It's an absolute dream to play! I can't even believe what came out of it the first night I brought it to a jam session. It's the best thing I've ever owned.
Type: Posts; User: Joe Garfield
It's an absolute dream to play! I can't even believe what came out of it the first night I brought it to a jam session. It's the best thing I've ever owned.
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I got my first American made guitar, and holy Moses what a difference!
It’s a grand concert so a little smaller than a dreadnaught or OOO, but still with a full sized scale length and...
I think it makes sense to not leave clamped for too long. This is just an engineer's educated guess, but when you clamp the wood is compressed, and when you release the wood expands. So releasing the...
When the finish on your guitar comes out better than the finish on the chrome hardware, you know you're doing something right!
Nice work!
Sorry to hear about this. I had a similar disappointing issue with my first kit, too.
I found this on StewMac's website regarding ColorTone dye:
"For applying transparent color-tinted coats,...
Thanks for sharing this. I want to build a scratch guitar and would prefer not to buy a bandsaw. I'm glad to know using a jig saw is at least painless enough that you've done it more than once.
The green wire might be the bridge ground - that goes to the bridge post to ground the strings.
One thing I'm really liking about the guitar building is that, no matter how long of a break I take, it's always just how I left it. :)
Although, wondering where you put your DIY pedal kit, then...
That Thomann guitar was probably the prettiest guitar I've ever personally handled; I was blown away taking it out of the box. But within 30 minutes I had a return authorization going :(
You get...
Sauce on a steak like that is like running a vintage tube amp through a modeler.
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I received parts today. I swapped the shafts between two pots so I could retain original resistance value and use all matching shafts and knobs. One pot is a CTS 25k solid shaft, one is 500k knurled...
Edit: I saw a pic of the Skyscraper tool and figured it would be way more expensive - their stuff looks VERY nice and reasonable, too! Nice link, Doc!
I got this straight edge which has Gibson...
Hi BD,
Nice work so far! I loved the cheeky rubdown - that guitar will look beautiful.
What is the purpose of the plywood? Is that for stability?
And maybe you've seen these before, but since...
Edit: I think I was mistaken again - sorry, trying to learn and help at the same time. It's confusing because there are so many variations of essentially the same thing. I just can't wrap my head...
Edit: sorry, I missed your original comment about the tone pot grounding.
Yes, a bird's eye view would help.
The one difference I see between your schematic and the PRS one is that the tone...
Also, typically the capacitor goes between volume outer/signal input lug, and the middle lug on the tone pot. Then the outer 'output' of the tone pot goes to ground on the tone pot casing. Then there...
It looks like your .047 capacitor is going through the volume pot lug then grounding on the casing.
Signal from switch should come into volume pot on outer lug. Capacitor should be on same outer...
I ended up building a BYO Clone Screamer. Then I built a compressor. I also built a couple tube headphone/stereo amps! I’m eager to get back to guitars.
Thanks everyone! Yeah I’m learning to live with it. Actually I love it =D
Then this happened! And I love it, too.
Now I have what I always wanted and it feels pretty good. It sounds pretty...
So it’s getting the new pickups, all new CTS/Dimarzio potentiometers, including a push-pull pot for (partial) coil splitting, a 'treble bleed' capacitor, and a Switchcraft switch. I live on an island...
And here’s the guitar completely gutted:
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Before I got this guitar, I was in the process of building a few kits. For one of those kits I somehow talked myself into buying a set of PRS 58/07 pickups. So of course it’s been on the back of my...
Here’s a pic of what the corroded washer left behind. It was not easy to clean that up! I tried rubbing gently with vinegar but it just wasn’t working. So I scraped it off, which of course left some...
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I got this guitar in October. It’s a PRS SE, made in China in PRS’s acoustic factory. It’s a full hollowbody, built like an acoustic, and very light and resonant. It’s very, very nice, but...