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  2. What's The Best Electric Guitar For A Begginner?

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    IMHO my choice of a first guitar would also be a guitar I would cherish and my favourite even after owning 6 instruments is "Rinton Music" located in Thailand.

    http://www.guitarandpickup.com

    I know many people who had and still to this present day own at least 1 of these gorgeous axes and no matter whether you're a beginner or a professional studio recorder, a rinton will chances are still bring a smile to your face. However, if you assume its a bit far, then I recommend getting a Xaviere.

  8. Guitar Of The Month For June

    in Guitar Of The Month entry/poll archive

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    An excellent GOTM this month! Well, I voted for Dan Salter's LP. A great build and its his first too.

    Setch's Doublecut LP - Great from the start, immense attention to detail

    Doeringer's Custom - Excellent, love neck-throughs, but the poorly masked binding put me off. Overall, nice job.

    Verhoevenc's 'Mu X' E-Series is a great result, love it, though the turquoise was not to my liking.

    Scott French - What more to say? A great inspiration to me, but the colour was a big nono...

    GodinSD's Milkdud- sorry, couldn't resist it. But yea, I have always admired your work, even though I am a few months older, I see you as a big brother in the luthiery world. However, the shape....like I said, milk-dud.

    Southpa's SG - Nice. Though judging from the pics, it seems that the clear could be more glossy and the burst could blend more. But I like the inlays.

    Dan Slater's LP - Last but not least, your work is amazing especially as a 1st! The neck joint and heel is a winner, and the detail, outstanding, not as good as setch, but better than me lol. That's not saying much...

  13. Deep Set Neck Tenon

    in Put it to a vote

    Posted · Edited by rokeros

    Try a mcnaught style "Set Thru" joint if you really want an enhanced tone and stuff. At least their theory makes more sense than Ed Rom**

    The McNaught "SET-THRU" NECK®

    Explanation of the Innovation

    by David Thomas McNaught

    When people hear that McNaught guitars are built with "SET-THRU" NECK® construction, they usually don’t get too excited. After all, they think, “set neck… neck through… I’ve heard it all before.. nothing new, right?”

    Well… wrong! Maybe if we changed the name to “incredibly-innovative-all-new-all-different-deep-pocket-augmented-extension-neck-mounting-technique-to-increase-

    and-improve-sustain-volume-and-tone-like-nothing-you’ve-ever-heard-or-played-before”, they’d get a better idea of what the "SET-THRU" NECK® is all about.

    Hmmmm….Somehow “Set-Thru Neck” seems to flow a bit better… I guess there’s a bit of explaining to do.

    "SET-THRU" NECK®: in these words lies the secret of a revolutionary technique that has been painstakingly perfected as one of the cornerstones of McNaught quality. It’s so amazingly simple, and at the same time, so intricately dependent on unique experience and specialized skill, that I can tell you all about it here without spilling the beans on what’s actually a trade secret.

    Background: a neck-through guitar is one like the original Les Paul (“The Plank”). It’s a full length neck with body “wings” glued on. A set neck on the other hand is simply a neck that’s glued tight into a fitted socket. The "SET-THRU" NECK® is a combination of the set-neck (Gibson, PRS) and the neck-thru (Jackson, ESP). It keeps a whopping TWELVE INCHES of neck INSIDE the body cavity for amazing tone transfer and sustain, without the sound-sapping (and ugly) necessity for the body to be made of multiple pieces of glued-together wood.

    When I first began building guitars, they all were built using a standard set neck. I had read an interview with another guitar company that talked about how their neck extended more than 5” into the guitar body. I read another interview with another guitar company that said their neck extended even deeper. However, when I investigated these guitrs, I found a problem. The Gibson Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge is elevated from the guitar body to such an extent that the neck needs to be angled back up to 6º. To make this possible against a flat body, the deep set-neck guitars of the past were built in such a way that the butt of the neck was unable to make much contact with the body pocket.

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    Common sense told me that a good mechanical junction of the neck-butt and the body pocket was critical if maximum sound energy is to be transferred between the two primary parts of the instrument. Think of it like this: would you feel more vibration from an engine in if you pressed on the hood of a car with one finger or with your entire palm?

    Eureka! My theory was that it would make more sense to somehow get my 12” extension into the body at a uniform depth. To the drawing board I went. After several months of experiments and designs, I was able to come up with a set of custom jigs that would allow me to tool a 12” neck extension at uniform depth through transverse section of the guitar body.

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    I swear that from this sentence forward, I will speak to you as one guitar player to another. No more shop talk.

    The prototype guitar surprised me, because I didn’t imagine I’d hear such a difference before I even plugged it in. I remembered reading a quote years ago in a guitar magazine. Eddie Van Halen said that a great electric guitar would always sound great when it was played without an amp. The truth of that statement materialized for me as the first E chord ever played on a "SET-THRU" NECK® guitar rang out. It was louder. If it means anything, it was more musical, because there was more OF it. My theories were proven true: it sustained for an eternity. It sounded awesome.

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    Besides more and more and more of what I heard acoustically (killer sustain, powerful volume, and clear rich tone), the juice brought out something that let me know I had reached my destination. The word that comes to mind needs some explanation though, because it’s tossed around to mean so many different things: the guitar had real presence. A McNaught "SET-THRU" NECK® guitar is more musically "present" because it cuts through a band or a mix more than its set-neck predecessor ever could. And it isn’t just about volume (any guitar can get louder, but if it’s ugly when it’s quiet, it will just be amplified ugly when you crank it up). Think of it like stage presence—you recognize a star because you feel something you can't really explain. It's that same kind of guitar "star quality" that projects from an instrument with the "SET-THRU" NECK®. It’s more than tremendous tone. More than the solid feel. It’s in the way it does everything you always wished an electric guitar would.

    I suspect that this innovation is one of the main reasons you’ll be as proud to own and play my guitars as I am to offer them to you with my name on every one. That's why I had to spell it out for you here. So next time you hear the words “"SET-THRU" NECK®" think twice before you write it off as the same old same old…

    Thanks for your continued appreciation!

    David Thomas McNaught

  19. Calum's Project

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted

    Just from curiosity,...

    How on earth do you manage to purchase such fine necks/neck woods with barenuckle pickups at the age of 14???!!!!

    Firstly, its a double neck!! Are you that good at playing? And Roland GK-3, since when did you become a recording artist needing synth?

    Well, good luck with your build but right now I feel a bit jealous.

  20. Melting Plastic

    in Inlays and Finishing Chat

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    "Plastic" can be a very general term. There are two main types of plastics, thermosetting and thermoplastics. One which will stretch and retain its shape when heated and cooled down again and I forgot which one, but one type can't melt.

    So before trying to melt the plastic, it is best to understand which one you have and if it is suitable for fixing the bind seem.

  21. Effects...

    in Players Corner

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    Hey Godin, you do know that behringer make a whole load of replica pedals for dirt cheap right? For delay if you do end up getting singles, I recommend the line6 DL4 over the boss. However if you do get a multi, I would suggest the podxt live. I once wanted to also get the vox SE tonelab however, no matter how tough, valve powered or double chrome vox pedal etc... it can be lol, the technology cannot actually stand up to the pod. I am not a line6 worker or sumthing. Truth is , hte DL4 and the podxtlive seems to be better thats all.

    Ash

  22. Calum's Project

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted · Edited by rokeros

    Is it just me or the pickup cavities seem to be a bit off to the right? It doesn't seem to center with the laminates. Also, the tremolo cavity seems a bit crooked as well. but overall, excellent job, a bit more tinkering and it will be fabulous...

    Ash

  23. Balsa Wood Guitar

    in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat

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    Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top had one made for him by Robin Guitars.

    Balsa wood is very soft and can dent with a press of the fingernail,

    so it was covered with spruce to protect the Balsa, also, Balsa, is

    a very open pore wood so it will be very annoying to finish.

    Lightwieght to me isn't everything, you would barely feel the guitar

    leaving an unatural playing style. Using balsa wood IMHO won't

    bring the feel of playing the guitar to the player. Its simply not

    right! Btw, have you researched whether Balsa would be a good

    tonewood? Because there is a big difference between

    Koa and MDF. lol :D

  24. Gotm June Discussion

    in Site Feedback, Issue Reporting and Test area

    Posted · Edited by rokeros

    Haven't you done enough to GOTM scott, firstly you own 50% of the voters before your 10th post on this forum and now your doing it again with your 20th post. Wow, I love your work, but I wonder what will happen when you get to your 120th post? That'll be a year, then we need GOTM and GOTYear. lol

    Don't worry Chris, as garehan has mentioned, yours is swell too. Its harder to build a hollow-bod, let alone having to drag your tools in and out your house door to work. lol

    Each month GOTM is getting more overwhelming. I think there may me a disease made of sawdust entering the cables in which we recieve internet from. Cos quite fankly, I am stunned by all the work (excluding mine) this year.

  25. All Purpose Machinery

    in Tools and Shop Chat

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    I Hong Kong there are some places where you can get multi-purpose machines for dirt cheap cos most are made in china.

    Something that I am really interested is somewhat a drill press sorta machine with variable power and speed to have the ability to do pin routing as well with the guide pushed down under the press table when not in use. Also, I thought that with drill presses, you can have different attachments to plane, buff, sand etc.

    does anyone know of a machine that can do this? Or does anyone use only a couple machines to do most guitar work? Cos I am trying to save yet make guitars efficiently and effectivly.

    Thanks,

    Ash

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