Maxim

My book arrived today!

Coffee, tea or brown shoe polish. Try each on a sample piece, maybe the back of the pickguard.

Is it possible to dye a white one completely black?

EDIT: double post >.<

I noticed alot of neck aren't painted, is it some kind of obvious reason I'm missing?

I want to paint my neck completely black, everything except for the metal frets

I want to get it black and shiny like the old ESPs, anyone know how I can achieve this?

"I think you really need to do more reading, especially after the last thread you created. Seriously, most of your questions will be answered by reading the tutorials on the main site (www.projectguitar.com) and by reading Make Your Own Electric Guitar by Melyvn Hiscock. "

i think you missed this post. buy that book and read it several times. it will answer every question you just asked and much more, best book i ever bought

Still waiting for it to arrive =)

I'm making a necktruh with 2 pick-ups and a floyd, but any template should so if it's half decent

http://www.guitarbuildingtemplates.com is not an option since I pay 50 buck shipping for a 50 bucks template

thanks a lot! I'm going for a humbucker in the bridge position for death metal.

EMG 81 for the bridge and a EMG 85 for the neck, best metal pick-ups IMO

I'm making a necktruh with 2 pick-ups and a floyd, but any template should so if it's half decent

I did some research and I only need help with the routing and the neck, I'm going for a Neck Thru Body but I'm not sure how it works and how I'm also nto sure how I'm supposed to get decent inlays. Another problem is that I don't have a router and I don't want to buy just any machine, any suggestions?

EDIT: getting the flyod rose in will be a difficult task to but I have lots of scrap wood to practise on

Add some triangle inlays and that's the most beatiful guitar I've ever seen (besides My Alexi-600 ofc ^^)

Having the guitar made that way by ESP will set me back another thousand, I'm gonna buy a DJ-600

unless you have had guitar building experience, starting out on a brand new guitar is a BAD idea.

why not buy a guitar with the config you want, OR build it all. i wouldnt want to spend $$ on a nice gat just to take it home and risk destroying it.

I searched and searched but did not find any guitar with that things I want, the only option is adding those things

I plan on buying an alexi-600 from ESp but the problem is that it only has 1 pick-up and 1 volume switch, is it doable to add a neck-pickup, a toggle switch, a volume know and a tone for each pîck-up? I'm quite a noob at he configuration of guitar electronics and I don't feel 100% confident about drilling holes in my guitar :s

Neck-Thru Body / 25.5”

body: Alder

neck/fingerboard: 3-Pc. Maple / Ebony

nut: Locking / 42mm

neck shape: Thin U

fret inlays: Sawteeth

frets: 24 XJ

binding: White (N/H)

hardware: Black

tuners: Grover

Floyd Rose

pick-ups: 1 EMG HZ H-4 want to add a EMG 85 for neck and replacing the HZ H-4 with an EMG 81

electronics: 1 Volume, I want to add: 1 volums, 2 tones and 1 toggle switch

Can anyone tell me how to do this? I would greatly appreciate it.(Live in belgium, so don't point me towards american guitar shops)

with all of my experience playing and building vees i have to say that looks almost completely unplayable.no upper fret access,no comfortable ergonomics...basically it takes away everything that makes a vee comfortable.

take away the points next to the neck,make the wings narrower.you can keep the basic W shape if you are set on it,but the obstructions at the neck end have to go...otherwise you will never play it.it will just sit on the wall

Thanks, I'll edit it once I'm home and see if I can get it playable

Hey Maxim, why not a Warmoth?

Since I live in belgium I pay about 90 dollars worth of shipping for a neck and a body =P

And because I want to try and make it myself since I want to do it all from scratch and I might as wel go truh all of this since I intend to build more guitars if I like it =)

I'll go with the expensive way then

That has got to be the most bad-ass guitar I've ever seen.. *drools*

I noticed on the tutorial that you glue 2 pieces of wood together for a body, can't you just use 1 big piece? :S

im thinking that the body would be way to wide only problem i can see lol

Yeah, we're probably making the upper wing smaller so it's playable

Me and my friend intend to build our own guitar and have made a crappy first design, could anyone tell me if this is possible and if it's doable since neither of us have built one. I was thinking of:

scale: 25.5”

body:alder

neck:maple

fingerboard:Ebony

inlays: custom M's and an X with arraws at the ends on the 12th fret

pick-ups:EMG 81(active) set

tremelo: Floyd rose(this will give us lots of problems)

electronics:volume,volume,tone and 3-way switch

So tell me what you think:

(please ignore my lack of photoshop skills.)

Thanks, I'll go out and buy that book tomorrow

Do you mean real Iron Maiden/Black Sabbath metal? or Poison hair metal? or the growling/screamo nu metal?

Either way it's gotta have a Floyd.

Anyway, since it is so much like the Ibanez RG I think you have to ask yourself why you want to build this guitar.

Because I want to get into building guitars and I want to "merge" some of the things I like from different guitars into 1.

One of the reasons I'm taking the body as an RG is that I didn't find any mesuraments from other body types I like, think it's possible for me as a total novice to make a decent guitar from a body where I don't have all mesuraments of? Because I've been thinking of making it V-ish or explorerish body-wise but it seems nearly impossible.

And I meant slayer, metallica, megadeth, Children of bodom etc..

I'm gonna build my first guitar soon and plan on making most bad-ass guitar I've ever played.

Sounds like a pretty much standard RG though...

For your questions, you probably have to make them a lot more specified.

Help with tuning knobs?...what sort of help do you want?

Same with neck material, what sort of help are you looking for. Maple is fine and is probably the most common neck material.

Use the search feature and your questions will probably be answered ten times over.

I just edited some of it to make it more clear, but they're not all meant as questions, some of'm are just specifications

I'm a novice at the making of guitars, I was wondering if anyone can tell me wich things I need if I'm making a guitar from scratch with a normal jack, EMG 81 pick-ups, 1 volume,1 tone knob and 1 knob for switching between a bridge and a neck pick-up(with the option of using'm both at the same time). I have no idea what kind of things I need or how it works. a linkto a guide or just telling me yourself would be EXTREMELY helpful

I'm gonna build my first guitar soon and plan on making most bad-ass guitar I've ever played.

fret inlays? I was thinking of silver triangles but other ideas are welcomed to. (please note that I'm a complete novice and that I'm not sure if I can do this, any HELP would be nice )

-Wich wood for the neck?

I like the tone and feel of maple but any help/suggestions would again be nice

-Tuning knobs?

Need some good looking black ones that aren't total shite, some names/pics would be useful

-fret width? 25.5 I like alot

-How many frets? 24

-What type of headstock?

Normal ibanez RG one with a custom logo, nothing fancy

-How will it be attached to the body?

No idea how I'm supposed to get the neck attached to the body, tutorial would be helluva useful.

-Floyd rose or simple tune-o-matic?

The shredder in me loves the idea of a floyd rose but I have absolutely no idea on how to build one and it could **** up everything I've been told, so again a tutorial with pics on how to do this would be nice.

-Shape?

I was thinking of an ibanez RG like this: http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/body.htm

-Wich/how many pick-ups?

I'm thinking of 2 (active)EMG 81's, I like the bad-ass sound and the nice clean they give.

-colour?

this black

http://www.ibanez.ru/gear_el_guitar/big/rg7321.jpg image is too large

-Varnish?

No idea wether I'm supposed to use some or not.

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This is all I've got so far, I'm open for any type of suggestions or tips since I'm a beginner I'll need all the help I can get