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Mark1178

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  • Birthday 08/09/1978

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    Lewisville, Tx
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    Guitars, guitars, stompboxes, hockey, and hockey...my 5 basic food groups

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  1. I hope so, now I gotta scrounge up some cash and hopefully find someone around my area with a bandsaw I can borrow.
  2. Wow havent checked this site in a while. Anyway to answer some questions... Yes I will handcarve the contours, I would start from a scratch but its a bit cheaper this way and its also a way for me to learn some things when I mess something up...and yes it will happen. On the bridge, I will use a stop bar and tailpiece because I never use a whammy bar at all. Every guitar I ever had that had a tremolo in it I just added all the springs I could to the back of it and tightened it all the way to where the back of the bridge made hard contact with the body. I get a fuller tone that way and I go less out of tune when palm muting since I happen to press pretty hard. Exactamundo. Plus once I finish this Im gonna get the pre-routed bodies from warmoth and hopefully make a really good template of this guitar whenever I finish it.
  3. Well, I was drooling while I was looking around at Warmoth one night and thought about how I would cut their already routed guitar bodies. Then I was sad when I realized how much I was going to spend (almost a grand on supplies and tools). So last week my brain went nuts after 3 red bulls and stared at my old 50 dollar Flying V copy. My plan is to cut the V into a rectangular shape (as the red lines show) and then glue SEVERAL, yes I said SEVERAL, pieces of maple to it. The only reason why Im molesting this Flying V is because I never play it, but the neck feels great, almost as good as my SG-All American. I hope the finished piece will turn out like this: Sketch for new body Im still thinking about buying a planer like this Home Depot or just seeing if my old high school or someone I know has one, because the Flying V is a little thinner than the maple and ash blanks Im planning to buy...and yes Im planning on gluing ash AND maple to it. Well only if I can afford it when the time comes. I will be filling in the cavities with scrap wood and then routing out the back for the control cavities. Still deciding on what pickups to use, possibly a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat at the neck and a super distortion on the bridge. For the paintjob I might do this clean line option (warmoth) so I can show off all the glued pieces to on the back of the guitar. I will reshape the headstock on the neck, will probably use the planet waves trim lock tuners. My only prolem with this is that I either need to install new frets or have them dressed. Their pretty worn in, but dont have too many problems with buzzing and intonation, but it would be nice to have new shiny frets on there.
  4. Thanks for the tips. Was gonna buy that thing because I have a thing for needing the right instruments. Plus I just wanna sound cool when people ask me what tools I use.
  5. Well my first post. And my start at building a guitar. Im not building it from new parts, I have a cheapo Flying V copy that I never use that I will cut up and glue some maple or ash to, cut to shape, refinish and cut a custom pickguard, etc... My problem is, I will be using the holes for a tune-omatic bridge and stopbar tailpiece, Im planning on buying this Stewmac Knob and Busing puller to remove the old bushings. Will I have to add some glue into the old holes to hold the new bushings in? Its my first REAL step into building a guitar. Would just buy a blank body from Warmoth but I love the action of the neck on this Vantage V I bought for 50 bucks. Thanks for any suggestions/answers
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