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I’ve always wanted to get into building double neck guitars. I’ve just never had anyone order one from me. Guess they aren’t as popular as they were in the 70’s.

I also have to agree with LEF. It does seem pointless to have a double neck with the only difference being the pickups. Along with that, one neck has square corners on the fret board and the other one has rounded corners. This seems a little off to me.

I’d like to see some more pictures. Ones that haven’t been put into photo shop to cut out the background.

I will say that the choice of body styles is great and lends itself to having enough room to pull off a double neck design. I like it more than the SG ones.

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Thumbed through it. It's never been in the shop and is in excellent condition. $20.00 USD.

I dunno, dude. Those are on my want-to-buy list. ;-) I know what you mean about the wires-- they're just a twisted pair, as far as I know. Not sure if that's a manufacturing decision or what. I'm not even positive that those 2 wires are of LESSER quality than some of the thin-tacular little wires that come inside a 4-conductor cable. The shielding issue is a bit odd, though. If you have tonnes and tonnes of random cables lying around, you could probably makeshift some sort of sleeve. I have a few different varieties of cable that you could just yank the guts out of and be left with a shielded sleeve.

The short version: if you made a mistake, it's the same mistake I'm going to make whenever I'm back in the black.

Greg

You make a good point about the wires being better than the ones in a standard 5 wire set up. They are a larger gauge than SD pickup wire and they are strand not solid core so they should be pretty sturdy. With the grounded wire twisted into the lead wires it should act as shielding. But I still might use some shielding foil and a heat shrink tube just to be sure. Extra shielding never hurts.

It’s also that the extremely low impendence helps with eliminating hum too.

An interesting thing to note is, they give you the wiring instructions and a bunch of brochures on a mini DVD Disc in PDF file format. Although it seems that nothing special is required for wiring these pickups. Just your standard 500K pots and what ever set up you want. No coil tapping though since it really doesn’t have any coils, LOL

It’s going to be a few weeks until I can give them a sound check so we’ll see. I’ll try to post a few sound samples when completed.

So I've read alot about the Lace Alumitones so I picked up a set of Chrome humbuckers and when they came in the mail today I quickly took them out of the box and wozers, they look a little cheep!

The chrome is nice and they look sturdy enough but the wire leads are not shielded and.... I don't know. it's hard to explain.

has anyone used them? Am I making a mistake by giving them a try? All of the "GC -MF and ZZounds" reviews have been great! Am I a victum of Advertorials?

I liked the finish and didn’t notice any abnormally dark sports until pointed out.

That my friend is because you lack the critical eye of an artist, such as my self or my budy Da Vinci

no seriously, may be you haven't done a guitar with figured wood, when you test on scraps, that's when you understand the concept of staining and what makes it look good or bad, and THEN you tend to see this defects stand out in front of you. Unfortunately, these defects are a lot more visible on pictures, like everything else.

I've done figured tops but when I look at pictures I tend to glance and go with my gut reaction. If you study anything long enough you'll find a flaw! Might be why I won't own a Gibson any more.....

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I made one out of spalted burch for this Spalted top guitar. Being that a guard is thin you'll want to hardcoat it to keep it from warping. I had one made fo ebony and it folded its self into a tube shape. I just shot this one with a little flat nitro and it turned out killer.

I like the variation on the Iceman shape. You can tell it’s a relative of the IM but it is different. It gives us something new to look at.

I liked the finish and didn’t notice any abnormally dark sports until pointed out. Who knows, could just be the flash on the camera. I know I take a lot of pictures and when I get them on the computer a lot is lost in translation!

Great build!

I like the

I'll be the first! I really like the Jem neck with the JS body. I never liked the sharp points of the jem but I liked the vyne inlays.

I also like the white. Is it Alpine white?

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Woods with figure tend to be more unstable than woods without odd grain or high figure. For example, a highly flamed maple neck tends to move more than a plane hard rock maple neck.

I looked at this list of hardness scales and Brazilian Walnut is much harder than maple, Padauk, wenge and other suitable woods used on Fret boards.

I did read that naturally dried Brazilian Walnut is unstable and tends to shrink a lot but Kiln dried stuff seems to be stable.

For some reason I could never seem to get the hang of doing it with pliers. I really lie it because for me it limited the amount of leveling and crowning that needs to be done after the frets are installed. I press mine in so if my board has a good radius and the frets have a smooth radius it’s almost like butter when leveling.

Just snagged one of the aluminum ones.

Thanks, I appreciate it! It will ship out today. Let me know what you think when you get it.

Nice wood!

Although after my last project, That block of zebrano looks more ominous than it would have previously

It was worth it in the end, but (as you probably know) its a bitch to plane and route. If you dont pay careful attention to the grain direction you can get some crazy tearout.

I've actually found that using a slighly dull carbide router bit creates less tear out when shaping the sides than a new bit. I actually keep a sacific bit in my shop just for zebrawood.

Just looking for suggestions on the best transducer and pre-amp for a nylon classical guitar. I’m thinking under saddle but I’m open to all suggestions.

I'd go with a repair over replacement too. It will help hold any value the guitar has. Yamaha is not your obvious collectors item but as every guitar gets older, it raises in value. Look at all the people with old Tesco Delrey guitars in their closets. If they are in mint they can get a substantial amount of money for them.

I've worked with Padauk a lot and by nature it will become a very dark red (almost brownish) on it's own. When it comes into my shop it's usually really dark and when I plane and join it the wood becomes bright red again. If I let it go too long it gets dark again.

I'm not sure if it will stay the color it is when finished or if UV will darken it (like purpleheart.) I generally use oil finishes on my guitars and Padauk gets darker over time with oil.

A tight fit is a good fit! It won't squeeze that glue out. I still say that's a killer piece of limba. I can't wait to see the body take shape.

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I've included South America Europe/ U.K in this auction so anyone who wants one can have one. I have 5 made and ready to ship right now.

For those interested I also have a lacewood one and a birdseye maple one for sale too.

Lacewood

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Birdseye Maple

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Nice lacewood! Shame you don't ship to the UK.

I have to point out (i'm pedantic, I know) that in your description you say that the piano and guitar are in there for ascetic reasons. I'm sure you mean aesthetic :-D Ascetic means they are there for spiritually cleansing reasons in that they help you refrain from worldly pleasures. No guitar helps you refrain from worldly pleasures! Pianos, maybe.

LOL, I've corrected the auction! No matter how much you proof read something always seems to get by.

BTW, if you like that lacewood, you might like the birdseye maple one I just completed. I had a hard time posting this one as I love BE and I wanted to keep it for my own.

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If you are interested in one I'd be happy to update the auction for a fellow PG member to allow for international shipping. I'm guessing at shipping but if $15.00 USD for shipping sounds cool just PM me.

Neal Moser discussed the fact that he is now using Dr. Duck Ax Wax to finish his walnut templar guitars. I looked Dr. Duck up on EBay and he has a ton of positive feedback. I ordered a small supply of it to try out but has anyone used this to finish a guitar yet? How does it work? I trust Neal but I was wondering what the majority thinks.

Exotic lacewood in stock!

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Two Aluminum benders in stock!

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This has really inspired me to make one of these and I’ve never in my life thought I would want to have one. If I can find a nice wooden box like your I’m going to build a 4 stringer with a nice tremolo and I might even pop a transducer in it to amplify the sound.

That's jaw dropping awesome! I love working with Zebra but I've never put a trans finish over it becuase I was afraid to see what would happen! Now it's time to go down to the shop for a little finishing!

I really like this design and it's going to be really cool for your kid. I'd paint the back and sides black to set off that white binding. I don't know if I'd pick a V shape to earn on but once they get the feel for holding it I'm sure it will be fine.

I can't wait until it's time to build my kid thier first guitar!

It almost reminds me of a Univox flyer. I think a nice set of boutique pickups like bulldogs would look really cool in it. It just feels retro to me.

I actually think the body looks a bit long where the neck looks a bit short. It could that the neck is not to scale with the guitar. If it is to scale, change it to a 25.5" neck and keep the joint placement in the same place.

In essence, don't shorten the body but extend the neck and see if it doesn’t come into proportion for you.

Limba is good!!!!!! Some of the best builds I've ever seen have been limba...now why have't I built anything with Limba yet????