups, tuning machines from guitar fetish, all parts bridge and stop piece, all parts nut, and electronics from guitar fetish aswell. The wood i have used is pritty much anything good i can find in my high school construction class. the neck is a piece of maple. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...sg/Image015.jpg the body is cherry which i will soon route out to make it hollow (this is the back of the guitar) http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...sg/Image017.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...sg/Image016.jpg This next pic is of the body neck and headstock. It isnt glued together yet but will shortly i hope. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...sg/Image001.jpg The headstock has a walnut cap over it mostly for looks and fluck. The piece of cherry i had was to thin after planning to use as a headstock so the walnut was added for thickness. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...sg/Image003.jpg there will be a binding on the headstock, on the body and maybe the fretboard aswell. here is the channel routed on the headstock. The binding will most likely be birch. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mi...sg/Image014.jpg these are all my parts which i had a little trouble getting to over ebay. it took over six months to receive all the parts from various sellers so my first ebay experience wasnt to pleasant http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/mickeysg/parts.jpg
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