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Not free, but 25 euro is cheap imho

http://www.rfcharle.com/HTML/PlanSelmerA.html

I'm building a 14 fret steelstring petit bouche from one of these plans.

Do you have build pics up?

Thanks. Yeah, I think you're right, but I have seen a few pictures with him and the larger soundhole.

Hey Everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone has seen any free maccaferri(Django Reindhart) plans out there on the interweb. I tried, but no luck. I guess I could pull all those years I spent on CAD to use and try to make my own, but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

As far as designing you could have the kids do a design asthetically or for shape and what not and then the everyone as a whole would work on the winning design and work out the technical things like dimensions and scale and others. That would be more of a group idea, but anyway.

BTW what program are you guys using? Autodesk AutoCad, Inventor, Pro E? I'm involved in an engineering program up here in Michigan.

What tools do you have access to?

You said to take a top end epiphone and upgrade the hardware. I believe the highest les paul is an elitist and you're going to be spending over a grand for one. So after the upgrades you are going to be looking at somewhere in the range of a gibson standard. The faded Les Pauls can be great, I have one, but, the consistency with the fadeds isn't there. If you want to change a everything on it and you want to go buy a paul, I recommend finding a decent quality faded. Also, if that doesn't satisfy you, I second whoever said to buy a used paul.

My planet waves locking tuners even cut my string automatically when I turn it.

Ive always wondered if you could make a guitar from just a plank of wood. Now I know!!!!

Can you record some audio with it?

Yeah I'll post some clips. It's sounds pretty good.

So I had a free saturday and a g&l asat that was in pieces. My idiot friend had tried to spin the guitar around his head but the strap came out, the guitar hit the ground, and it's headstock broke off. As apposed to repairing it, he proceeded to smash the perfectly good body. I yelled at him for the sin and took the parts.

Since i had a lot of time on my hands and a perfectly good neck (minus the headstock) I took some spare wood and made a guitar.

The routing is sub par but I didn't have any templates to work with so I just drew the routes out on the guitar.

It is surprisingly easy to play and sounds descent.

Pics: (sorry about the quality this was taken with a phone)

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Any Comments?

My first post at this forum, and I have a question concerning wooden pickup covers.

The thing is this. I was wondering if it is possible to get a humbucker pickup sounding if it was to be incapsulated in a wooden box. The box would cover the whole pickup making it look like an oversized EMG pup and not as a regular humbucker cover letting the coils show.

Would it be able to get some sound? I don't care if I loose some output as long as the guitar will make a sound.

I was thinking about making the lid of this box really thin.

Cheers / Björn

Yeah it would work as long as you made it thin enough. But the further the pole pieces and coils are away from the strings the less sound they will produce. There is also a "Sweet spot" for the distance between the PU and the strings(Dependant on the PU). I believe Dan Erlewine talks about it in his book of guitar setup and repair. As long as you have the correct distance, I don't think that the wood will interfere with the magnetic field.

http://www.warmoth.com/bass/necks/necks.cf...ncludes_deluxe5

There's a warmoth neck and I'm sure it's good quality for under 200

I bought a set of their over wound vintage strat PU's that are allows on clearance for $17.00. I put them in my parts-o-caster and I was very pleased. They are probably the best cheap pickups I've played and one was reverse wound so they would reduce the hum. Anyways I've got nothing but good things to say about the single coils. They're great if you're on a budget.

I'm looking for two posts and an arm for the tremolo system on American strats (the one with two posts). I don't kneed the part that goes into the wood, just the posts that screw into those. Any idea where I can order these parts without getting a whole new tremolo system?

Thanks

I see them on ebay the time. They usually take them out of strats and leave the threaded inserts in the body so you get the posts and bridge. Just search strat bridge wilkinson.

I'm selling some volume boxes for tube amps in my ebay store. Check it out - My Ebay Store

Howdy yall,

I'm selling some guitar accessories on my ebay store and you should come check it out.

My store

I just am finishing up sanding the body of an old kramer. Im not sure what to do with paint and grain filler. What kind of grain filler is the best? can anyone hook me up with exactly what I will need to get, brushes, fillers, paint. Can I get it all from stew mac? whats the best type of grain filler. can I use a spray bottle for paint? Whats the best paint? I'm going to paint it black.

Also, I dont even know if i need a grain filler. can anyone tell me what kind of wood this is?

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Nobody can seem to agree on the type of wood it is.

Usually if the wood needed grain filler, they would have put it on when they painted it. It doesn't look very pitted though like mahogany, so you might be in the clear.

it's gonna look sweet. I like what you're doing with the electronics. You should be fine with the chambering stability as long as you leave the center block(where the bridge and pickups are) unchambered. If you didn't chamber it that thing would weight a ton!

Good Luck! Make sure you post picture when you finish.

Les Paul Jr

This guy did the same thing with the truss rod.

How do you feel about using pine in bodies, and since im here, Is poplar string enough for a neck?

Thanks

Would you be interested in writing a tutorial on this? I have '67 harmony rocket that really needs a fitted case because regular hard shells dont fit it.

I have this peice of 2x10 pine that is knot free and was thinking about making a telecaster, but has anyone actually heard what one sounds like. Or does anyone have a clip?

Pine Board

Hey I have repaired alot of guitars latekly. Some of them have this problem and I dont knwo what to do. Its like at the frets closest to the body the action is very high. And at the far out frets its very low. It should be low everywhere right? So i have discovered that this guitars neck angles out a bit away from the player. This is causing that problem. you can see it a the enck oiocket how on the body side it goes in deeper than the headstock side. So how do I fix this with a shim?? and what do i do with it exactly?

There is a tutorial in the tutorial section on shimming necks.

Ive read that Mother of Pearl suppose to be a really good nut material. I just was wondering if anyone has used it and what are there opinions on that. I have seen some higher end banjos with it.

Some of the breedlove guitars have MOP nuts in them but i've never had the chance to actually see it or play it

If I bleached the wood, wood it still have a similar effect?

I think if you stain it white, without using grain filler, you might get what you're looking for but I've never stained anything white.

I have seen and heard an aluminum body strat with a regular wood strat neck. It sounded okay, and the weight was perfectly acceptable.

To do this in the time frame you gave in highly unlikely though.......

This guy made a full size body template out of heavy birch ply and pounded front/back halves out of 1/8"aluminum, with forearm and belly cutouts even..... tig welded the halves together, file/sand/buff until the seam is invisible and sent it off for chrome plating. On the inside of the guitar body was a metal subframe skeleton assembly to mount to the body sheetmetal and mount the bridge and neck to a solid surface.

I had seen another tele that was done with I think- 1/8" aluminum as well, and the front back plates were flat, the side was a separate piece that was again tig welded in place, and the weld went far enough into the top/bottom plates to get a slight radius on the edge as well. I dont recall, but I think that one had a wood structure in it for the neck/bridge points.

There are many opinions out there about the sound from a guitar and what influences that sound. *MY* opinion, is that the neck and headstock have FAR more influence than most people think. Using a regular guitar neck will certainly help in the tone dept with a metal body. That strat *almost* sounded normal.....

Unless you've made a number of guitars already, and really know what you're doing, then I find it unrealistic to complete a project like this in the time given. Best of luck though- I hope you do it, even if you have to finish it after the class.

I agree. As far as fabricating the body, you have to weld everything, which is a bit more tedious that glueing, you have to mill every cavity, which is time consuming because it's metal, andyou have to tap every hole for screws.

As far as 6-7 weeks, and with no guitar building experience, the time period is way too short.