Ace

found the pics of an old Herc Fede complete swirl, he must have had a deep swirl tank & a good way to push the whole guitar into the water

Thought that it might have been done before. This one is too dark for my taste, might be the images though. The fretboard doesn't look scalloped to me. You got any more info on this guitar? Perhaps if Herc has done more of them or, if he hasn't, if there have been any specific problems?

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Andreas aka Ace

Thanks guys. I'll get some better shots up in the next few days after I finish the set up. Yesterday I was literally in the middle uf setting saddle heights, when I noticed the light was going....away. I grabbed it and the camara and ran to the only spot in the back yard that had enough light to get a couple of shots. I hadn't noticed till just now, but I think you can see the sunset in the reflections in the clear.

SR

I hope you washed those socks before you buffed the guitar :-) But seriously, I've never been a Les Paul fan (the guitar shape, not the player), the strat shape simply epitomizes the electric guitar for me but THIS is pure sex. I want to touch that headstock volute in ways that would probably get me jailed in most countries. Pray do enter this for GOTM.

Also: Any chance of soundclips?

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Andreas aka Ace

you can finish a fretboard so i am sure you could swirl a neck

your big problem is wear

I'm getting images of a cast acrylic neck with a swirl captured between a fingerboard layer and the neck layer. Ooooooo.

Great Prostheta, now you've got me all hot and bothered...

Seriously though, using medium jumbo or jumbo frets, I don't know if wear is going to be that much of an issue. But I thought about a full scallop, too. I guess the sanest thing to do would be to take a "cheap" fretboard and use primer along with a basecoat on it, instead of directly swirling a "naked" maple board, does that sound about right to you guys?

And while we're on the topic of finished necks, anyone ever thought of doing a 100% swirl? I mean, on the back of the neck as well, going around in one pass? Hmm, I might just buy a cheap DIY kit on ebay and give that a try (my lack of prior swirling / finish work nonwithstanding.../

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Andreas aka Ace

Yeah, kinda what the title suggests... in andyt's thread I've seen that the "hangers" he used for handling the bodies obviously got swirled along with the bodies and the image brought an idea into my mind: could you swirl over an entire fretboard (either maple or with a base coat), then clearcoat over it? The idea of course is to continue the swirl pattern of the body seamlessly onto the neck to get an extraordinary (some might say tacky :-) )look. This is more of a theoretical question for me as I've not done any real finishing work so far and as such I see myself swirling anything in the near future about as much as I see myself pole vaulting in the olympics, but I find the idea intriguing (the swirled fretboard, not the pole vaulting...).

Now, if any of you are thinking of offering this as a new option in the near future let me know, so I can file for design patent before and injunction the hell out of you :-D just kidding of course.

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Andreas aka Ace

its funny, i just saw this on a website the other day and thought to myself "hm, never saw this before". They dont seem to have pearl but its still something.

http://www.cookwoods.com/Mineral%20page.htm

Umm, those acrylic stabilized blanks...coloured, stabilized neck anyone? Or am I missing something here?

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I really like the "whips/chains", "Yin/Yang" and "red pill/blue pill" ideas.

Here's a couple of mine:

How about introducing some quantum physics with "Truth/Beauty"

Others, some kinda philosophical

Bow/Arrow

Images/Words

Tooth/Nail

Impulse/Direction (for those Heisenberg fans out there)

Boom/Bang

Inhale/Exhale

Time/Space

Angels/Demons (höly, unhöly)

Cowboy/Indian

Heart/Soul

Body/Mind

Ascend/Transcend

Them/Us

Army/Navy (Yvan Eht Nioj)

Kick/Punch

Kick/Scream

Cosmo/Martini

Axe/Hammer

Burn/Smolder

Thunder/Lightning

Joe/Steve

T1t$/A$$

Rip/Tear

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ace (digging the idea)

Hey Idch, got a question for you: Was your Johnson Tele neck-heavy in its original state? I hve one of those which I outfitted with red rock tele pups and did some setup work for it and it's a fine guitar for the price but it bothers me that it's so neck-heavy compared to all my strats. I'm not so sure if I shall give it a complete rework or just sell it on the bay...

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(that was basically what I suggested in my first post.... )

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Hmm, your idea of cutting a wood piece to fill in the cavity bears one problem...where are you gonna put the electronics? Filling in the cavity and then rear routing would be pretty much work I think. Using a pickguard and designing it in one of the ways suggested should give you ample possibilities while still being half way easy to do.

Can't wait to see what you're gonna come up with. I would probably nick the "inverse color scheme" off of MzI if I were to build an EvH tribute strat like that. I would first spray the body yellow, put the (black) pickguard on, then do the masking tape job, cut the masikng tape with an x-acto where it goes onto the pickguard, take the pickguard off, spray black on the body and yellow on the pickguard. Would guarantee for a matching pinstriping on both items (or so I have to guess)

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ace

A shame that it's front routed so you have to use a pickguard. My idea on the pickguard: once it's on, why don't you take (perhaps even) red masking tape and pinstripe it, continuing the yellow lines. You could even go for a black pickguard (or paint it), to make it blend in more . It's just really distracting from the classic beautiful black/yellow colour scheme in my opinion.

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ace

Sincere Congratulations to the three of you from ol' Germany.

I'll have a beer for you guys tonight.

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The Vulcan in me say's logicaly it is currently 1 piece no matter how many glue lines there are

well, my untrained eye would have guessed for 7even pieces as well but the options on your poll kinda gave it away

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I've read somewhere that you can boil them in (watered down I think) vinegar for like 10 to 15 minutes, dry them and then play them again for quite some time. Never tried it tho. Obviously you don't want too much vinegar and too long a duration...

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ace

i have cracked a tooth pulling one over my head though

dunno if any of you happen to know the No. 1 Stretch Strap, it's basically what it says, an elastic guitar strap. People use it for show effects like making the guitar bounce in front of them. In the case of my teacher however that backfired on stage once. He didn't lose any teeth but he sure as hell missed the rest of the song after catapulting seven pounds of guitar dead center under his chin and subsequently falling over...

Thank god he wasn't playing one of Rodney's designs, emergency reconstructive surgery would have been necessary (on the face, not necessarily on the guitar)

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ace

Now we know where Setch draws his magical power from...look closely in the upper right sector of the pic

Most excellent work dude, that's a tutorial if I've ever seen one. Very inspirational and informative.

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ace

Yup, now that perfectly makes sense. Thanks Maiden

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ace

Cool stuff, but what do you think, how many joints will one of those tips last?

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ace

I'm a bit surprised by the answers of all of you guys who use high-speed equipment such as dremels and the like on plexi. I did work with Plexi once (tho not for guitars) and experienced serious melting issues. If you didn't have any problems with that, that's cool I don't want to sound like an expert...seems I've been doing something wrong then ;-)

A jigsaw with a special plastic blade will surely do the work and to work on the corners, you might want to choose a razorblade.

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ace

That is UGLY and I mean that in the BEST possible way

poor lil ace ain't got no permission to download the tutorial says your server....

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Ooooh I wanna touch that sexy neck

Well, that spalt is not too shabby either ;-)

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I only see a guitar neck and two humbuckers in that pic...

nice camo job, dude

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for now i concentrated to build ibanez pgm models

do you happen to have plans for that in DXF or Corel or whatever? I love PG

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ace

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have fun

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