Slaughthammer

i would move the neck nearer to the top horn. now it looks some kind of unbalanced, because of the big space between the top horn and the neck. but i like the design!!

AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! cant stop looking at this. my phantasy is going wild, i see e super strat, then i see a les paul, then i see a warlock.... so many things you can do with this... and the fretboard looks also great, especially in combination with these woods... i love it!!!!!!

any progress so far?

after 4 years of playing electric guitar, my Cort Stature Gold ist still my only electric, i just modified it with a kahler trem and a duncan humbucker. i don't think, i will ever stop playing it.

if you want to go go for an archtop and a TOM-bridge, you will need a neck angle. but this can also be done on a neck thru. yuo just have to glue the wings angled to the neck. might sound easier than it acually is, but it is possible, and i think lichfield did this, though i don't know how it came out.

if you want to play mellower music, you always could tune down 3-5 half steps.... should give any guitar a real mollow sound but in general, dave's argumentation seems logical to me btw, does anyone know how chambering for weight reduction affects the tone of a guitar? just curious....

you wuold have to make the neck pocket larger or the heel of the neck thinner. you would have to install a new bridge. with a TOM not that hard to do you would have to make the pickup routs lager to fit 7-string-pickups you'd pobably have refinish the whoe body. why do you want to do this? also, i don't think you'll be happy with the result. the cutaways are made for a 6-string neck and not for a 7-string. otherwise, you could make a cut through the hole body at the center line and set a piece of wood in the middle, so the neck pocket gets wider and the neck would fit it.... but i would rather build a new guitar

the scale length is 632,6mm which would make 1 cm more than 24 3/4". i think i can handle it. question: why should the scale length be unsuitad/what would an unsuited scale length be? no, the middle part is definitive a different wood. it's not very straight-grained, but it is quarter sawn. the new frets are now in, but i ahve to wait for a dremel to arrive (hopefully tomorrow) and then i will trim the frets to the proper length and post more pics

you can't just mount it on the fretboard, due to the fact, that the base is not radiused and you action woult be 3-4 mm in the first fret, depending on the frets you use. generally it's better to mount it to deep (?) and shim it if the first fret buzzes. order it and you will see how to install it. it's not that hard.

agreed. that would look awsome. () an it would rock. ()

so i started my first guitar built. i have a neck from an old acustic guitar that sorryly was destroyd when falling down... but the neck survived, and so i will use it as my first training object its gonna be a 12-string rhoads V with the ESP Alexi Laiho sig. body shape and also just one humbucker and one volume pot the frets of the neck were not in a good condition, already popping out of the fretboard, so i'll do a refret job as a first step here are the pics: http://fullservesite.com/slaughthammer/gui...964_IMG_LOW.jpg http://fullservesite.com/slaughthammer/gui...965_IMG_LOW.jpg http://fullservesite.com/slaughthammer/gui...966_IMG_LOW.jpg http://fullservesite.com/slaughthammer/gui...967_IMG_LOW.jpg http://fullservesite.com/slaughthammer/gui...968_IMG_LOW.jpg and a pic of the back http://fullservesite.com/slaughthammer/gui...971_IMG_LOW.jpg i thik the heel has to be reshaped, i will se what i can do here does anyone know, what kinds of wood were used here? i think, the outer laminates are mahagony, but what is the middle laminate? i also heaven't decieded on the body wood, but as this is only for training, i will search and get what i can get locally and cheap. maybe pine. feel free to ask anything i didn't mention (which might be a lot) so good night so far...

i have replaced a roller nut by a schaller locking nut, and yes, the string breaking point is 3 mm of. added 3 mm wood and i was fine, intonates well now, so all you'll have to do is shorten the first fret by 3 mm... the rest is the same as top insalling a locking nut

sorry for OT, but what happened to the "The Cult of Flame" project? is it dead? or even worse, WODed? or is it also in the junk pile *hopeing*?

playing chords will be harder, lower action possible because you don't come in trouble with the radius when bending.

I allready thought that it would be near impossible... i just wanted to go shure. so i'll have to make a cut, where the armrest begins, and not bend it.