Geo

This would be cool: rosewood neck and fingerboard. Hollowed-out rosewood body with seperate rosewood top.

One other thing to keep in mind is the angle which the string takes from nut to tuner. You don't want a string touching another string or tuner as it heads to its own tuner.

I guess we shouldn't even call them electric guitars, unless you've got active pickups... ElecTRONIC guitars perhaps...

Totally cool... I like the pickguard.

Hey, thanks. It's not actually bookmatched, but I really like it anyway.

This will be my third "real" guitar build. Flamed maple top, chambered mahogany body, maple neck, bloodwood fingerboard and headplate, LP Jr-style bridge/tailpiece. Being a cheapskate, I'm making my own pickups. My top is 3/4" thick and my body 1 3/4" thick, which adds up to (you guessed it) 2 1/2"! I will do some radical carving of the top and back to slim it down. It feels huge right now. I didn't route the chambering very deep in the body (about 1"), meaning I have lots of room to carve a comfortable Strat-style gut recess. You'll notice on the body that I have left about 3/8" around the outside bottom un-routed. I will be rounding/carving the edges pretty heavily, and my bearing bit couldn't reach much farther. For the pickups, I'll be winding two P-90's. I made wooden bobbins, which I know is not the best plan. However, I plan to wind them rather loosely in the hopes that there will be room for the bobbin to expand without busting the wire. For the pickup covers, I'll cut up a rosewood acoustic bridge blank from a failed "project". The guitar will be totally natural in color, with an oil finish. I'm thinking the woods should look pretty dramatic. Body: http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q119/Ge...ct/100_5957.jpg Top: http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q119/Ge...ct/100_5956.jpg Plan (note that there is some camera-angle distortion of perpendicular lines): http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q119/Ge...ihollowplan.jpg Any comments appreciated.

If you don't use your volume pot to control volume, you could use a kill switch. It would eliminate the load. Why do you want to eliminate the load of the volume pot? If you think it's darknening your tone, switch to 1meg. The "load" is a good thing. If you eliminate the volume pot, there's still a "load" on the pickup--the input of the amp.

This guitar is going to be gorgeous. The entire design is really brilliant, IMO. I love the color of the neck woods against the blue.

That Strat is all backwards!! Totally cool. I like the simplicity.

That design is genius. What's your neck angle? It looks pretty steep.

Very cool. I like your big bird inlays and the weird figure in the top.

Thank you... Good luck on your project and on finding your teacher.

Can't help you with sound files... But if you have the pots already, I suggest you just try it. It will give you very different sounds. Alternately, you could go to a music store and play some guitars with switching like that.

I guess my reply got deleted, which is good... For anyone who saw it, and to the original poster, I apologize. I couldn't make sense of the post, its title, or its placement in the "In Progress" board. I shall now shut up.

Good job dude! It's fantastic that you're building guitars at age 15. Keep at it; your skills will improve with each project.

Could work... consulting the schematic would tell you for sure. If you don't want to mess with that (I imagine that schematic is pretty complex), you could just try it.

Sounds like fun... building amps is pretty cool! Did you build a tube amp?

Hm, I've managed to waste my time building a sweet guitar and a sweet bass, with a handheld power drill.... On my bass I had to drill the tuner holes 1/2" wide through a bloodwood headplate. After doing that, anything is easy!

thanks geo! do you think the green works with it? Absolutely. I think it's the perfect color for that body shape. Keep up the good work dude!

Unless you hear a balance problem between the output of different strings, I wouldn't worry about it. Listen to your ears... there's a lot of hype out there!

I would use a router and clean it up with a sharp, fine-set plane, or sandpaper. It would probably take ten minutes to remove 1/4" of wood from the whole body with a router.

If you're careful you can drill straight holes by hand. It helps if you start with something small, like 1/8", and progressively enlarge the hole. Of course the bit can still wander, but it works for me. I think the key is to use almost no downward pressure--let the drill lead as far as depth. Just keep it straight and don't go too high on the RPM.

killemall, that is one KILLER guitar!!! I don't like "metal" guitars, but this one looks fantastic.

Actually, I think it could be quite useful having two 6-string necks. One could be strung in (for example) DADGAD, the other in standard, with heavier strings for the lowered notes in DADGAD. Of course you could also just switch guitars for different tunings...

Wow, that thing is totally cool! I love the top horn!!!