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Alecs	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 8:23 PM I've been working on a guitar for the past few weeks in my 2nd hour wood's class. I just built the body and pulled all the parts off my squire strat (oldest guitar) anyways, here's the pic http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/2486/img24501gp.jpg you'll notice a washer sticking out of the neck joint. When I first strung it up the neck was too high and the frets hit the strings. I popped the washer in there to raise the headstock and, thus, raise the strings off the neck. It worked pretty well. It sounds pretty bad given that it's a 9-piece oak body almost COMPLETELY routed to nothing. The notes are mostly on key though. This was the guitar to prove to my parents that I can actually build a guitar. The next one on the list is a 7-string of the same body design with an Ibanez Neck and Trem and Dimarzio Pickups (thank you so much sackyjamboree for those measurements!!!!). I'll post updates with the next one. Feedback is appreciated
KyleEpps	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 8:30 PM that's pretty freakin sweet DhoomsPic! Gonna gig with it? lol
Alecs	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 8:31 PM probably not, I will with the 7 string when i build it though
hantu	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 8:32 PM whoa! ... gees that is fekin kool shit man... you made that, well i am impresses most def... im loving the shape of it too.... hmm makes me wanna try and make a guitar now now that would be funny ... Tissue box + rubber bands = a Sham guitar
Alecs	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 8:35 PM it's alot harder than you'd think. The patch of wood that is a different color is an example. I routed the bridge and bridge pickup hole too far out, so I routed the area between them out and popped in that piece of wood, then glued it and re-routed the holes. I also had to route out most of the back because I found out last minute i had to make it w/ my strat parts.
TameasDust	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 8:36 PM
hantu	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 8:39 PM rite well you just ended my "i wanna make a guitar faze" ... did last very long did it
Alecs	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 8:46 PM lol neither did my first one. This is the second time I got interested in building, I just happened to have access to all the necessary tools and machines, you know?
koiulpoi	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 9:18 PM Feckin sweet!
victorsskull	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 11:22 PM it is a work of art my freind well done
imemine	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 11:52 PM
DaveWL	Date: November 4, 2005 @ 4:35 AM That's a fine looking axe. I once made a wonky cheeseboard in my woodwork class but nothing as cool as that.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: November 4, 2005 @ 1:15 PM Looks cool! I'm just wondering those pots... Aren't they a bit close to each other...?
Alecs	Date: November 4, 2005 @ 9:04 PM yes, because I pulled them straight off a strat body. The original idea was to have the farthest away one be the input jack, but the wires between the two tone pots are so short that I had to improvise.
TameasDust	Date: November 5, 2005 @ 12:52 PM good I need some firewood ... gimme gimme
Alecs	Date: November 13, 2005 @ 3:58 PM eh it'd probably smoke and emit dissonant tones more than anything

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