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White Dog Eggs posted:Reinforce the poo poo out of the neck, corian doesn't like to flex too much! I have enough of the stuff I could make the whole neck out of corian If I wanted to. I have enough to make a body as well but it would weigh a ton. I have a fretless neck already that has a ebonol fretboard. I'm all for alternative materials and construction techniques. Mostly because it's funny to see the blues dads lose their poo poo about it. The coolest forum for that has been the TDPRI forums while the yearly build off is going on. Guys there are building bodies out of anything they can get their hands on.
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Dirt posted:All Strats/Teles should be Antigua or Surf Green with maple. That sure is a weird way to spell Daphne blue
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Weird BIAS posted:Wow Paul McCartney is a prick. What's he done now?
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Shugojin posted:That sure is a weird way to spell Daphne blue Also acceptable. Also Olympic White. Antigua is really the best option though
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Allen Wren posted:What's he done now? Concatenation posted:Bluesdads + IoSM + MILLENNNIIAALLLLLSSSSSS
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Dec 8, 2016 03:36
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Shugojin posted:That sure is a weird way to spell Daphne blue Shell Pink. 
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Dec 8, 2016 03:38
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what's all this happy horseshit about strat colors that aren't black on black with maple fretboard
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Dec 8, 2016 04:02
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The Muppets On PCP posted:what's all this happy horseshit about strat colors that aren't black on black with maple fretboard Black is a terrible color though Antigua dude 
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Dec 8, 2016 04:03
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Shugojin posted:That sure is a weird way to spell Daphne blue but that's velma not daphne also it's kinda tacky but i really like rondo's oceanburst and i've been debating a custom LP from them for a while now...
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Dec 8, 2016 04:09
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The Muppets On PCP posted:what's all this happy horseshit about strat colors that aren't black on black with maple fretboard Bleh black or sunburst always makes me think of babbys first guitar. I'm all in for surf green or Daphne blue. Also the best fender shape is always always jaguar
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Dec 8, 2016 04:11
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The Muppets On PCP posted:what's all this happy horseshit about strat colors that aren't black on black with maple fretboard I want this with a hard tail. How hosed am I?
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Shugojin posted:That sure is a weird way to spell FTFY
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Dec 8, 2016 06:54
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Thumposaurus posted:I'll put some graphite rods in it when I do it. Sweet... What colour is it? I got some 'Aztec Gold' Corian a while back, makes great nuts but it looks like vomit. No one wants vomit coloured nuts  .TDPRI forums are pretty cool, probably the best guitar forum around. One of the forums I go on just had a bunch of people leave because ~*tonewood*~ (the original thread was about someone using rosewood for a p-90 bobbin, then someone started making one out of oak offcuts and it went nutty). Barnaby Rudge fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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Dec 8, 2016 08:08
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Guys. I think we can all agree that this is the One True Strat finish:
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White Dog Eggs posted:Sweet... What colour is it? I got some 'Aztec Gold' Corian a while back, makes great nuts but it looks like vomit. No one wants vomit coloured nuts Solid white and a blue/black with specks of white and other blues in it. The blue one is the one I'd use for the fretboard of course.
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Dec 8, 2016 18:25
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I got carried away playing today and after a few hours callouses began to turn to painful blisters upon blisters, so I took a break and had a clear out. I stumbled upon something I was sent a year ago and never got round to doing anything with. Now fixed. 
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GreatGreen posted:Guys. I think we can all agree that this is the One True Strat finish: If it didn't have that tacky-rear end gold hardware on it I'm really not that mad compared to some of the other poo poo I've seen in here
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GreatGreen posted:Guys. I think we can all agree that this is the One True Strat finish: Looks like some of the older Carvin custom ordered stuff 
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:I got carried away playing today and after a few hours callouses began to turn to painful blisters upon blisters, so I took a break and had a clear out. I stumbled upon something I was sent a year ago and never got round to doing anything with. Now fixed. I love these so much, I send them out with wiring harnesses/pickups as a freebie. Weirdass guitar time! Microfrets Orbirter  Apparently this is a "50's Multivox Custom" 
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Dec 8, 2016 22:44
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Dirt posted:Antigua dude 
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Dec 8, 2016 23:14
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The first fret block inlay is another crime against humanity
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So I bought this Aria yesterday for silly cheap, thinking it was an old original.... it isn't. Apparently they made them again around 2010? Anyway it feels, sounds and plays nice, I'm thinking it should go sonic blue? Don't really like dark guitars. Any suggestions for interesting humbucker sized pickups? I was considering GFS gold foils.....
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Dec 9, 2016 01:29
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Why are the p90s not cutting it?
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Remulak posted:Why are the p90s not cutting it? They're not bad, but maybe a guitar like this should be more jangly/airy/jazzmastery?
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Dec 9, 2016 01:38
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TheChaosPath posted:The first fret block inlay is another crime against humanity I can't get enough inlay. 
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Sockington posted:I can't get enough inlay. Oh dear.
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Sockington posted:I can't get enough inlay. That's the guitar version of a keyboard tie.
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This one is more audio hipster than instrument hipster, but I don't know where the kickstarter nonstarters have gone. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pinkdonut/rokblok-a-new-spin-on-vinyl When you absolutely want to hear the doppler effect on every record you play, probably while destroying your albums as well.
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It's not even a new concept. https://youtu.be/aIwkhBiROQ4
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re: synthetic woods for guitars. oboes and clarinets have been using synthetic materials (or in higher end instruments, basically sawdust/resin slurry) for years now as a result of the increasing expense and the rediculously sketchy nature of grednadilla harvesting, and frankly they sound fine. Like in guitars, I'd argue that the quality of construction, especially that of your reed/pickups (as well as your embouchure/technique/etc) have as much, if not more with your sound than the actual materials themselves. Electric guitars are a cheap consumer item as much as they are musical instruments, and it's dumb as gently caress to me that guitarists don't really want to acknowledge that.
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Octatonic posted:Electric guitars are a cheap consumer item as much as they are musical instruments, and it's dumb as gently caress to me that guitarists don't really want to acknowledge that. it's part dumb obstinacy on the consumer end but more importantly wood is still cheap once that's over with, we'll see a bigger push toward engineered and synthetic materials
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The Muppets On PCP posted:but more importantly wood is still cheap Maybe. But not tone woodz.
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KozmoNaut posted:It's not even a new concept. At least the people making that had a funny gimmick. Octatonic posted:Electric guitars are a cheap consumer item as much as they are musical instruments, and it's dumb as gently caress to me that guitarists don't really want to acknowledge that. If you spend enough money you can pretend you are a legit musician.
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White Dog Eggs posted:I love these so much, I send them out with wiring harnesses/pickups as a freebie. of all the elements of this guitar, I can't stop staring at that tiny piece of scratchplate at the top
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Octatonic posted:Electric guitars are a cheap consumer item as much as they are musical instruments, and it's dumb as gently caress to me that guitarists don't really want to acknowledge that. I'm with you for the most part but I think that's unfair to many of the small builders making amazing guitars full of hard work and personal touch at every level. When it comes to $2,500 Les Pauls coming off the factory though, yeah. It's silly.
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They really hosed up by not making it 4H-green.
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Schpyder posted:just give me ebony or one of those dope composite materials unlawfulsoup posted:That said, not the biggest fan of richlite. Richlite is great. I was a skeptic based on the idea (and out of schadenfreude towards Gibson for being tea-party shitbirds and importing illegal ebony) until I played a couple of high-end acoustics in a row thinking they all had ebony boards. It's just perfectly smooth, dense, and black. For my next bass build I'm going to do entirely domestic & sustainable woods, but the fingerboard options are pretty crappy under those conditions, and the build won't really make sense with anything other than ebony. (Otherwise it's going to be alder, walnut, ash, and reclaimed sinker redwood.) I'm going to go with Richlite, and my luthier is super into it. I just can't spec exotic woods anymore. Dirt posted:It's 2016. How do we not have cool carbon fiber or titanium fretboards that never break/chip/dry out? https://www.parkerguitars.com DEUCE SLUICE fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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