jbkim

Warmoth (no "u") has a 22/24 fret ext. fingerboard neck here. I believe it'll fit on a standard 25.5" scale body.

nyjbkim:

Thanks for turning me onto this site!  The guitar sounds just like any other Roland VG-88 guitar: nothing especially different than any other.

Hey, no problem... the more, the merrier. Yeah, but it'd give you a chance to show-off, er, showcase your playing . Actually, my exposure to the Roland synths is from the 80's. I'm curious as to how the modern incarnation sound (better tracking, etc.)

Classic guitar player is David russell..

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but i like Rock'N Roll ^^

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Heh, I meant what's the name of the piece . It sounds kind of like Fernando Sor.

Yeah, me too (although my playing sounds like a very sloppy Al DiMeola with a touch of Yngwie just for the annoyance factor )

What are you radiusing the fretboard to? Are you just going by feel? I started out on Classical guitar so I love wide and flat necks. I want to re-radius my necks to a 20" radius but it'd be difficult to find matching bridges and nuts (floyd's.)

i dont have radius bluck, so only use planer, scraper, sending paper..

Hi there hyunsu. I'm Korean too but I'm in New York . There are instructions to build your own radius block in the tutorial section.

And yes, I agree with krazyderek, the classical guitar music is a nice touch. What's the name of it?

Hmm... I haven't bothered signing up but it looks like it's Windows only... which won't help me 'cause I'm using NetBSD (or sometimes Linux) nowadays.

Oooh, yes! Fantastic! I love headless guitars. Glad to see more of them .

Hey jonbondy, I'm the one from the steinberger list that pointed you to projectguitar.com. How about posting a sound clip?

Yeah! Finally got it Sounds great!

hmm works for me.  Does anyone know a better place to put this than Yahoo Briefcase????

If you're unix savy, you can check out FreeShell.org. From their donate page: "users (free) 20mb home, 20mb web, 20mb mail"

try again

Damn! Still doesn't work for me... tried it in three different browsers too (IE, Mozilla, Opera)... ugh, yahoo must not like me

Hmm... link's not working for me.

(they TRY to replicate)

...and do a pretty good job of it The guitar sux but the electronics are pretty cool. You should check it out.

Will you be making this a short-scale, around 19" or 20"? I want to make a headless one along these lines but I wondered what to do about a short scale truss rod. Please post if you find a such a truss rod or if you modify a full scale one.

you could use a mandolin truss rod, i think they are 12" long

Ooh! Good idea! Hmm... Stew Mac seems to have a 8-3/8" for a standard 14-1/8" mandolin scale... perhaps a mandola instead? Don't know where to find one of those, anyone?

But I will soon...a small travel guitar is in my near future.  I'll try to make the neck myself (no headstock).

Will you be making this a short-scale, around 19" or 20"? I want to make a headless one along these lines but I wondered what to do about a short scale truss rod. Please post if you find a such a truss rod or if you modify a full scale one.

I like the [ ii, V, I ] turn-arounds to practice key changes, i.e., [Am7, D7, Gmaj7] - [Gm7, C7, Fmaj7] - [Fm7, Bb7, Ebmaj7] - etc.

This sounds similar to the photon system that I remember from the 80's but that was (is?) for midi.

Very very cool! Hmm... Brian hasn't chimed in on this thread. Might be worth coordinating with him to get it in the tutorial section as bowser suggested. I for one would like to see more of what jrhilton has to offer. Good job jrhilton!

As I said - if u have any questions just reply to this post and I will try and help - I am interested to see how much interest there is in composit guitar constuction for people building their own guitars as I could not find much on the internet - hence my origional post.

Cool! I don't have any specific questions but I do find the subject very fascinating. I've seen many websites featuring composite instruments but I have yet to see a build site on it. I for one would love to learn about such techniques either on your separate website or integrated into projectguitar.com.

Oh, maybe I do have a question. I always wondered how those ugly Basslab instruments are made. They won't say . My guess is they use create the shell over wax or some such then melt it out.

The reason I ask is I have a friend who basically made a copy of an Ovation, he already had a Custom Legend (In my opinion the best acoustic guitar money can buy) and basically copied it only building the whole of the body out of composite including the soundboard. I must say it really does sound very good, and it cost him less than $100 to make including the wood for the neck and the metal to make a copy of the Kaman bar and he got some old Schaller tuners of Ebay.

You should get your friend to post some finished pictures. Even better, if he took pictures during the build process, a tutorial would be fantastic.

I would love to post a picture here. How do I do that.

Mike

Sounds cool. I'd love to see some pics. Look for the IMG button when you make a post. You'll need to have some web space to host the pictures from... meaning you don't upload them to this board, only link to the pics.

I think Radio Shack (Tandy's) carrys a small IC that's a power amp. Should be just a matter of adding a battery and a few other bits and bobs to get it all together. You'll need an input jack, volume knob and either a resistor and phones output or a speaker at minimum.

30 watts is what the little plastic Fender and Marshall amps run, and their circuit boards are really dinky. Should be a fairly simple project with the right part.

Which little plastic Fender and Marshall amps run 30 watts? I did a quick search and found the Marshall MS-2 and a Fender Mini Deluxe but they seem to offer only 1 watt (both seem to run off of a 9v battery.)

Hmm... if one can really get a 30w amp in something as small as a cigarette packet, I really be interested in that too... probably get really hot, I'd imagine. Probably why the enclosures are so big even though the actual circuits can be so small.

Well, if you're no longer constrained to the cigarette packet size... just small, you might want to check out AX84 and Amptone ... there are probably LOTS more sites if you search around, these two are just a couple from my bookmarks.

i want a basic amp only about 30 watts but i want it to be small

i have no particuler amp in mind though so any circuits would be great.

cheers

Wow, 30 watts in the size of a cigarette packet? If you build such a beast, I'd buy one!

Don't know of any schematics off-hand... but are you trying to make your own "Smokey Deluxe Mini Amp" ? It'll probably be a lot of fun building your own, but consider the price of these little things pre-built versus tracking down all the parts, etc. of doing it yourself .

You didn't mention what kind of bridge you have (tune-o-matic, fixed, floyd, etc.) If it's a floyd type, I seem to recall a Brian tip about stringing cotton in the springs... or you could try a piece of spongy foam underneath the springs.