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redwhiteandthemaple

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  1. [quote name='Mattia' post='343430' date='Aug 8 2007, 04:40 AM']playability is about string and setup, not acoustic or electric.

    Honestly, I'm surprised folks are going for factory guitars. I don't even own any guitars I didn't build any more, and the only ones I see myself owning in future (if any) are old/interesting/vintage ones I can learn from and enjoy in their own right. And/or trades.

    One guitar: self-built acoustic, Cocobolo/Bearclaw Euro, Grand Auditorium. For electrics it'd be a chambered singlecut, maybe doublecut PRS-ish thing. Self-built. Probably blue. Or tiger eye.[/quote]

    The strings and the neck profile especially in the upper frets were what I meant.

  2. Hi,

    I'm a university student in Toronto, and it looks like I'm going to move out in a year or a bit longer.. next August by latest

    I have a garage at the moment with some power tools and drill press, band saw, etc. all the small stuff

    But as I move out, I was wondering..

    If there's any place in Toronto where I can pay hourly and use machines and tools?

    Also, this would actually save me lotta time as well, as I think my guitar building would go lot faster if I had a planar, circular saw, and variety of sanders

    I tried searching through Google like.. "toronto wood-shop"

    but nothing..

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.

  3. you know.. I have a Jackson Kelly with a Schaller Floyd Rose Trem I bought for $200US....

    now I'm trying to sell it, but man people really don't like the shape...

    I'd suggest you look around for one, their retailed prices are high, but the used ones sell really cheap and js30ke was like what.. $300 new?

  4. Hey

    I currenly have a PRS copy at work, but I don't like the neck I built, so I'm going to cut it off and add a set neck OR...

    http://prsguitars.com/swampashspecial/img/main3.jpg

    Something like that (PRS double cut Swamp Ash Special

    But that looks dangerous.. Any ideas on how deep that should be and the neck heel - does it have to be longer than normal to be stable? I don't think I've seen any guitar with a bolt-on action right under a humbucker.

    Making a bolt-on neck on an existing guitar body will be easier for me, but stability?? Any ideas?

    Thanks

  5. Hey GregP

    If I had to choose a guitar for my engagement, I'd go with a Larrivee

    And since you're in Canada, it's relatively cheap too

    I actually know someone whose also thinking of getting a guitar for engagement

    He's thinking of Taylor 600's or around that ballpark

    While I think Taylor's are nice, I think they're overpriced

  6. I think you're talking about the fretboard?

    I'm assuming you stored it in the wrong place. Either too moist or dry. I have mine wrapped in bubble wraps and have 2 in my basement for a year now, and haven't cupped/bent..

    Thing is, you have to glue in the fretboard as soon as you can.

    And yes, it tends to warp inward (looking from a side point of view of a rightside up placed fretboard). The top part of fretboard will expand, but because of the gaps in between, it won't 'stretch' the wood, whereas the bottom will expand making the fretboard expand on the bottom part, but keeping relatively same on the top part. So each end will "rise".

    Sometimes just holding them down with clamps on a flat surface will get it back to normal.

    I had never had to deal with warping luckily as Toronto has a mild humidity level.

  7. Lol.. you can pick more than 1 option.

    I'm 19, attending Uof Toronto

    And hey man.. creativity is Everywhere. If I truly believed that design art was where true creativity was at, I would have went for graphic designs or something, but here I am studying how brain works and functional anatomy.

    The thing is.. if you look at the most "creative" people in the history.. they were never JUST an artist. Michaelangelo, DaVinci, Descarte, Einstein, Aristotle, just name a few. They drew, painted, did math, experimented with physics/chemistry/biology, wrote books on variety subjects, all very philosophical.

    Of course, as the world progresses, everything becomes more specialized and you just don't have the time to learn as much branches of subjects, but if your statement was true about all the creative people are in design art.. how the hell did we make cars? light bulbs? a computer screen with a 1600:1 contrast ratio within less than 2 inches of width of space? iPod? They certainly weren't accidents (well few were actually, but 99% not..)

    I'm sure when you see the Big Ben, you won't go it was all design artists. I'm sure when you see the Eiffle tower you won't go it was all design artists. Sure they can come up with cool ideas in their renderings, but they have to meet the laws of nature - and that's practically the ME's. It has to be compromised, everything.

    Sorry, but I get heated when people say such things. I'm not an engineerer and probably never will be. But there's a school where my brother goes to University of Waterloo, it's in short an "engineering school" it's globally famous and I hear Bill Gates himself goes there once in a while and select people to work for him from Systems Engineering (anecdotal but I wouldn't be surprised). I tell you this because I'm on the more "geek" spectrum; although I do dress a little fashionably I think.. but the students there share a different kind of humor. And I can tell you this since I kind of share that humor, that they're nothing but dull and uncreative. Rather I'll say that my university (UofT) is rather dull and very dry in atmosphere. The people in UofWaterloo have a great conceptualizing skills and abstract thinking. Now if you don't understand the language, of course you're bound to neglect it - I mean it's always easier to just make fun of them/make them look like they're going "wahh wahh wahh" than to humble yourself and try to learn the language.

    Now, you could argue back that it's HARDER to be creative in ME than in design art

    And if you do, I'll be here to argue back again :D

    I'm not sure how much of this sentence you'll understand but.. here: Truth is everywhere you look.

    Pees (spr)out!

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