Latest project guitar COMPLETE!

[TwilightOdyssey]

This project took way longer than I wanted it to; too much stuff got in the way. But it's at 99% completion now. Plays/sounds great. Not thought of a name for it yet.

Specs:

Warmoth "pro" neck, maple/maple, 6100 fret wire, Tusq nut, 1.75" nut width, reverse hockey stick headstock.

Warmoth "soloist" body, alder, non-recessed Floyd rout, single humbucker.

Hardware = Schaller machine heads, chrome OFR, chrome pickup ring, Bare Knuckle Miracle Man (battle-scarred nickel cover)

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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Nice deep cutaways!

I love the no dots look to the fingerboard!

 

[CTN]

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no locking nut with the floyd?? how come?

Other than that, looks fabulous!

 

[Brow]

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Looks awesome!

I've found 1 of those Gunslingers for £400 btw!

 

[Wattage]

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Call it Woody

 

[JollyRoger523]

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I like it.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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no locking nut with the floyd?? how come?

Other than that, looks fabulous!

Don't need the locking nut. Sounds better without it, too.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Call it Woody

Ha!

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Looks awesome!

I've found 1 of those Gunslingers for £400 btw!

You suck.

 

[Jessie Sammler]

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Don't need the locking nut. Sounds better without it, too.

+1 The Floyd bridge gets a bad rap for hurting a guitar's tone, but the locking nut deserves a share of the blame. My SL3 sounds so much better without the nut locked down that I just leave the pads and screws off full time. It still stays in tune pretty well.

 

[tc]

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Jess, that's going to groove out your nut eventually. Might want to look into replacement nuts that are designed to drop in a locking nut route but are standard nuts. Like the ones Paul Gilbert uses.

Edit: Like these:

http://www.allparts.com/ABM-Ebanol-Nut-for-Floyd-Rose-p/bn-0623-023.htm
http://www.allparts.com/ABM-Ebanol-Nut-for-Floyd-Rose-p/bn-0624-023.htm

 

[J Moose]

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Plain jane... pretty cool!

No volume control through?

Whats the switch do? on/off?

 

[Jessie Sammler]

Re: Latest project guitar COMPLETE!

Jess, that's going to groove out your nut eventually. Might want to look into replacement nuts that are designed to drop in a locking nut route but are standard nuts. Like the ones Paul Gilbert uses.

Edit: Like these:

http://www.allparts.com/ABM-Ebanol-Nut-for-Floyd-Rose-p/bn-0623-023.htm
http://www.allparts.com/ABM-Ebanol-Nut-for-Floyd-Rose-p/bn-0624-023.htm

That's brilliant! Thanks for the links.

 

[butnut]

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Totally bare bones koolness. Even the pup is 'bare'...hehe

 

[Will S-T]

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"El Cabron"


NOT to be messed with!

A very purposeful guitar there mate:friday:

 

[sosomething]

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Nice!

Floyd or no Floyd, I'd be concerned about tuning using ANY trem and no less than 3 string trees, though...

 

[dr. ad]

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"Jason"

 

[Brow]

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You suck.

I know, I know!

You've given me the idea of getting the Gunslinger, changing the locking nut to something similar to those on the Allparts site mentioned above and putting a set of locking machine heads on it.

I have that arrangement on my Eggle with the Floyd and it works great

 

[super rad stuff]

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looks good:fing2: btw is that a scratch there on the upper bout??

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Plain jane... pretty cool!

No volume control through?

Whats the switch do? on/off?

Yep, kill switch only.