Another guitar body and a Charvette neck.

[WeirdBits]

My first thought too, DK.

[dave.king1]

I do it all the time, save faffing around with finding a cable and waiting for windoze explorer to work its way to where it needs to be.

Using home wifi and a pretty big cap I always send the highest resolution by email so I can do what I want with it

[wazkelly]

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

[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.

[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.

[Simon Barden]

Good news about the neck pocket.

[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.