Mr. Preston Swift

I remember about a couple months ago i was going through stewmac.com and i came across the recipe for colortone stains to achieve that special PRS blue. Now i can't seem to find any trace of it anywhere. Do any of you have a reciepe or know where to find it?

any help appreciated

I couldn't find enough information on sound hole placement anywhere so i thought i'd ask the best in the business (you guys).

How would the different shapes and placements of the sound hole affect the tone and acoustic volume?

I know Ovation uses all those weird little sound holes on the sides of the top.

Where would a good alternative placement for the sound be?

welcome to the forum

i'm 15 and being a professional luthier is all i've ever wanted to do too.

I also want to build a neck-thru explorer eventually.

Melvyn Hiscock's book is the standard on the industry.

It has a vast amount of info on neck-thru's too. If you have money you should get it.

found a sound clip of Revival

http://www.luthiery.woodyboyd.net/audio/RG27.mp3

just in case you wanted to check it out

Uh, not to be harsh, but I dont think I would want woody to demo my guitar. (sorry woodman, whoever you are )It sounds ok, I guess, you would have to check them out in person. Check your local craigslist for used guitars also. I would not buy any guitar online without a 7 day full refund minus shipping cost no questions asked etc...

Now, if you want to spend $450.00-$600.00 on an all solidwood Carpathian top guitar that (sounds great)??, but from an 'unknown' maker, and you can wait 4 or 5 months... I may know a guy......

i'm listening

do you have a site??

Depending on how thick the holes in it are i would drop a little paint stripper into the hole/dent and then scrap it out with a straightened out paper clip (or something like that) and then fill it up with grain filler maybe.

quick question for Capu

Did you cut the vine of life inlay yourself and then inlay it or did you buy a precut one and just inlay it yourself or did you just but the fretboard with the vine of life inlay in it already?

Hello!

In the past I did it by my self (starting from a picture of a Jem) then I found on ebay a guy selling precut fretboards.

I saw that guy there too. Did you get the already inlaid into the precut fretboard? Cause that's like $80+ ish)

Anyways I wanted to see how it looked in a finished guitar before i purchased one. I think it looks great. Good job on the axe.

found a sound clip of Revival

http://www.luthiery.woodyboyd.net/audio/RG27.mp3

just in case you wanted to check it out

quick question for Capu

Did you cut the vine of life inlay yourself and then inlay it or did you buy a precut one and just inlay it yourself or did you just but the fretboard with the vine of life inlay in it already?

It's an open back. That sounds like it will work. Doesn't another speaker added on mean more power though? Would it be able to withstand it? I don't know much about how amps work though. Also it connects via two wires going into the 10" speaker (white on the left black on the right), does it matter where it is solderd onto?

I have a Marshall MG 30 watt solid state combo amp. Recently i obtained a 115 or 118 audio speaker. The school i attend was throwing one out so i offered to take it off their hands. I plugged it into the back of the school's Fender bass half-stack combo (which is like a full sized head and combo joined into one shell) like a cabinet and they both worked simultaneously. I brought it home and tried to plug it into the combo without luck. I thought i might need to change it into a head or at least add a jack in the back to line out to. How could i go about this without any major surgery on the amp? I've never really done much wiring.

i mysteriously received a subscription to Guitar Player Magazine (idk why) and i was looking through the pages of gear and came across Revival Acoustic Guitars.

I went to the website and looked at them and from the listed materials they look and sound like they are good. I don't know for sure though. The music places around Philadelphia don't have any of them.

They have Features like solid Indian Rosewood back & sides, solid stika top, X style bracing, cool inlays and binding. They use the same basic components as martin guitars. They are under $800.

Anyone ever play or know anything about Revival Acoustic Guitars cause I'm interested in maybe.... procuring one. Do they sound like they are well built?

thx

link to site:

http://revivalacoustics.com/

The Grizzly kit is more than $200 better, if that makes any sense.

Looks great, plays great, ships great

It's just great.

I would just splurge on it or if i didn't have the money i would just wait a bit till i get the money

Heirloom Kit #5 is awesome

http://www.grizzly.com/products/h6086

but that's just me

ps: it's great

Oh oh oh oh oh!!!!

I just stripped all the paint off a guitar on Monday.

Actually pretty easy (probably the kind of finish)

what i did was sand a little bit down to get the top layers of the finish off.

After that i use paint stripper. Supposedly I use a special kind that dosn't raise the grain (I don't know for sure though)

If it's any help the brand is Dad's Spray on stripper which came with a little spray bottle. I used a brush.

Here's an idea i was having but i don't have the source of income or the time to do it. Make a double neck guitar that looks like 2 kinds of guitars joined together.

Here's an example:

Cut out 2 Contrasting body shapes out of two different kinds of wood (for instance a Les Paul and a Jem.

If you want the LP on the bottom you should take the non-cutaway side of the LP and put it up to the side of the Jem so that they overlapping a bit and are facing the same way.

Trace the part of the LP that's overlapping, onto the Jem and cut across the line so that they fit together like a puzzle and look like your too good to be playing a single guitar and need to chill with two of them.

You should use two contrasting woods (inexpensive if you don't have the money.

You could also put binding on the seam where they meet to emphasize the double guitar look.

Also, it would be heavy like a bear so you should probably make it semi hollow to reduce the weight

That would be sweet (but expensive).

I don't know if it's been done before, but just about everything has been done before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You get what i'm saying? cause i'm bad at explaining my ideas.

I did take into account that the t-rod channel is curved.

I'll probably research it more once i get another axe and can afford to take the risk

Short answer is "do not do it."

This is just something that everyone in the world tries to convince you will make you play faster,but in reality it does not,and you risk the neck to do so.most necks are already thin enough.

what about an Epiphone Les Paul style? I know they have a lot of extra beef on there. Wouldn't that make it a little safer than other guitars? I'm not talking about taking off a huge portion of the back or reshaping the profile. Would just a little bit off the back be ok? I'm not an expert here.

I've played one of these at the Guitar Center, i think it was a DXM cause it had that neck and between $500-$800.

To my ear it sounded better than almost all the higher priced acoustics and it looked cool too. Low action silky smooth and a sound to die for.

It's probably going to be my next guitar.

PS: 9th grade gifted class trip to the Martin Factory on June 6th. WWOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!!

i'm going to buy so much crap.

yup

clothes irons work great for this kind of stuff. Me and my friend used them to take off fingerboards which are similar to taking to top off.

Just don't burn the sides if you like the finish or want a clear finish, cause it happens

I have played alot of acoustics but never an Alvarez

How does a midrange model ($400-$800) sound and what are they like?

none of the stores around me carry them

Ebony would probably give it a sort of darker tone i would imagine (right?)

If it has a darker stiff tone would i go with a darker sounding wood like walnut or a bright one like maple?

do more research.

that sounds like a good idea

This sounds like something i might want to try out.

I'll probably attempt a two piece neck (neck and fingerboard)

I could just leave it unfinished kind of like the LP Studio w/o the finish cause it feels nice.

I'll probably put in a curly maple laminate in the center

as for the body wood i'm a little confused.

Ebony would probably give it a sort of darker tone i would imagine (right?)

If it has a darker stiff tone would i go with a darker sounding wood like walnut or a bright one like maple?

I was wondering if a Maccassar Ebony neck would work. I was looking for woods on a site and came across this ( http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?FamilyID=5167 ) and it had a 1" x 3" x 24" blank of maccassar ebony (just a little short but not a problem) at a relatively affordable price. I know ebony is an very dense wood and probably would not produce a very good tone. The grade may not be as good but i'm willing to try it. It would look cool and i'm thinking that if i can install the trussrod from the back i could probably use the neck as the fingerboard too. Would it be a wise choice to make the neck out of ebony despite it's tone, would it hold up good?

You could start an illegal underground operation to transport nitrocellulose into Canada.

or you could order McFadden's Nitrocellulose Lacquer from Grizzly. http://www.grizzly.com/products/h5751

It works great, my friend uses it and it looks spectacular, also the president of Grizzly used it too http://www.grizzly.com/sbguitar/sbguitar.aspx

I'd just keep it too.

Keep it until you decide that you want to stick with the guitar

buy a better one when you get the hang of playing it and get the money

FYI: I keep all my guitars. ALL OF THEM!

i just read something like that in "build your own acoustic guitar

If it's only buzzing in the open position it's probably the nut height not the bridge.

the slots in the nut may be too deep or are wearing through the nut and that would make the string height at the nut lower than the hight of the frets making it buzz when strum openly.

I had this problem before, i just took the nut off and added a little little veneer to elevate to nut just a little more. Or i guess you could fill in the nut slots with something but i don't know what.

I'm not an expert that that's just what i did.