krazyderek

i think most white ones will yellow no matter what won't they? to speed it up (couple months instead of years) try leaving them on a window sill on the top floor of ur house facing south. well... that's if u want to go the all natural rout.. wouldn't a high powered UV light do the same thing in a matter of hours?

most active pickups have a tendency to be more "quiet" then passive ones cause (well at least the emg) have built in preamps that filter out some of the white noise. Boosting the signal with the preamp also means that they use significantly weeker magnets, which means less string pull, resulting in greater sustain and the added perk that u can put the pickup letteraly as close as u want to the strings. I beleive they also come in a wide range of tonal characteristics, ranging from gaggedly HOT!! (emg 81 for example) to the more civilized or "vintage" fender lace sensor pickups (can't remember the colour coding for them). But definitly read over the emg site, and i'm sure u could find some info just running a search on google.

i think u tune or set the tuning range, using what would be the pole that used to be for clamping the string on the original floyds, then u fine tune like normal.

lol sounds good.... but how do u make it?

hmm.. that sounds a bit more radical then the one i use. ok, found it, it was on the stewmac free info sheets under neck construction tips and techniques near the bottom http://www.stewmac.com/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi?a...reeinfo/fi.html here's the exerpt.

lol i think we're all a bit of #5 wes, and ya i do have trouble understanding but that got the point across, i don't want to deny anyone anything (let alone guitar) or get anyone here thinking that i think poor poeople are inferrior in some way nor that i'm trying to shove them off in some stereopical group, quite the oposite, i just wish u could get a better quality guitar for less money, it just agervates me that the less u pay, the lower the quality gets that's it, no argument, no prejudice

i've been thinking about this also, i've had my eye on Gotoh tuners aswell as grovers, anyone try the gotoh's out?

For the first four years of my serious guitar playing life I had exactly 0 frieneds who played guitar. For the next three I had exactly 1. The part where you say "you don't have money, so you're better off just not playing guitar." Yeah, ok, I'm trying to keep this civil. but, seriously, that's a jacked up attitude. if u read! it says "save up" man... u guys need to chill, and stop trying to eat me alive...

i knew u guys wouldn't get it..... but.... pfffff u....

when i changed fingerboards just used a ruler to find the center of the neck at the nut and heel then used a long ruler to trace a line off each end, then use a square to continue that line on the wall of the heel? Is that clear? or kinda foggy? well... find the centerline of the neck in other words.. and use a square on the ebony blank and trace a centerline down the back and edges of that. Scalloping would be easier before fretting cause then u don't have to tape them off, HOWEVER, then u might not leave enough, or leave to much for the frets to sit on, so it's probably safer to do it after u've fretted, but before u level and dress the frets. Just follow brians tutorial. Inlays should probably de done first as soon as u get the blank or right after u glue it on, before u radius. and does anyone here use the stapple trick?i forget if i read that on this site or not? so... get everything centered, glue, inlay, carve off the excess, radius, fret, tape off frets, scallop, level and dress frets, buff? well if u wana then..

ya missed the 2 parts that cover ur arguments but i'm just saying, i've had more then a few people come to me with they're 99$ guitar's wishing they'd never baught them and begging me to set them up, or fix them, or SOMETHINGbut most of the time it's just like.... well u need a new.......hmmm...... everything.... and it really discourages people from playing when they're first guitar was a nightmare to play cause they're parents just baught the best looking deal in the music stores window. yes, to a certain point my theory makes it impossible for certain people to own a guitar. but like i said above, some of them end up hating guitars cause they're to hard to play, ironically, due to the fact that the guitar was scaled down to meet they're monetary needs. I mean alot of people can't afford a car, does that mean they should be able to go buy a 200$ car from billy bob down the road that probably doesn't have brakes that work properly and seat belts made out of old leather belts and some rope??? What about sky diving? most people don't get to do that? Should they have cheap planes, and cheap parachutes so that everyone gets to try it out!?!?! There might be alot of dead people by the end of the day, but at least they got to try it!!! That's an extreme and kinda harsh example i realize, but u catching my drift? There comes a point where u just have to a draw a line, what i'm trying to say is that there is no line for guitars. and that these less unfortunet people are probably better off either saving up, playing a friends guitar (which we have completely overlooked), or not playing at all. I guess a compermise would be educating the entire potential guitar player/buyer public about what beginner guitar's are really a "deal" a which ones aren't. Which is the purpose of having sales people in music stores, but, sometimes they can be led to the dark side by, quota's, contracts, commision, and just plaing trying to make room for next year's or month's line of guitars coming in.

ok... 40 minutes of reading and now i got something to chew on GEdwards - that sounds like a pretty crappy deal on the car if it was in such a good condition, i woulda just kept the car dude. But cars and well built guitars are completely different. Used cars (with the exception of like a 1965 rolls roice, or collectors item Delorian) are called lemons for a reason. Everyone knows that a car depretiates the moment it's driven off the sales lot. And dealers usualy give less then reasonable exchange values, cause they have to sell the car and still make a profit. I woulda tried to sell it privately or to some friens that needed a car But, i wasn't there, and i'm only 20 so maybe i'm wrong. Taking out all the low end guitars WOULD IMO affect the prices of the medium to higher end guitars, i'm not saying a 2000$ guitar would now cost 600$, but prices would most likely shift downwards to fill the gap somewhat. supply and demand dude, (now that i think about it this would make a GREAT thesis paper for my Economics degree) but i don't want to get all technical as it's still the summer and i just don't want to go there.... BUT i'm not saying that ALL low end guitars suck, brian made a very good point that out of a lot of 20 squires in a store u might pick up 1 or 2 that feel great, i mean i personaly own 2 squires that i love, but i had to play pretty much every guitar in sed stores to find them. The whole regulation idea wasn't meant to limit guitar design's just ensure that certain things are being done. Like only quatersawn or laminated equivelant lumber for necks. better fail safes on production lines and more inspection points to ensure that quality stay up, so that some don't "slip out the door" as brian said. Maybe like a certain minimum requirement for painting techniques basecaots, top coats etc. Basicly just a base set of rules or guildlines from which to START building or designing. I personaly think this would be a great idea, cause then those kids that buy "cheap" guitars which i will reffer to as "base" guitars in my little scienario, could simply upgrade the hardware, pickups, and maybe get buffing or new clear on the guitar and have a decent high end guitar, without having to worry about the craftsmanship that they can't see, or the quality of the lumber. A good example of well made or "base" guitars would be the squires from the 80's from.... japan i beleive it was? my uncle has one of these, and i can personaly say, along with a large number of people on the net that i have read about, that these guitars were made, just as good if not better then the high end american strats. just slap some "authentic" american standard, or texas special pickups in there and u had the real thing. i don't want to shovel to much **** here, but i've had conversations with luthiers here that have heard and thought the same thing having played those guitars. Basicly they just made to good a copy of the guitar, once the guys in the head fender office realized this the factory was eventually shut down cause it was affecting the sales of the american made strats. But again, that's just what i heard... As for "piss poor" people, well i do unfortunetly come from a fairly well off family so i probably am kind of bias, but i am trying to keep an open mind. Idealy i'd like to have the "perfect" society free of pauverty (ya ya i watch to much Star Trek the next generation). BUT... if u look at it from this point, parents buy Timmy a "base" guitar for say 200-300$... then he gets good, he needs only spend an additional 200-300$ to upgrade the guitar to meet his growing player needs. Where as had he baught a "cheap" 99$ guitar, he would most likley want to go out and spend 600-800$ for a medium to high end guitar. Now if my math skills are still sharp, in the long run, the base guitar ends up costing less (depending on how many bells and whisels u upgrade). But it does still cost more intialy, BUT (yes i use that to much) then getting back to the resell value, seens how it's a "base" guitar, that's to say a well built guitar with no whisels, instead of the more probable POS "cheap" guitar, u'd probably have better luck getting like 100$ for it if "timmy" lost interest after a year or two. and yes, it costs less to live in china then north america.

hmm... the copper base gets sprayed over ur existing paint job that has "chip out" written allllll over it. like how's the copper going to properly stick to a buffet clear coat?

a couple of times.... but my point is.... if the industry WAS regulated, and everyone knew that they were quality products you wouldn't have a problem getting a decent return on it...

well..... in a perfect world with nothing but quality instruments, the guitar (of high quality yet lacking certain cosmetic upgrades) could be resold thus the parents would make back most of they're money

i disagree with ur disagrement wes.... beginners shouldn't have shitty guitars to start out with... they should have a less spiffy high end guitars, like no binding, no spiffy inlays, just a good solid guitar to start off with... and regulations, how could that be bad? i think it's a great idea, to keep quality products on the markets.... instead of hunting around for weeks for something good..

lol.... u guys were the debating team losers in high school weren't ya? i just think low end guitars should be taken out of the picture all together.... there should be like some kind of international luthier commite that sells certificates to make guitars, and ur shop or factory is inspected twice a year to make sure ur keeping everything up to standards, otherwise it's illegal to make and sell guitars on the market.

i've been noticing on my tele (25.5" scale) that it's kinda hard to do sweeps or chord on the first 7 frets just cause i have to twist my wrist to get the right hand angle... i've been thinking about building a 24" or possibly smaller scale guitar

those are the measurements brian gave me for the screw holes, he also sent me the measurements for the actuall all acces pocket, but i deleted that one maybe he'll post the pics here again though oh ya, and steve has some other measurements in metric here, but still no actual profile of the curve unless u do it by eye http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/body.htm

Hi, i baught a brand new Evolution (bridge) off of ebay, still has over 8 inches of lead, soldered once to make sure it worked once it arrived. But it's not F-spaced So i'm looking to trade for an F spaced version of the evolution (bridge). But i will also take offers on the pickup. Yes i'll ship anywheres. Derek. Here are the pics from the ebay auction that i got it from.

i like the idea in that article about just leaving the fret slots open, then u can feel ur way around the board. And that seems like the most reversible option so far. Also wouldn't u have to lower the nut and bridge by the height of the frets that are now gone to acheive ur previous action?

i was a competitive canoe paddler for 5 years (please hold all jokes, yes i'm canadian!), not gripping the paddle wasn't really an option... and weights, well... canada games coachs are kinda pretty set in their ways, when it's heavy weights day, it's heavy weights day by the end of practices i usualy didn't have much energy left to start skipping, but i'll keep it in mind

so what neck are u going to use on the little guitar? or are they both going to be the same shape? (that little tiny guitar shape) and where did u get the pickups from? cause i see both of those on ebay alll the time.

i just started my neck thru guitar, and the wood was 91$ Canadian, that's for the purple heart neck 2x4-4ft, lacewood5x2-40inches, and zircote 1x3-2 ft and i'll end up with 2 extra finger board blanks. that to me doesn't seem like alot. FYI 91$ can = 65 $US

4 guitars for a custom that's one niiiice custom, u better know exactly what u want amigo just some friendly advice.