TheGreatWhiteDope

Know where to find any kits?, under $50 that is. The only kits I could find were over $100. I did find some car EQs for around $20 though, If they can be modded into a guitar EQ.

After considering the cost and the danger involved, I decided to stay away from making the amp. However, I am still interested in making the EQ. On the EQ, I am still a bit confused. The operational amplifier, that would be the.. erm, the things that you move up and down on the EQ itself (Sorry for not knowing the term.. xP), correct? Also, where would I obtain these? \: I have yet to find any circuity parts at my local stores..

I was looking around at schematics websites had to offer, and I had found a pre and power schematic for a Marshall JCM800 2203 100 watt. I like the sound of these amps and since it is just a basic amp I figure it won't be too challenging to build. One thing I want on it is a 10 band EQ before the pre amp, I also found a schematic for this. I figure I will start by trying to make the equalizer since it is a lot less complicated, and if I get that working, go from there. Here are the schematics I found: Pre Amp: http://www.drtube.com/schematics/marshall/2203prem.gif Power Amp: http://www.drtube.com/schematics/marshall/2203pwrm.gif EQ: http://www.uashem.com/images/audio/unfasdastitled.gif From the amp schematics, would I be able to build the amp itself? Also, would these tubes work for the amp?: http://store.tubedepot.com/jj-ecc83.html (3 in the Pre Amp, 1 in the Power Amp) http://store.tubedepot.com/jj-e34l.html (4 in the Power Amp; 2 pair) I know the basics of electronics and some parts of the schematic confuse me (I've looked them up in the tutorials in the stickies, I could not find what I was looking for though.), but as for now I am just going to attempt to make the EQ. So, for the EQ, two parts confuse me: The boxes with 1 and 2 inside them, CON2 written under them, and J1/J2 above them. Are they some sort of input/output? The triangles containing a + and - and two what looks like a "half a capacitor" with VCC on top and VDD on the bottom. EDIT - One other thing, where would I get a blank circuit board? I can't seem to find any.. Thanks in advance for any help you contribute.

Umm, I don't think I have ever bumped my tone or volume knob... it is not 4 controls but they are still pretty out of the way. Bass, Mid, and Treble may be a bit overkill, I just mostly care about mid control but I figured if I go for that, why not go for it all.. I just made sure and I do have every tool necessary to do this. I'll post back when I start this project (If that is okay, I know in some forums, thread bumping is discouraged, but I don't see a problem if it is meaningful.).

I was a bit shocked when I read that the drilling for a floyd rose would be hard, on my current guitar, it didn't look like there was much to it.. \: But I think I can manage to do it if I pay extreme caution to accuracy. I have researched a variety of wood and I have pretty much decided on alder, mahogany would have too much of a warm tone for me and I will stick with the EMG 81-85 (Misstyped in the first post with 84.. ). Thanks for the site with the fingerboards, I was planing on just ordering one of those before since that part seemed hard.. :\ I will consider buying that book, it sounds like a informative book from what I have read about it. For the electronics, I figured it would need a battery which isn't much of a hassle for me. Only thing is, how long will the battery last? Could I rig up a 9v power jack so when I am practicing I can just plug it in instead of wasting my battery life (I play it 2-5 hours a day so I wouldn't want to run through a new battery every week.. \ Other then that if you can give me some links for these electronics it would help.

After wondering about how they make the holes for the pickups, I stumbled upon this forum and have considered making my own guitar. My grandfather was into wood working a lot (Built half my house.), which gives me every tool necessary from what I know to make one. Well to get started I have a few questions, mostly about how to get the right sound out of it. (I'm pretty much new to guitars too, I've been playing for almost a year but I've only had one electric guitar.) But I usually play with a lot of distortion or overdrive, I want to make a guitar that will be good for more rock and metal as opposed to cleaner genres. (On a side note, I have been looking for a Dimebag Darrell [Pantera - Damage Plan] sound in particular. I know he used to take out the mid tones, run that through a silencer and then put the mid tones back on the amps and that he used Randall Warheads... But I'm gonna need a job to afford one of those cause I was considering just getting a Spider II halfstack for less then the cost of just a head.. ) From what I know I was thinking and EMG 81 and EMG 84 for the pickups and either an alder or mahogany body. I have heard that alder got the best tone out of that specific pickup combination. Also, is active pickups a good decision? All I know about them is that they take an extra battery, I have no clue otherwise what they change from passive pickups. Other then that I was thinking a matching wood type neck (Unless otherwise is better.) and a rosewood fretboard. Another thing I was wondering about was the electronics. If possible I would like a knob for Bass, Middle, and Treble. From what I have seen on the stickies, I don't know if that would be easy or not.. :\ Also, can the electronics be bought pre-assembled and ready for use? One other thing I was wondering about, could I use say aluminum or some other type of metal for the fret inlays? The reason I ask is I wanted a special design on the 12th fret that I don't know how I would order - or how much it would cost and my dad is a machinist that can easily make it out of metal (Maybe even other non metal materials, I will have to ask him what type of machines he has access to.). Also, how would I put that in the fretboard itself, for the dots all that is needed is to drill a hole but how would I make the slot for the custom inlay, possibly a metal cutout stencil and using a router to get the basis of it and fine carve it with some hand tool? So far what I have is a mock-up I drew of what I want it to look like in the end... http://romendo.gamingg.net/mockup%20copy.gif (I want to have a floyd rose on it instead of a bridge, they are just hard to draw.. xP) And I also have a TurboCAD 2D file of it that I got from the sticky, slightly modified. I figured I could split the blueprint into the head and the body, and then split those into 8 1/2" x 11" images to print out. Then I would glue (Or tape..) the images onto a piece of cardboard and cut out the shape, tremolo slots, pickup slots, and tribal marks (Cut out the tribal marks so when I am painting I can lay down a few black coats, then when its dry tape the cardboard cutout over the body and use it as a stencil.). Then from the cardboard I can mark the wood to cut with the bandsaw, joint the edges, and then route the edges and route out the pickup/tremolo/electronics slots. But that is all I know offhand, but I have found this nice tutorial. So any advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated, I like to plan ahead of time so I know my plan when the time comes to make this.