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Hi guys Just wondering what u thought of my ideas. I really like the SRV no1 guitar. The image would have to be better and a professional sprayer would blend it in better but i like it. Also the Les paul design is definately a must for me to do in the future. My Ideas

thanks for the feedback, i've learnt alot. An update: The guitar has bedded in well and I now seem to prefer it over my ibanez. Probably cause it sounds so much better than it. I can get me stevie Ray tones as well as some good heavy rock stuff, I used to hate this guitar, now I love it!!! I'll try to get some sound clips soon.

I'm going Null vote on this one! for me it's an impossible choice, because I love the blues sounds of a strat AKA SRV, but I also love the sounds that Slash gets from his gibsons. Les Pauls are great for good rock music , but Strats kick ass when it comes to blues. I play both in equal measures.

Well, like i said this was just a prototype, but the next one is already in the planning stages and some parts have been bought, basically same concept, strat shaped guitar, maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. Hope to do a more interesting paint job, like a sunburst, which will be sprayed in a warmer environment use same pickups from this first one as it'll probly be consigned to the scrap heap. generally better quality parts and build quality after that I'll make myself a tube amplifier and les paul copy. I have it all planned out all depends on time tho, cause i have to concentrate on studies for the time being, ( i'm final year uni) after that I'll be making as many as I can.

it said polyurethane lacquer on the tin, that's all i knew about it. i wans't building it for the finish n e way, like i said, just a prototype to see wat i could do. Oh i forgot, i dunno if this makes a difference but it said to spray at 20 degrees C. I was sprayin in an old tin shed at 5 degrees how would that effect the paint, i haven't really looked at sprayin before cause I sprayed in ibanez that i had and it came out fine, tho it would have been sprayed at almost 20 degrees in the summer. also i didn't use the polyurethane stuff on the ibanez, i can't remember wat i used it was a while back.

here are pics of my new guitar. I had never worked with wood before in my life, so it's not bad considering. This is completely scratch built using only a router, electric sander, surform, drill and obviously sanding by hand. The paint all came out of tins and cost me a wee fortune! specs are: bolt on maple neck and fretboard rio grande tallboy neck and middle position pickups rio grande muy Grande bridge 2 piece ash body rest are cheapo parts! colour is metallic black I have named this prototype 0 because it was just a prototype to see if i could make a guitar. I have learned a lot from it. I have learned NEVER to use polyurethane lacquer!!, it's too brittle and the different layers don't blend together so when u sand it down it looks quite bad. The body is very big. I ordered a lump of ash from england, but didn't have the tools to thickness it. The neck is too wide and thick and I know now to buy a decent straight edge ruler for the next one, cause the ruler I had was tellin me the frets weren't level, when in fact they were. I also took the nut down a little too low, so I have the neck at a big angle at the mo to try to prevent the strings buzzing at the top. When I made the body I forgot that I was routing the neck pocket for a 22 fret neck, not a 21 fret. So when I stuck the neck in it fitted snug but the scale length was out. I had to make the neck pocket deeper which means that at the back of the neck where the neck meets the body there is a small gap . I also didn't sand the body good enough so when i sprayed the grain came through. This took a lot of sanding at the lacquer to get out, but it's far from perfect, especially the back. my description of this guitar makes it sound like a botch job, but it is in tune the whole way up the fret board and sounds really good when plugged up. I am proud of the neck itself. If it was a little thinner it would be perfect for my playing style. Also I have not finished the neck (as in lacquered it) and it feels real smooth to glide up and down. I am confident that the next guitar will be a masterpiece!! My photo gallery 1st guitar pics

Yea it was rosewood. i was actually thinkin of Pao Ferro but i done 5 mins research and learnt that number one had a rosewood fingerboard but on the fender signature they decided to go with Pao Ferro cause it's fender thay can do wat they want!! i think the later signature ones came with rosewood fingerboards though. I'd love to have a go on the brand new limited edition replicas of the number one. it is exactly the same as number one cause the fender custom shop guys went down and took number one out of it's vault and broke it apart to measure everything exactly. there's only 100 of them being made. It's a rich, lucky person who gets one of those!!

I've seen a replacement strat pickguard in a magazine made from black checkerplate aluminium. it really looked the dogs!! when i'm building my next guitar with emg's that's probly what i'll do for the pickguard.

The guitar I've built which will be entirely finished once the paint dries is designed around stevie's sound, well that was my aim n e way. I was originally gonna try a replica of stevie's number one but I changed my mind so much. The main thing was the sound. I got rio grande tallboy's in neck and middle position and the Muy Grande in the bridge for a little bit more umph! I haven't heard them yet but after reading a magazine review they sound like they'll do the job, especially when the magazine specifically said "for stevie ray fans!" The body is ash, with a maple neck and fingerboard. I know stevie used another type of fingerboard. Can't just remember the name now. since the guitar is my first project it will probably end up being unplayable n e way, which is what stevies number one almost was!! it'll probly sound nothin like stevie as well but another 3 weeks will tell!!

Hi guys. just finished spraying the final coat of lacquer on my first project guitar. I haven't finished (as in painted) the neck yet, have to source some oil for that. The pickups are wired into the pick guard and just have to wait for the paint to dry. It'll get 3 weeks to dry cause i have to go up to uni and am workin at the weekends. expect the pics soon! can't wait

one of my mates from work has a strat which is unfinished. It was originally lacquered but for some reason he stripped the lacquer off (i think it was for repairs) and left the neck unfinished. He coated it with some sort of oil. can't remember which oil though. I've never seen the guitar myself but he says he's never had a problem. This is in n.ireland which is the country that invented rain! so if there's gonna be any problems i'd say they'd have shown up by now. hope this helps

does anyone know what these guitars are like? I haven't yet tried the speedloader system is it any good?

sorry forgot to post the link. here it is http://www.islandrecords.com/bonjovi/onthe...tos.las?skip=17

hi I was browsin the bon jovi website and found a pic of richie sambora playing a guitar with a weird neck. it's silhouetted against the sky and it's taken from the back so I haven't a clue what type of guitar it is. Does anyone know?

i bought $189 worth of guitar pickups from musictoyz.com. the courier charged me £20 customs charges!!!

I own a yamaha 112 which has a trem unit that looks similar to the strats. I just assumed it was the same. obviously not then! My mistake

I don't see how a floyd rose is versatile. When it comes to alternative tunings the floyd rose isn't the best cause it takes that long to tune. I think the most versatile trem unit is the vintage trem thats on most standard strats. They can do a decent amount of dive(altho nowhere near the floyd rose) and you can easily tune them to whatever pitch you like without worrying about adjusting the strings at the back.

The BIG! pickups by Seymour Duncan broke the guiness world record tho

I have an ibanez s370. I think this has the licensed by FR logo on it, it's definately a floyd rose copy anyway. It used to stay in tune all the time, and if i don't use the trem it stays in tune for infinity!!!! . I love it but it doesn't return to the zero point everytime i dive, or pull up on it. It's only 2 years old, the poor guitar must have got a lot of abuse . Thanks to this topic i now think the posts must be worn because when I dive it will take about 3 secs of normal playin afterward to return to tune. After the talk on this forum i might consider an upgrade cause the guitar itself is class. I would recommend a floyd rose tho, i think they are cool. I am building a strat at the mo but i am puttin a standard vintage trem in it because I am building it to play some rock/blues, not heavy whammy bar stuff. There are a few things I don't like about a FR. Changing the strings can take a while, especially if you change the gauge of your strings because you have to adjust the springs at the back. It's time consuming. On the other hand the strings rarely break, I just change them when they start to feel old, about once every 2 months. Another problem is when you want to try out different tunings. Again this involves adjusting the springs at the back. I have never changed the tuning on my floyd rose guitar because it takes too long. I tried droping to D one time by winding out the fine tuner. It dropped to D no problem but all the other strings changed pitch as well It's too much hassel in my opinion to change tuning. A d tuna might solve this problem.

I've just glued on my fretboard ready for radius sanding. I done something very stupid tho. I ran the clamps down one side of the fretboard when it was glued. This meant that one side was glued perfect flat and the other side has risen and left quite a big gap. I now have the task of trying to take the fretboard off I've learnt my lesson though and plan to make (or buy) loads of small clamps to run down the length of both sides of the fretboard. I also made a mess of the first bit of maple i bought for the neck. The electric planer I had cost my da all of £10. Cheap tools aren't good. Turns out the planer wasn't planing square and my neck ended up being planed at an angle. Again lesson learned, don't use cheap tools. I am not afraid of messing up either, altho it does frustrate me to no end when I spend 5 hours working on something only to find out i've done it wrong. All part of the learning process tho.

I agree with the other man that Yamaha make good solid budget models. I got it for £120 a few years back and I still use it. the pickup selector switch is dodgy tho. I have a yamaha acoustic which i got cheap and it is excellent, i wouldn't ask for better in an acoustic.

I played a cool fender squier £250 guitar the other day. i cant remember the model but it had duncan designed pickups. It played faster than my ibanez s370! which actually isn't all that fast n e way . I have to admit the build quality did feel a bit cheap, then again it's a cheap guitar

Ibanez s370, customised the paintwork as my first ever spray job! Yamaha EG112, they only bring these out at xmas...real cheap but nice to play Yamaha acoustic, forget the model..nice tones Samick acoustic, excellent first acoustic guitar use a jim dunlop wah, bought recent...don't know wat i ever done without it!!!! have a zoom 707 effects pedal as well, it's alrite for the money but i would prefer effects boards with 5 pedals or more! I use a fender stage 112 se for an amp. bargain at £180 in pawn store. needs a new capacitor and a few new resistors tho. it worked almost perfect 4 about a year then it started massive distortion when reverb was on and volume turned up. i'm waiting for the schematics to arrive to start a repair job, there's massive black marks on 2 of the resistors!!!

thanks.. i found some good stuff searching for pattern bits in google

I'm in the market for a good electric hand plane. If anyone has any experience of a good one let me know cause I just messed up work on my first neck because my da bought a cheap £10 electric plane which turns out was off the square!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course me being stupid didn't realise that it was the plane was off the square..i just put it down to bad use of a plane but I started to get suspisious after I removed too much wood A well lesson learned. Never Ever buy cheap electric tools I'm sooo jealous now.. all I hear about in this forum is people getting brilliant tools for little or nothin....tell us your secret pleeeaasse? Good luck with the jointer