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Grey Primer / Base Coat; Body Cuts

Dipped

Been working on a strat kit this year. Technically two, as my FIL is doing one also.

Typical S/S/S with tremolo. Plan is to bypass the tone knob and a couple tweaks with the wiring and pup cavities.

It came with the tummy cut. I added a knee cut on the lower bout and widened the upper to match. Rattle can grey primer/base coat.

Dipped in PacNorWest colors of Pacific Blue, Lime Green and Silver enamel. Blue did not take well on the front: 90% of it sank. Will dry for probably a week and then sand and coat.

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Elec - Turner Model1 LB-P featherweight or PRS Custom 22

Acou - Breedlove C25/CRe-H or Ibanez Talman

Thanks David.

The electronics and hardware are plug and play but I was happy I actually get to do some soldering because the job done on the jack was junk. Will see how the pups last after I plug 'er in.

Wife surprised me with a strat-style kit from Rockler.

Thanks to my FIL engraving and printing biz I hope it won't be recognizable when I'm done.

It may be cheating but gotta start somewhere!

Looks nice, Wes. Really like the birds eye top

Shad based on great look & innovation

That would be one of the overall problems diluting society: do it wrong enough for long enough and no one will care anymore.

Some nice purpleheart

Building pedals into a guitar is nearly always a bad thing...

Also, don't confuse 'piezo' with 'acoustic', it is more acoustic like certainly...

The simulators are getting better but the quality of the sound is very much dependent on amplification and the type of guitar, pickups and style of play and setting the pedal appropriately.

Mixing Mag pups and piezos can often be problematic due to impedance mismatches, you will need buffers and such.

My latest guitar project has both mag and piezo and several different kinds of stereo and blend effects (as well as on board tuner and 4 band eq for the piezo)...

But I have tried out and have perhaps the cheapest ($40 new) Behringer version the AM100 (effectively a Boss AC2 clone) and it can sound quite good. Things are improving and many multi effects pedals also include such things, I found I had a few. They are not quite 'acoustic' but some can sound better than a bad piezo system. I use it occassionally to make my acoustic with soundhole mag pickup sound a bit more 'acoustic'.

The behringer does have several cool features though. It has two outputs so one can run stereo or multi amps, so can be a good splitter. It also has 4 sim types and other controls, I tend to favour the 'large' setting for my guitars. Looking for some kind of YT demo, they were all pretty bad and poorly represents what the things are capable of...

I found this audio that is more impressive though...but unlike many, he clearly knows how to use it!

http://www.juzp.net/Lpw2d_QOealRq

But there are other options too, many...and more all the time.

For most, these things may well sound as good or better in an electric guitar than the expense and work of a piezo, more options and as a pedal, can be added to any guitar.

If however, either piezo or modeller, you run HB pickups say and into a conventional guitar rig set for a good electric sound and think at a push of a button or change to piezo you are going to get a gret sound, you will likely be pretty disappointed.

PSW- that very much along the lines of what I had in my head. Vid sounded great.

I think the most overlooked would be Takamine. A large portion of country artists use them and they have good looks and are versatile plugged in.

There are a lot of production hybrids on the market with both acoustic and electric pickups. Look at some of these:

Taylor T5

Tom Anderson Crowdster Plus

Ovation VXT

Ibanez Montage

Michael Kelly Hybrid

Hamer Duotone Custom

One of the big issues to cover is strings. Bronze wound strings contribute to the acoustic tone, but electric (magnetic) pickups have a hard time with them. Most people go with electric strings, for that reason. However, DR produces strings they call Zebras, which are built for hybrids, and in my opinion are the best compromise available.

Hope that helps!

Oh, and as far as bringing an acoustic simulator on board, it would work, but why not just go with a synth guitar if you're gonna do all that?

Thanks a ton David. I wasn't thinking thinking of an onboard simulator- just wiring it up with a standard 5 position selector and alternate between electric acoustic and electric. I merely mentioned the simulator for comparison: my apologies for any confusion.

Rick Turner for one feels the best amplified acoustic tone can be had from a solid body guitar with appropriate piezo and post-processing. See the D-Tar mamma bear pre system or Fishmann's Aura system. I don't see a benefit to bringing this kind of thing on-board - better have it as a pedal to free up your hands and allow use with several instruments.

Turner is a lot of the "inspiration" for this... Why not free up instruments and pedals? Guitar with one (or two) parallel wired humbuckers or pafs and a Fishmann style acoustic pup.

Looks great so far. Keep it coming!

Digitech makes an acoustic emulator pedal for use with an electric... why not bring it onboard?

Any thoughts on if a electric/acoustic (acoustic and electric pups) is feasible?

Very nice! Red and black is a nice mod; prefer cedar over mahogany?

Marty Schwartz has dozens of vids in several genres on youtube.

EB regular or power slinky

and Redhead Rocker 10s

redhead = Everly Electric Rockers 10-46 Hard to Find

I would say Breedlove b/c they look great and are made in the Pac. Northwest-- Although I have an Ibanez AE that's great.

EB regular or power slinky

and Redhead Rocker 10s

Mark Tremonti is crazy good at sweeps and has an instructional DVD out. Probably find the lessons on youtube.

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I've seen that some makers use a figured veneer to cap their guitars:

Other than price is there a significant advantage to doing so rather than, say, a AAA flame maple top?

Very interesting conversation. I think Tim37 has the easiest answer. Change a head stock, horn, hardware... something to make it distinguishable, and don't use anyone else's name.

I've seen Gibson sue several independent luthiers right into early retirement, and I've also seen large scale makers (Ed Roman) get off for making an admitted knock off when Turner stopped sending him product.

Great info. Thanks everyone. Will definitely look into all those.

Hope to stay true to the Model 1 with a neck only PU