feylya

I'm only 21 and I get fairly bad pains in my left knuckles after playing, especially when it's cold as it often is in this house for about 6 months of the year

It'd be lovely if it wasn't for that tacky "blood" paint. Nice otherwise and I generally don't like V's.

Ha, I was just about to post that Saber

I'm just kinda thinking out loud. Have unlimited access to a decent sized milling machine...

Odd question but what's the most common template shape? Humbucker? Truss rod?

MG, I'll just shut up. But also, grammar ain't spelling(and I'm kinda surprised I spelt it wrong).

And hey I failed english so don't diss. But at least I use commas and that stuff.

edit : And now I've thought about it: replace grammer with punctuation.

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Warhead was SS afaik.

I'm gassing after this at the minute but it's hard to find out anything about it. There's no manual on the website and no one in Ireland stocks Randall amps.

7 pounds I think. About 3 kilos?

Lovely looking though. Love the shape of the JP Ernie Ball's.

I keep reading the title as "my breast"

Nice work though.

Congrats Kevan. Just wondering, did you ever work out a way or the tremel-no to work with a Hipshot Trem Setter?

Check the neck relief. The neck should be nearly straight with the strings in tune. If not, check the Project Guitar homepage for a tutorial on setting up a guitar.

Oh, and use the Search function in future.

You'll need a preamp anyway. Why not get a bass v-amp and a pair of headphones?

Wow, what a suprise. Ireland isn't on the list

Shipping from Germany is €20. And ebay.ie is a bogus site.

They're quite decent guitars actually, which is surprising. I doubt I'd find all the hardware I'd want for €180 bucks though. Was thinking about getting decent tuners alright.

Excellent stuff. For some reason, I always assumed 13 degrees. Is that not standard Jackson/ESP head angle?

I was going to go for 13 degrees. I'll be using a Floyd anyway so 8-9 degrees would work?

Plus I found a guy that does graphics on guitars so a Kirk Hammett Mummy might be on the cards...

I was thinking of getting this

My plan was to get the wood for the guitar, build most of it, drill pilot holes for the tuners and controls, route the pickup cavities, trem and spring cavities and then get it sprayed. If it all works well, then get my donor guitar. That way, if I mess up the construction of the guitar, then it's €100 or so gone. But if it goes well, I can get my donor guitar, strip everything off it and play my custom made. Once I start upgrading everything (real Floyd, EMG's etc) I can put all my hardware back onto the donor

I'd like to put it through the neck pickup but the way I've figured it, it would look like this with the ESP head.

http://members.boards.ie/feylya/neck.jpg

But the 30" inches means it'll just get to the neck pickup. Let me go draw a picture...

Setch, can you get Rustins in B&Q?

Well, I was planning on doing a scarf joint, slice the guitar at a 13 degree angle, rough out the head stock (a reversed pointy ESP style) then gluing it back on. The whole scarf section on my LTD is 12" long, leaving me with 18" for the rest of the neck which just goes to the neck pickup route. If you have a better and/or easier way to do it, I'm completely open to suggestions.

Jaysus, that's a shocking bad Irish accent ya have on ya. Sure, you'd be hit with a big auld shellaghie stick after a few scoops! Begorrah...

Would the 30" neck blank be long enough for a long tenon though? I measured the neck on my LTD and it would be cutting it a bit tight

So, after about 2 years on this forum, I've decided to bite the bullet and actually build a guitar! I'm going to put about €100 into wood and truss rod then I'll probably buy a cheap guitar (€150ish) to strip the hardware from.

Wood wise, I have decided on a slotted, radiused (16") ebony fretboard, a 30"x4"x1" maple neck blank and a 2 piece ash body along with a way TFC Gotoh Truss rod, all from Craftsupplies.co.uk. That all comes to €80 + shipping. I could get the same stuff from America but the delivery would be long and expensive.

I'm hoping to build a set neck ESP M-II copy with a sculpted heel. I was going to try a neck through but since seeing Rhoad's heel, I've decided a set neck would be easier.

I have Martin Koch's book but I would like any tips or opinions any of you have. Muchly appreciated.

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