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  1. Geo
    Well, what do you know now? Do your research, and you'll know enough to start a first project. Most of your real learning will come from the mistakes you'll make on your first one.
  2. Geo
    Love your design! The inlays are very cool. The aesthetic is fantastic!
  3. Geo
    Not to discourage you, but this sounds like a headache. You are basically re-engineering this guitar. I would much rather design the guitar and THEN build it, rather than take a working guitar and make it something that it wasn't designed to be. It might actually be easier to keep the neck placement the same relative to the body and change the position of the bridge to match your new scale length. Not sure if that's possible with your bridge, but it would be a lot easier to calculate the new position for the bridge than a new position for the neck. That said, get the right info, stick with this project, and enjoy the result.
  4. Geo
    I'd have to vote no on the black pickguard, because your work looks so fabulous in natural colors! I'd hate to see some of that beautiful maple covered with black plastic.
  5. Geo
    Love the fingerboard, LOVE the inlays!!!
  6. Geo
    Good description, and that's why P90's are my favorite pickup... Whatever you do, I would provide some sort of single-coil-ish option, because I think this will do the 12 string jangle better. I think of a 12 string acoustic, and the way you hear those overtones rubbing on each other like a chorus/flanger/etc. effect. Not that humbuckers couldn't do this, but I think a single coil or split/tapped HB would do it better because it's brighter.
  7. Geo
    Man, you'll really want to protect that cocobolo. I made a guitar with a cocobolo fingerboard and the board is now almost entirely black. It was the usual orange and brown when I put it on. (Oxidation, I think?) I would hate to see such a beautiful piece of wood go the same way.
  8. Geo
    I would not recommend oak. When I was a teenager I built a "guitar" with a big red oak neck. It's a nasty splintery wood, very hard to shape (or maybe it was my lack of skill at the time). Anyway, you can get poplar at Lowes' and it's adequate for a solidbody. If you can't get it thick enough (you can't), you can laminate several pieces. I would not make a neck out of poplar. Mammoth Guitars sells body blanks at very reasonable prices. http://mammothguitars.com/bodyblanks.php
  9. Geo
    I imagine a single-coil would sound better for a 12-string, since the point is the weird interaction of those harmonics, and a single-coil doesn't have any cancellation up there like humbucker does.
  10. Geo
    Yeah, so if you're going to paint your guitar like the ones in the link, don't bother with bookmatching. And please don't use a piece with beautiful figure! (if you're going to paint, that is.)
  11. Geo
    Ha ha, uh... you would normally cut off the excess at the "zero fret" slot and butt the fingerboard right up against your "normal" nut. But if your version worked for ya, kudos. The ghetto-ness is what I like about this bass.
  12. Geo
    FABULOUS!!! Enter it in GOTM!!!
  13. Geo
    That's a pretty cool project. Nice ground wire running to the bridge. I would make some kind of trussrod cover to hide that messy routing, but hey. Why did you use a nail for a zero fret, instead of a piece of fret wire? And how did you get the nail to stay in place? Also, did you screw the nut in place?! This is a crazy guitar! But I like it.
  14. Geo
    I was spellbound and watched the whole thing! "Confirms my suspicion that vacuum tubes are esoteric weirdness." Esoteric weirdness that sounds better than solid-state weirdness...
  15. Geo
    Why don't you just send me that cherry wood, if you don't mind.
  16. Geo
    If you know the scale length of the bass, just find a full-on picture of it and blow it up. Other than that, I don't know...
  17. Geo
    Those are some sexy lines! (The heel, upper horn, etc.) This is a really beautiful guitar. For me, there are very few designs besides a Strat that look good with the Strat-style headstock, but yours is kickin'!!!
  18. Geo
    FABULOUS!!!! And your friend has a cool beard!
  19. Geo
    Look at chord diagrams and learn how to strum in time. Learn scales and watch videos of the masters to see how to position your hand. FYI this is in the wrong section.
  20. Geo
    The rosewood parts are a great accent man! Your maple looks very similar to some wood I used. http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q119/Ge...llow%20project/ http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q119/Ge...nt=100_6747.jpg Keep up the good work. I look forwards to seeing this completed!
  21. Geo
    This guitar would be beautiful without those inlays, but man, they really send it over the top! I also love the understated binding on the neck and head. It looks like everything lines up perfectly.
  22. Geo
    Good work. I like the heel on the non-pointy guitar. How long is your tenon? I'd be afraid to carve away that much of the body.
  23. Geo
    Fabulous work man. That is really special, building an instrument for your son! Even when he outgrows it, I bet he'll use it as a travel guitar.
  24. Geo
    Darn it! Thanks for setting me straight.
  25. Geo
    Thanks for the fast reply! That's what I was afraid of. I wonder if I could get several pieces that could be laminated? More input welcome.
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