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Lookin awesome

Dont tell me your gonna paint the wood black :-(

that looks beeeaautiful

red dye stain or varnish?

from outside in its oak, poplar, maple, cherry center

what kind of dye/stain (if any) would work well on this body, and what type of finish would be best for it?

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f115/usd...10/DCP_1270.jpg

thanks

What do you people have to say about the best guitar/bass designt that you have ever seen?

Post pics and talk about the coolest and wierdest shapes youve ever seen

anyone here ever had any experience with the infra-red lightwave pickups before? they look convincing, but so did the variax :-/

ok heres my deal

im building a bass right now that will have an octave chip in it, so itll sound like a guitar. i will also have the bypass with a switch so that a signal would go through both the chip and a bypass, thus making it like an 8 string bass

my question is, is that if i were to do this process again, with a second chip in series with the first one and the "1" octave and the "2" octave going around the chip, and then also have the "2" octave go through the second octave chip, would this in turn to making a 12 string bass type sound, or would the chips not be able to process them? i have a basic idea of circuitry and im pretty sure this would work, i just want to make sure it does before i waste my time

thanks

i did use the search and came up with nothing....

so, have any of you tried making a fretless bass, but instead of putting some kind of resin or something on it, you would put clear coat on it with the rest of the guitar. i thought about this and if you had flatwound strings, this would still probably have a really warm sound but the fretboard would get very little wear and tear, plus it would look cool with a gloss on the fretboard. anyone tried this?

that looks amzing. flamed maple looks perfect, and the neck going through the body really looks great and really shows off the flamed maple. the laquer looks great, too. i can tell you took your time on this one

they are pretty close to the edge, but theyre in a curve...what do you mean by "out of line"?

well actually i realized that the horns probably wouldnt stay on for long, so what i did is get two tinner sheets of wood and some good strong steel reinforcement and essentially outlined the horns with it so they are actually extremely strong. then i glued the two pieces together with the supports routed in between them.

the holes on the right side are for all the pots and switches

and it is actually extremely well balanced, because it is kind of distorted in that pic. in the bottom part of the right half it sticks waaaaay out, but then in the middle before the horns it comes waaaaay in. plus there is a pretty big control cavity on the back, as the holes show.

scottyd - right on 8) one of the pins goes under that point on the back of it, the other is going on the back right next to the neck

Jon - since the bridge is so far back on it, the angle sets the pickup core right in line with the strings

ok so pretty much i could only get a pic of the front side of my guitar, then my camera broke

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f115/usd...10/101_0080.jpg

some notes -

truss rod does look like it is really far up the neck joint, but if i could have gotten a pic of the joint you can see that this isnt a problem at all.

that little rectangle shaped carving on the bridge is there because that half of the body is actually 5mm higher up than the other half and the neck, like a personality kinda thing.

i would appreciate all criticism. thanks

My best guess would be tinted nail hole filler. I use it all the time at work and it barely stands out, so i would think here that you wouldnt even be able to notice it since its so small of an area

right right, theyre your "room mates" books, right?

great job on that guitar, its looking great!

the "f holes" also look really cool, very unique and different from what you see on all of the classical instruments

Only problem with those though is that green light has a lower wave pattern, so itll be kinda pricy and hard to find any green LED to emit enough light to really make a difference. I find that red LED's are the best option, i got some red ones with 9500 mcu's, while green one emitt like 3500 mcu's. just my advice though

that looks amazing, great job. it looks really deep, almost like water.

that wood looks beautiful. i bet this will turn out great oh great one

that is ridiculous, i might as well go for a patent on string callibur!

1 - Under any circumstances never try to use a tablesaw as a planar

2 - Just because you think you know where your soldering iron is doesnt mean that you do

3 - ALWAYS LEAVE ROOM FOR SANDING

This is my first post on this forum, so i apologise if I say anything that has already been said or whatever

One of the things that I like to do on my guitars and basses is install LED's (Light Emitting Diodes) into the neck of the guitar as inlays instead of pearl inlays or whatever. One of the things I am trying to find is the best way of installing these, since I often run into problems with running the wires under the fretboard and connecting to the LED's in the center, because of the metal truss rod through the middle of the neck. Has anyone here ever done anything like this, and if so how did you run the wires through the neck to the inlays

Thanks