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ryema22

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  • Birthday 11/09/1984

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    Boston, MA USA
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    Geetar, running, basketball, golf, computers, cars, carpentry, making a mess of my garage

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  1. My family is replacing the kitchen and dining room tables. The kitchen table is 1 3/4" Oak and the dining room table is 1 1/4" thick and made up of a bunch of maple boards laminated together, some of which have some nice flame to them. Obviously I need to build some guitars out of these. There's probably enough oak for about 6 guitar body's, maybe 7. I figure I can try some different variations on chambering with the oak to reduce the weight. I definately want to try making a hollowbody LP style guitar with the oak as a base and the maple cap, but beyond that I'm entirely open to ideas. This seems like a great chance to try a whole bunch of unique or new design ideas and get some practice without wasting a ton of money on materials - what else would you build?
  2. I was in a GC a few weeks ago helping a beginner pick out their first guitar. Long story short, the salesman kept trying to push the bottom of the line Epi Les Paul Special package on her and was insisting that it was made of solid mahogany (one solid piece!). It was very clearly not made of mahogany and the finish looked like some kind of plastic-y painted on wood grain and the salesman rudely told me I had no idea what I was talking about. I told him I'd hand built several guitars and I could tell what mahogany was and he looked at me like it was completely impossible for anyone outside of the Gibson and Fender factories to make a guitar. The epi site later confirmed that the guitar is, in fact, made out of laminated alder. Score = PG: 987,534 GC: O
  3. Your everyday run-of-the-mill Strat or an Epiphone Casino w/ P-90's
  4. +1 to what Greg said you could alyways just tie your left arm behind your back for a week or two instead
  5. http://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/lacquer.html I haven't personally used this guy, I just found the site a while ago. Good luck.
  6. I'm turning my attention from building buitars towards other projects. High on the list are some effects pedals and a new speaker cabinet. Does anyone have a link to a good flanger schematic? There's also a million variants of the Tube Screamer schematic floating around. Does anyone have a schematic for one they've built and been pleased with?
  7. How many pedals are on the board? If you're looking to save space and still have effects it might be a decent idea to sell/trade all of the pedals and get a decent combo amp with modeling (something like a line 6).
  8. Yes. There's a tutorial on the projectguitar main site that covers exactly how to do this. The thickness of the decal will determine how many coats you need to spray to blend the edges into the finish.
  9. Just a word of advice... by all means, if you want to convert to four-conductor go ahead, but i'd suggest picking up a really cheap and crappy pickup to practice on first. It's really easy to break one of the fine wires wound around the bobbins and make a mess of things. I'm also a fan of messing around with as many cheap pickups as possible, you never know when you'll stumble across something with some mojo
  10. I tried the KX Project drivers with my Soundblaster Audigy MP3+... no luck. After first attempting to update the drivers and then completely uninstalling the card and starting from scratch I couldn't get them to work. Oh well, I'm building a new rig in late July when Intel cuts the price on their quad cores, I'll upgrade to a recording-oriented sound card then.
  11. There are threads somewhere on here discussing the use of Bondo to create templates. I did this once myself with moderate success... I will take some practice with the stuff to make it work for you. Basically I cut an oversized neck pocket into my body template, filled the edges with bondo, and then positioned a neck template correctly in the slot. I used wax paper between the neck template and the bondo so that it could be removed easily after the bondo hardened. After it hardens you can sand the bondo to fix any imperfections. It was a lot of work and I didn't think it came out any better than just cutting a regular template out of ply or mdf. ymmv
  12. The latency problem with my soundblaster card is probably the biggest problem with my current setup. I can't monitor the input without a good 1 second delay between what I'm playing and what I'm hearing. Where did you get your 3rd party drivers from and did they have any adverse effects on the card's other operations?
  13. In chronological order: Tom Morello Hendrix Jimmy Page Angus Young John Mayer Stevie Ray Vaughn Clapton Doyle Dykes BB King
  14. Good stuff. My previous recording experience has just been taking backing tracks and recording solos directly into my SoundBlaster card's mic input, which leaves something to be desired. I'm getting a mac this summer and I'm super excited about messing around with Garage Band. I may continue to record direct and get a small M-Box unit but I'm also considering trying to mic my amp. Are SM57's pretty much the consensus pick or does someone have another pick? (without going well past the budget of an SM57)
  15. What is everyone's favorite setup for recording their guitar? -Mic-ing the amp? What mic, and how are you placing it? -Direct to a soundcard? What preamps and settings? I'm more interested in the "getting the sound into the computer / recording equipment" half of the equation than the actual recording software and hardware.
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