renablistic

crap, you're right, well this thread went to s***s anyways... so guess what? NO GUITAR IS BETTER THAN ANY GIBSON!! EVERY SINGLE GIBSON ALONE IS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER GUITAR OUT THERE!!!

have fun guys.

well epis are great. I mean nothing beats a gibson, but in my opinion, in the price-to-quality ratio, epi beats gibson any day...

I'm gonna do that, definatly. An epiphone special II (those cheap 170 ones) switch all the hardwrae, and pickups, and cover the entire front with disco-ball mirrors, like that one guy did, the one on the website of the month... I can do two projects in one.

I only chose the special II because it's the only non-archtoped LP out there, and that would probably make the floyd work easier, and the mirrors could only go on a 100% flat-top guitar.

What would a LP with a floyd look like would it work? just thought of it, might try it. Sounds very unique!!

pret-ty niice!!!

Well then thats cool about the grovers. I'd say get it professionaly done, definately, it is a total bitch. Ask the guy if you can watch, and as i said before, maybe offer him some cash to watch him, that way the next time yougo to build a great guitar, you can do everything yor self. Well the airbrushing sounds cool. i thought you were gonna leave it red. Also, are you gonna make or get made a decal for this intrument? That is always cool. Well I've chiped in my 2 cents, and I guess al i can say is have fun with it!

if you were planning on using a floyd rose, and a locking nut then why the hell did you buy really nice grover tuners? if you have a locking nut, w/e tuners you hav, it's not gonna matter. That's why most guitars with floyd roses have shitty economy tuners, cause you only need them to get into tune, not stay there. So i guess you wasted money either way on the tuners. So you're either gonna have to buy a locking nut, and go through hell installing that, and have wasted money on having grovers, OR you have to go buy locking tuners, and if they wont take back the grovers, you're screwed.

So it's you're choice on which way you wanna be screwed. I'd go the second way. just go get locking tuners, nice ones. Yes, the locking nut would install on the neck, but i would not advise doing it your self, spend n extra few bucks to get it professionally done, and ask the guy to watch him, and even offer him like 15 bucks to teach ya, that way you can do it your self next time.

Also, one more thing, come on man!! you can get a bit more creative than that!! Throw some spice on it!! kick it up a notch!!

a super strat, a red strat, a keyboard, and of course, the almighty dremel!! I love it. I'm doing the same thing soon, but with an ibanez rg 120. the maple neck is gonna be swaped for one with an ebony finger board, all the hardware switched to black, and emgs, baby!

the guitars i've done this with are both archtop, and both times i used Gotoh TOM's from Stewmac. the acoustic one it kept falling off because i used crappy glue, so i've had to re-set like 7 times. So maybe the Gotoh arhtop TOM's just kick ass?

Place the tunomatic center on there. After that, since it's tun-o-matic for each string work out the intonation. if it's The low e string, Then on the same string twelfth fret it should also be E. then just keep fixing the intonation for each individual string until on every single string the twelfth fret is the same exact note.

renablistic,I`m pretty sure if you place the tun0matic square to centerline,you may run out of intonation on the high or low end if it`s not staggered.

For this reason on this Schaller Bridge,the adjustment screws run parallel to the center-line of the guitar when staggered.

no, actually, to tell ya the truth, it worked perfectly for me. But one pointi did miss was that i did this for each side of the neck. I dunno, but everytime i've done it the way i explained earlier, it worked perfectly.

i just did this on a recent restorating project. What i did, and it worked perfectly was: measure from where the string leaves the nut, the first place it would not be touching anything, to the twelvth fret. then go that same ditance away from the twelfth fret. Place the tunomatic center on there. After that, since it's tun-o-matic for each string work out the intonation. if it's The low e string, Then on the same string twelfth fret it should also be E. then just keep fixing the intonation for each individual string until on every single string the twelfth fret is the same exact note.

Should take about half an hour, if you're used of setting intonation. If you're not, it shouldn't take more than an hour.

another word of advise: read everything you can on guitars, constantly expand your knowledge, I'm 15, and i could take on many, many of the restoration projects that the pro's could, without their fancy tools. so just keep reading those Project guitar articles.have fun!!

it's gonna be a red stain, the tone is perfect on this baby. OMG is it nice. I can get ANY sound from it, and don't want to dampen it with faux fur. But maybe, just maybe, I'll put on a racing stripe or flames or something

i got mine in 2 days flat, but then again, i could drive there in like a few hours, we're both in ohio, which means i have to pay shipping and tax. And they are pretty cheap. They carry REALLY good parts, order parts that good else where your gonna have to dish out alot more!

wood filler?

whos here, and where are ya? dammit, i'm at school .... gott ago home, finish re-building guitar.....

moss? da ****?

post pics

faux fur!!! OMG!! i never even thought of that!! OMG!! that would ****ing rock!!! so simple, too!!! but then again, it's a hollowbody, would the fur ruin the tone?

Ok, it's a 60's archtop, with a lot of odd switches. So with that in mind choose one of these 4 finishes:

1) natural, just like John lennon's late casino. Just a few coats of clearcoat

2) red stain. the wood is pretty good looking, and i think this might be nice.

3) solid red. just a simple red finish to make it look fast. It looks like a an old cadillac now, i want a ferrari.

4) leopard print. Wallpaper the body with an animal print (probably leapord). Then clear coat away..

this is destined to be my stage guitar. The body is small, and super light, like 3 pounds. all together It's about 5 pounds of a guitar. The red stain would be beautiful, the solid red would give it a fast look, great stage presence. Leopard, just awesome..

so?

www.stewmac.com they have some economy pus that look pretty good for really cheap. ok, thats enough....