marlboro25
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Hello everybody!!
My first post...
I want to build a LP guitar... maybe i would get flamed for this, but i want buckethead's guitar so badly that i want to try to replicate his guitar... it did cross my mind to build my own, but damn! i want that white LP and since there's no signature guitar i would build it, with my own specs of course...
First of all, i have contacted warmoth and they told me that a fully assambled guitar is not their buissness, so i would have to order the body and the neck and hardware and stuff and build it all by myself!!! That is the first thing that worries me, if i spend a lot of cash on things only to screw things up...
In a perfect world, i spend the cash and have all the pieces and i give it a shot at build it, so this is my idea, (well, not mine, but a replica with my own specs)
It would have to be a LP body FLAT TOP, as seen in this pic http://www.flickr.com/photos/treaked/2860355202/in/set-72157607317650015/
Am I right? is it flat top? Also the price for the body would be like $250 ..
The wood would be mahogany.
The paint, alpine white, with the body binding white pearl, or something,, but i dont know what is that black line in the picture.. what is it called?
The hardware it would be gold --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/37311082@N00/2951647551/
One volume, one tone,,
As for the pickups i havent decided yet...i would choose alinco pro II, but that would sound "too slash" for a bucket guitar.. well, i dont even know what pickups buckethead uses...
Two killswitches, and maybe that would requiere special wiring... ¿?
As for the neck
i would choose mahogany
fretboard ebony with no inlays
binding in white pearl or something diferent from the alpine white...
the head in full alpino white, also the back of the neck in white too...
Now the trick part is beacuse english is not my mother tongue, i dont quite understand some terms or words...
First of all, i dont understand what is a neck "warmoth pro" or scale conversion... suppose i choose the one called "warmoth pro angled"
then as i said, mahogany with ebony (fingerboard)
the nut 1 11 16
standard thin
radius 10
Now comes another hard part: 24 frets? or binding? according to the "custom neck wizard" i cant have both,,
frets size 6130
Now, about the tuner hole size, i have no idea about this,,, any recomendation??
string nut: corian
and the finish, i'd like it painted in the same color as the body...
That would be my replica of buckethead's guitar...
Any input on this would be really apreciated..
thanks!!!!
My first post...
I want to build a LP guitar... maybe i would get flamed for this, but i want buckethead's guitar so badly that i want to try to replicate his guitar... it did cross my mind to build my own, but damn! i want that white LP and since there's no signature guitar i would build it, with my own specs of course...
First of all, i have contacted warmoth and they told me that a fully assambled guitar is not their buissness, so i would have to order the body and the neck and hardware and stuff and build it all by myself!!! That is the first thing that worries me, if i spend a lot of cash on things only to screw things up...
In a perfect world, i spend the cash and have all the pieces and i give it a shot at build it, so this is my idea, (well, not mine, but a replica with my own specs)
It would have to be a LP body FLAT TOP, as seen in this pic http://www.flickr.com/photos/treaked/2860355202/in/set-72157607317650015/
Am I right? is it flat top? Also the price for the body would be like $250 ..
The wood would be mahogany.
The paint, alpine white, with the body binding white pearl, or something,, but i dont know what is that black line in the picture.. what is it called?
The hardware it would be gold --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/37311082@N00/2951647551/
One volume, one tone,,
As for the pickups i havent decided yet...i would choose alinco pro II, but that would sound "too slash" for a bucket guitar.. well, i dont even know what pickups buckethead uses...
Two killswitches, and maybe that would requiere special wiring... ¿?
As for the neck
i would choose mahogany
fretboard ebony with no inlays
binding in white pearl or something diferent from the alpine white...
the head in full alpino white, also the back of the neck in white too...
Now the trick part is beacuse english is not my mother tongue, i dont quite understand some terms or words...
First of all, i dont understand what is a neck "warmoth pro" or scale conversion... suppose i choose the one called "warmoth pro angled"
then as i said, mahogany with ebony (fingerboard)
the nut 1 11 16
standard thin
radius 10
Now comes another hard part: 24 frets? or binding? according to the "custom neck wizard" i cant have both,,
frets size 6130
Now, about the tuner hole size, i have no idea about this,,, any recomendation??
string nut: corian
and the finish, i'd like it painted in the same color as the body...
That would be my replica of buckethead's guitar...
Any input on this would be really apreciated..
thanks!!!!