Building a custom guitar.

[V1ntage]

I'm building a custom guitar and wanted some opinions, advice and tips on it. This is my rough plan for how it will look and a rough plan for the electrics (note on the design there are 6 pickup and phase switches not 3, 3 is the correct number)

 

[VinceT]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

Bolt on or neck through?


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[jeremy]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

to split the seth you will need to order a special 4cond version since they are usually old school braided shield wire. when it says tone knob treble and tone knob bass are you planning on a g&l style treble and bass setup or something else?

 

[V1ntage]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

Bolt on, no way I can afford a neck through on top of the wood and electric costs xD I was looking into a set neck but then it might become useless/unusable if the neck breaks

Bolt on or neck through?


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[V1ntage]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

Yeah the g&l style, im still trying to work out how exactly to do that though xD

to split the seth you will need to order a special 4cond version since they are usually old school braided shield wire. when it says tone knob treble and tone knob bass are you planning on a g&l style treble and bass setup or something else?

 

[V1ntage]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

In that case I may leave out the coil splitting

to split the seth you will need to order a special 4cond version since they are usually old school braided shield wire. when it says tone knob treble and tone knob bass are you planning on a g&l style treble and bass setup or something else?

 

[VinceT]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

Bolt on, no way I can afford a neck through on top of the wood and electric costs xD I was looking into a set neck but then it might become useless/unusable if the neck breaks

OK - I was asking because I don't know if that the neck joint in the image will be so good for a bolt-on, especially at 25.5in scale length.


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[V1ntage]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

It might not be, I may have to glue it if it doesn't work well

OK - I was asking because I don't know if that the neck joint in the image will be so good for a bolt-on, especially at 25.5in scale length.


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[AlexR]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

The second point about your wiring is that with 2 conductor humbuckers doing anything OOP wiring is unadvisable - as not only do you risk the braided cable touching any ground and shorting, but that chassis ground gets connected to hot and gives you hum worse than any singlecoil.

 

[Thundermtn]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

Are you sure about the body shape? Even if you glue it that may not be enough area to secure the neck super solid.

 

[V1ntage]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

I might tweak the body shape I know because of where/how I hold my guitar I want a longer body than normal or at least one that sets the neck further along, the neck is a worry atm but I want one with as much fret room as possible, wanted Gibson SG attachment but that just wouldnt be possible

Are you sure about the body shape? Even if you glue it that may not be enough area to secure the neck super solid.

 

[V1ntage]

Re: Building a custom guitar.

I'll make sure i keep an eye on it, i've looked at some similar pickup wiring and found one I want to make

The second point about your wiring is that with 2 conductor humbuckers doing anything OOP wiring is unadvisable - as not only do you risk the braided cable touching any ground and shorting, but that chassis ground gets connected to hot and gives you hum worse than any singlecoil.