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i did the same thing toget my first amp...piece of crap I did something similar to get my first amp. I'd always put any pocket change I had at the end of the day into a jar. In a year, it adds up! Piece of crap? I'm familiar with that brand .

Some very interesting points Perry. I thought about this for a while. Setting the speedloader nut behind the nut will compensate for the length. As for tension... hmm... On a 25.5" scale guitar the distance from the nut to the 1st fret is about 1.5" for a 1/2 step tone difference. So, the difference in tone from 25.5" to a 25" scale guitar (1/2") is about a 1/6 step micro-tone. How much tension difference would this be? Pretty small I think... and more importantly, within the range of it's "Range Tuning Screw." ... from the floyd rose webpage: That quote above's mention of drop tuning and open tuning (using the same calibrated set of speedloader strings) makes me suspect that it is possible. Well, anyway, the absolute best recourse for samdjr74 would be to join and ask this same question on the floydrose mailing list.

You're welcome! Please do post more. Yeah, I like the Donahue design except for the pointed lower end but he did that to accomodate the tuners. I think the LSR's would make his design "cleaner." I agree, very "organic"... it kinda reminds me of Spock's Vulcan Lyre in the old Star Trek . Ohwha-tagee-kiam!

I think the carvin neck "blank" is fully fingerboarded, fretted and ready to go (even has the nut, see westhemann's V.) Hmm... thought about it some more. If you get the 25.5" speedloader, you'd have an 1/2" to play with. The stock carvin nut is smaller than 1/2". I think you should be able to use the speedloader "nut" behind (and in addition to) the carvin graphite nut like the old Kahler behind the nut locking clamps.

The floyd piece itself acts as a nut... so I'd think you'd need to either add a zero fret or a slim, like fender style, nut to make up the difference. Sounds like precision work to me... kinda scary . Definately practice on some scrap first.

Ooooh! Very cool! I like your headless one. I'm planning one designed similar to it but I want to use the smaller LSR Tuners to allow for tighter placement... sort of like the Teuffel CoCo but at the bridge end. Here is some ascii "art" : Ferrules +----> O O O `---> O O O +=+=+=+=+=+ <-- Nut | | | | | | +-+-+-+-+-+ | | | | | | +-+-+-+-+-+ | | | | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ H H H H H H <-- Bridge | | | | | | ,--> O| | | | | | | O| | | | | LSR | O| | | | Tuners + O| | | | O| | `------------> O| probably with a body shape inspired by Tim Donahue's fretless (but fretted.)

Yeah, but it's still around 12". Violin radii are analogous (guessing) to 2" (it's actually sort of elliptical.)

Speaking of tuning... This is not floyd related but someone posted these links in another forum. http://www.nesta.org.uk/ourawardees/profil.../2059/print.htm http://www.nesta.org.uk/mediaroom/imagelib...1616/index.html Looks interesting. Similar to but not as complex as this monstrosity.

Vinnie is the man! You might remember him from that old 80's Pepsi commercial.

Hmm... I've never had a problem with restringing floyds... always fast to change and quick to tune for me. Sounds like you're describing the HipLock.

Yeah, great stuff... still think it's funny he used to be in Nelson. Remember them?

Yup, Chet (RIP) is Mr. Guitar. I'm still working on "Star And Stripes Forever" (the Guy Van Duser arrangement) ... one of those back-burner things. Hey, but I have "Semper Fidelis" down perfect .

Come on, not even a little foot powder? All the other cool feet are doing it!

FINALLY! Another Garsed admirer! I felt so alone!

I'm waiting for the "This is my foot on drugs!" picture .

Hmm... classical/jazz/metal... so that's other? Heh, I'm starting to pick up some country licks. Man, that style is so foreign to me!

Yeah, I was gonna say, you have pretty little feet . Guitar's looking good. Don't you DARE put dot markers on that fretboard!!!!

Yeah, that was pretty weird. I was gonna post something about my aunt that died of a brain tumor... it grew to the size of a grapefruit .

Hmm... do people recycle strings? I usually just throw them away in the trash... and have been for the last 21 years! Once a week! That's a lot of strings!

Heh, I usually play until the strings crumble away . Way back when, I used to loop 3 or 4 windings around the peg so I can boil them to remove the gunk, wipe them down good and re-use. But then, enter floyds and the things like sperzels (almost no windings at the tuning peg)... now I guess about every 3 months (estimate.) I still boil strings for basses and steinberger double-ball ended strings.

Glue Heh, staples! You can try some picks that are texturized so you'd have a better grip. I like the aforementioned Clayton Acetal picks. They have, I'd guess you'd call it, a satin finish which for me has enough grip vs. slick shiny traditional picks. Go to a music store and check out the selection to see what works for you. You choice in guitar picks is as important as strings, etc.

Ah, yes! I agree, picks do make a noticable difference. Here are a couple of links that might be useful in choosing your weapon... Jim Dunlop and Steve Clayton. I use the Clayton 1mm Acetal Standard... nice clean mellow warm... good stuff

What are the questions?

You're welcome! Have you ever made an electric neck with no radius? Flat like a classical guitar? I see that you and your luthiery teacher are classical guitar makers. I tend to like flater radius-ed necks and I don't feel a comfort advantage of having any radius... but then I'm a classical guitarist pretending to be a metalhead .

Also consider where you are picking (very close to the bridge, right on top of the pick-up, etc.) Does it still make that sound when using your neck pick-up? How about when using the bridge pick-up buy playing (picking) close to the neck? Most guitarists have a prefered location that they pick... and it might coincide with a "sweet" (or in your case "sour" ) spot that the pick-up is located... thus causing the noise. Do you get this noise on other guitars you've played and are those pick-ups located in the same location as this guitar? Yeah, I'd try what Scott suggested. Try lowering the pick-up.