ACG

Hello Dear friends.. I have to make a few guitars and was requested to use the new fender knobs and pots that have the push button option in the middle of the knob. "like the new strat models where the volume knob have a button on the top which you can push. I want to buy a few of them as I think they are cleaner that the old push pull pot system... who outside Fender parts has them? does anyone know the part number? for the knob and the pot? I dont want to buy them directly from Fender because they will charge me an arm and a leg.. can some one tell me where I can buy this part and maybe the part number? thanks in advance for your help

Hi everyone.. hope you are all well and enjoy the summer and the projects that it brings... I am excited about building some new guitars and really need to fin a source for cool plastic abalone binding. Could some people please point me in the right direction on the web?:: I need a few sources for the stuff and other trimmings to soup up a "pretty" guitar Stay well everyone and God bless...

I am interested! anybody got any good swamp ash at "human prices" please let me know I would love to work with you... I am interested in all sources of wood that is good quality and nice prices. Korina too..

Thanks alot for your reply.. I really appreciate it. I was looking for a "southern USA" supplier for "SWAMP ASH" because due to shipping and customs duties to Europe by the time the wood is sold to a 3rd party the price markup is "brutal"... Would anyone know of a guy in the USA south who would I could buy some swamp ash from at a decent price? Thank you in advance for your help..

Hi everyone because of the fine members o this site and their habit of sharing info I am now buying from some fine suppliers of fiqured maple. I thank everyone for theri assistance. I have a little guitar company that is feeding 7 families overseas and our cash turnover is important. We make money the old fashioned way "we work hard and do a good job and treat our customers right"... I am really sick and tired of people who want to get rich quick from one guitar or one piece of wood. Can some one please recomend me a supplier of SWAMP ASH that is not riddiculously over priced? I am also looking for ALder... Please PM me or email me at awesomejohn7@yahoo.com I need to find a "nice little company to work with" that wont go for my jugular vien when quoting me prices on an other wise inexpensive wood... Thanks in advance for your help everyone...

thanks everyone... THE PİCKUPS ON THE BASS ARE HAND MADE CUSTOMS... Thet are nade in out own shop... we first made them because its cheaper than spending big bucks on name brands and then people really liked them and we stuck with them ... we now offer any p,ckup wanted on our top instruments and it is bAROLİNİ FEVER NOWADAYS WİTH THOSE GREAT PREAMP CİRCUTS... I will post more picks next month when we finish our 2 new basses... warmest regards ACG

WOW THAT BUZZ BOMB BAİT LOOKS İNTERESTİNG WHERE ARE THE HOOKS? I spebt some money on yahoo and got a premium service it seems that how you share your files.... dity dogs they get ya to spend dont tehy.. hee hee hee.. anyway try these pics now http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...C.JQ3CBEHe6xFol http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...C.JQ3CBsL6UkiPh http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...C.JQ3CB89EUSDvH http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...C.JQ3CBWLl4UzQw here is my personal guitar a GRAND MASTER " Hope" model http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...C.JQ3CB0sV2WSY7 here is one of our basses http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...C.JQ3CB6aQTopWv well what do ya think?

the pics are opening for me.. working fine... yes they are in a public folder.. how do you up load pics from the computer desktop?

here is our bass... one of them any way... http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...faMb0CBAY2WfLCd hope you like it.... hey you guys wanna see some real craftsmanship? not us of course Im talking fishing.. have you ever seen these great guys who are "rod wrappers"? they can do things with thread that are absolutely mind boggeling check out these links below on a guy who freaked us all out with a pink rod wrap that was unbelievable. check this out.. and ENJOY! http://www.stripersonline.com/cgi-bin/ubb_.../1/38180/8.html?

Thanks for the heads up on Alan cole and I must say with all due respect that perch plug is absolutely breath takenly beautiful.. A true master made that pluıg.. what a work of art !!!!! I cany belive that detail..its sooo real! I will post it on the striper site so the guys can freak out over it... now lets see if I can post some pics on this thread.... here my first attemp.. oh I see first you to post it up on the web some where then insert its address within the img brackets.. hmmm what happens if you want to upload from your desktop? anyway I will post it up ojn yahoo and try to link it here... "gulp here goes... well its not working... lets just do it the old way clink on these guys below to view some more of my companies axes... http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...fRwa0CBrlCoecbS http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...fRwa0CB3_aC_PTX http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...fRwa0CBIpUutqjb http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...fRwa0CB9M4JoKEp http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/38faf9d3/bc/M...fRwa0CBQebcrQGM I hope you like these gals.... hey great too see some fishermen on the site here... thats another desease alltogether I have a GRand Master bass pic some where let me see if I can find it....

Thank for the warm welcome Gentlemen... Like I said I am the design guy I have 4 grand Master luthiers who work at our tiny company.... they build the instruments... I am very limited in building and prefer to make the coffee and fine tuned fisnished instruments.. The Title Grand Master (that means that they have earned a masters degree in luthiery from thier conservatory of music) these guy build violins and lutes and harps! I am a rock guitarist brought up in New York and am obessed with building "easy playing great sounding cool guitars"... its so funny these guys in our company do everything buy hand and have the measurments in their heads... they know exactly what goes where and how to cut it... I feel like an idiot cause I cant even order lumber dimensions for flame maple through necks... But our guitars are really cool.... I tell em "make this shorter and that wider" blah blah but it works for us... its a simple process... no one speaks english but me and I dont speak russian... when we speak we look like deaf people talking with our hands in sign language we are a bunch of weirdos.. But we are all guitar freaks... thats for sure.. to answer your questions at this moment are getting about 2K to 3k for one of our instruments.... They come with fiber optics in the neck so that the side dot makers light up and there are lazer LEDs under the fretboard dot markers... everthing is through neck... the guitars too.... I am so happy to be a part of this company and over joyed to build these high tech classic easy playing guitars..... Once I figure out how to upload pics on to this site I will paste up a few more pics of our instruments..... I love to share.... inspiration is contagious.... I am also a fantical fisherman... did you know that there is a wood building art within the fishing sport called "plug building?" its big lures used to catch striped bass fish and the artisty and finishes of these home made custom lures are mind boggeling... Check out this link I think you will get a big kick out of this site and its pictures... maybe these guys are latent guitar builders and dont know it like I did... http://www.stripersonline.com/ubb547/ultim...ic/11/4927.html heres another one thats cool http://www.stripersonline.com/ubb547/ultim...ic/11/4907.html its a simular desease to guitar building.... cool ey? I'll be back with those guiatr pics later.. thanks for your warm welcome it is appreciated.. warmest Regards ACG

Hi everyone... I have been reading this site for some time now, I am very impressed by a few things... first of all I adfmire the intense passion everyone here has for creating their instruments, "I too share this burning passion for building guitars"so I it seems that I may be at the right place.... secondly the aura of openly sharing info is a very classy thing and a special trait that is shared by true artists and craftmen... I have learned a lot from just reading your posts here thank you all.... third of all it seems that there are some really experienced and talented people on this site. Hats off to this sites creators I am happy to be a member here now and hope to learn alot more from you gentlemen and share what I know with you... I am a guitar "player" who has evolved into a guitar "designer builder" because most of the custom shop stuff I bought was not as spectacular as I had dreamed it would be... then I took a pen and paper and calculated the cost of parts etc and what I was payiny for this stuff and I felt like a fool.... Because I had very limited tool skills and was more a Player/ designer and development person I was stuck in my tracks until one day God blessed me with a very gifted friend. Destiny brought us together.. he is a master builder from Russia named Victor and we both shared a burning love for high performance electric guitars... He could build but he wasnt a player or designer I was all those things but couldnt build so we were a match made in heaven... soon we started turning out prototypes that were really smoken... My goal was to build the perfect guitar I had in my mind "for my own use" (because I was still actively performing).... next thing we were turning out some great prototypes and each got closer to the guitar in my head... Because we werent rich we sold those guitars to fund the construction of the next generation of prototypes.. well soon there was buzz about the instruments and when we finally succeeding in building my "perfect guitar" all of a sudden everyone wanted to buy it... so My friend and I found ourselves blessed by destiny to take a step towards a dream and create a "Guitar company".. and thats what we did and now 4 famlies make a living from this very small company that builds "very special electrics"... We are based in Europe and our workshop is in the Ukraine.... our instruments are like offspring of "Starts that mated with Lambourginis" ... very high tech high performance virtuoso instruments with amazing playability but with a classic feel and familiar friendly aura.... Well we are still at the embreo stage but I must admit that I am very excited, I really love to build guitars.... And now we have discovered that we build killer basses too!.... So now that we slowly grow I find myself dealing with customers that want top dollar instruments equivelent to Ken Smith etc... Our shop has 4 Luthiers with a masters degree in Luthiery and our registered company name is "Grand Master".... all of a sudden I need to buy 5A quilt from America and I had no where to turn for info and that is when I stumbled upon this stite..... I looked over the info and contacted chuck from Durawoods and I will be his customer.... Now I just need to give the right dimensions.... none of my master builders speak english so its rough... "this probably sounds so funny to all of you :-)" I want to order flamed maple to build the necks in "neck through basses" the basss will be 7pc neck through... We are building 2 of them a 6 string and a 5 string.... now I am asked by the guys at Durawoods "what dimemsions do you want".... I really dont know.... how long a piece do ya think I'll need ? And how thick wide what ever? Can you please give me a suggestion on what I should order or ask for? I know this sounds goofy, but my guys at the shop know what their doing and usually just get their own wood from the Ukraine "but now that I have to buy all this premier wood from the USA and I am having a problem figuring out the dimensions" I will use for these necks in these 5 and 6 string through neck basses.. Can some one please offer a suggestion for me? Secondly I will be buying some quilted tops for these basses ... taking into consideration the long top horns in these Patutuuci stlye basses would a 22 inch top be long enough? Please forgive the elementary questions... I am sincere but as I said these basses are not my area of expertice.... Here are a couple of guitars that we built that are my designs.... hope you like them.... http://www.sahibinden.com/pls/sahibinden/A...It?AdId=1381189 http://www.sahibinden.com/pls/sahibinden/A...It?AdId=1233646 that site is like a Turkish ebay site.... Any way hello once again I am happy to have discovered this site sorry for all the stupid questions but at least I had the balls th ask them, right? hee hee he Nice to meet every one I think I will learn alot here.... stay well ACG Please feel free to contact me anytime by email at acgunduz@mynet.com