330 downloads. It won't win any awards for precision, looks or build quality, and I wouldn't want to use it on a premium build, but it's still a surprisingly serviceable unit. i intend to use 2 humbuckers and want the following positions: 1)bridge humbucker. Joined May 3, 2012 Posts 4,474 Location Rochester, NY. i intend to use 2 humbuckers and want the following positions: 1)bridge humbucker. I didn't know where they were made. Plywood is heavy, and even though many machines benefit from mass for stability and strength, I think a machine that isn't doing truly demanding work can be made a little leaner. You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format ; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material ; Under the following terms:The same article goes over how to use some acetone for jointing the binding as well. Floyd Rose inserts are 11/32. The typical kind of fast or slow cure epoxy unbonds easy enough with heat. . Ebony is a bit unstable but its wonderful to play on, so use a bit of oil and play on it often so the oils from your fingers work in. 5k. For the neck in particular the fretboard I used fret2find iirc you can put in all your sizes nut bridge etc (it doesn’t do eight strings so I used four) it gives you a PDF you can print to scale. . Prices for the 216U rolls and the lengths are as follows: 2-3/4 x 25 yds 80 grit = $30. First, usually you can mix the sawdust from routing out the inlay shapes and mix w/ glue to create a gap filler. A basic soapbar rout consists of a simple rectangle conforming to the pickup with a small gap around the outline and radiused corners that follow those of the pickup case. These fretboard designs are shown as 1 octave necks for clarity. That's only if they're off by a very little bit. These models are good quality and very collectible instruments, similar to. is mostly written in JavaScript with a low number of source code. Amsterdam, NL. The tuners you show in ebay have flat gear covers w/ pat. Not part of my GGBO video series, but it might be useful for someone, somewhere, sometime. I bet many others have battled with headstock shapes but I couldn`t find a good source for 7-string headstock. JoeAArthur. 6- Place your two desired scales at the ends of your perpendicular-fret line. There's several ways to fix that, a string guide being an option but not necessarily the best one. I think 4mm is a standard. It may be possible if the neck joint is not tight and you blob it up with a lot of glue like caulk, it could hinder the sound quality. Trem To Hardtail Conversion by Carl Maltby is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4. Red = north finish. Proper engraving takes hours. It is really a subjective measurement that depends on how much work you want to do. On this novax its way up the neck at like the 15th fret in order to be able to use a standard style bridge. The 24th fret is bang-on at 24". I have some Ethernet cable lying around and wondered if it would be ok. Since StewMac was down, I searched around and found this, which apparently has been mentioned (on this forum) quite a bit as well. No harm trying, though. You can sand the braces to the radius you aiming for and glue then on one by one forcing the plate to conform to the shape of the brace. Another good trick for amber-ing lacquer from Frank Ford - stick a sealed glass jar full of lacquer on your roof, or in your gutter, and let it sunbathe for a few weeks/months/years. But if possible I would like to mount them from the rear so that as little of the pickup shows as possible. For the clear coat: apply a fresh line of tape, this time exposing the sides while masking the fingerboard. Look at what Steve Vai does to his trems. Alder is a little less porous than maple and depending on the particular piece of wood may require differing degrees of preparation. vice. The circuit will easily drive a load of 10K or lower, so even long cable runs shouldn't be an issue. #6. Using Offline . This first image has all open strings set to the tonic 1/1, to clearly show the tonal system and fret spacings:Using that [ (R1)* (R2)]/ [R1+R2] equation, 2 500k resistors in parallel should give you an equivalent of 250k. org home; fretfind; sysex; computer FretFind2D is a web-based tool that allows you to design fretboards for microtonal and multi-scaled stringed instruments. dwg or *. 13. I am setting up a small friendly X-mas competition. Hondo is currently a company that produces entry-level electric guitars and basses, usually based on the designs of more expensive models such as the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul. 175" floor thickness). Posted April 18, 2010. Note the values on the pots. 5" scale, be it inches or millimetres or whichever unit you choose, the math there is quite. All our body blanks are joined, glued and precision sanded. Pyinkado's density is around the 900kg/m3 mark whereas IPE is around the 1000kg/m3 so IPE is slightly denser. Stew mac ain't the only place to get a hammer for fretting. Using Online The latest version of FretFind2D is available for your use online. 5- Draw lines at your nut for desired string spacing at nut. As long as the bridge is on proper working condition, set up properly, and you stretch the strings well before locking them in, you should have no problems. I have never seen pickup covers made out of it. A sled crosses over the bed, straddling both rails providing support for the router to mill stock fixed to the bed. I wanted to list the equipment I have available and find out what settings are needed to dial in the “classic rock” sound (Bad Company, AC/DC, Foreigner, Led Zeppelin, Ted Nugent etc). 3k Loveland Colorado; Interests: I have been a woodworker and luthier for over 35 years professionally and as a hobbyist. Ottawa/Gatineau Canada. I will probably end up swapping these around when i install them so the neck is the the bridge position, then i can call it a calibrated set I guess fender may have done it on purpose for there factory guitars (different models, different. FretFind2D is an excellent online tool to assist with laying out a graphical representation of a fret board based on some input parameters. I have no experience with grizzly products, but I know I'd be uncomfortable with the amount of runout in the front blank of the two shown. You'll take 1/2 your scale length and divide it by successive powers of 2 1/19. Titebond or acetone would not have the strength to hold the taught binding in place. These are useful for a number of reasons, not all of them related to scarfed joints. Virginia Swamps. I'm wondering about these Thomas & Ginex fret refinishing kits. None of the books I have list a length of peghead for the 58-59 model v- I measured my template purchased from guitarbuilding templates dot com and it mearsures 7 15/16' from tip to nut. Using epoxy on wide fret slots is pretty standard. 5mm longer on the Gotoh. They're close enough to within 1 or 2mm in any dimension, with the exception of the tail extension which appears to be 4. To test each coil, tap the long side of a metal screwdriver all along the magnets on the top of one coil. I think the bridge pickup connects to one tone pot, and the middle and neck pickups get fused. . Jigsaws follow surface plane material you're cutting, and since the blade is under no tension at the bottom of it's movement you'll quite easily cut too far into convex curves and not enough into concave as the blade eases out of the curve at the bottom slower than the top. But B ) if there's a gap in the upper bout and especially if the side around the heel is tilted or depressed inwards the heating and bending method may work. I tried using. I had one a couple of years ago for a while and really liked it, couldnt believe the quality of some of the woodwork for such a cheap 80's guitar. Yoshi Kikuchi is head of Sadowski guitars shop in Tokyo. Author. Posted April 14, 2005. even yellow glue will pick up the red color. My question: What gauge? I presently use Gibson's Vintage Reissue (. Exactly what is wrong with a battery and a small preamp built into the guitar. Welcome, @JAK! As @Charlie H 72 said, my current build has a bookmatched body made out of a trunk I got when they fell some trees in the yard of a block of flats- not my place but close enough. I bought it a few days ago and it cost me about £20. Published February 17, 2014. However, like you guys said a dust coat would probably work best and looks like the water based poly was the best bet for a Sharpie. Amp: Crate V33-212, volume-gain-level-treble-middle-bass-reverb (push button switches: channel, boost. (They're better than the Warmoth rod I tried on a friend's recommendation, & waaaaay better than those damn StewMac hotrods) From their website: width of rod at ends = . Because of this approach, it can design fretboards for instruments. FretFind2D is a two dimensional fretboard design tool. I just applied several light coats and used 0000 super fine steel wool before applying each coat. East Tennessee. NA. I use a clothes iron with a damp rag. it's a compression process that produces a sheet. That gives you a template for fret positions with. Bill, I guess those are the ones. Posted December 14, 2006. I haven' t been to the lumber yard in a while and I can't remember what Padauk is like in terms of weight and density. Part 2 covered the necessary formatting of the CAD design of a fretboard created with the FretFind2D web application, such that the milling process was safely executed without damage to the fragile endmills. Nothing on the fingerboard except a little lemon or linseed oil. Option 1: take the actual saddles out of a TOM, and replace them with a SINGLE piece of Tusq, shaped with a dremel tool so that it'd have "tabs" fitting into the slots where the saddles normally go. Its also quieter . See Details. Over time the lacquer will continue to shrink/cure and expose the grain. Since the heel is bolted (or glued) into the neck pocket, it's not receiving the same type of force. The out signal to the Speaker doesn't work. Some alder is tighter grained and may not. Tech Area. ;-) I understand the witness lines created by sanding through one layer into the underlying layer(s)-- but the comments about t Mar 23, 2012. Just finished applying (sprinkle technique) fine silver metal flake and sealing the flake with 2K. There are 8 wires in the cable in 4 twisted pairs. 000" to . Example- I may drop a rosette in place, or join binding strips and remove the clamps after a couple hours. 1 5/16" nut (3/16" thick otherwise wheels wont lign up) $. Then I sand the fingerboard with 24 grit and go work by way up to 150. However, after following all the usual lacquer spraying rituals (lots of can shaking, 12ish light/medium coats spread out over the course of a week or so with some mild level sanding in between, ventilated indoor spray booth at moderate temps and approx 40% humidity, let it dry for about 2 weeks before assembling) this finish is still the. By curtisa. . My next project is a Les Paul, mahogany body 1 3/4" thick, carved bookmatched padauk top 5/8" thick, Mahogany neck, Rosewood board 12" radius 25 1/2" scale. FretFind2D is a fretboard designer for microtonal and multi-scaled stringed instruments. . These simply press into an eight inch pilot hole and are reinforced with a drop of CA glue. 1. 5, you'll get the length of the fretboard to the 24th fret. john. Then, using double sided tape, nails, whatever you have around, secure the 1/8” template onto the rough cut ¾” MDF one. 5. You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format ; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material ; Under the following terms:Take a piece of cardboard or plastic and draw the radius on it. Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat. and I believe the 670 millimeters template = 26. In this, the third and final article we will finally use the jigs and CAD/CAM files and complete the milling of a fretboard on the CNC. Comprehensive fretboard calculator and modelling tool. 5" scale, be it inches or millimetres or whichever unit you choose, the math there is quite. Things is, the Floyd Rose is wider. Closer for hardwoods and furher back for softwoods. . #2. LR Baggs CTRL-X: Similar technology, but different approach. and I believe the 670 millimeters template = 26. Measurements. It's not going to be a 100% replica, but no big changes, either. Voltage varies from 0. There is more than enough to complete a guitar. Seems to match your pic. The spacing all falls down to what the guy prefers, basses range from 15mm to 20mm spacing at bridge and 7-10mm spacing at nut. People use instant glue all the time to fix chips or fill a small ding or missing chip on the fret board. Jeremy, you can't successfully grainfill with lacquer. Will be much safer and less work and probably cheaper than building your own. 3)bridge +neck humbucker. The 100 (39") cm long, 70 cm (27") diameter trunk stood on my yard for about half a year or longer, winter and summer, snow and heat. Sort of a bipolar disorder kind of thing for you fans of mental disorders. a relic'd tele with a smugglers route, and a hidden hot rail. Travel. A good scarf would probably be stronger than a flat headstock even. I've always found it easier to route the truss rod channel after i've done the neck taper, so I can find the exact center of the neck where both anchors. Both labour intensife, but I don't want to cut it form solid! 3) I can laminate it form 3 or 4 layers of veneer. File down the pearl close to the board and them radius block sand the rest. Then a quick, firm rubbing with a rag wetted with a very small amount of acetone. Mattia. If the FB is a darker wood you have no issues if you use it as strips in a light colored neck or a topper on a light colored body only scraping will allow you to clean and level the joint without it looking like red dye seeped into the other side. Posted August 1, 2007. The neck is now straight, with virtually no relief. I really appreciate that Sweetwater put that warning label on the box. The picture needs to be as "straight on" to the guitar as possible- no angle shots etc. The specs for the M6 locking tuners give . And of course the Ibanez site is down, so I can't link to their wiring diagram, but if I understand what Petrucci uses, it breaks down like this: Position 1 : Bridge coil A + bridge coil B in series (std humbucker) Position 2 : Bridge coil B + neck coil A in parallel. If they're too crooked, it's probably futile to even try saving it. guitar2005. 4)bridge+neck single coil. I, however, would much rather have you looking at my new development. FretFind2D. Posted February 26, 2014. Posted October 20, 2008. Slotted. Step 1-stain black and let it sit for a few hours to be really dry or leave it overnight. Nov 16, 2017 #1 Has anyone used this? I. It models the entire fretboard, strings and frets, as a system of line segments on a two dimensional plane. This does however lend itself to long chips when frets are pulled. 1. It models the entire fretboard, strings and frets, as a system of line segments on a two dimensional plane. crop the picture if there is any background "stuff" going on. legit (as far as piracy. What options do I have for cutting out the body. (the more the "white" maple shows through) Step 3--seal the guitar and spray a few coats of clear. I always leave a little shell over the top of the wood. But the perpendicular fret is more often around the 6th, 7th, or 8th fret, not the 12th. in the case of a tele bridge you would include the bridge plate thickness as well. Two things: first of all, . But you can also use a 3-way mini-switch to select which signals are being used (mag/piezo/blend) 2. 2mm enamel copper wire. It, of course, could be used to design any sort. Gotoh GE1996T dimensions. Quote from Jim Halls Sadowski guitar. The role of the truss rod is to counteract the pull of the strings on the neck. Dean tells some measurements on their site like scale length (625mm) and nut width (43mm). A bunch has been written about this, and lots and lots of builders use various variations on X-bracing for backs. workholding. As the title says, I need to replace the truss rod nut in my guitar (late 90's ESP LTD M-207); it's been slowly wearing away for years (got it used, was mostly stripped already); it's finally past where I can use any standard tool to get it to turn. Violin makers go to great lengths to seal the soundboard surface before using an oil varnish, which doesn't soak in nearly as much as a turp/tung oil (or some other drying oil) hand rubbed finish. Posted January 5, 2018. Because of this. I bought some of their Panel Wipe. 9k. 16" is cutting it very close, I would recommend a 20" radius for a 6-string bass. Gonna piggy-back on this thread for my own question. A. A Luthier's Workbench Pt. If you have a link to the schematic for the amp, that would help. So I decided to build a few guitars in the spirit of Ibanez and not exact replicas. 5 with the first fret cut off, so you could purchase a pre-slotted fender scale from stew mac or somewhere like that and cut off the first fret. Did someone try to mount the PRS Gen II screws with SE bridge on a SE Custom 22? Guitar Of The Month winners! Guitar Of The Month Entry/Vote archive. Add a bit more (about 5-10 mm) to get the full length of the fretboard. The schematic indicates that each inductor is connected to terminal 5 of the Varitone assembly (the thin, blue 8-legged component on the back of the switch, one for each pickup). If you have Rhino why are you still using Fretfind2D. 047uF capacitor anyway. It is my understanding that Bloomfield and other guitarists would replace the "E" and/or "G" string with a banjo string. Recon stone is real semiprecious stone of various types that is crushed into powdered form, and mixed with epoxies. It's likely that the decision for some manufacturers to ground the bridge with their own brand of active pickups is more to do with backwards compatibility with other pickups. 2)bridge single coil. Just wrap it until you get around 8 Ohms, and then solder some wire on to the ends of the wrapped wire. This would be the range of Jazz guitars down to the lowly Fender Musicmaster. buying. Please note, however, that. If you want to bring the shine back to the pearl, use 0-0-0-0 steel wool. Terminal 5 on the Varitone looks like it is counted from the end marked with the red dot. Most Planes are bevel down since the chip breaker needs to be adjusted close to the back of the blades edge for different woods. 85mm lower groove, but the Studs are told to be the same on both posts. My precision mitre box goes to 45 degrees and my bandsaw. 013/. Happily, this is not difficult. Professional Luthier. Calculates the frequency of notes in hertz using the 12 th root of two. 05, not less than 1% . Let the paint dry and then trace around the pickguard with a sharp exacto knife or a scalpel to break the paint between the guard and the guitar body. Yet another option to get rid of string trees is the tuners: At least Gotoh make staggered-height six-in-line sets where the length of the posts decreases towards the end of the headstock. I didn't know where they were made. 07". Fretfind is your friend. Glue the fretboard on, making sure that it stays within the pattern you drew out at all times. . R = 22,000. Most Planes are bevel down since the chip breaker needs to be adjusted close to the back of the blades edge for different woods. 003" range. ","Because of this approach, it can design fretboards for instruments with ","multiple scale lengths and non-parallel frets ","as well as fretboards for instruments that play just or meantone scales. Author. On Strats, the fretboard thickness can go from 3/16" to 1/4", depending on the model. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. You want the maximum stability in relation to the scale length. PRS doesn't sell the originals screws of the SE bridge separately, only the bridge kit, but they told me that the Gen II USA screws fit just fine. Align the bridge sideways and so the strings will stay within the neck and mark the screw centers carefully with an awl before drilling. Got a Used "Bendmaster Deluxe" Tremolo Which I want to know if it is Complete. Also, the ability to bolt together and adjust an extrusion-based machine should allow it to be fine tuned if/when it requires. 98746 to bridge) and I believe that to be very close to a 27" scale. For the neck in particular the fretboard I used fret2find iirc you can put in all your sizes nut bridge etc (it doesn’t do eight strings so I used four) it gives you a PDF you can print to scale. Posted January 21, 2006 (edited) So, on the V that I am building (6-string, 25"-scale, 24 frets, Mahogany/Maple neck-thru, Ebony fretboard), I am about to route the pickup cavities (for EMG-81 and EMG-85). Found it at TPB but u/red_magnificent claimed that the uploader tends to inject viruses in software so I went to 1337x and found the torrent I was looking for uploaded by FTUApps(dot)Dev. Developing practical personal working areas is a common issue to the complete beginner and seasoned builder alike. 050), but am switching to . Malachite looks just like real stone. If it's only slight, you might be able to widen the slots and epoxy the frets into place. About that anyway. Posted October 1, 2004. . 014 thru . If you're just having one humbucker, put it in the bridge position and have done with it. This link will give you the parameters I think would make a good fretboard for a 512mm scale length Link to fretfind2d. Interests:Guitar necks!! Posted June 6, 2005. But I guess I do now! MUHot off the press from G&W in Portugal is this compact solution to rough-radiusing fingerboards quickly using your router. A structural material made of layers of wood glued together, usually with the grains of adjoining layers at right angles to each other. By KnotheadII, December 21, 2004 in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat. Posted August 29, 2010. Polycrylic: 10 coats, 5 minutes between coats. The scale length is from the nut to the bridge. The very strong magnets, neodymium, samarium colbalt, and. I don't think epoxy has a decent bond around fret tangs, if the gap is only around the . One of my previous builds used the fixed version of this bridge, and despite the quirks and foibles, (some words on the subject here), it's actually not too bad. But I'd be more worried about it breaking somewhere else if it fell because of the headstock angle. Posted February 25, 2008. Robban Sahrling from Ares Guitars a fellow Swedish Luthier, uses Oak as a fretboard wood a lot with good results. As atividades deste canal são patrocinadas pela G2A, os melhores jogos ORIGINAIS por um preço inacreditável: passo. Now sand the fret board to match the radius on the template you just made. The jig consists of two parts; the sliding router base and a lower sled. All of them made the sharpie run. 791 is approximately 13 51/64" (rounding up) or 13 79/100". Fretfind2d. This is a follow up to my previous TPB question. An additional hurdle is working with the non-flat surfaces found on acoustics, carved tops or simple arm contours. (We’ll be making a quick mock-up of the body in. This is used to control the angle of the nut, frets and bridge. Be very careful doing this. Just 3/16 mild steel rod, brass acorn nut (drilled thru and threaded) and anchor block out of 3/8" bolt section. Since I usually work on a Mac, the javascript on this site comes in handy. Mounting Pickups On Rear Routed Strat. With a standard fret template, accommodating fretboard tapers and width's is easy. 136. Your E strings will be too close to the edge of the neck or to the fret ends, making it difficult to play at times. The oil content is minimal and overall the product is made for those who don't know anything about oil finishing. If it is still there wait 2 weeks and wet sand again if you want it completely gone. 050), but am switching to . One of the marker holes was a few thou" too deep. By the time I reach 80 grit I'm 100% radiused. Volutes. When that is dried, I can remove the tape. That way, when you turn this pickup down it won't kill the volume from the other controls. But to sand the radius into the rims, you'll need a dish. workbench. From looking at the RG550 wiring diagram, and assuming that the switch is the same as in my S540LTD, then the red would be hot and the white would be the coil tap. My notched straight edge was not as straight as I thought, and when I finished with all my work, the string tension lifted the whole neck slightly up and now I got it exactly where it should be. 2)bridge single coil. It models the entire fretboard, strings and frets, as a system of line segments on a two dimensional plane. I dont have a bandsaw and really dont have access to one. Please try. The thicker fretboard allows you to plane the fretboard a little more when down the road, IF you get the usual Fender hump at the neck joint. I was doing some CBG research and came across this. Author. Works like a charm. -Overhang, this is the space of fretboard outside of the E and E strings. Posted December 19, 2008. Also note there are screws and plate which are adjusted for the rough tension in the belt shown below. I also bought the flanged ferrules, dunno why, and was very tempted to countersink them using a dremel. The only reason to really use epoxy adhesive is because it is a much better gap filler than wood glue, but of course you may end up seeing the joint very easily as JP said. Twin Cities, MN USA. My question: What gauge? I presently use Gibson's Vintage Reissue (. Lots of good info there, check it out. I checked their website and everything looks. Thanks. 2. 130. If you can set a stop depth, you should do that, too. If you spray heavy black you might just be using a razor or exacto to scrape the inlay clean. You can pull an individual string that is slightly flat in a barr chord say at the fifth fret. clamp. . Published by Prostheta. The only thing it does not have is a tremolo. You'll take 1/2 your scale length and divide it by successive powers of 2 1/19. The string spacing is 74mm string-to-string at the bridge and 49. It won't win any awards for precision, looks or build quality, and I wouldn't want to use it on a premium build, but it's still a surprisingly serviceable unit. Denver. Report album. There IS a blend, but it's a mini trim pot on the circuit (inside the control cavity after mounting). CAD is not too far removed from this, and adds many layers of powerful use on top of traditional drafting. ? Here's how I do multi-scales in Rhino: 1- Go to the stewmac site and use their fret calculator to find the. hope this helps, john. 6)neck humbucker. These calculators differ only in the units used to measure. Get 10% off FretFind2D Pro, the advanced version of the popular guitar fretboard visualization software. The dimensions are for a 7 string baritone guitar with a 34" scale. . . If so, the contact area of such in a flat bottom slot would be much smaller than with a flat base nut. Based on the images on the link @curtisa sent the bridge seems to be in the ballpark and also the right way, the adjusting screws facing the neck. Permanent magnets might have a low or high permeablity. Then, using double sided tape, nails, whatever you have around, secure the 1/8” template onto the rough cut ¾” MDF one. Granted you might not get the life you are getting out of the 255L but the rolls are a lot longer and the prices cheaper so you might want to see how they work. ","Because of this approach, it can design fretboards for instruments. Not exact but close. A bandsaw is thé machine you need for cutting out a body. Boost gain is adjustable from 0dB (no boost) to 25dB (Killer mids) Great for clean and distortion tones. First off i make sure all my binding fits and hold it in place with tape, sometimes the sharper bends need a bit of heat from a hair dryer to help them stay in place. If you lay a piece of steel over the frets, you can use a regular steel carpenters hammer. To the best of my knowledge, the frets are placed the same for steel or nylon strings however steel strings need more saddle and nut compensation than nylon strings due to the stiffness of steel strings. File Size 38. Copper is part of the chrome plating process though so you might want to contact the manufacturers to ask if they will stop at the copper stage. Now take your 1/8” hardboard template and trace that onto a piece of ¾” MDF with a centerline. The neck thickness is 21mm in the middle of the first. From his suggestions the Wilkinson wiring colours appear to be: Black = south start. Hey Friends! Has anyone purchased the Hot Rod Low-profile 2-Way Truss Rod, 18" overall length from StewMac and installed it with the adjustment at the headstock instead of the heal? The instructions show that you should install it for adjustment at the heal. 0 International License. File down the pearl close to the board and them radius block sand the rest. The best bet is to make flat & true joint surfaces and use wood glue. View Sale. The range features two versions - the 3x3-03 with 15. 919" from the nut to the end of the neck, and 7. FretFind2D gives you the tables of key data on the web page. Thanks, although I just got back from the motor factor. It will work.