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wes...off topic,but i think you may not enjoy me telling you publicly that i now offically hate you

Only messing. Glad you like it. Told ya LTD's were fine instruments.

Here's some clips of a Diezel Herbert, a Mesa Mark IV Long head and a Mesa Triaxis. Enjoy.

http://www.amps.bluestream.de/

I'm just wondering, which was the first company to start making neck through production model guitars? Rickenbacker? BC Rich?

He doesn't use that design exclusively, only on his maple necked guitars.

http://www.fairplay.demon.co.uk/faq.htm#Is...ue%20that%20GSG

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Ah, this one has a mahogany neck.

And it's a horrible guitar too

There's a Gordon Smith in the house. I must have a look see at it.

Or you could do it the G&L way and route a channel out of two piece of your neck would, insert the truss rod and glue the neck together...

Then surely you route from behind and add a skunk strip?

Really really nice work Setch. If you don't mind me asking, how much did you charge for that neck? How much for a neckthrough neck?

Nice work but it looks like the neck and bridge should be pivoted at the neck joint. The way it is know makes it look like the neck is sticking up towards the sky, compared to a normal explorer.

Article about Scalloping from Ibanez

Scalloped Frets 21-24 - All JEMs have this feature except the JEM10, JEM90, JEM7BSB JEM7DBK and JEM555. It is said to offer more control of the strings at the upper register and allow better feel & sustain.

Expanded Tonal Explaination of Scalloping:

When Ibanez first made the JEM it had a standard neck joint plate. The high four frets go over the body [with no mass behind them] and when you play these notes through an amp the sustain of the [upper four] notes is alot shorter. The reason is all the area of the neck is gone it is just a fingerboard extension [see Guitar Photo Gallery Neck Details]. Billy Sheenan had done this to his basses to keep the sustain [alive for the upper frets laying] over the body, so we did it on the Jem and it made the notes ring the same as the basic neck [below fret 21]. The distance between the frets does not allow your finger in there anyway. When [ibanez] switched to all access neck joints the scallop thing does not have any purpose anymore. The VWH [was scalloped] but this guitar was actually designed way back in 1989, the first one... had the original neck joint.

Why Some JEMs are Not Scalloped:

Tonally speaking, the AANJ eliminates the need for the scalloped frets 21-24. In addition to these reasons listed above, the production of the JEM neck with scalloped fretboard is very costly due to typical production line yields which result in more defects from the process. Even with Ibanez' policy of strict quality control. The problem with scalloping is [the process] screw up many necks; the reason is the inlays get wacked. Even the JEM7VWH is really bad, usually they turn out black, But we did a new improvement to the VWH that is now shipping [in 1999-2000]. If we scallop the fretboard and the inlay rips out we need to refret the neck. If you ever did a refret on scallops when you pull the fret out, small chips around the scallop come with it then it needs to be sanded down, and refreted then rescalloped. Usually this means throw[ing] the neck away. The plastic screw inlayed dots on the BSB/DBK prohibit the scalloping for similar reasons - It is impossible to scallop these at the 24th fret because of the fretboard radius of 430 mm. The dots are too far out [toward the edge of the fretboard] and can't be done.

The neck on my LTD M-100 is finished with Poly and it's the nicest neck I've ever played imo.

Yeah, the finished neck is a bit sticky but I'm sure I'll sort it out. At some stage. Have to rewire the thing first.

Apparently it's a distortion in the bridge and a 59 in the neck. I'm only use to EMG's so my call would be quite uninformed

Nice work. Looks really good. Not overly keen on the carved head or the massive back plate but other than that, really nice work.

Excellent stuff. Look forward to it.

Looking funky. Have you done up a tutorial by any chance?

My housemate has a 2500 or 2800 sitting just over there. I thought it was a damn fine instrument actually. Nice sounding pickups, quality workmanship through out. But that's just me.

The inlay is very very cool. While I would have liked a completely blank fretboard, the flame is just cool. Lovely fret work too.

Don't suppose anyone knows what SD models the pickups are based on?

Just received the guitar today. Considering it was shipped from Belgium to Ireland in two days, I consider it €60 well spent.

This guitar is absolutely gorgeous. Got to go jam with it today so I'll let you all know how I get on with it

Well, I've found in my time modding and admining boards with this software that the initial lump of extra options can be a serious brain melter. Especially all the thread tools.

But twas but a suggestion.

Can I just suggest that whoever is chosen as mod has a good understanding of the mod and admin side of the forum software. I think there are plenty of great and talented guitar builders here that'll lend their knowledge willing. I think a mod who just knows when people go too far and knows exactly what action to take is far more suited to the task.

Definately gotta be Setch. Seems level headed and he offers the forum a lot.

*Thinks back to his moderator post a while back*

i can barely hear mine.i think your computer needs a higher quality fan.

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My computer is loud as hell tbh and there's nothing but quality fans in it.

2x120mm fans

1x80mm fan

1xCPU fan

1xGPU fan

Add two hard drives and a DVD burner to that and that's a lot of noise

Sorry Curtis, link fixed.

Jivin, if I can put the thing down long enough, I'll post up a review

I just ordered myself this:

http://www.netzmarkt.de/thomann/prodbilder/160094.jpg

From GuitarBargains.com for the grand total of €457.30, which is €90 cheaper than other online stores. I'll let you all know how I get on.

Thanks for your advice.