George Brown

hey just thought id add a question of my own here, iv heard tube amps clip asymmetrically, in a standard overdrive/ distortion stompbox you can add an extra diode to make it clip asymmetrically, im curious to which way around this should be placed. in other word the extra diode would be placed in series with that of one of the existing diodes if i were using something like this would i place it in series with the top or bottom diode?

"Thats a baritone guitar not a bass (i dont care what musicman call it), but the idea of using a normal electric bridge is good as long as you can enlarge the string holes for the bass strings" it can be used as a baritone or as a bass tuned to e, this is acording to guitarist magizine but now that i look at the scale length i see what you mean. i like Scott's suggestion but is it just me or do they seem quite expensive?

if you could find long enough strings which there must be why not use a regular guitar bridge? have a look at this, im pretty sure this is what your brother means here

try reading this it could also be because you are switching from high to low gain ( i think the jcm2000 marshalls had that problem) geofex is a great site for anything to do with guitar electroninics, as its liad out in iframes you wont see it all go to www.geofex.com

the increase in scale length will increase string tension as will the larger string guage so yes it might be harder to bend, but as its a baritone it depends on how low you tune it, lower tunings result in lower tension

i know this sounds dumb but have you tired a new battery? active pre-amps can get noisy even when only a small amount of charge is lost from the battery.

as this is a kit i would assume that the thin pieces of wood would be quite prone to warping and think its definatley worth worring about, im not that much of and expert on wood but as its going from a low to high humidity its obvious that it will absorb so mositure, what affect this will actualy have i dont know as the affects of taking up and giving out mositure could be different for all i know, but id still be worried about warping

i thought the "mirror" jem used the same material for the top as well as the pickguard, i dont know how large you can buy sheets of that material but its the best way to get a mirror finish that will last, however you say your guitar is a strat style so you may have problems with the radiused edges. there is a guy here that was making a mirror jem but i cant remember who they but they were building another guitar ay the same time if that helps

you may already of heard about moollon effects pedals but as i was looking at thier site i found this i just love the artwork thought you guys might want a look

yeh dave grohl has quite a few, this may be of interest i found it on the ampeg site "Dan Armstrong Reissue Guitar Ampeg is reissuing the Ampeg Dan Armstrong acrylic guitar which features a completely unique body made of an eye-catching clear Plexiglas material that eliminates unwanted vibrations and frequencies, while producing tremendous sustain. The Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar also features a removable pickup system that allows users to choose between two different hand-made pickups—the faithfully recreated Rock Treble pickup and a new dual blade Rock Sustain pickup." i remember reading that small scratches can simply be polished out of a lucite guitar if thats of any interest

dont mean to hijack the thread but how do you guys do those diagrams? i notice a lot of people use auto cas but that looks more usfull for working out neck angles for example

just be sure to give W.O.D. some scrap wood before you start

a DPDT is very similar to a SPDT basicaly there are two SPDT's next to each other one on the left and one on the right hope that helps

yup clicky i read somewhere on the net about nut slots and when they mentioned V profiles they said the LSR roller nut was a good example kind of makes scence kinda looks liek this > oVo but i havent heard complaints about them

+1 i always seem to learn something when reading progress threads and if i just wanted to see the finished guitar id just look at the GOTM gallary