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Because doing it the right way, or even remotely close to the right way would be no fun I present to you, a work in progress.

I know what you're thinking. -->

Yes, that my friends, is a guitar body cut from two 3/4" pieces of MDF glued together with a neck slapped on and strung up. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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I wanted to make sure that I wasn't buying $60 worth of wood and then a crap load of tools and hating it so I did the exact opposite. $4 worth of glued sawdust, a $6 saw, a $9 hammer, a $7 chisel, some free sandpaper, and a borrowed drill. I rule!

Everyone else can now feel better about their works in progress.

Blog documenting the progress, although only started fairly recently, is linked in my signature. Feel free to say whatever nasty things you can think of. I've said 'em to myself a couple of times already.

Your links are fine you just need to take out the following bracket you're got on both URLs.

I'm interested to see if this turns out in reality like you envision it.

I've always been the opposite. The Gibson V style headstock always threw me as the one piece of the machine that just didn't sit right. They need to be a 3/3 headstock to look right but I've always thought something along the lines of a PRS headstock would better compliment it.

I have one rule when it comes to guitars. If it's under fifty and the salvagable parts are worth under fifty then why not. Worse case scenario you can use the body as a template for a future guitar and strip the neck and the hardware for later.

All of Rust In Peace. If by the time Polaris hits, your picking wrist isn't absolute mush... well call me, I need a reliable guitar player

powertab with a really good rating: http://www.powertabs.net/pta.php?page=song,721

powertabs software, if you're not familiar with this you should be: http://www.power-tab.net/downloads.php

The hardest thing about playing a fully scalloped neck is just getting used to NOT having wood underneath your fingers. Depending on how deep the scallops are you really have to pay attention to how much pressure you put on the strings as well. You can fret a note sharp if you play hard. As well, you can have some difficulty bending chords out of tune as well. On the other hand, if you have a problem fretting cleanly on higher frets the scalloping can really help.

Unfortunately my camera doesn't have a manual focus and takes horribly blurry pictures up close, so this is the best I could do. Just wanted to say thanks for the great tutorial for broken headstocks by posting my pics.

This guitar belongs to a friend. He purchased it almost ten years ago and broke the headstock off 8 months after he bought it. It's been sitting in a case ever since as he didn't have the cash to get it fixed. It had been sitting around for so long he though there wasn't really much to lose by getting me to fix it if I made a mistake.

The headstock snapped clean off. He was practising in his room, turned and it hit his dresser. Thankfully it happened just behind the locking nut.

In all I used a bar clamp, two spring clamps, and a C clamp to hold this all together, making sure to use a LOT of paper towels with the bar and C clamps so I wouldn't scratch the wood. It's too bad the close up is blurry. The seam where the neck snapped is virtually invisible.

Here's the neck attached again. It's not strung up in this picture but has been strung up and intonated since. It plays just like it did when he first bought it.

I remember reading that Dimebag cuts an X in to his to make it a little easier to hold on to on stage.

Me, I don't seem to have a problem holding on to picks.

Amps have "sweet spots" and really it's just a matter of playing around to find them. I always used to record with a mic right against my amp. It took me quite sometime to find the sweet spot, slightly up and left of the center of the speaker of my Peavey Bandit. Once I found it I put a small dab of white out on that spot so it was marked. I also took note of the angle of the mic and made a cradle for it that would hang on the amp out of a metal clothes hanger. It really depends on what sound you're looking for and your means. I've known people who record with four mics, one in front of the speaker, five feet back, ten feet back and one right inside the back of the cab. Then all four mics were run in line with noisegates and the final guitar sound was a mix of all four mics. Depends on how psycho you want to be and how much effort you're willing to put in to your sound.

Oh yeah.

Wes: Thanks

I love my GuitarPort and spam for it every chance I get It's extremely versatile as a practise tool and also works for demoing tracks. Is it a professional recording tool? Not even close, but that doesn't mean it's not good.

Here's a track that I recorded with my GuitarPort. I know it's not the greatest but that's why they're called demo tracks right .

Other stuff... Fruityloops for the drums, PowerTab Editor for the bass track, Cakewalk for the multitracking.

Not trying to crap on your parade, dude. Dig what you've got going just wanted to point something out. I found this browsing:

http://www.ace-guitars.com/

D'Addario XL115W 11 - 49 with a wound third for tuning in Eb (two of my guitars)

D'Addario XL110W 10 - 46 with a wound third for tuning in E (my third guitar, mostly tuned E for transcribing)

• Tried Slinky's, they felt slinky. They just felt really weird.
  
• Boomers sounded odd, they were missing that nice bright ring of new strings. A brand new set sounded eight months old. Maybe it was just my luck.
  
• I had 2 sets of Markley rust out in a little under a week.
  
• If the Fender strings are anything like the ones that came on my Strat. Dear god, I never.... ever.. want to touch anything like those strings ever... ever... again.
  

thats a really cool lookin guitar. i think the headstock has the tuners on teh other side. so that you cant see em. Not sure though.

Actually that's with the new Floyd Rose Speedloader. No tuning pegs, similar to a Steinberger with a a ball at both ends of the strings.