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  1. darren wilson
    http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=6817
  2. darren wilson
    Have you checked your cable, or at least tried the same setup with a different cable?
  3. darren wilson
    This has been happening since the forum software "update". When i check new posts, older messages will show up. In the new posts list, it will show the last post in a thread with a fairly current date/time stamp (say, today at 5:30 am). When i open the thread and look at the last message, sometimes it's days old. I just looked at one that had the last post time-stamped this morning, and the last message was actually posted last Thursday. Is anyone else experiencing this?
  4. darren wilson
    According to carpenters i've talked to, kiln drying can make it more difficult to bend the wood, if you're considering doing a bent top. You need to apply a LOT of steam if you want to bend kiln-dried wood.
  5. darren wilson
    Schecter makes great guitars. Their USA Custom stuff is as good as anything else out there, and the Diamond Series import line has been steadily improving along with most other guitars manufactured in Korea. LTD and Schecter guitars are probably manufactured at the same plant in Korea, though, along with Ibanez, Epiphone, Squier, etc. They're just contract manufacturers, and they'll build guitars for whomever.
  6. darren wilson
    I think this is the opposite.
  7. darren wilson
    Building a 7-string is exactly like building a 6-string, only a little wider. You can make it any scale length you want. 25.5" works well, and you can easily get fretting templates for that scale. But some 7-string players prefer going to 27" scale in order to get better low-end definition.
  8. darren wilson
    Putting a tiny little emblem away from all the hardware makes it look like an afterthought or a decal to me. And if you put it way up out of the way like that, the only time anyone will see it is if you're not playing the guitar! Besides, isn't the whole point of Texas to make everything BIG?
  9. darren wilson
    I would guess the best way to use the inlay template would be to just lay the template on the fretboard and scribe it out by hand, then remove the template and go back and manually cut away with small chisels or go at it with a very fine Dremel bit.
  10. darren wilson
    Sweet. That looks absolutely awesome, Dave! Does Duncan sell the pickup booster as an onboard package, or did you just gut a pedal and install it in the guitar? Either way, pretty cool idea... i love SD products. I would have routed just regular oval holes for the mini Duncans, rather than using the full triangular single-coil pickup rout, but i guess that keeps your options open later on. I also would have direct-mounted the bridge humbucker. But hey, that's just me.
  11. darren wilson
    Try http://www.lightwave-systems.com/ The other link isn't right.
  12. darren wilson
    Some of their models are also available in cream. And you can paint them with some tough enamel.
  13. darren wilson
    It probably wan't "functional" enough to get a patent.
  14. darren wilson
    You can get the Fishman Powerbridge in Wilkinson form, ready to drop in: http://fishman.com/products/details.asp?id=64
  15. darren wilson
    I know a couple of manufacturers have put "dummy coils" inside their guitars purely for cancelling the hum from single coil pickups. They don't generate any sound on their own. But i've never heard of working magnetic pickups being buried within the body. They wouldn't pick up anything unless they used some REALLY powerful magnets. The Line 6 Variax uses a piezo bridge and digital modelling. It doesn't have magnetic pickups at all.
  16. darren wilson
    Which guitar manufacturers are putting magnetic pickups inside the body?
  17. darren wilson
    My Parker Fly Classic is the best guitar i've ever owned. It's beautiful, and i love the amount of technology and innovation that's packed into its design.
  18. darren wilson
    You mean maybe something more like this? Another idea that might be cool would be to get a Texas-shaped branding iron and actually "branding" the top of the guitar.
  19. darren wilson
    Black walnut also sounds great. Not as bright as maple, but not as dark and midrangey as mahogany.
  20. darren wilson
    Looks like it should be a lot of fun! I love seeing people coming up with unique and original designs that meet their own needs, rather than doing copies. It reminds me a bit of the Kramer Nightrider or a double-cutaway version of one of the new compact Ibanez Artcores.
  21. darren wilson
    Maybe try a set of Seymour Duncan Phat Cats.
  22. darren wilson
    Can't find the server.
  23. darren wilson
    Heh. That's a rather awkward way to hang your Parker! You should email them and ask for one of those plastic headstock insert doohickeys that they provide to music stores so their guitars can be hung on regular hangers. Or get a horizontal hanger for it. You know, it never occurred to me how much the Yamaha Pacifica headstock looks like a non-reverse Firebird headstock.
  24. darren wilson
    1) Where's his left eye? 2) Why are his disembodied hands floating in space? 3) Where do you get a hardshell case for that thing?
  25. darren wilson
    Gibson won, but the judge had not yet ruled on penalties. And catalogs usually go to press a month or two before you actually receive them.
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