NickLabs

Hello Everyone! We are currently on our second build and are at the stage of routing the binding channels on the guitar body (a carved top telecaster/les paul type guitar). However, whilst planning this stage we noticed that towards the angled bit where the fingerboard lies the edge of the guitar slopes upwards (as the guitar gets thicker) due to the depth taken away for the carve being slightly more then that taken away for the neck angle. What we were wondering was, if anyone knew of a jig/tool/ method that could help us in routing the binding around the whole body and especially in this tricky area? Here is an image of the area in question to show you what im on about... Thanks, Nick

If you could do that it would be great, I cant seem to find the circuit schematics anyway and am a bit unwilling to smash open my external pickup! Just mounting the pickups LP style with mounting rings (the part thats going to get in the way i think lol). From rough measurements i have (due to the tremolo bridge cavities size) 4-10mm between the pickup cavity and the edge of the tremolo. However when it is pushed fully back there is no room for the tremolo to move. This is without any pickup rings. I could always modify a black pickup ring by removing the bottom edge and using the gk pickup instead of this edge i suppose! Thanks, Nick

Hey, Thanks for all the info! dh7892 How wide is the pickup part of the gk kit (How much room minimum is requited between the pickup and the tremolo?) ? Also does anyone know if there is a way of shifting the bridge pickup further up the body when it is already routed without being aesthetically noticable. Bit of a long shot i know but if anyone has any ideas? lol

Oh rite, thats not too bad then. So it would go, Piezo saddle pickups> Piezo buffer> Roland gk pickup preamp > Roland midi pedal? Sorry if im slow lol Thanks for this information, its a great help! Nick

Hey, thanks for your advice! Mounting it between the bridge and treble could be an option although i would not like to go for that as is is recommended in the manual to put the gk pickup close to the tremolo. Thinking about it the roland pickup could be magnetic so i shall look into building a piezo pre-amp (for the graph tech saddles), although im not sure about the chances of finding a pre amp circuit with the specific roland 13 pin output, thanks again, Nick

Hey, I am currently building my second electric guitar and was planning to include in the build a internal roland GK midi pickup kit to fit my guitar synth. Unfortunately during the build i have ended up not leaving enough room between the tremolo and bridge pickup. I have been looking at the graph tech ghost piezo saddles as an alternative but the preamps for these are a bit out of my price range. My question is, as the gk kit is considerably cheaper than the preamp, would i be able to (relatively easily) rewire the gk kit so the pickup used is the grahptech system rather than the roland one provided? Thanks, Nick

hey, im building a guitar and since it is only my second im not overly confident on cutting the fret slots as there is so much that could go wrong.I was just wondering if there was any business located in the uk that offers a fret slotting service and how much it might cost. I already have the wood for the fingerboard it just needs slotting. Does anyone know anywhere that might do this? Ive ran a search but cannot find any info on this anywhere! Many thanks nick

hey, I would just like to say that thats exactly what i did! and that the finished product sounds and looks amazing , imo its well worth practicing on a wood like pine first as we did make mistakes on the way, but thankfully they didnt cost us much. Now im starting the next guitar on which i will use more expensive tonewoods good luck!!!!!!!

quote [i could've sworn earlier someone just took a computer speaker and ran it to a screw wound about 20 times with thick guage wire, and that managed to sustain one string. My idea is to put something like that in my guitar, with a retractable wire that ran out of the guitar and do e-bow type stuff, then retract it back into the guitar to the point where it just look like a screw sitting there. (there would also need to be an on/off switch of course). Then I could do e-bow type stuff without having to pick it up and put it down during live stuff. (plus I think it would look really cool). I also like the e-bow idea because you don't have to adjust it like some of the sustainers created by people on this thread. quote If thats possible that would be awesome! could some of you sustainer experts comment on this please?