Ben

I gave up commenting on every guitar you posted recently, because it was on the verge of giving me RSI

Seriously, you seem to be cranking these out at a crazy speed, and they all look awesome without exception.

I'm liking the wenge one most personally.

ok, its still not quite right in my opinion and needs some work, but this is kinda the direction in which i would suggest tweaking it:

the back still looks kinda wrong.

Draft 2 or 4 have most potential imho...

But if you ask me, they could do with a little tweaking. In their current state, I'm not 100% keen on any to be perfectly honest, but with a little modification, I think those 2 could have something going for them.

got this today "MCS Uk: Dear Sir,after discussion we feel we have no alternative to ask you to withdraw this model or we shall issue a cease and desist as you have already stated that this is where you have got your design from.MCS Uk take forgery of a design very seriously. Feel free to contact me at mcsguitars@lycos.com. You selling designs taken from MCS guitars will not be tolerated. Thanks,Ron"

now this was posted on the guestbook on my website, NOT emailed to me in reply to an email i sent to them. this seems very odd to me. what do people think?

The lycos email address (that anyone could register) is different to the address given on the MCS website.

Looks plenty different to my eyes.

Weird that the only one not to cause any fuss is the Manson- the one that is by far the closest to being a direct copy!

#2 gets my vote

They do kinda look like they're about to slip something in her drink in the bar scene...

It looks well produced overall, but I would agree, If they could re-film the bits you mention it could maybe be better.

That acoustic's looking great!

And Welcome

Hah!

I love all the crazy suggestions in this thread.

It reminds me of those inkblot tests pschologists use...

I wonder what that says about the sanity of the average PG member...

My on-hold project is a sized-down 335. If I become unemployed, I should finish it before getting a new job.

Yeah finish that thing already!

A search I did returned that thread, and I ended up reading the whole thing. It was looking good.

like this

I saw the goat in the first pic, but in that last one I see a fat man wearing goggles pretending to be the hulk....

I'm trying to work out if your sig is meant to be a joke or a pun or something... if it is then I'm still missing it

And the guitar rack is indeed awesome.

A damn shame too, I really love that swirl, one of my favorites by far.

Seconded

Its rare that I like swirl finishes, but this one is awesome

Would you believe I had thought a similar thing with the tele cover, most sustainers tend not to have a cover of any kind as it only serves to distance it further from the strings. The cover could also cause some other unexpected problems, but my hex designs were encased in an aluminium cover and worked ok, so who knows...as long as you have a very thin or no bobbin (as in tims jigamethingy shown above) it should work...

Cool. My last one had no bobbin and that was easy enough to make (still yet to finish the guitar in which it will be situated though )

- do you think it would work with the limited magnetic field through it (which I'd guess would be about 1/2 the strength of if it were placed on top)?

No, I don't think that will work, certainly didn't from my experiments, the magnetisism needs to go through the core. You can run a magnetised driver next to your pickup though...

I had a feeling it wouldn't. Ah well, no big deal- I'll just buy another magnet

Thanks for the response and expect to hear from me in a couple of months

Ben

I'm thinking about having a sustainer placed next to a tele neck pickup, as in my diagram, and using a 2nd tele neck pup cover to encase the sustainer (maybe I could use the cover to pot the thing?)

- do you think the sustainer (probably a single coil one due to the restricted size) would work from beneath a tele neck-pickup cover?

I would imagine it would, the only issue I could see here would be that the cover may force it further from the strings, meaning it would need to consume more power (maybe?)

- do you think it would work with the limited magnetic field through it (which I'd guess would be about 1/2 the strength of if it were placed on top)?

(The first diagram represents this situation)

Or would I need a 2nd magnet to strengthen the magnetic field?- as in the 2nd diagram

If you dont know I'll just have to test things for myself and find out, but it would be useful for pre-planning if anyone could offer any insight.

Thanks

Ben

EDIT: forgot the image!

it worked for me

I just know I wouldnt have used that nice flamed mahogany for an experiment!

Nice!

Wow! I wasn't too keen on the design when I first saw it, but man, the finished product looks great. To my eyes, it's "aesthetically balanced" (pardon the artistic snobbishness ), where I personally didn't see that in the first progress pics.

Very cool.

Same here

Initially I wasnt that keen, but it looks a lot better now its finished. I'd still shrink the body a little but it looks good as it is.

Nice work!

Wow, check out the headstock in the other photo on that page

http://www.kxkguitars.com/Karl_Sanders.html

Both your builds are looking great

Thats seriously awesome!

Worked fine for me... but my neck was strengthened with aluminium strip things and it was fairly thick.

Plus I chambered the body to make it lighter. It sounds nice acoustically, but I havent done the elctronics yet.