making your own guitar

if you use a standard neck width and fingerboard radius then you can buy a nut ready slotted for about a quid. never had a problem with truss rods, just ensure ends are tight but middle has a little clearance. and dont put it in upside down..

true nuff about measuring from nut tho. accurate measuring tool with a long enough range essential.

also another point about wenge- being a generally dense wood it will tend to have a bright tone, so for a mellow bluesy sound you'll want to offset it with low output pickups with a rounded tone

top guitar !!!!! i know this cool guy mike who makes his own guitars too

i think he guitar looks a bit like my belly lol !

[Wideboy]

What pickups would you recommend? all i know is my other guitars have them lol

Wizard pick ups always get a good right up and there's plenty of choice.

Personally I'd go for some Tele' style pick ups.

http://www.wizardpickups.co.uk/index.asp

[ophic]

Originally Posted by Wideboy

What pickups would you recommend? all i know is my other guitars have them lol

That's just like, how long is a piece of string.

It depends on what sound you want, whether you prefer to play clean or distorted, how many tone options you want, and of course, how much money you have to spend.

I prefer a twin humbucker setup with coil taps and just about every wiring option under the sun included, but this is probably just because I can.

Unfortunately I don't have enough experience of different types to give a recommendation - I've got Schaller "2 in 1s" on one guitar and EMG active pickups on the other, but these are about 18 years old now so hardly relevant.

Edit: They still appear to be available and don't seem to have changed at all.

Do your research.
Oh... you are. Just on a bike forum.

[Wideboy]

slowly coming together (ignore the cramps, glue is setting)





i had 5 mins on Tuesday at work so i made the neck out of beech with a wenge fretboard. This evening i had nothing planned so dabbled a bit and drilled out a hole down the centre of the neck and screwed in a 10mm threaded steel bar to help prevent the neck bowing. Depending on how strong i feel the joint is from the neck to body i may whack some screws in from the back and grain plug them of make up a nice stainless plate to cover them

sorry for crap picys i'll get some better ones tomorrow when i've sanded it all up

[phi-dan]

I've got a pair of Hot Slags doing nothing in the cupboard if they floated your boat. I dropped them into a 70s les paul copy and it sounded awesome, just a little too hot for me tho so I put the originals back in and sold it on for a profit. For me P90's do the trick - just got to see what fits your playing style and desired tone.

[phi-dan]

What finish are you going for? Please don't paint it, or sunburst it - just something to bring out the grain

[widepants]

Originally Posted by phi-dan

What finish are you going for? Please don't paint it, or sunburst it - just something to bring out the grain

thinking of wrapping it in tin foil for that shiny look

Originally Posted by widepants

thinking of wrapping it in tin foil for that shiny look

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