Slaughthammer

i also have the SH-6 in my strat, and i have to say IT ROCKS!!!! if you split it, it sounds just like a strat standard single coil and in normal "hot" mode it beats the best distortion sounds out of ANY amp

the neck angel ist he angel between the neck and body of a guitar, the headstock angel ist between the neck and the headstock

IMO it's the easiest way to get a good result. i'd prefer iron filings. with sawdust it won't look like wood anyway, but the iron filings will give a nice effect. but sanding epoxy is very much work, it gets damn hard

you could fill it with epoxy+effect-pigments, easy to to and great effect!

looks funny to me, i would need 3-5 minitoggles or push/pull pots to wire it properly. that would be really versatile

nice guitar, really like it. what pickups are that? the big humucker looks like two mini humbuckers made to one pickup

any progress so far? this is an awsome project (), and i'd like to see how it turns out...

AFAIK shellac is waterproof, but alcohol messes it really up, though i don't think that beer would mess it up, but don't even think of letting scotch getting in contact with it

i'll try that, thanks wes!

you can seal shellac with anything you can think of, it's the ideal connection between an oil finnish and a poly or laquer on top of that. wes, what kind of rag do you use to add the shellac?

well, it probably is good tone wood, it's light weight at it' got lots of highs, but there is also a low end in the sound of this guitar. it seems to me, as if the wood doesn't look too bad. for a refinnish i thuoght something like staining it black and then do a shellac clearcoat on top of it or just oil. btw, would it make sense to first staining it, than oiling it and then doing shellac on top of it?

first of all, thanks for advise. the frets are in great condition, so there is no reason why messin around with 'em, but perhaps i'll do something about the nut. the electronics were (besides the pickups) also in great condition, i think they have been exchanged somewhen. hmm, keeping it as it is as an vintage guitar.... the problem is that i absolutely don't like vintage guitars, or at least the look of 'em. i think i'll redo the finnish cause it plays so much nicer than it looks to me, and i want a guitar that plays and looks great. i found sperzel locking tuners at ebay, still going on 4 days, standing at 2,50€! if i get them cheap... it think this will be a real upgreade for this guitar

i put in other pickups and it has a very bright sound. i still got no clue, what woods are used in that guitar. but i was right, when i said, that there is much more potential in it. can anyone please give me information on this guitar????

go with a binding after reataching the top, so that you won't get any gaps. and buy/make some more clamps, seems to me as if you didn't use enough of 'em

ok, send me the money, it's not plywood, its probably a onepice body btw, it says "made in japan" on it and it is at min 20 years old

Hi, i just got an old guitar from a friend, and i want to make something special out of it. it plays pretty nice, but the pickups are crap. it seems to me, that the guitar has much more potential that comes out right now. so i'll put new pickups in it. i have a mighty mite humbucker out of my cort fat strat for the bridge-position, a real high-gainer, and one no-name humbucker i bought of ebay for very few money for the neck-pos. some pics: anyone of you got an idea, what type of guitar that is? I never saw a bodyform like that before. the finish looks on the pics way better than in real. besides that, i dont like sunbursts very much at all, so i'll refinish it. in some places, the finnish is damaged, so that you can see the wood. it seems to be a nice wood (mahagony?), so i thought i'll do a stain black and wax/oil-finnish. i got no idea what woods are used in this guitar, so i'll have some surprise. is this hard to do? this is my first real guitar-project, so i hope for adwise. or do you have any ideas, how to turn it into a real metal-axe? i' like to keep it a hardtail, but i'm open to suggestions, so if you have any ideas about what to do with this guitar, post'em. in the last pic, you can see a little crack, is it something i have to worry about? mods that i will do: a jem-style output jack, a split-coilswich where the output jack is now, redesigning the heel a little for better high-fret access

no foto visible for me....

yes, it is possible, just look at the pinned thread about westheman building his neck-thru

on this one, i took a screw with a hex head (is it called so?) put two nuts on it and lockend them to each other and than turned that screw in the insert an than i used a pretty long hex-bit to guide the screw and a wrench to turn the screw. sounds complicated but it is much easier to do. they came almost perfectly straight in the wood.

i used higher grid sanding paper (like 600 or so) as shims under my locking nut, worked fine for me. if the frets 1-10 buzz, check your neck if it is absolutely straight. if it is so, or if it has even a slight backbow adjust the truss rod counterclockwise (by quarter-turns at once or even in smaller steps) until you have a slight frontbow on your neck (look for this also on the main site, there's a tutorial on how to set up guitar-necks). if now the open strins are still buzzing, think about shimming the nut

that looks all very nice, but i am curious if you will be able to do any intonation-adjustments with this bridge? i somehow think this will be impossible....

i somewhere read something about titan truss rods. a luthier said, that it reduces the weight of the neck by almost 50% but i don't belive it's that much. maybe it reduced the weight of the rod by 50%? anyone of you heard about this or got a clue where to get one of these rods?

i used such things to screw my tremolo-post in the body, but they were made from brass. works fine for me. i like that they are adjustable aftern putting them in the wood.

very interesstind thread, keep up posting pics!!!! some newbs can learn alot from them! btw, that is going to be a nice axe....

i think the design is perfect, except the curl at the bottom of the guitar. great work, man!!!