wildchild247

i got a hold of some mahogany and cherry

Guess what happened to the wood!!!

I cant believe my money went down the drain

OK heres the story:

I bought the wood and left it in the shed out back

I thought what could go wrong its a huge piece of wood

Ok then I notice my brother skating on a ramp

I asked "Where did you get the wood?"

Replied "out back"

I run to check if the wood was there and it wasnt

then I ran out and shouted "That was supposed to be my guitar youF*&^5 sh*t"

Thats the end of the story

ok I have bought some latches

problem no 1: where can I get pop rivets?

problem no 2: how do I remove the soft interior without damaging it?

thanks

buying cheap but quality woods in Ireland

anyone know any good places to buy woods for cheap

I live in the south east of Ireland

money is a problem big time for me but I aint gonna stop building a guitar

does thomann.de do any replacement latches btw

I live in Ireland Europe

the really small place beside the UK

wood is really hard to get here as most of it is imported

I like emgs(although my other guitars have di marzio and seymour duncan in them) and I would be using them anyways

I just need good quality cheap wood to start

I got some medite today

dunno what its like but it is really heavy

got any suggestions

if medite is crap any suggestions for alternative to mahogany

or where I can get cheap mahogany

its for a neck thru guitar so i need a good length

ok i just finished my exams

and I am going to get the wood

I will keep a diary of my progress and post pics whenever i can

so what i am going to do

1. buy wood and clamps

2. glue the neck together

Update on my guitar

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here are my specs

construction: neck thru (easy access shape on back)

body style: gibson lp (black)

body wood: mahogony

binding: white(front)

neck wood: mahogany w middle maple

frets: 24

fret wire: dunlop 6150

fingerboard material: ebony

neck and head binding: white

head: gibson lp

bridge: tune o matic

nut: graphite

pickups: emg 81 & 85 (battery cavity on back)

tuners:grover

Switches: 3-way switch

knobs: two (1 volume & 1 tone)

extras: a preamp booster and a kill switch and an angled jack that goes into body like an Ibanez JEM

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i tried to take the padding stuff out to see how fixable it was

the thing is stuck to it any ideas on removing it?

wheres a good place to buy replacement latches?

yeah its well padded inside

where is a good idea to get latches?

and are there any tutorials with pics here that show you how to install them?

thanks

broken latch

broken latch with part

how it should look

here are the pics I promised

by the way it holds a PGM 500 so I do want this guitar to be safe

the latches on my guitar case

they broke off the case itself

it is an old ibanez case

I'll post pictures later

ok here it is

I have a JSRR(its a cheap RR1)and it has the jack located on the lower wing/horn

The RR1 has it on the upper wing/horn

It doesnt have any wood top so I am wondering how you would go about connecting the wires through the wood

I know that on a gibson Les Paul that there is a long route going from the pick-up selector, through each of the pick ups and the to the control cavity. I never knew that before.

In this case we have a solid body JSRR guitar with no tops and a wiring from the control cavity through to the upper or longer wing/horn

I doubt that you could drill a hole through the body sufficient enough to bypass the tremolo to get to the upper wing/horn fromthe control cavity situated on the lower wing/horn

And I also questioned how they do it on other guitars from curiosity

hope that was clear if not ask again

cheers

You're saying you want to modify an existing RR1? Aren't these guitars like $2,000?

Next, you're trying to move the jack into the upper horn? Isn't the jack there already? Why bother moving the jack?

No I have a JSRR

its a chep model

I wanna know how they wire it there

what does the routing for a Jackson RR1 look like because you have to wire the controls through the shorter wing to the longer wing?

when connecting the jack to the controls is what I meant

I find it hard to see where the wires would run throughout the body as I dont own any of the guitars I am trying to build

All I can go on is some pictures and that is it

where exactly?

any diagrams?

ok so hollowing will not have much benefit

but for the battery query I am gonna create 3 cavities for the pick ups and booster

I am gonna have 2 for the pick ups and 1 for the gain booster

is there an alternative for putting the battery inside where the control cavity is?

Query about a situation

If I had a 2 battery compartment and hooked that to my pick ups and one of the batteries died would the other battery still be in use or would it go dead altogether

thanks

I have decided to make all my guitars 25.5 inch scale

I feel that this is the most comfortable for me as I find the shoter lengths to crammed up when I am playing

I am building a gibson style guitar with 25.5 scale

so I should make sure that the distance from the bridge to the 12 fret

and 12 fret to nut are the same

I want to see the routes for it and see if anyone has any wierd ones

or is it important how you do the route for wiring pick ups?

Does it affect the over all sound?

Could someone post pictures of routings of guitars for wiring pick ups

I want to move one of my jacks to another location, its a Jackson JSRR I want to make the jack go into the longer horn from the shorter horn

Also I want to see some pics of wiring routing for a gibson, ESP MII, Jackson RR1, Ibanez RG and whatever you can

cheers

should I have 3 battery cavity routes?

2 for pick ups and 1 for the booster

Also I was thinking of having some hollowed parts in the body for better sustain

any suggestions on whether its a good idea

does anyone have actual links to actual items

I feel that I should buy the primary equipment for shaping the body, cutting the neck, etc

cheers

what equipment do I need and should I buy them or rent them

if I will be using it a lot I think I should buy it

here is a pic i done with photo shop

it has 24 fret and all the controls are at the same place for convenience.

NOTE: from left to right and top to bottom

the controls are booster mini switch, kill switch button, tone, pick up selector and volume

ok I think I got the scale thing down

if I was to keep it at 24.75 for a gibson lp I would have to move the neck pick up slightly

but if i was to scale it to 25.5 i should have sufficient space and not move the neck pick up

please let me know if I got it

i am looking for step by step stuff for specific guitars

example: I am looking into replicating an Ibanez JEM7V

somebody else built one and recorded all the steps involved and then posted it up

so I can see the various steps in building that guitar exactly