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hey Southpa thanx for the info. i was thinking of that, i just wanted to be sure. anyway, to fix those pics up, all you have to do is get rid of the ".ori" in "http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid101/pc19c8991026205ecfdc271bc2730eb95/f9e003e6.jpg.ori" in other words, the URL was named incorrectly. if you ever want to show a single picture, make sure that the picture format, whether it is ".jpg" or ".gif" ".bmp" is at the end of the URL. for example, like this: http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid1...95/f9e003e6.jpg so then all you have to do is click the IMG icon on the top and copy that URL in the box like so. and here is the finished product: enjoy!

that's excellent to read bear. i have looked at the ishibashi site many times before, but i didn't know they were so reliable and that they shipped to Australia. i have read from many sources that the Japanese Fenders are just as good, and/or even better than their US cousins.

wow, they all look excellent, even your's does Wes - although you probably can't really see the figuring in reality, it looks alright in the picture. and southpa, i can't see your pics, so i fixed the links up: i want to stain a Mahogany guitar black. i am not really bothered about the figuring, i just want a black guitar, but not a solid black poly guitar if you know what i mean. so would i just stain the wood black, fill it and poly it? if so, what filler would you recommend? who would i apply it and so on?

Snork, how did you get more post than me?!

yeah i can see it now.

that's very nice man!

wow! that is a beautiful guitar.

it sounds like mahognay minus the weight. but i do agree that it is too pretty to paint black, that's why i think you should just go mahogany. sorry for all the Devy pics, i just had to show everyone that you can use Teles for metal. and if you know Dev, he is the Cod Metal King! eee yah! anyways, all of what you want can be easily made at Warmoth, so i got a few ideas to make it more original. use mahogany instead of limba if your are going to paint it soild black - go neck-thru body - use an explorer head [they are very different to hockey stick heads, trust me. they are angled, hockey stick or KWS heads are straight like Fender heads.] - at the fret board end, angle it at 15 degrees. it will make it look more elegant.

just a few questions: 1.) i am building a neck-thru with a tune-o-matic bridge, i will need a neck angle right? 2.) are carbon rods necessary on a quartersawn 3 piece laminate neck-thru guitar? if so, what is the best way to install them? 3.) do you need dowels or biscuits between the joining of the wings to the body? answered questions will be greatly appreciated.

Strat's are the AK47 of guitars, hell they were nearly made in the same year. they are cheap, easy to build and reliable. the Fender guitar is based on tradition, they are trying to keep to their roots. but i agree that it is an old design and that they use cheap methods, but a lot of people seem to think they are excellent. that's why they haven't changed the heel joint i guess. Fender are trying to use new heel methods on their cheaper model guitars, but they will never change the huge bolt-on heel on their tradition US made Fenders. i think that if Fender made the heel like an Ibanez all access neck joint, they would be a lot better. both companies are multi-millionares, they should be able to figure out something and come to an agreement. i say screw tradition, if you can make a guitar better, go for it! [that's pretty much Ibanez's motto] overall i think the Strat is extremely overrated. the design is very old and has many design flaws, so does the Les Paul. then there comes people opinions. i think the RG is much better design. in conclusion, i think the invention of the Strat is just as great of an innovation as the Humbucker, the Floyd Rose and the Neck Thru <<< they all have design flaws as well.

that's funny, i didn't see Maestro reply when i was typing my reply.

oops!

well i looked around and called a few place, but i didn't have any luck finding a company reliable and willing enough to ship silky oak out to Germany. however, i think Vendelcrow has found your winners, and it would certainly be cheaper as they are closer.

i think you are getting confused with ESP Explorer: <<< that's Dev's guitar of choice. he has 3 Explorers: 2 black ones and a white one. his ESP Tele's can be seen live now, rarely. only when he tours Canada and Japan he uses one of his newest guitars, an ESP Telecasters with a quilted maple top loaded with 81's - i don't have the pic of that, but back in the day he did use EMG loaded ESP Teles all the time: <<< trust me they are all ESP - 1 black one with white binding and a white one shown below. when i say back in the days, i meant when he was in the Wildhearts with Vai and early S.Y.L. he even used ESP Horizons. Devy has always been strictly an ESP user. he has never played Gibson Explorers in S.Y.L. the closest a Gibson has ever got to S.Y.L. was when Jed used an SG in the "Heavy as... " days - and i can't find the pic of that because the site is down at the moment. he told me this at a store sign in, S.Y.L. toured Australia last year in September.

i make my own cables. i buy high quality insulated wire, and high quality gold plated plugs, solder and insulate the connections with epoxy then heat shrink. it works a treat. i am no engineerer btw!

quick facts: the 12th fret has to always be in the centre of the scale. this is because the guitar scale is based on the imperial measurement. [12" = 1']

OMFG! that's is so beautiful!

i really like your idea of metal tele. besides, Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad has been using ESP Telecasters loaded with EMG 81 for over a decade, so what's the problem? in my opinion, you can get any guitar shape, use a low tone sounding wood for the body [Limba or Mahogany] and then load them up with high output humbuckers and you can't go wrong in terms of a metal guitar. so by all means, go for it dude! i think [but i could be wrong] you will not find a pickup more powerful than a Mastertone SPA-4. they are Australian and quite pricey, but since you earn good money http://www.projectguitar.com/uploads/emoticons/default_biggrin.png' alt=':D'> i think you should consider them. Mastertone - Humbuckers just scroll down untill you see SUPA PHAT ASS.

go for it daddy go!

are you saying australians are unprofessional. only joking! i will look for a supplier who stocks 'silky oak' and that ships internationally, but i cannot promise anything because there are hardly any suppliers that ship internationally and that are on the net.

wow dude, that's a beautiful axe you made there MzI.

i say get 12 guitar string ferrules. 6 for the back of the body [where the string goes through] and 6 for the front of the body. [where the string comes out] this way you can't go wrong. but i don't know if it is done this way on production guitars, but it sure looks like it is.

quick facts: in Australia, no one calls Lacewood Lacewood. it is commonly known as Silky Oak. <<< Lacewood is also grown in Brazil but true Lacewood [or Silky Oak] is from Australia. i'm lucky, i can get 150mm x 50mm for $10 a metre. that's only because it is a native though. i'm sorry, i suppose that doesn't help. the only wood i can't get at my local wood shop is african ebony and honduran rosewood.

that's wicked jimmy. the wood you are using looks really nice too and it should have a really interesting sound. keep up the good work brother.

a lot of digitech products contain MPU chips. [multi processing units] know to make those you need to write a program on computer [or probably in machine code] then you upload that on to an MPU chip with a special machine. i could be wrong about this, but on the other hand, if they do use ICs, they are probably ICs that digitech made themselves that aren't used for typical application but only their applications, so this makes it extremely difficult or impossible to copy.