Topic: BUILDING YOUR OWN "ELECTRIC" GUITAR
There are now a lot of members, and daily visitors. Yesterday, I was talking with 1 of my 2 best friends, and he plays bass in a tribute band, like a lot do, "the shadows", a few gigs a year, and except for the shadows, some CCR.
He used to have a Fender Precision Bass, but a mutual acquittance makes, or fabricates his own guitars.
My friend is playing now, on a 4 string bass made by that "luthier".
So, I dream since years of making a guitar, it will be physically almost impossible, but I really love to.
MORE: he can make a 100% copy, of a PRS dragon, or a 10.000$ guitar, and you pay less than half the price, his job is amongst others learning students to build a guitar.
ARE THERE "CHORDIANS" who play an home made guitar,followed by some questions:
- If you have a guitar, build for YOU, is the sound better? I refuse to talk about value, collector value, but having that guitar, and comparing it MONTHS after you own YOUR guitar (because of the still present happiness, owning a "foryoumadeguitar") compared with a similar you had before, let's say, a FENDER STRAT, a GIBSON LES PAUL, A PRS. Today the fashion is, when you enter a small workshop, of a luthier, the PRS shape, and the Gibson shape. We are probably all aware that just making guitars will jill the luthier financially.
- What will be your dream guitar, the shape: GIBSON, FENDER, PRS?
- What kind of wood can be used.
STUPID: can you make an alectric guitar using wood from an oak tree (NOT FOR ACOUSTIC GUITARS)? Probably you have to sit down to play that instrument, but what about the PHYSICS? the sound produced by touching the strings, going over your pick ups to your amp. BETTER: the wood you cannot use..
- also, you have wood fibers, squeezed together, resulting in a nice piece of wood.
- For the body of YOUR handmade E-guitar, what about Maple, Christmas tree wood, 100% is used in this hypothetical subject, so a kind of PRS, just using: oak, mahagony, spruce (most used for acoustic tops, but hers entirely used for electric, as all the woods I mention) 100% walnut body, 100% cedar body, 100% wood from a cherry tree, or apple tree.
Light wood will of course sound better, but I am talking about non usual used wood.(I also just read an article about Patrick Eggle Guitars).
- Poplar, Peach tree, in fact all kinds of fruit trees.
- another point of discussion is for instance: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN the Rosewood, fom Brazil, India, Madagascar. I was told that in so called "blind" studies, nobody could hear the difference between Brazilian Rosewood and Indian Rosewood.
I wanted to hear some more information, concerning 20-30 different kinds of trees.
PICK UPS
- there are a lot of different brands, for me one of the best is Lindy Fralin, beautiful, more than loud enough, and very good quality and output.
NECK, I would use exactly the same wood as the body.
So again a long email, containing stuff to discuss, and I'll end with where you can learn to build your own guitar (do I hear IKEA?), starting as a "virgin" what do I need.
I read in a guitar magazine (that's for you upyerkilt) that I think in Scotland, you have tis opportunity. It's like a B&B, you eat there, you sleep there, you are able to admire Scotland, and the participants are very limited (not more than 5, for the "personal approach"), they have all the material you need, like a carpenter, so it's a kind of work-holiday, you choose the model, the wood, what you expect and what you want to build.)
I was so lucky that there are places indeed: holiday combined with your passion, not cheap, and maybe you have the honour to have created the worst guitar on the planet, but at least you did it.
WHO CAN HELP ME HERE, places, material.
BOOT: do you organise workshops to fabricate your own guitar?
Greetings to all of you
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
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