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I vaguely remember Jackson fretboards being listed as having a radius of 16" in the Warmoth website.

well, he's been known to do weird stuff with his guitars on a whim every now and then...

I myself will be getting an Air Norton to pair with an Air Zone (which is on a strat right now and sounds great) for my current custom project.

i have a strat here with a nut made of deer bone. but someone else cut it for me, so i wouldn't know how to go about it.

i don't even know if their pickup charts have similar standards when rating bass/mid/hi responses. if they are, you can see that most Duncan's (with humbuckers at least) tend to be more trebly. but if you can't accurately use these charts to compare across brands, well... i lost my train of thought.

at any rate, Wes is right. it's just a matter of taste and opinion. i will say however that outside curiosity, there's little reason to switch to Duncans if you're already happy as you seem to be with Dimarzios.

what pickups are those, exactly. i'm a bit wary of pre-wired stuff, especially if they're cheap.

it's most likely lacquer, as it tends to react with enamel.

i also learned the lesson of spraying thin coats the hard way. my first attempt at a paintjob took more than 6 months to fully cure, and for some reason, i ended up stripping it and starting over.

i just woke up and i'm in a good mood, so here:

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=11008

without knowing what the spot looks like, my bet would be to sand back and respray.

this belongs to the inlays and finishing chat, by the way.

maybe vectorizing the bitmap image will work. i've had some success with Corel Trace a few times.

cool.

does the graphic/symbol have any meaning?

yeah, you have to look at it more closely at a certain angle to see the fine scratches. fortunately, it doesn't bother me at all. and after a few months, i won't even be able to distinguish them from the newer scratches caused by playing, anyway. i hope my friend will feel the same way. LOL!

i'm not involved in the building of its neck, but it ought to be finished be next week. i'll post new pics when the whole guitar is done.

Well, it does have more than a few flaws...

I buffed by hand. For some reason, I couldn't get good results with a foam pad and hand drill in a previous project, so I did away with those here.

I used Turtle Wax stuff and they're actually usable. I'd want to keep an eye on this thing for a while though and see what happens.

yes you can hand buff with polishing compounds. i don't wet sand in circles. when finishing, i sand along the grain of the wood/body. most people here do.

there's a difference between coil tapping and coil splitting. an article in guitarnuts.com explains it very well.

LOL! You're welcome.

No, I don't have a water cabinet or a spray booth. I sprayed on a roofed, open area (my garage/yard). Why do you ask?

Al DiMeola is an incredible player.

But among those in the list, I went with Adrian Legg. His music is very emotion-stirring for me. A really solid player. As Joe Satriani put it, this guy's got hammers for fingers.

Thank you.

The occasional fine scratches are still present, though.

GuitarMaestro,

IIRC, your guitar was the inspiration for us to do a natural burst at the back.

I used spray cans (acrylic lacquer). The brand is "Kobe" which is one of the brands from Thailand that's available here. I used five or six 400cc cans (cost less than US$2 each) of clear.

I read in a guitar.com interview that Satch has pretty much abandoned his DS-1 at this point with his own signature amp. Better read it again to be sure.

From this:

Wood is what we believe to be a one-piece slab of Philippine Mahogany. The woodwork was a bit shoddy (the guy who made it was probably smoking some weed) and the shape really isn't my type, but it has its charm. We discarded the rest of the guitar (you should see what it looked like) and its owner asked me to repaint it. A luthier patched up the middle pickup cavity for us.

I eventually got it to look like this:

I tried to follow Brian's Material finish tutorial as closely as I could. I used lacquer from spray cans, by the way.

I have several pictures between the beginning and ending of the paintjob. I'm just a bit embarassed to show them.

I think it's hard to go wrong with Breeds.

But before that, wouldn't any F-spaced or even blade-type pickup be good with a Floyd? Maybe it's better to ask which pickup is good for this or that tone that you prefer (bright, warm, bassy, etc).

To me, High Gain pickups have a tendancy to sound a bit 2 dimentional, whereas Alnico seems MUCH more versatile.

hmmm.... This doesn't make a lot of sense. There are high-output alnico pickups, such as the Dimarzio Ar Zone and Tone Zone.

If you're making a comparison between ceramics and alnicos, here's an interesting quote from Bill Lawrence's website:

When I read that ceramic magnets sound harsh and alnico magnets sound sweet, I ask myself, " Who the hell preaches such nonsense?" There are harsh-sounding pickups with alnico magnets and sweet-sounding pickups with ceramic magnets and vice-versa! A magnet by itself has no sound, and as a part of a pickup, the magnet is simply the source to provide the magnetic field for the strings. The important factor is the design of a magnetic circuit which establishes what magnet to use.

If you're using VH's Eruption sound as a model, then can I assume that you're recommending a PAF-style humbucker?

i wouldn't generalize on the whole krylon vs duplicolor thing. both of them, after all, are under the Sherwin-Williams Company. I think Brian himself has had some success with Krylon cans.

i think it would be best for you to email Krylon's customer support if you already have the can in hand. they can be quite helpful.

First off, it would be nice to chop your post into several paragraphs for easier reading.

I've used a DiMarzio Evolution and an Air Zone quite a bit. They're both very good high-output humbuckers. Their sound don't lose definition when playing lower notes, which is a plus for detuned guitars. Between the two. I prefer the Air Zone more right now. I've also played guitars with a Tone Zone and an SD Distortion Trembucker and have no complaints.

Right now, I want to go ahead and order a pair of Bill Lawrence L-500's for a custom guitar. That ought to be interesting.

i wouldn't care how it was exactly played. i do think there is one spot where he does tap, sort of his tribute to randy rhoads' crazy train solo. don't take my word for it though, it's been so long since i played that song through, and i played rhythm.