Bygde

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It's just so... wrong.

Okay. I just changed my mind. Totally forgot about this one! Gibson usually make beautiful guitars, but I think someone was drunk while making that shape. 2000 years of hideousness combined into one guitar.

Lookin' pretty sweet! Not totally in love with the body shape, but it's far from the worst I've seen. The headstock was perfection though!

Was going to say Gibson Firebird, but the one to the right was even worse! :S

I don't know if this is the right forum to post this in, but it seemed like the best place. If someone have done this already, this post can be deleted. This thread is quoted from the Sevenstring.org's forum. Please sign to help all 7-string brothers out there!

Make More 7 Strings Ibanez Petition

I thought i'd give this its own thread to hopefully get noticed a lot more. This petition will be sent to ibanez once we have a BUNCH of signatures to show that there is a HUGE demand for a better variety of wood, colors, and possibly even shapes of 7 string Ibanez Guitars. Please Sign, it only takes a few seconds!!!

Feel free to post this on ANY Forum, Website, Myspace, etc. That you think this would get more signatures!!!!!

What is it with the 81 and 60 you don't like? As the guys before me said, the ZW set is 81/85. Not a huge difference from 81/60.

Not huge, but with a good guitar you can certainly tell the difference.

Yeah, the sound is probably different (hence the different names of the pickups), but I meant that the only difference from the ZW set is the 60

If you want to change the 81 as well, why buy the ZW set? Of course you could use the 81 as the neck pup and 85 as bridge pup.

What do you mean with size? Body shape? Well, a Stratocaster body would probably be good

What is it with the 81 and 60 you don't like? As the guys before me said, the ZW set is 81/85. Not a huge difference from 81/60.

Been a good boy this year then?

Ehhm...yeah!

I've found some pics that I forgot about! I have done some work since the photos were taken, but nothing that really stands out.

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk281/Bygde/DSC00214.jpg

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk281/Bygde/DSC00215.jpg

I'm getting bored with the explorer, so I have started a side-project. I bought a bass 2 years ago to get the parts I needed for my first homebuilt instrument. Well, I saved the neck and body so I could use it for a project later on. Now the time has come to use those parts, and as the title says, it will be a fretless 4-stringer. The neck was fretted until an hour or so, when I pulled out the last fret from the neck, and it turned out pretty decent. I have NEVER done any fretjobs of any kind before, so needless to say, I was a bit nervous.

I have seen a lot of guys who just don't care about tutorials, and instead they make a new topic about an old subject. I didn't want do be that guy, so I sat down and read tutorials on the main page, I searched the forum, and the internet after defretting tutorials. I did have some knowledge about defretting before, but I wanted to pick up tips about it, and have a plan in my head before I started so I wouldn't mess the neck up. I went and bought a pair of end-nippers, and cranked up the soldering iron. I also taped parallell to the frets, about 1-1.5mm from the fret itself. A tutorial said that this was a good idea, and it was indeed! I didn't get many chips at all, since I worked veeeery slowly, but I did get 3 chips that needed glueing. Well okay...2 needed, and the third was small, but in the perfect position to get a drop of glue under it, so I glued that one too

Tomorrow I might scrape the slots, remove the nut, and maybe fill the slots. It will be a lined fretless, since I have some birch in very thin "veneers" (not really. just thin pieces of wood). I also thought that I would bring in my girlfriend to do the finish on it, since she's an artist, and I thought it would be fun for us both! The paint scheme is going to be kept a secret until it's finished, and I have a design in mind that I've never seen a bass have, so it'll be pretty unique

The specs isn't relly though out yet, since I haven't bought the parts yet, but somewhere along these lines:

Eastone neck, maple with rosewood fingerboard, 34"

Eastone body, plywood

Some cheap-ass J-pickups

Vintage-style bridge

Open back vintage-style tuners

A set of nice roundwound strings

Chrome hardware

As I said, parts aren't really planned out more than that. Also this bass won't be played much, it'll mostly be art on the wall This is why I'll only use economy parts.

Now to the pics:

Before defretting:

Partially defretted:

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk281/Bygde/P1010668.jpg

Defretting completed:

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk281/Bygde/P1010675.jpg

If nothing I have just said made sense, it's 03:40 AM here, and I was out with a couple of friends to 8:30 AM this morning, so I am VERY tired!

Guitarporn! Turned out really amazing. Christmas is just a few months away, and I know what I want under the tree

Absolutely stunning guitar! Looks sort of a mix of Ibanez, Carvin, and Sherman.

*Drooling* Bad-ass, wicked, amazing, beautiful. All of these at the same time!

I don't have measurements at all for the stopbar, but since it doesn't alter the intonation in any way, I can't see why the position would be relevant. If it looks good, it is good. Look at different instruments with a TOM setup (mostly Gibson), and try to position it close to the position of that instrument. The one thing I can see the stopbar altering (besides looks of course), is the angle the string gets behind the bridge. The strings are less floppy with a sharper angle (I think. Someone who possesses greater knowledge, please chime in). Just a short summary: Put it where it looks best.

Thanks a ton guys, means a lot. Tomorrow is graduation day, then I'm outa' here!

BTW the Tele and Exploder are for sale, gotta pay for school somehow right?

If I had the money, I'd really be interested to buy the Exploder, but I've recently bought an Ibanez. Money is clearly an issue for me!

Nice work! Next time, use a bandsaw or a fretsaw, that will probably eliminate tear-outs. You should be careful with that router, especially when working with mahogany. Headstocks are pretty thin, so routing a headstock is a bit risky.

AWESOME! Such a beautiful guitar!

Buy a pickguard for this axe, and then just trace it with your router (template bit or a flush trim bit) on to mdf or similar, and voila! A pickguard template! Then you'll have a template for future guitars, or making guards and selling them on Evilbay.

Haha sounded like an obsession really Yeah I should really get cracking with it. I've started working (recently graduated from school), so I'm pretty tired when I get home. I'm used to wake up at 7:30-8:00, and now I need to get up at 5:30 :S The first thing I think about when I get home isn't 12 hours of sanding

True! Why not use them? They look pretty good to me. Or do you want to try another design?

Haven't done much work to show off really. I have routed the back for the cover, and started to sand the neck. Also the holes for the mounting screws are drilled. I'm aiming to get the neck finished before doing more work on the body, since the neck needs a little tighter neck pocket. I just have very little motivation right now, since I hate sanding!

I've also have plans to start another build to clear my head from the explorer, since it's a lot easier. I have the neck and body from another bass, but I will strip the frets, and fill in the slots to make it a lined fretless 4-stringer. Then I will have my girlfriend to paint some nice thingies on it (white/grey/black), and then I'll just shove together all the pieces.

Cool! Coolest ring I've seen so far

WOW! What a beauty! How does it sound?

Happy to hear that it work out for you! However if the axe was mine, I'd put in a tone knob. I have read that you don't like tone knobs, and I used to be the same. But then I bought my Ibanez, and it really opened up my ears to the tone knob. It can sweep the tone really nice between modern metal (generally thin sounding), and a Fear Factory/Dream Theater sound (generally thick). I'm just hooked on it, and I really think it puts that little extra on my tone.

I actually found one of these guitars in black in Sweden's version of Ebay! The price was a little too high though