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read his rants section, and that's funny! but no wait, i'm laughin at him..... the guy is so full of ****. he adjusts his 'attitude' to match his sales..... previous year he was slagging off Ibanez so bad..... japanese twats, etc..... and guess what, this year he promtly removed all ibanez rants after he got a big deal with them to sell their axes.... now according to him, ibanez are much higher quality......... but wait, same prices, same specs, same factory. or his slagging off of PRS....... he goes on how McNaughts and what not own PRS........ yet average PRS goes for around $2000 and an average McNaught for around $5000....... what does he expect? i've dealt with him, and he is an idiot. i wouldnt care so much for that, ut what really pisses me off is how attempts to be all mr understanding, buyer friendly.... midget SOB but that guitar IS beautiful

right, i get you know. but i dont think thats such a big concern for me however; if using veneer, can always just glue it on that same way....... i dunno i'm not too bothered about that, though thanks for pointing out. now, the HFH..... it has a single coil clarity, but a humbucker sound. i do not find single coils suitable for my style of play but i like the idea of having that twang... it does sound like a humbucker, and it is higher output than all true single coils. but are you sure it is out of place? yes, its magnets will increase the pull; but will this not be corrected / overrun by the fact the sustainer circuit will vibrate strings? granted, this will only work with the bridge pick-up, but still. i think i would use the HFH because i'm a tone nut, for instance i can tell which one of the 5 wiring positions on the rotary switch (from two Evolution dimarzios) just be hearing the tone...... and a mate of my dad's, a pro musician (well ok, he writes music for tv shows and guitar isnt his main instrument), he was like 'whats the difference between them??' i mean to me its very important, like i have assigned each position its own role after hours of just working through them..... so to me another pickup would have been useful.... its not a single coil remember, it has the clarity of one......... listen to B.R.O. by paul gilbert, thats recorded using the HFH, and you'll see what i mean. but is it really not worth having the HFH? because i'd really like it, though i do realise it would make the project cheaper and easier...... but i dunno. now a question, the neck driver, can it be used as a normal pickup in its own right? do i wire it into the pickup selection switch? also you're saying, once sustainer is on, other pickups go dead..... so if switch onto another pickup that isnt selected with sustainer, it will just not work and i will get no sound? does the sustainer CB then override the pickups as normal? thanks guys, i feel i'm getting somewhere finally

but this is not such a big issue with a Floyd Rose, because you can lower the posts, yes?

johnhe was telling me how he had £3000 cash once.... to buy the ibanez chromeboy. now THAT's a lot of cash

yeh the sustainer is being a massive headache... i think it would have to be more like this mid and bridge pick-up almost joint-up i know the sustainer kit has a high output pick-up, but its rather rubbish to be honest, so i wouldnt be using it.... but why do you think that the FRED is not high output enough? i'm my understanding, the actual output of the pick-up it works with does not matter that much.... but then there's always the X2N with output of 510mv, lol what do you think of the pick-up combination though? i dont know, because ideally, i'd have the FRED, the HFH with conjunction with a higher output mother...haha, like the the Super 2, Super Distortion or X2N (can tell i'm a dimarzio man cant you ) with the sustainer, once you turn it on, does it turn off all other pick-up positions? can it only work with one pick-up in one position? the fernandes online techs and their website is absolutely useless in helping you understand what the system can and what it cant do......... i'm not sure what you mean about the scallops though Brian. do you mean they should be low enough that after fret 24 it doesnt get in the way of the strings if trem is abused? but shouldnt frets ensure that anyway? i'm looking to scallop all frets to about 3-4mm at the deepest point of the arch.....

ok i am now planning my 2nd guitar project, first being the rebuilding and totally changing this yamaha: i am an ambitios 16 year old, it must be said, so, this might explaina few irregularities.... ok i have thought about this a lot and i feel i am ready to move on to constructing a full guitar. i like the sleek feel of superstrats in terms of shape, and i want a 24 fret axe, with big cutaways...... so inevitably this will be heavily based on RG, one way or the other. constrution wise i think a neck-thru is best, as it allows me to contour the cutsways however i like, and i can have an insane neck joint...... also i dont have constant access to machinery, so this would be easier than having to rout out a neck joint and the neck to fit..... i'm thinking 5 piece, birdseye maple with darker wood (wenge or mahogany) in between 3 maple strips........ body wings most likely alder or maple, i want clear, defined tone. then, OFR is a must, along with 24 fret scalloping, on birdseye maple, with side dot inlays only i want a fernandes sustainer, so the neck rail will in fact be the fernandes driver pickup.... the other two are mid posiition - DiMarzio Humbucker From Hell; bridge - DiMarzio FRED; i've chose HFH for its single coil clarity and trebly precise tone (only about 220 mv output i think); FRED for its smooth and very cool tone (about 285 mv, mids + treble dominate)..... i mean my Yamaha custom is loaded with two DM evolutions, so thats clearly for the time when a higher output tone is needed....... i think the pickguard/front rout is the best approach, as then i can route out a big swimming pool style cavity for pickups and fernandes sustainer CB as far as controls, 5 way switch with positions 2 and 4 as parallel wiring....... or might just get a tele 3 way switch? dunno one volume pot, one tone pot, one sustainer intensity pot, and a switch for it/ or phase switch...... not sure spalted maple top...... i have a fetish for those and regarding the neck joint i'll try to do something like this: but yeh, i really want to have the sustainer because i've been watching satch's live video's for 'cool #9' and 'flying in a blue dream' too much....... plus i've always found the idea of this extremely appealing...... what do you think guys? are there any design flaws? this is rough ideas stage, i will actually draw out plans a bit later on.... will the pickup combination work? i think it will, but just basically i wonna hear your input, comments and advice..... btw this is how i envisage it ( posh word, huh ) cheers, Roman

well I'm running as 4th so far... meh great guitars, so i'm even happy with that. but i suppose at the tender age of 15 years (10 times younger than some of us here *cough* Brian *cough* ) this is great honour. watch out though - I'm designing a a complete guitar now, which i'm going to start constructing around march....... hopefully that'll fare better

is John Fisher also known as JON TIRONE? if not, this is intresting indeed:- http://happybob.com/sp/ on which there's a link to this: http://europa.spaceports.com/~fishbake/

POS, no doubt about it.

not quite, i still think Jackson and Ibanez have SOME level of creditability on the guitar market. Ibanez are many shredder's first choice and most guitarists i know love MIJ and MIA Jackson; though ultimately, you are right

LOL thats actually *quite pathetic. correction, make that *VERY

yea BC Rich do make mighty fine guitars... (the US ones are) bloody shame they ruined their reputation by going after teenage nu-metal kids as their main market

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=2367742347 thanks

its funny, but i do not believe its real.

meh sometimes cheese is cool and called for!

looks amazing, the body and the fretboard.... but i dont dig the headstokc design to be honest..... also puzzled to why you have only routed for a single humbucker. doing so just devalues the guitar and its versatility in my opinion..

really cool, thanks. but with no dremel...... gonna be another 10 hours of work plus..... id ont mind though also another thing, the other time i scalloped and i did it quite deep, to the point of completely removing the inlay (which i did intend to do). now this time, i wonna leave the inlay alone, lol, so how far should scallop radius be approximately? and one more thing...... any point / or is it worth scalloping LP Standard neck (the trapezoid inlayed ones)...... basically the inlay is big and beautiful.... but nothing beats the feel of a scalloped fingerboard. so.....? btw MikeB, you're from UK, where did you get lemon oil? i could find any anywhere (i live in London as well)

i have just discovered the scalloped fretboard feel and i love it. i have scalloped my custom bolt on and i couldnt be happier. now in comparison my jumbo fret Washburn just feels flat and emotionless..... in relevance to the thread title - would it be possible to scallop it? sounds easy enough but here are the problems. 1) its set-neck with last 3 frets direcly over the body 2) it has abound fretboard. now i have experience of doing this job, but would it be possible to do it? would the binding be able to handle this? obviously not to mention that any ****-up would be the end of the guitar; but i'd really like it to be scalloped

i've found these. really cool, especially if mixed up with a SD hotrails in bridge and a hot lipstick p-up http://mailboxmusic.zoovy.com/product/GBR_HRSCH

ok i wonna enter my guitar, which took me over 8 months to make..... well i do have other things in life anyway here's the story. ok, my first guitar, the Yamaha EG112. H-S-S. Indonesian made. crap hardware. awful pickups. boring, yet another fat strat. boring colours. all boring. complete with a crap 15 watt amp. but on the plus side, there was the really comfy neck and loads of sentimental value.... my first ever guitar! having tried out a whole lot of axes, and having decided my was better; i decided to well..... improve it (bear in mind my teenage mind was amazed and infected with the customizing fairy idea, having read the whole of projectguitar.com inside out) that was march this year, and lots have happened since then. here is the list of mutilations and harm done to my axe (some might refer to this as "list of jobs done" - strange people ): -removed finish by hand -cut headstock into Ibanez like shape -removed all yamaha logos (not a great pic, looks weird without tuners) -shaped and fitted a graphite nut - vital since i decided to run a FR without a locking nut, as neck was to thin to have one installed -installed schaller locking tuners -cut the body neck joint shorter to enhance access....... didnt do AANJ as IMO that kills off sustain pretty badly and makes tone much 'weaker'... -deep scalloped the whole fingerboard, purposefully removing the mother of the toilet seat inlays - it was an indonesian yamaha :s also i love uninlayed look -cut a new pickguard from see-through plastic, by hand; a refreshing change -filled in extra holes for screws from previous pickguard -hand routed the FR cavity - armed with a hammer and a chisel!! well a few cans of beer too then tidied up with wood filler -shielded the control cavity -installed FR -wired up a new circuit with 5 way rotary PRS-like switching; was a bitch to do so the final guitar specs are: -graphite nut -scalloped rosewood fingerboard -unfinished maple neck -'worn' agathis body -a 42mm sustain block 1986-made OFR -smaller enhacing playability heel -schaller locking tuners -3 fender 80's brass knobs -DiMarzio Evolution humbuckers, with 5 way rotary switch, tone pot (500k), volume pot (500k) nice before/after pic the guitar actually sounds amazing, with the evolutions... i went with the neck series/inside parallel/inside series/outside series/bridge series wiring.... tone change isnt as big as if you had say a dimebucker and a '59, its rather subtle, but perfect for getting the desired tone 'just' right. can get a whole lot of classic strat sound, hendrix, tele tone, even funk works great........ but of course this is the for shredding \m/ i can swear i can sweep upto 20bmp faster on this guitar than on my otehr ones, just due to the scalloping (checked with a metronome) the OFR sustains really well, and the scalloping allows freedom i have never experienced before....... oh and did i mention this is a dream for divebombs? btw the graphite nut/locking tuners dont go out of tune one bit.. in fact i'll go as far as to say this is a more versatile system than the traditional locking nut now the body issue. as soon as i took off the paint i knew this wasnt maple or alder, emailed yamaha and they confirmed my suspicions and told me this is in fact agathis. i was quite disappointed, knowing the importance of wood in the tone, but decided to try it out, and in case it disappointed me, just make a new body for the project. and well, i can say this now; from first hand experience, agathis isnt muddy tone wood at all; its in fact rather bright and it sustains better than my basswood Washburn CP2003. how much of that is really to the hardware, is anyone's guess, though i am sure that agathis is being severely underrated, because its not as in-demand = cheaper = ending up on crap guitar *ahem*pre-project yamah* = having crappest hardware + p-ups possible = rubbish tone = gets branded a rubbish wood in comparison with alder made USA fenders complete with hardware worth over $500. hmm; i wonder..... actually this axe has somewhat turned out to be a fusion of my heroes' sig axes, subconciously; i only chose Evo's coz they are my dream shred p-ups, and did the rest as i went along: - vai's pickups, yngwie style scalloped fingerboard fretboard, with vintage (small) frets and medium high action (how i play), and sort of satch look because the body edges are fairly rounded. ah yes, before i finish, i'll address the finish, or therelackof. when i was sanidn away the paint; i sanded too hard on some areas, mostly the corners/edges, so went through the orange sealer to reveal the bare wood.... i thought it looked quite cool, so did it a bit more round edges, emphasizing this beat up look. combined with the see-though pick-guard - minimalistic, bare styling; sort of having the essentials only. it looks unusual, and i love it so....... (not the case of being lazy i actually prepared a AAAA bookmatching maple top, but liked this better) so it turned in a custom dream shred machine from a crap yamaha. phhhhhh cinderella.... 8 months of hard work.... so what do you think guys? [for some reason i could not get the pickguard to come out how its in life in any of the photos :s ) btw the other two entries are stunning... so i dont think i'm with much of a chance..... but had great time doing this, so just glad to share it with everyone

thanks........ will post up later today.

i wonna submit an entry. its all written up, and i had pics, with proper IMG tags but id did not allow that because "Sorry, dynamic pages in the tags are not allowed" as i was linking from images i posted on another forum, so address did not end in file format, like .jpeg can anyone help me host pictures? or is there a way to post them on this forum? i couldnt find a posting box........ this forum uses different software, so i'm like :s brian said he'll add the pics i've sent him to the galleries, so when they're up i could post up.... or is there anything else i can do? also, if an entry does not win, can it be re-entered teh following month? :cheers: Roman