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I'm also debating whether I should consider on board effects - in my shameless efforts to all but completely rip-off a Matt Bellamy Manson, a Fuzz Factory seems very appealing.

haha go for it! its really not difficult and its lots of fun to play with. i agree about pretty much all effects being useless in a guitar, but the fuzz factory is so hands on its better in than out!

iv done it twice, and a whole lot more shamelessly than you! hehe. the second on is quite close to yours too i think

no. its sitting on ledges routed into the two bits of wood either side of it

i found a diagram for a surfacing jig somewhere on the forums and thought id make one as it would be useful, but i added some little bits so i could angle the rails to do body angles. i was shocked that it worked cos i made it, but it does! yay!

this is what i did with it today. the green line is so you can see the angle properly

and this is the top. just cos i like it

finally some new pics!! get on with it and finish it you lazy swine! hehe

looking good - i love the sound holes and the neck looks coolies

i can see what everyones saying, and no ones wrong as they are personal opinions. in the past i have thought the same thing as mickguard, and have seen comments along the line of 'i dont like the shape, it looks a bit clunky, you should change this and that, but the wood is amazing, so i voted for you'. so i can understand what he's saying, but i can also see that marcovis has made an excellent guitar, regardless of the wood he's used.

in any case, if you put all of these guitars in a room with 100 people and asked them without touching or playing, which one they'd take home, at least 95 of them would say the one that looks prettiest to them

in the end they're personal opinions, and everyones enitled to them, and no one is going to have an opinion that everyone agrees with

SAKURA SVELTE CUSTOM

damn lots of good ones in this month!

this is my first semi hollow, first burst, first proper inlay

quilte maple/mahogany/quilted maple sandwich

flamed maple neck/fingerboard with m.o.p and abalone inlay

fireburst finish

bare knuckle p92 pickups

livewire tuned filter

gotoh hardware

a couple more pics. theres a few more in the guitar of the month comp. and yes, the glue line on the back is annoying, but it wasnt visible till it was glued to the body and carved a bit. ah well, live and learn

iv only played it for about ten minutes, but i love it. the pups are great, really nice sound to them, and the tuned filter works really well giving a very passable acoustic sound for a passive system. im glad she wont be coming for it till next month some time, give me a chance to play hehe

needs a couple of little tweaks but other than that its done. will get some better pics tomorrow

the reason prs angle the whole of the top is so that they can have a gibson like feel (with the neck angled back) but with a fender like set up with the vibrato system. it also keeps the strings parallel to the top unlike a gibson where the strings are higher at the bridge than they are at the end of the fingerboard. i dont know if this has any tonal value or not and iv never done it soi cant really comment if it feels any better or not

i dont know about the rest, but as soon as you turn on the sustainer it automatically goes to the bridge humbucker, no matter where your pickup selector switch is

iv used a few kent armstrong pickups in the past and they were all very good for the price that they are. never used his strat pups tho so cant really comment on those particular ones

yeah i know the glue line on the back is rather annoying. i did nothing different with the back to what i did with the top, and yet there it was. the swine

necks done

bare knuckles p90s (and 91,92s) are very very good. got a set of p91's to go on my current build and used a p92 on my previous one, they sound amazing

search ebay im sure you'll find a few. to post pics use a hosting site like photobucket

thanks guys. if nothing else i do think im improving, which is good, but theres still lots i can improve more on - tho im sure everyone feels that way about their own work. but then thats a good thing, cos no one else is gonna push you to do great things more than yourself

im sure if you look around you'll be able to find it a LOT cheaper. if you go to your local auto type shop maybe they might be able to find you something. i went to mine and they showed me a few booklets with colour patches in - there were hundreds.

the neck sprayed

one of the frets over the inlay lifted a little so im gonna have to glue it in i think. ah well.

yeah im gonna do that with the spray. on the bottom one anyway, the top ones too close to the edges to be able to do that, but its ok

EDIT: sprayed the transparent red. it looks more gradual in real life than it does in these pics. im quite pleased with it for a first try.

lol you people really should start reading the posts as well as looking at the pictures hehe

im spraying the transparent red on the edges tomorrow. the red stain i just there to make the edges of the red darker

stained the front and back of the body today. given them a little sealer coat then will spray the red burst tomorrow. i know the red as it is now looks a bit crap at the edges of it, but it disappears under the transparent red (i tried it on scrap earlier). when i spray the transparent tomorrow i'll take it in further than the red stain is too, then the edges will be (hopefully) darker. i shall see

hmmm i was thinking about doing a mary kaye type thing somewhere down the line. if you go through with it post pics so we can see how it goes. and if you dont, i guess i'll just have to try it for myself. gulp

darwin - the chrome p90 was ordered direct from bare knuckle, but you can get the chrome covers pretty easily online

nick - i assume you're talking about the killswitch rather than the pup selector? if so, yes it is just a nomal 3 way toggle, and its simply the middle two tags soldered together, then a hot wire (from volume or pup selector) to one side and the earth from the back of the pots of wherever to the other side. thats it