DividedByJames

I may be wrong, but they shape the base wood first with arm contour, then lay the bookmatch over the top. I think there's a tutorial on the site somewhere. Another method is to have a really thick piece of maple on the top so that the depth of the contour remains in the maple, but at that point you are just wasting quality maple.

I heard from my repairshop friends that this was popular back in the 80's and 90's. My friends were guitar-purists and thought it was sacreligious to put a floyd on a Les Paul. I guess the reason was because it was just before the Slash-is-popular era and these guys were bringing in 50's and 60's Gibson Les Paul's and wanting them to tear out this 30-40 year old mahagony wood from the guitar. I heard they refused their service. I would have too. IMO I think you shouldn't rout a Gibson/Epiphone to put a Floyd on it. The scale is shorter (24.75") than most guitars w/ Floyds and it would make your divebombs really short sounding. I suggest making it a 25.5" scale if you want the floyd. That way the strings will hold the notes for longer. Warmoth will build you an archtop or flattop version at this scale and rout it for the floyd. Those of you who can do archtops, I say go for it, but IMO you'll be wasting the effort with a 24.75" scale.

whoah those guitars are cool! Coming from an art background and a family that has an art background I appreciate the art of those guitars. Not sure what they sound like, but they look cool.

Yeah I think he's also refering to the truss rod cover. But I'd ask for more photos if you are interested in buying it. People who half-ass their photos obviously want to hide something, and being that he says there are a "good amount of nicks/dings/roadwear" I'd be suspicious of what his terminology means. As for the Flame Jackson, I do know that they make an inexpensive black one with the flame inlay and the flame graphic body. I guess technically if you bought both and swapped necks, you could resell the remaining plain black one and have the same thing as that picture.

I voted Fender just because I like their body shapes and they hold well (style wise) over 50 years. Plus every guitar company out there copy's theirs. If I had to choose an "other" I'd pick a PRS since the ones I've played are really nice. Haven't yet owned one tho.

I think it looks good, and less like the other guitars you see out there, which will make it unique. Pedulla makes a bass that looks similar to that body shape (thunderbass) and I really like it. As for what makes it look a little strange is that the body and neck meet too high. I'd shift the neck joint, pickups (and bridge) back a few inches, perhaps at the 21st or so. The headstock os good, and it reminds me of the S-classic models by Ibanez.

cool guitar , but I agree the string spacing looks a little odd for the low E compared to the rest. Maybe it's not in the nut groove?

how come there's only 4 projects shown? and I agree about the speed of the pictures and words. Not much time to stare, only enough time to say "whoah cool".

I think those LSR tuners might be what you need...completely cylindrical if I remember right. No bumping will move those bad boys. Never figured out the hype, although Dave Mustaine of Megadeth used those in his latter years so they must be decent.

hey doesn't that bald guy with the moustache play one of those...Tony Levin i think is his name...is that right? I see him with virtuoso guitarists every now and then in guitar mags.

Their bolt on necks are sweet too if you need a comparable bolt on neck. It's too bad their replacement bodies are lame looking.

I actually had both Schaller fine tuning tailpiece models (including that one pictured at the top of the thread). The first one I had on an Epiphone Les Paul and I was having Floyd Rose withdrawls and I put the fine tuning tailpiece on it plus a behind-the-nut locking nut. It sucked with the "locking nut" and I removed it and added Sperzels. The other was on a cheesy star shaped guitar that originally was routed for a nonrecessed floyd rose. I had it blocked up on the surface only and I didn't want to drill too many holes in case I wanted to change it back to a floyd. Basically it's good when you have headstocks that bend the string after the nut (like Gibsons/Jackson). Unless you use flatwounds the string could potentially bind at each wrap of the string and "jump" when you are tuning. Since the fine tuning tailpiecejust adds more tension (does not move the string across the nut) it would resolve minor issues like tuning string jumps. Of course you could solve this by getting a guitar with straight string pull like Fender, Ibanez (RG/talman headstocks), PRS, new 3x3 Jackson headstocks, Schecters, etc. As far as Satch's guitar is concerned, I think it's retarded. He had two other fixed bridge models that looked great. That thing just looks as if he couldn't let go of the shape of the floyd bridge. Plus imagine having to replace parts...what a nightmare.

Mike Mushok from Staind used those before his Ibanez endorsement/signature came out. The way I remember them explaining the guitar is that each size string is better suited for a specific scale length for proper resonance and intonation. Guitars maybe 24.75" or 25.0" or 25.5". Baritone and bass are longer...etc. Anyway each of the strings is a different scale length, and therefore to have one fret spanning across the fingerboard, it would have to be diagonal at some points. Imagine the scale length of the low E being a 26", the D being a 25.5" and the A being somewhere in between. Thats basically how it works.

nice! I've always liked lacewood cuz it looks very reptile-like. Are those push-in type knobs or buttons? Did you disassemble a GK pickup and just install it or snag one from a Roland ready strat?

I had one a while ago and it was a direct wire...not the quick connect, but it was also an older model, so it may have been retrofitted on the newer versions.

I'd have to disagree on the EMGs...sorry I know you like them, but it's a freakin black rectangle...how cool can that be? haha...oh boy...I can just see the flames lining up after this post.... I will give props to EMG for the anniversary models tho. But that looks like a Gibson humbucker. Hmm... i guess that no votes for EMGs from me. But at least they are cooler than the dog-eared P-90s and Danalectro lipsticks.

humbuckers just look cooler. Thats why Fender started making Fat Strats. Chrome/Gold covers look the coolest, but unfortunately don't respond to my type of music as well as the open ones. I also liked the floating pickups for jazz guitars that attach to the end of the fingerboard/neck (ala Epiphone Emperor Regent). A Bartaloni floating, if I can ever afford a nice jazz box.

I'm like canuck...no pics but here a list el no-name classical - cedar+rosewood Taylor 420R - just like the ovankols, but with rosewood. Schecter C-1 Elite (newer) - Amber (main guitar) Schecter C-1 Elite (older) - Black (backup guitar) Ibanez RG470 - Metallic bronze (?)with high grade curly maple neck. Ibanez RG7421 7string - Cherry Fudge (aka metallic brown/purple color) Ibanez GSR100 - black (got it in trade for 15 McFarlane action figures ~$75) - going under the knife soon Custom Strat - Allparts neck+Stewmac body - SRV clone w/ rt-hnd trem, 70's headstock, Duncan Classic stacks. Custom Jazz bass - Alder w/ EMGs, maple Mightymite neck Custom Tele - no sunburst body yet...mightymite birdseye neck, Diamond plate pickguard, customshopparts flamebridge, JB pickup. I have a mahogany body Tele that I don't know what to do with. Once in my collection: Charvel Fusion IV - black (my first electric) Jackson Scott Ian - Black with white pinstripes Epiphone Les Paul Custom - black w/ gold hardware + Duncan Invader 1991 Ibanez S5407 - black...yes Rich bought that from me, but for less than that Ibanez SF420 - metallic black (funny I had 2 guitars who's model number was 420 ) Ibanez 1206 6string bass - padauk/mahogany Custom Star - Candy Apple Red with gold hardware and EMG89 hmm...I think thats all of them.

For natural, remember that it's mirrored across the 12th fret. so the 5th fret harmoics is on the 17th fret too (I think...don't have a guitar here at work). Also what i like to do is do natural harmonics while fretting...takes a little work and stretching of your hand, but I can fret with my index and hit the harmonic (lower ones) with my pinky. I haven't worked that into a song yet...but maybe I should start looking into that. My fav's are 5th and 7th natural harmonics. I like to use them in conjunction with fretted notes and ringing open strings since the notes are in the same key (E minor - i think). Pinch harmonics are cool too. Just listen to the La Grange solo by ZZtop. Zack Wylde in No More Tears is good for the pinch harmonic to vibrato move. I use that a lot. But not in the cheesy 80's sounding way that he does it. j/k

Rip off is such a harsh word If the guy feels it's worth $700, let him think that. Fact of the matter is that most people don't agree and won't buy it. But I agree that it's definately overpriced for what it is. I'd say it's worth $200 at most. And i don't think it's a 5A top either. I bet he was a pinhead and spend that much on it and now he's realized it's not as cool as he thought so he's trying to get his money back from his mistake. If you guys want one like it, I'd say buy it from the other guy , buy the rest of the pieces, and put it together yourself with a better neck and pickups.

no I think the term you are looking for is "redundant" actually i still like some Ibanez guitars... Back to the topic...the Carvin factory is only 30min away from my house and I go up there a lot (still trying to schmooze a local artist endorsement deal). I never noticed the passive-active controls for the guitars...but I've played with them on the basses. Basically the volume pot is a push-pull switch and when it's up, it's passive. Keep in mind that Carvin uses the same pickups for all thier instruments (active or passive). Point being is that Carvin pickups are designed passive and the passive function will work only with passive pickups, not active pickups. Like others said: zero battery with EMGs = zero sound. Here's my advice (since I lean towards passive pickups)... Find the pickups you like the sound of. If they are active, deal with the battery issue or install a switch to turn off the battery. If they are passive and you really need treble/bass boost then get the Carvin switcher. Keep in mind you have to have the electronics situated just like the active Carvins since they are hardwired to the circuit board.

I have the same issue...on a mahogany tele body. What size router bit? Like 11/16" or something? I thought I read somewhere that the Fender radiuses were 1/2" for Strat and 11/16 for Tele's...or am I wrong?

Sweet ...I think thats one of my fav colors...transparent orange. I don't know why I like it, but over curly maple, it looks sweet. I picked up an Ibanez RG for cheap too, and its got the sickest curly/birdseye maple neck (w/ rosewood fb). The neck was the reason I bought it. Then the guy had Dimarzios in it. I unscrewed the pickups and found they were DP103 and DP100 which were the PAF and Super distortion. Not bad for 2bills. Nice snag! Wish I would have found it before you tho. How much did you snag it for?

I had to go with the Prince Cloud model, only because the other guitars are remakes of others...Dime's is the Dean ML, Petrucci's is the RG, Page's is just a plain Gibson doubleneck SG, Stanley's is an Iceman, Hetfield's is a Gibson Explorer etc. The cloud is a bit more original in shape. Although his gold "symbol" guitar is more original in shape, but i'd never wish to play to ugly thing.

Carvin also sells blanks planed, squared, and bookmatched. Ash, Alder, and another ash.