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THIS IS MINE

you seem to be missing strings.
and tuners.
and a wired pickup.

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looks like he's assembling a kit

its being assembled as i type.

seymour duncan jb
german floyd rose
jackson gotoh tuners
2016 charvel neck from ebay

I have a strong feeling that won't end well. Have you measured the scale length and made sure that it's correct?

the neck is 25.5" (64.8 cm).

the neck is from the 2016 production models

But have you measured the scale length and made sure that the neck actually fits into the pocket? From here it looks like they're a mismatch, which will cause problems. Also learn to reply.

ahh sorry about the reply thing.

no the pocket on the guitar is fender standard 2 3/16 but the neck is 2 1/4. I'm having the luthier fix that up so it fits in perfectly.

This luthier has personally restored some of paul stanleys old gibsons so i assume he knows what the fuck is up...lets hope.

Before he does that, at least don't drill any holes.

Not a partscaster but a cheap kit guitar which I got for practicing my finishing on. Finished in Daphne Blue nitrocelulose. I did a lot of work to the neck and this is now my favorite guitar to play. Dropped a mexican loaded pickguard in that my mate sold me for £30 when I rewired his guitar with texas specials.

yeah im not sure of what order he will do things.

love the color on that

Probably the right order, i.e. make sure that it fits first and then attach it to the body.

i know a shim will be required too because it's a top mount floyd

Wouldn't it have been easier to get a neck that actually fits?

Thanks I'm going to do a surf green nitro on my next kit. I didn't want to test spraying finish on anything I've built so these kits were so cheap it made sense to use them. This is a partscaster I did with a friend we call him Fry as in stir-fry because we made it from the leftovers of other projects.

a floyd rose with a 2 3/16 is not recommended because of string slippage on the high E string.

if you use a 2 3/16 pocket the fret ends have to be PERFECTLY.

one of the ernie balls uses that spec and its total shit

good name...me likes

Cheers

First guitar I brought off of my brother a couple months back

SHREDDER

Fender amp clone I built. Cab made from shelves from an old science library.

nice to see this thread from time to time. what opinions do you guys have on roller nuts?

Got an Epiphone Casino Coupe.

My dad's Les Paul. He died around 7 yrs ago.

Hate them. I had to rebuild the top of an 80's Fender neck a friend got cheap because it had one of these fitted it just didn't work right and he wasn't a trem guy. I find a well cut nut is good enough. It's always struck me as cool how the first guitar designs are the ones we still use with little to no change in them. Leo Fender really struck gold with the Tele and Strat and most "improvements" haven't stuck.

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Those old designs aren't very good. People just fear new things.

Your father was baddass RIP !! I hope he likes 13 years old girls like me

fuck you

I disagree. The bolt on neck design works well and helps facilitate repairs. With all the different trem options the 6 screw always works well for me, although I'll concede the 2 post is also great. Locking nuts and bridges for all their tuning stability are a pain in the dick to live with.
What designs do you find better?

locking bridges/nuts are excellent if you know how to set them up properly.

people mostly make the mistake of not stretching strings when they put new ones on, so it makes the process even longer.

>it just didn't work right
are they sucking tone out compared to bone or do you mean dust settling in?

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Here is a closer pic.

fuck i had a cheap tele i wanted to refinish in nitrocellulose, i'm jelly.

Ayylmao

I'm pretty quick a setting them up I just find them to be a pain to live with. I had one on my Yamaha RGZ 621 which I gigged with for years in a stoner band. The more tools you need to carry and the more fiddly it is just to change a string the more problems you run into. I also play in a lot of different tunings (dadabe, dadgce etc) so it sucks for that

Mostly the open string tone but the strings didn't seem to flow nicely with it, tries compressed air to clean and white lithium grease to lube lightly but the guy just didn't like it so we changed it out and I fitted some wood above the nut and shaped it to the neck which was a Fender one from the 80's. Nice neck but the guy he got it from was selling 3 and had fitted the wilkinson nuts to all of them because he felt they were better.

thats a nice one what year is it?

Could we get a shot at the guitars in the background? I love that green

There's a pic of my Korean Squier from the 80's behind the guitar if you want to talk cheap my brother got it for me for £35 and it's a beast. I put some Bare Knuckle Pile-Drivers in it and it sounds great. I don't personally think finish makes a difference other than aesthetic but if you want to relic it looks best and people will pay more for nitro because reasons. I want to offer a refinishing service and nitro is what a lot of people want.

That's an old Aria Pro II bass I'll see if I can find a pic of it

Bolt-on is not bad but the square neck heel is. The six screw trem has mostly been phased out but most trems still use knife edges even though ball bearings would be better. The original Tele bridge was horrible and the body didn't have contours. Les Pauls have weak necks (the headstock snaps off easily), horrible ergonomics, TOM bridges collapse over time and the string angles at headstock don't make any sense. SG dives like a U-boat. There are tons of better cable and plug types compared to normal guitar cables. Pickup designs are parts bin tier. There are better materials than wood available. Headstocks are redundant. Old guitars usually weigh a lot.

I could go on but I think you got the idea. I'm not saying that people shouldn't play Strats and Pauls. My point is that there are simply better guitars nowadays and it would be odd, if there weren't. Everything evolves.

Guitarists really fear new things. Just look at Flaxwood. Their guitars have fairly conservative specs except that they're made of wood-plastic composite. The material is 100% recyclable, uses Finnish spruce instead of exotic tonewoods, is homogeneous, isn't affected by humidity etc. In other words objectively superior to wood. Still the company is struggling financially.

i like that paint job did you do it yourself?

I have no clue. He bought it around 1993 used.

Schecter v-1 platinum, got it for a steal at 440. Just bought some cleartone 56s and put them on for purely drops tunings. Its been really fun to play, plus its beautiful and a huuuge head turner which i didnt think it would be. I even thought a v would eventually get really uncomfortable but its the most comfortable guitar i have personally ever played

Just regular guitars.

The paint job is unreal in person.

i got it off ebay, he does a lot of custom paint jobs like that.

i don't want to relic it, i want a nitro tele that i can play as my main guitar for the rest of my life that i can wear the finish away naturally.

i know it doesn't effect tone, but i want it to be "mine"

>two buckers and a hotrail
So your brother likes metal then?

i had a prestige just like that, but bridge saddles rusted after one night of heavy use during practice.

i couldn't believe the cheapness,

Here you go

>start learning guitar when i turn ten
>stop not long after turning eleven
>often regret not knowing how to play anything
>looking at getting a cheap epi les paul, a cheap ltd or a cheap as fuck gio
Your thoughts?

And another with 2 of the first acoustic guitars I made

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I don't believe your story either.

those ibanez bridges are built cheap, touch a floyd rose and its night and day in quality

>Korean Squier from the 80's
post pic of it?

I agree about the Les Paul headstocks but if it wasn't for that I wouldn't get half the work I do. SG is shit tier agreed but not really one of the original designs in my estimation. As for headstocks I used to play a Steinberg and the string options are limited. If we didn't use wood I'm sure the designs would stay the same and even though I work with wood I'm not against other materials I don't believe in tone wood at all.
The best new innovation I have seen is the Fluence pickups I tried some out and was blown away by them.
I agree guitarists are stuck in their ways but even with new techniques in building the ergonomics of a guitar work the way they are.

I did

This is my only baby. Got her stupid cheap and I threw some Aurora purple 125's on her.

Save a little more money and buy a little better guitar. The cheapest models are usually so bad that you don't want to play, because you think playing is hard when in reality it's the guitar thay's making it difficult. $300 should be your minimum budget.

I love the strap! Where's it from?

Holy shit that jag-stang makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
Here is my most recent purchase. 2017 fender mustang with p90 pickups.

Some are, some aren't. Those made by Gotoh (like the one on my guitar) have as good build quality and superior design.

Who made the P90s? That can make a big difference

>Save a little more money and buy a little better guitar
I'd thought about it, but it just seemed kind of silly spending a lot of money on something I'm new to. I'd feel like a bit of a poser.
>The cheapest models are usually so bad...
I'd heard that the cheap models had had a lot of improvements made to them over the last couple of decades. Is there any truth to that at all in your opinion?
How does a crappily made guitar make it more difficult for me? Sound I could understand, but playability?
>$300 should be your minimum
I live in Australia, so pricing is different here. All of the guitars I was looking at are over $300, but even still, $300 US is only about $390 AUD, which won't get me much more than I was already looking at as far as I can tell.

>Holy shit that jag-stang makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

Is that good or bad? I can't tell. Probably bad though right?

I got it in 1996 when I was 16 I just refinished it because I had basically ruined her in my early bands. The neck pickup was rewound by bare knuckle and the bridge pup is an old Gibson one. It's been thrashed but it's the guitar I've owned longest so it's a keeper.

Not all headless designs need special strings though.

I highly recommend that you try a Flaxwood. By far the best necks I've ever played and my main guitar is a Prestige Ibanez. That should tell you something.

Here's me with my guitar

Im pretty sure fender makes them but i can see myself switching them out for nicer ones in the future.
I personally think its an ugly guitar. I like the color though and im sure it sounds great.

I've never seen a Flaxwood in my neck of the woods so hopefully they'll be at the next guitar show in London so I can check one out

I have a Jackson JS11. I don't even know why I bought it.
>Picture related is just exactly like mine.
I bought it 2 years ago but I haven't touched it ever since. I never played guitar before so I'm a beginner. Is it a good guitar or should I just sell it and buy chicken tenders with the 40 dollars.

There's some truth but generally speaking the frets are usually poorly finished and tuning stability is bad. That means that you often sound out of tune and think that you're doing something wrong, because the strings are buzzing or something similar.

My point is that you should aim a step or two above the cheapest models so that you don't have to worry so much about the guitar and can focus on playing.

:P

I hope you got the Duncan TB-4 and not the SH-4. They're both the JB but the TB was made in mind for tremolo bridges.

Find a decent second hand guitar and have it set up properly by a professional. The drop off rate for new guitarists is high so there are always decent guitars for beginners at better prices.

Have any of you guys checked out hard luck kings guitars? They're dirt cheap and seem to only need a setup. Is doing that so hard its not worth it?

Useless 20 yr guitar veteran who never messed w necks and bridges here (besides my original Floyd)

To each their own.

Never heard of them

its the TB

Okay, makes a lot more sense now and I'll take your information on board. Thanks for replying.
As in by a guitar tech or something like that?

You can ask at a local music store they will have someone or recommend someone local. I don't always trust music store guys though, that's why I learned to do my own and wound up going to college to learn to build them.

Epiphone sg

Thanks for the info. Also that's cool as shit. Are you a full blown luthier now?

rolling

I'm trying but we had a joke at college.
Did you hear about the luthier who won the lottery?
He kept working until the money ran out.