I6's First Guitar Build

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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The guitar looks great! BUt for some reason the videos on this forum aren't working for me..... wtf...

[ImmortalSix]

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The guitar looks great! BUt for some reason the videos on this forum aren't working for me..... wtf...

Here is a link: http://youtu.be/akrwo8SYACI?hd=1

And a re-embed:

[ImmortalSix]

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I caught that clip on youtube before I saw it here, I was impressed that you pulled it off, granted, the electronics are missing but the guitar is pretty much built.

Awesome, and thank you!

Yeah, we're not quite to the finish line yet, but we're on the home stretch.

[Tor]

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That's awesome! That looks like a guitar I would be really tempted to play. Cool to have an instrument so personal.

[woemoejack]

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The unplugged timbre and projection of that guitar is outstanding. You should be immensely proud. I can't remember what your plans were for the pickguard though. Going for a traditional shape and color?

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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oh, I it said I didn't have adobe flash and no vids on youtube are working... lol

[ImmortalSix]

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That's awesome! That looks like a guitar I would be really tempted to play. Cool to have an instrument so personal.

Thanks! Yeah, now that I feel it in my hands and against my body, I'm thinking, "man, I should have built this 10 years ago."

It just feels super, super right.

Maybe one day I will tailor guitar shapes to people - have them come in for "a sitting" and let them hold and feel a hundred different shapes of bodies and necks, and go from there on a perfect custom for them.

Since I actually played it yesterday, now I am strongly considering a Stratocaster style forearm contour. It's fun to dial things in like this, especially while its unfinished.

[ImmortalSix]

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The unplugged timbre and projection of that guitar is outstanding. You should be immensely proud. I can't remember what your plans were for the pickguard though. Going for a traditional shape and color?

Let me see if I can mock up a pickguard real quick.

I designed a good one, but glued my only paper copy to MDF to make the template.

When I was making the template, I had what could be best described as "a colossal kludge" and ruined both the template and the only existing drawing of the pickguard design.

So I am back at square one. Stand by

edit: nevermind, going to need to trace this on paper using real pickguards as a guideline. My attempt in PowerPoint was terrible

[bluesbend]

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It keeps getting better.

[Hoss]

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My wife could tell you - I was grinning like an idiot!

Thanks Hoss!

hahaah...i would be too!

[tc]

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Yes! Forearm contour FTW.

I'm definitely seeing a daphne blue, no contour, double bound, no guard, double P90 with cutoff Tele bridge in my hands from you within the next decade my friend.

[Laughing Kookaburra]

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I'm really interested in how the P90 will work. I like the idea of it being a modifier more than a generator. Brian Eno like, if you get my meaning!

[ImmortalSix]

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I'm really interested in how the P90 will work. I like the idea of it being a modifier more than a generator. Brian Eno like, if you get my meaning!

I am actually pretty interested too. I will be needing some serious help from you guys on that.

Here is the schema I want:

- 3 knobs, 1 switch (a Gibson-style 3 way toggle)

Knob 1: Master Volume
Knob 2: Master Tone
Knob 3: Blender to bring P90 up and down in the mix
Switch: Neck - Neck+Bridge - Bridge

So basically, I want it to be a regular MV / MT / 3 way Telecaster setup --- and the P90's only interface is with that blender pot.

Questions:

- Will the Master Volume and Master Tone affect the P90 as well?

- Is that a choice I can make, or do all blender pot circuits operate with the pickup-on-the-blender pot being independent of the other potentiometers?

- If they don't, should I have the P90 independent from the MV and MT, or under their influence?

Who the hell knows how to wire this?!

[ImmortalSix]

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Nevermind - I think I can apply this:

[Reload in 5]

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I am actually pretty interested too. I will be needing some serious help from you guys on that.

Here is the schema I want:

- 3 knobs, 1 switch (a Gibson-style 3 way toggle)

Knob 1: Master Volume
Knob 2: Master Tone
Knob 3: Blender to bring P90 up and down in the mix
Switch: Neck - Neck+Bridge - Bridge

So basically, I want it to be a regular MV / MT / 3 way Telecaster setup --- and the P90's only interface is with that blender pot.

Questions:

- Will the Master Volume and Master Tone affect the P90 as well?

- Is that a choice I can make, or do all blender pot circuits operate with the pickup-on-the-blender pot being independent of the other potentiometers?

- If they don't, should I have the P90 independent from the MV and MT, or under their influence?

Who the hell knows how to wire this?!

you can wire it either way. I would have the master control it as well, but I also prefer a 2 humbucker guitar to have 1 volume.