What the heck do I want?
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Patrick from Davis
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This is a shot of one of Willy K's guitars from around here...
I still wanna build a righty kind of like it... It's number, oh, beyond five on the list, but we will see what happens...
Patrick
I still wanna build a righty kind of like it... It's number, oh, beyond five on the list, but we will see what happens...
Patrick
Hmm. That's not really my style. I want something that seems a little more 'fun' and a juxtaposition of my personality and playing style.
On another note, going back a few posts, a solid, unfinished rosewood neck was suggested. Don't unfinished necks get ruined by sweat and dirt?
On another note, going back a few posts, a solid, unfinished rosewood neck was suggested. Don't unfinished necks get ruined by sweat and dirt?
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Exotic wood necks do not get ruined by sweat/dirt. They include Rosewood, Wenge, Padouk, Goncalo Alves, Bubinga, Canary, Pau Ferro, Purple Heart, Ebony, and Bloodwood.
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hands up if you've played willyk's jmtele :hello2:
shame it was left handed :icon_biggrin:
i wouold personally go bright and gaudy, it seems like that's what you're really knuckling towards. so go crazy, who cares if it's in poor taste or "non-traditional" or whatever. go nuts. try out a bunch of different guitars/pickups at your local guitar shop and work out what pickups/neck sizes/frets work for you.
i love my first (only) warmoth build, it has a raw wenge/ebony boatneck with SS6105 frets. after about a year, i have decided that my next build will have a fatback neck (same woods), but with smaller/wider frets, prob 6130. i hate to drift away from the SS frets (i love them), but want smaller wide frets. so you keep learning as you go. i didn't even take any notice of frets/necks until building my warmoth. :guitaristgif:
so yeah, go crazy, i guess is the point im trying to make, and don't worry about making mistakes, it's still gonna play like a demon :evil4:
shame it was left handed :icon_biggrin:
i wouold personally go bright and gaudy, it seems like that's what you're really knuckling towards. so go crazy, who cares if it's in poor taste or "non-traditional" or whatever. go nuts. try out a bunch of different guitars/pickups at your local guitar shop and work out what pickups/neck sizes/frets work for you.
i love my first (only) warmoth build, it has a raw wenge/ebony boatneck with SS6105 frets. after about a year, i have decided that my next build will have a fatback neck (same woods), but with smaller/wider frets, prob 6130. i hate to drift away from the SS frets (i love them), but want smaller wide frets. so you keep learning as you go. i didn't even take any notice of frets/necks until building my warmoth. :guitaristgif:
so yeah, go crazy, i guess is the point im trying to make, and don't worry about making mistakes, it's still gonna play like a demon :evil4:
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rightintheface said:
That's my fret of choice... on anything and everything. Low enough so you can really "grab and shake the neck" whenst vibrato-ing without pressing too hard and going outta tune; easy chording as well and hammer ons pulls offs are a breeze (not to mention sliding) - and enough fret for smooth bends.
Giant train trestle frets suck unless you've got bear paws, a sissy super-light "touch" or you're scalloping.
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yeah, well that sounds like exactly what i want in a neck (even though i dont play a trem). i played a mates strat on the weekend, and the frets were low and wide, and were so incredibly easy to play. some licks i busted out were effortless.
i like the ss frets i have atm, but they're tooooooo big. makes it impossible to use a capo on (not that i do it often)
oh, sorry for hijacking this thread :laughing7:
i like the ss frets i have atm, but they're tooooooo big. makes it impossible to use a capo on (not that i do it often)
oh, sorry for hijacking this thread :laughing7:
No worries about the hijack.
For the pickups, I was thinking about something a little strange.
Two P-90's, each with their own volume control and a three-way selector, and then separately wired, a mini-humbucker with its own on-off switch. Top it all off with a master volume and tone pot. Any thoughts?
For the pickups, I was thinking about something a little strange.
Two P-90's, each with their own volume control and a three-way selector, and then separately wired, a mini-humbucker with its own on-off switch. Top it all off with a master volume and tone pot. Any thoughts?
My problem with that is how do you get "minibucker only" - you'd have to turn down the vol on whatever P90 is selected, and the minibucker would be wired from its on/off switch to the three-way output, but if the P90 vol was turned down, that would allow a path to ground for the min-bucker too, wouldnt it?
If I'm right, then the solution would be to use a an on-on-on switch for the minibucker and have it come after the 3-way toggle and just before the master vol. Then your new 3-way would go: minibucker only, minib + whatever P90 option you selected, P90 only.
That would give you about 93 ever-so-slightly different sounds to mess with, plus a multi-volume-control mess. When you want to turn up the vol in mid-song, how are you gonna remember which vol to turn up? I recommend you keep to the "one volume control per pickup or per guitar" rule.
If I'm right, then the solution would be to use a an on-on-on switch for the minibucker and have it come after the 3-way toggle and just before the master vol. Then your new 3-way would go: minibucker only, minib + whatever P90 option you selected, P90 only.
That would give you about 93 ever-so-slightly different sounds to mess with, plus a multi-volume-control mess. When you want to turn up the vol in mid-song, how are you gonna remember which vol to turn up? I recommend you keep to the "one volume control per pickup or per guitar" rule.
Okay. It's ordered.
-Jazzmaster body
-Mahogany
-Recessed TOM with arched string-through
-P-90x3 (they couldn't do a miniHB)
-Candy tangerine
-And...possibly a black racing stripe (apparently no one ever asks about racing stripes [imagine that!], so he wasn't sure if they still do them).
Now I just need to figure out what neck specs I want, and how I should wire it up, and I'm good to go....oh, and wait 1700 or so more hours.
-Jazzmaster body
-Mahogany
-Recessed TOM with arched string-through
-P-90x3 (they couldn't do a miniHB)
-Candy tangerine
-And...possibly a black racing stripe (apparently no one ever asks about racing stripes [imagine that!], so he wasn't sure if they still do them).
Now I just need to figure out what neck specs I want, and how I should wire it up, and I'm good to go....oh, and wait 1700 or so more hours.
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Welcome to the very exclusive club of guys with orange(ish) jazzmasters! There aren't many of us... http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=3009.0
Glad you went with the tangerine - looks awesome on stratplayer1's guitar: http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=4461.0
Cheers.
Glad you went with the tangerine - looks awesome on stratplayer1's guitar: http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=4461.0
Cheers.
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guitlouie
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Add Lee Renaldo of Sonic youth. Of course, between the members of that band, I think they have a Jazzmaster of every color under the rainbow...........
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