I will preface this by saying that have pretty limited guitar knowledge...lol...as will be pretty obvious.
I don't play guitar at all, but my 8 year old daughter does. She is playing on a 3rd hand squire strat, and she is getting good enough that I think she needs an upgrade.
We spent a day visiting several stores and she just loves the sg, and with Angus being her idol...I guess we will be going that route. Plus she is a tiny thing and will always be on the small side, it seemed to fit her hands well. And I think she was comfortable with that scale.
I am a little worried about how well the epi sg will hold up with her, she is a kid after all....crap happens.
And I just can't afford the Gibson standard SG.
I am mulling over building her one with a bolt on neck. I am pretty confident that I won't have any issues making the body myself. I figured for the first one, I would buy a neck so I could really study it before taking that on.
My question is the head angle.....will it make any difference if I use the warmoth 24.75 conversion neck? It seems to have a straight head from the photos whereas the sg has that angle. I did notice that there is also an angled conversion neck but I think maybe I should stick with a straight one just to help minimize kid accidents if possible.
So, in general.....using sg pickups and bridge parts... will a straight head make it sound completely off?
A second question would be building it to 25.5 scale(if I went that route instead), how would I figure where the pickups should be located? again...just using the "stock" setup that would come on a standard sg.... would that scale also throw of the sound?
From my information seeking, I understand that since I am thinking the bolt on route that I will have to thicken the body some to strengthen that neck pocket and I will have to angle the pocket some....anything else I am overlooking
I don't play guitar at all, but my 8 year old daughter does. She is playing on a 3rd hand squire strat, and she is getting good enough that I think she needs an upgrade.
We spent a day visiting several stores and she just loves the sg, and with Angus being her idol...I guess we will be going that route. Plus she is a tiny thing and will always be on the small side, it seemed to fit her hands well. And I think she was comfortable with that scale.
I am a little worried about how well the epi sg will hold up with her, she is a kid after all....crap happens.
And I just can't afford the Gibson standard SG.
I am mulling over building her one with a bolt on neck. I am pretty confident that I won't have any issues making the body myself. I figured for the first one, I would buy a neck so I could really study it before taking that on.
My question is the head angle.....will it make any difference if I use the warmoth 24.75 conversion neck? It seems to have a straight head from the photos whereas the sg has that angle. I did notice that there is also an angled conversion neck but I think maybe I should stick with a straight one just to help minimize kid accidents if possible.
So, in general.....using sg pickups and bridge parts... will a straight head make it sound completely off?
A second question would be building it to 25.5 scale(if I went that route instead), how would I figure where the pickups should be located? again...just using the "stock" setup that would come on a standard sg.... would that scale also throw of the sound?
From my information seeking, I understand that since I am thinking the bolt on route that I will have to thicken the body some to strengthen that neck pocket and I will have to angle the pocket some....anything else I am overlooking