themetalhankey

whats a piezo

thats 250 mm with the angle already done on the headstock right?

if so, im asking how much of the neck blank shud i cut for the angle as shown in the guide

http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/anck.htm

Using this as my guide on creating the neck, p.s my neck blank is 5 piece maple and mahogany, 30" x 4"x 3/4" thick, http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/anck.htm

How long should I cut the piece on the right side of the diagrams there, to equal the lenght of the 7 string headstock?

I know I might be going into this too soon/quick, but theres only a little amount of time in school left lol, just about 5 weeks.

I am thinking maybe 3" worth of the 30" that i have, cut it on 13degrees, then glue the 2 together to get the angled headstock, then just shave off the excess when I shape the neck.

Comments?

I will get the 7 string T-O-M bridge this weekend along with 14 ferrules for the back and front of the guitar.

Yes sir, 5 mm for the distance between the string to the fret board edge, so i can do easier vibratos

and yes I'll go ahead with the slightly larger string-edge at the neck pocket

hey SwedishLuthier, I printed out that mockingbird, i think the one u have sent me is just for 6 strings, now when i trace this onto my wood blank, do i just extend the neck pocket?

Like so, I print out the body of the mockingbird. 4 peices of paper. i glue the top left and bottom left together. i glue the top right and bottom right pieces together.

i trace the left peice of the mockingbird on my wood blank.

i leave a 8 mm space inbetween the right peice of the mockingbird.

Your neck pocket is 59.5 mm, and yes you told me to keep a space in there, so this is just im saying to see if you agree with this. The neck pocket of a 7 string should be 66.8mm, as according to warmoth ( http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/necks....=paddle_7string

)

Do you agree with this method or disagree? Thanks

I'm planning on buying it at Long and Mcquade, but I'm not really sure how long it will be, can you just eye it up? lol, i can fix it once I get the actual bridge

LAST EDIT: and angle the fretboard at the higher frets, with the angled 7 string single coil pickup and 1 7 string humbucker at the bridge.

the wood will be: fretboard= maple, neck= maple,mahogany combo, body: honduran mahogany

grover rotomatics

hmm I still have alot of mahogany, i'll just cut up and glue a piece of mahogany 2" x 20" onto my blank

I'll try to get you the outlines tonight. In what format do you want it? .dwg? PDF? Are you using imperial or metric measurements?

I'm just assuming that you are doing a bolt on (doing the body and neck separately). Is that correct? Do you have a link for the bridge? I really need it for the right dimensions for the neck pocket. You also need to decide the neck width at the nut if I'm gonna be able to help you with this. The neck pocket (or the width of the neck at that area) depends on the string spread at the bridge and the neck and how much "extra" fretboard you would like to have on each side of the strings.

And BTW: You are doing it with a 25.5" scale, or?

HBs and 27 frets will be pretty narrow, but I'll draw it out for you to have a look at. Ill also test a "stretched out" version of the 6-in-line (7-in-line) head design. Have you had a thought about tuners?

Let me know and I'll get started

.dwg is fine, im using turbocad, and metric measurements please

yes bolt on neck, and here is a link for the 7 string thru bridge (uses ferrules) http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Sch...itar?sku=513104

width at nut: 49 mm (im just lookin at these 7 string specs: http://www.kyowashokai.co.jp/caparison-eng...ellinger7.html) , width at neck pocket (22nd fret): 66 mm

yes 25.5" scale

I've had a final thought about the headstock, i want tit to be like so: http://www.guitarsatbmusic.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1575 , if u can trace that caparison headstock that it, then 4 and 3 on the headstock like so. it'll look nicer

This is the type of "angled" fretboard that I mean at the higher frets,

http://www.guitarsatbmusic.com.au/caparison/horus.htm

and for tuners lets go grovers

and remember its a 7 string, 27 frets Thank you very much

I've completed the body blank, its 14" x 21", i just need the mockingbird outline to see if it fits or i'd need to add some extra mahogany onto it

Thanks. I did a searcha nd came up with a few more.

What about the hardware? Humbuckers? two of them? Bridge? When I'm at it I might as well do the complete guitar, so hould you like the 3 on one side (or in your case 4 on one side and 3 on one) head or the straight head shape?

2 pots, 1 switch selector, 27 frets (fretboard angled at the 26th and 27th frets), 2 humbuckers bridge is gonna be a 7 string-thru (cus im too poor to pay for a floyd rose) lol. the headstock is going to be an ibanez headstock unless you can draw or get a picture of a b.c rich neck like so http://www.woodbrass.com/images/woodbrass/...RONZE+COREE.JPG, heres a pic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ibanez_...ock_pointed.svg

id like all 7 machine heads on 1 side plz

can you provide me with an outline of the body as soon as possible please because i have to cut out the body soon, only 6 weeks left of school in first semester heh, and its only 40 mins a day

Thanks

Provide me with a full frontal picture (as large as possible9 and I'll see what I can do. Do you need if for dimentions only? What bridge are you planning for? Pickups? all this info is needed to do a CAD of the guitar

here is a picture, its going to be a 7 string, not sure what the measurement is but maybe 67 mm, because its 65 mm at the 22nd fret, or if u know please tell me

lol sorry i dont know how to make the picture bigger without making the edges of the outline of the mockingbird blurry :S

I'm really hoping to make a mockingbird 7 string, if anyone has one please share

abalone!

do u have a picture

I know of black dots, but what kinds of designs are there out there using what kinds of material?

i symphathize for your baldness as im losing it too

BUT GREAT GUITAR!

just wanting to make sure before i cut my angled headstock so its good. I'm thinking of 8 inches, oh and this is for a 6 string guitar with all the tuning machines on 1 side

HUGE suggestion, if your center stripe is ONE piece of wood that's that thick, when you get up hear the nut, it's going to start looking really strange. What I would do, is do 3/4" maple, 1/4" walnut, 1/4" cherry, 1/4" walnut, 3/4" maple.

Chris

ideally i would do something like that but the only supplier i can find online is www.rockler.com and they only offer as small as 1/2"

are there any other legit websites out there for this kind of supply?

lol just buy the 1/2" piece then rip it

I found a headstock template on wikipedia, of all places. It prints full-size, but you'll need Firefox to do it; I couldn't get it to work in IE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ibanez_...ock_pointed.svg

As for the neck, dimensions are given on jemsite. use those, and as long as you know your fret spacing, it should pretty much design itself.

I got that picture printed now, thanks

but before i trace this onto my wood, are there any other templates like this that you have, becuase i want to see my options with the actual size templates that i can get ahold of thanks

Something more like 19mm/6mm/10mm/6mm/19mm would give a good look at the nut. I try to keep my center strip at least as wide as the truss rod, and have a fair amount of outer lam material at each side when the neck is at the nut. The layout I mentioned above would give you a 10mm/6mm/10mm/6mm/10mm at the nut. That would look pretty well balanced. Generally I try to keep my accent lines between .04" and .25"(1-6mm-ish). Finer lines look classy. A five piece layup can look nice w/ bolder 1/4"(6mm-ish) lams. That is really just my opinions, for what it is worth. Good luck!!

Peace,Rich

agreed..

my neck accents are 1/16"

http://www.desopolis.com/guitar/neckhelp2.jpg

paduak maple mahagony, I have the exact inverse as well

http://www.desopolis.com/guitar/newneck2.jpg

but both of those are wide enough for the headstock as well.

themetalhankey:

are you just going to add wings for the headstock?

no my neck black is 4 inches wide

i am going to have a 13degree angle at the headstock

and yeah i shudda done that 6mm for the mahogany accents lol, but its already done, finished it today at school during my spare period, it looks pretty nice though, with 1cm accents I'm happy

Does the end of the fretboard, the part at the higher end of the frets, does it not stick on to the body of the guitar?

In other words, the fretboard is glued on to the neck, but does the part of the 25+ frets, does it kind of *float* over the body?

For example my washburn guitar has 24 frets and the 24th fret is not on the neck and not on the body, its just "floating" over the body. Question is.. is this a good thing/bad thing and what kinds of damage will this do over time?

I'm making a 36 fret fretboard and I just want to know what should I do.

Oh and the neck is a bolt on

k for string ferrules, is there a certain type of tune-o-matic bridge for a string thru or do u just use a "regular" tune-o-matic bridge and tilt it? I dont know why to tilt it, but most of the guitars with string thru bridges, the tune-o-matic bridge is tilted or angled.

for the string ferrules do u need 6 on the front of the body and 6 on the back of the body ?

thanks

thanks for that info, helped me a bunch

Is there a website like that that has the body specifications? Like the thickness of the body, depths of back cavities, etc?

That site has the original blueprint for the JEM777.

http://www.jemsite.com/jem/origin/index.htm

All the way down at the bottom of the page.

im having a slight difficulty reading that lol, but does the D-15 mean depth for d?

im looking for green, btw im going as jeepers creepers hehe. im going to look for a trenchcoat today that i can cut up. im gonna get a skullet thats what im trying to do with the bald cap. bald cap on my head with a wig with the hairline starting at the top of the head

Huh? Latex what? paint? gloves? panties?

Maybe if you explained what you are up to someone can figure out what you are talking about. Paint does not "dye", it covers things. Latex paint does not belong on a guitar it belongs on the walls in your house. What do you have and what do you want to do with it?

lol well i hope i dont get flamed for this, and according to your sig there is no such thing as a stupid question so here goes nothing..

im trying to dye/paint my latex bald cap for halloween. i want to know what kind of paint i should get at the store to dye/paint it. The relative thing that is related to guitar is maybe the paint/dyes used in painting/staining a guitar maybe used for latex as well, so i just gave it a shot.

The Wizard 2 is 43mm at the nut, 56mm at the 22nd fret. 19mm thick at the 1st fret, 21mm thick at the 12th fret. Follow the link for dimensions on all of Ibanez's necks.

http://www.jemsite.com/jem/necks.htm

thanks for that info, helped me a bunch

Is there a website like that that has the body specifications? Like the thickness of the body, depths of back cavities, etc?

I'm not sure that acrilyc would work, any ideas ?

hmm i need some peoples help for the width at the nut, im guessing maybe 45mm-ish since the width at the neck join is 55mm