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just a little info, those battery holders for active pups are awfully expensive. just keep that in mind. if you got the dough and want to route the body, go for it! luckily for me, i found one similar at an electronic store that works equivalent.

- ESP 207 should have enough cavity room for a 9V.

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sup jag

from what i know dude, if you have EMG 707 Hz pups in the ESP, the EMG 707 should just pop in w/out any routing. [well it is pretty easy to put in a pup dude, it is the wiring that is a bitch - but then again www.emginc.com should show you how to do it. ] as for pots and foam and **** like that, you should get two 25K pots and a foam battery holder with the 707 pup. you need a stereo jack too. i am sorry if you already know this - just trying to help have fun!

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sup Snorky

if you are looking for a nice and cheap wah, look in your local trading post or eBay of something like that. you can get really good deals with 2nd hand stuff. or look in pawn stores or something. i got a Boss TU-12 tuner for AU$30 at my local pawn store because the dude at the pawn shop didn't know the true value of it. [they can also over charge, so look at shop prices too for price comparison.] i have seen plenty of morley wah pedals for AU$100 brand spanking new at music shops and old 2nd hand ones at pawn stores for the same price. so don't be a fool, shop around dude! find the bargains.

wahs aren't my speacialty, simply because i don't have one. my friend has a Dunlop Crybaby, that's pretty good for what it is worth. has a real signature wah tone [if you know what i mean] i think it sounds basic, because it is the original wah tone. [i am not bagging it, this is just my opinion] but i have also used the Morley Bad Horsie 2 and i prefer that. it is pretty expensive, but you get what you pay for right! you can get some pretty whacky high frequencies out of it plus when you move the pedal i like it how the frequencies blend and trancend to the next frequency. [well McFeely kinda knows what i mean ] i think the Horsie is more dynamic than the Crybaby, and that is why i like it more.

another thing too dude, tell us what music you play and what frequencies you want to accentuate with your wah pedal.

so you have 2 options:

1.) look around and keep in mind of store prices of a specific wah you want for comparisons, then look around for it 2nd hand and purchase it for a low price - don't get ripped off!

2.) save your money and get a good one son. after all, you pay for what you get! so which wah do you want dude?

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i agree with litchfield, maple veneer over alder. because a veneer has the look minus the intensive labour. if you bind the guitar body with the veneer top, no one will know it is not a cap.

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hyunsu

your guitar is coming up beautifully. keep up the pics and good work brother.

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wow man, that's so beautiful!

as far as a nitro finish goes, i think you should amber translucent the whole body and neck. that would definitely put the icing on the cake.

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sup lex

wow man, that's so cheap. honduran is really hard to come by where i am at. however, if you can obtain it for that price, by all means, go for it. just make sure you don't copy any-bodies [or headstock] ideas with out asking for their permission.

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I must agree.

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hello everyone

forrest gump once said: "Stupid is as stupid does." now what you said roli, was pretty stupid.

what have you done to that poor guitar alex?

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i think tune-o-matic w/ string-thru body bridges are the best. they give the guitar an acoustic like vibrance, they also look elegant and feel comfortable. well, just my personal preference.

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indeed it is.

hello all

the way i record my guitar work is quite unusual. well first of all i only record at my friends house as this computer does not have the power to use good audio programs, and his does. so we both use boss metal zones pedals and peavey rage 158 amps and we use his boss br532 as a recording interface with about 5x128mb smart media cards, that then get transfered on to computer for mixing. so it goes like this.

guitar>metal zone>rage128>br532>rage158 <last amp is the output of br532, it is there so we can hear what the guitar and pedal sound like in it's true form and because the rage 158 does not have a line out. when guitar track is complete, we transfer it onto computer with the smart media cards. a tedious process but seems to work well if you are on a budget and you add the time and effort. besides, his audio card is ****ing **** so that's the best choice of getting tracks done. the guitar tracks are then mixed in with my uncles bass that i borrow from him and which i play into br532 through his line 6 bass pod xt and drum tracks< created in fruity loops and vocals recorded into a shure SM-47. mixing is all done with sonar 2.2 <in my opinion, the holy grail of computer mixers. i love it!

of course we both have different setting on pedal and amp, so we just change around metal zones and amp knob settings.

when we did it the first time this way, the pedal>amp sounded really thin through the head phones. but when it came out of a speaker it sounded just right. and recording it onto a mic was out of question as it sounded like **** when we did that too. so pretty much we had to tweak around with the eq on amp to get the right chunk out of it. it has a nice, tight, thrashy, transistor distortion tone i heart.

we use to record from metal zone stright to br532. but with thorough ****ing around, it sounds much better when the distorted signal goes through the amp, we found. it adds more depth in the highs, mids and lows and gave me the squealing mids that i dig. although my friend puts his mids all the way down we found it compliments my guitar and makes our guitars sound crunchier when we play simultaneously.

i know i have wrote a lot about my self. thank satan i have stopped . well anyways, this shows you that you don't need expensive **** and that if you are on budget, and you have lots of cheap equipment, you can still record cool music that sound just like a real studio recording. well i think my demo sounds pretty cool. .

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The Metal Zone Rules. i don't care what anyone says about it, none of you are going to change my mind about what i think about it. i picked mine up second hand for about AU$30, now that's a bargain. i use mine all the time, and it suits the music i play and like, very well. i love the chainsaw like tone i get from it. it seems as everyone else that does not like MT-2 listens to music that i don't like. so there you go, that's why you don't like it.

I have had both Zoom 505 and 606 pedals, and funny to say, i think they are both pieces of ****. i like the thought of a digital sounding distortion, but the Zooms just sound so weak. i think the sampling rate of the distortion output is pathetic. well just my opinion.

another thing i find funny is when people compare pedal distortion to valve amp distortion. it is kind like comparing a normal car to a rocket car. they both do the same thing, except one takes you to a place faster then the other. now you see, a pedal is a little PCB with transistors, an amp is a giant PCB or network of wires with valves. now they both do the same thing right, make distortion. just one sounds better than the other. of course the valve amp distortion is going to absolutely urinate on the pedal distortion, sound wise. as the rocket car is like 25 times faster than a normal car. and that's why you can't compare them.

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oooops

i read the guitar name wrong, i thought we were talking about the RG7321 <--- now that is Made in Korea. see, mullmazer got confused and so did I.

Ibanez Guitar Parts

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hey man

i am doing that tomorrow. finally cutting out my template/s.

just 2 quick questions:

what is better for templates, MDF or Plywood?

is it ideal to make templates for neck and/or headstock?

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hi zandro

yeah i like your shape dude. it kind of looks like a Fernandes Raven shape, the guitar that Riggs of Rob Zombie uses. you should check out the site for inspiration.

i knew it was going to be neck-thru . i mean as far as i'm concerned it was pretty self explanatory. if it was a bolt-on/in or a set-neck you would have mentioned, right? yeah of course you would of.

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sup hyunsu

i like 7 more than 8 too.

[i am so jealous, the wood that you can get is so cheap. it is so hard to get in australia. i want to move to Korea now!]

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hey lovecraft

you meant imperial measurements right? not "english measurements"

[can someone tell me what system they use now in england? metric or imperial?]

my personal preference: METRIC ALL THE WAY!

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hi

i read what daveg posted, now i am going to put that in lame man's terms.

linear means a straight line. so imagine a graph with a straight line from the bottom of x & y to the top of x & y.

now an audio taper is very similar to linear except it is concaved.

so the linear tapers raises at a consistent level as you turn it. now an audio taper raises gradually as you turn it because it is concaved right. [just imagine it]

i think audio tapers are used in volumes because as they are turned they raise gradually, so this means the dB are spaced out more, because they are concaved remember. but if it is linear, the dB are raised consistantly so the dB are closer together. now we can only hear the differents of loudness and/or intensities by 1 dB. pretty much, an audio taper gives us more variation in what we hear.

and if you are like , i will find a site for you to . just ask me.

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Switchcraft!

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hey man

i know what t-cut is.

but i am not sure it can be used on guitars.

i have a bottle of t-cut but it is blue, the colour of my parents car. my guitar is stained red with a clear polyurethane surface. but if i had clear t-cut, i would use it.

apart from that, you could try sanding it with 2000 grit sand paper and buff the surface with a buffing compound.

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hi whiskey182

here are some questions for you to answer:

what music do you want to play on the guitar?

describe what you want your guitar to sound like?

what shape are you planning to make your guitar into?

do you want the body to be light or heavy?

what is your favourite band/s?

i know the last question seems irrelavent, but when you think about it, most guitarist have a guitar idol right? and they want to sound like them or similar, or a mix. so if you you say i want to sound like Kirk Hammet, i would say alder body. then if you said i want to sound like James Hetfield, i would say mahogany body. and that's how i came to a compromise with what wood to use on my solid body.

i don't think the price of the wood is too significant at this stage, as you are still making your decision on what to use and you probably live in the states where exotic wood is cheap and very easy to obtain, which it is not where i live.

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that's beautiful man.

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ok thanx.

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thanx again for all your contributions.

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