Another guitar body and a Charvette neck.

[DrNomis_44]

Assuming you have WiFi why not connect your phone and email it to yourself and retrieve on the PC

I guess I could try that, but I don't have any internet credit on my Samsung Galaxy Y phone, and I don't have enough money to buy some, I could see if I can connect it to my Laptop via bluetooth, and then I could transfer the pics from the Galaxy Y phone onto my Laptop via bluetooth (both the Laptop and Galaxy Y phone have bluetooth connectivity) and then post it here, although the image quality won't be as good as the camera, I've been looking for my Digital Camera all afternoon and it's looking like it is well and truly lost, and I don't have the foggiest idea where it is.

Alright then, I'll see if I can use my Samsung Galaxy Y phone and the Laptop computer to get the pics sorted out for you guys, I'll post them here once it's all sorted.


Note that this may take a bit of time because my Galaxy Y phone is complaining that it's memory simcard is full up, and I'm trying to work out how to free up it's memory, it's an Android phone and it is running very slow and clunky, the OS is apparently a hacked version of the Gingerbread Android OS from what I've read online, my guess is that the memory simcard is full up of apps that I don't use, or are unusable cause they don't run very well.


Update:

I think I've got it all sorted now, just need to re-size the pics before I can post them for you guys.


Here we go, some pics for you to check out:


This is the second guitar body that I was given by my classmate:




And this is the Charvette neck I was given with the guitar body:





Here's a closeup of the headstock of the Charvette neck:





I'll see if I can take a closeup pic of the Kahler bridge that's installed on the guitar body.


Here's a closeup of the Kahler bridge installed on the body, you can also see the Shadow active bridge pickup too:





I've got no idea what all the control pots do though.


Note that I installed the Chrome Kahler String Lock on the Charvette neck after I got it home from uni.

[Simon Barden]

I guess I could try that, but I don't have any internet credit on my Samsung Galaxy Y phone,

If you've got a Wi-Fi connection for your laptop (you've obviously got a non-mobile phone based internet connection available as you are posting stuff), so if you connect your phone to your own Wi-Fi, then you won't be using the phone's data service to connect to the internet and won't need any credit. You've obviously got on OK using Bluetooth, but bear it in mind for the future.

[Simon Barden]

Square-ended neck and round-ended neck cavity on the body, but you should be able to do something about that. Just check the scale length before you screw everything together, just in case the original body had a 24-fret neck fitted.

[DrNomis_44]

Square-ended neck and round-ended neck cavity on the body, but you should be able to do something about that. Just check the scale length before you screw everything together, just in case the original body had a 24-fret neck fitted.

The square end of the neck is actually the edge of the fretboard overhang, the neck heal underneath it is actually rounded and fits the neck pocket pretty well.

[DrNomis_44]

If you've got a Wi-Fi connection for your laptop (you've obviously got a non-mobile phone based internet connection available as you are posting stuff), so if you connect your phone to your own Wi-Fi, then you won't be using the phone's data service to connect to the internet and won't need any credit. You've obviously got on OK using Bluetooth, but bear it in mind for the future.

Might give that a go later on, but my Galaxy Y phone is running a bit sluggishly, might need to do an OS re-install (shuddering at the thought of that).


What I think I will try doing is a factory hard reset of my Galaxy Y phone just to get it working a bit better, everytime I boot it up it displays error messages about Google Play and that it has stopped working, I do remember trying to download updates for my Galaxy Y phone and the updates failed to install properly, it also complains that it's memory is full too (probably explains why it runs so sluggishly).


I do seem to remember trying to send files from my Galaxy Y phone to my Desktop PC via WiFi, but I couldn't get it to work at all, on the other hand, I had a lot more success with getting the Galaxy Y phone to connect to my Laptop via bluetooth, just wished the Galaxy Y phone wasn't so sluggish when booted up, and yes it was fully charged up too.


Update:


I just finished doing a hard factory reset of my Galaxy Y phone and it seems to have sorted it out, haven't had any of those annoying error messages popping up so far, fortunately I haven't lost any of the pic files though.

[Simon Barden]

Good news about the neck pocket.

[DrNomis_44]

Yeah, have to agree with you Dave as I take all my shots on an iPhone 4 and then email up to 5 shots at a time to my gmail address then upload to PGB forum from anywhere. Just need to have access to something to resize shots so that they are less than 1500 x1500

I use a bit of software called Irfanview to resize all the pics I post in threads, i resize them to 1500 X 1250 and that seems to work fine for me, not sure if there's a version of Irfanview for iOS but I think there's a Mac OS version.

[DrNomis_44]

Just been doing a quick Google search to find out what type of Kahler bridge is installed on the body, and apparently it is the Kahler Fulcrum bridge, but the one shown in the pic has string saddles with piezo-electric pickups on them.


Also, I decided to go ahead and take a few more pics of the body and the neck to post here for you guys, will post them in this thread shortly so stay tuned.


Here's a pic of the back of the neck heel,showing the fretboard overhang:





Here's a closeup pic of the back of the trem spring cavity, you can see the signal-wires for the string saddle piezo-electric pickups near where the springs anchor to the sustain block:




And finally, here's a closeup of the control cavity PCB that contains the active circuitry:

[wazkelly]

Looks pretty high tech. Hope that the surface rust on some of the hardware does not mean corrosion has also found it's way into those electronics.

[DrNomis_44]

Looks pretty high tech. Hope that the surface rust on some of the hardware does not mean corrosion has also found it's way into those electronics.

As far as I can tell, the electronics seems to look fine, the circuit board looks to have been coated with a fine layer of lacquer to protect the copper tracks from corrosion, the 9 V battery holder looks to be made from brass which gives it a greenish colour.

I'm in the process of deciding what I'm going to do with the neck and the body, the body needs to be re-finished because there are some obvious cracks where the finish has lifted up from the body wood, I was thinking of stripping all the finish off the body and then re-doing the finish in an EVH 5150 Red/Black?White Striped style, if I do that then I might see if I can get a Kramer-Style "Banana Headstock" neck that'll fit the neck pocket, and then replace the original Trem bridge with a Floyd Rose bridge, the Charvette neck could then go on the other body (it seems to fit pretty well), this is just still in the debating-it-in-my-head phase, and my plans for it could change.