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Creativity / Re: Homemade Guitar
« on: November 23, 2014, 12:07:03 AM »
After sanding the body, I found out that it is made out of some kind of laminated plywood. So far today I sanded it and glued some wood in the speaker hole, I'm going to have to re-drill a hole through the new wood for the pickup wire to go through.
Here is a picture of it disassembled before sanding:
The only thing I will do to the neck, if anything, will be sanding the back, painting it, and sealing it with a matte finish to allow for easy movement.
I will put the original hardware back on, upgrading to higher quality parts in the future. I've thought about cutting the upper horn back to get it to look more like a telecaster, but I may just leave it the way it is.
Here is a picture of it disassembled before sanding:
The only thing I will do to the neck, if anything, will be sanding the back, painting it, and sealing it with a matte finish to allow for easy movement.
I will put the original hardware back on, upgrading to higher quality parts in the future. I've thought about cutting the upper horn back to get it to look more like a telecaster, but I may just leave it the way it is.
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Creativity / Homemade Guitar
« on: November 22, 2014, 02:49:09 AM »
I'm currently in the planning stages of redesigning a guitar. I have a $40 Chinese mini-bodied normal sized neck strat that I got from a catalog around 10 years ago. It plays really well considering it was $40, the frets are nice, and the neck isn't warped even though there is no truss rod. I'm modifying it because it has a bigass speaker on the front that sounds like stuff. I want to take it out and put a chunk of pine or something in the hole, move the volume knob a little bit, and turn the on/off switch into a killswitch and put it on the top like a les paul's pickup selector. It only has one pickup in the neck position, but I'm leaving it there because I like the tone of a neck pickup (bridge position is too trebley unless you use distortion all the time), and because I don't want to route out another slot for it to fit into.
I'm not doing a job like the idiots on youtube do when they mod a guitar (painting it with the hardware still in, not taping things off, etc), I'm going to spend time on this to make it look nice. Paint a cool design on it, put a few coats of lacquer on it, wetsand it to remove the orange peel texture, then buff it by hand to make it shine like a mirror.
It currently has 2 jacks, one output and one input to play stuff through the built in speaker I suppose, one volume knob, a switch and a pickup, that as mentioned earlier are going to be moved and stay in the same place respectively, and a 3 inch speaker that is going to be taken out and the hole filled with a chunk of pine for that Swedish metal tone. Nothing sounds as good as a piece of pine that grew in the harsh cold climate of frozen hills, it gives a nice tight bite to the low end and smooths out the high end to the amount that I like. The 9volt battery case in the back will be filled either with another piece of pine, or a piece of brass to give it some wicked sustain.
In the future I want to try making a guitar from scratch because I think it would be cool.
Has anyone else made or modified their own instrument before?
I'm not doing a job like the idiots on youtube do when they mod a guitar (painting it with the hardware still in, not taping things off, etc), I'm going to spend time on this to make it look nice. Paint a cool design on it, put a few coats of lacquer on it, wetsand it to remove the orange peel texture, then buff it by hand to make it shine like a mirror.
It currently has 2 jacks, one output and one input to play stuff through the built in speaker I suppose, one volume knob, a switch and a pickup, that as mentioned earlier are going to be moved and stay in the same place respectively, and a 3 inch speaker that is going to be taken out and the hole filled with a chunk of pine for that Swedish metal tone. Nothing sounds as good as a piece of pine that grew in the harsh cold climate of frozen hills, it gives a nice tight bite to the low end and smooths out the high end to the amount that I like. The 9volt battery case in the back will be filled either with another piece of pine, or a piece of brass to give it some wicked sustain.
In the future I want to try making a guitar from scratch because I think it would be cool.
Has anyone else made or modified their own instrument before?
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Off Topic / Re: Going to sell my Xbox 360, got any tips?
« on: October 17, 2014, 02:09:51 PM »is it an xbox chocolate?
You're going to get a lot of incredibly stupid loving idiots replying to you
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Off Topic / Re: Going to sell my Xbox 360, got any tips?
« on: October 17, 2014, 02:06:47 PM »
You're going to get a lot of incredibly stupid loving idiots replying to you if you post it on craigslist. Some will set up a time to come get it and never show up. Some will try to sell you some stupid stuff to go with your xbox to "bump up the price."
Only put your email (preferably a junk email) on the listing, don't put your address or you will wake up one day with a bunch of 40s scattered around your house and all the copper and electronics ripped out. Have them email their phone number to you, so you can weed out the loving dope heads and nut jobs based on how they talk on the phone. If they are interested in buying it, tell them to meet you someplace public with people within 30 feet.
Only put your email (preferably a junk email) on the listing, don't put your address or you will wake up one day with a bunch of 40s scattered around your house and all the copper and electronics ripped out. Have them email their phone number to you, so you can weed out the loving dope heads and nut jobs based on how they talk on the phone. If they are interested in buying it, tell them to meet you someplace public with people within 30 feet.
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Off Topic / Re: Going to a halloween party as a conspiracy theorist: what to bring?
« on: October 17, 2014, 01:51:49 PM »
Keep it simple and true.
Note the see through briefcase, this represents his ability to see both sides of everything he hears/reads, as well as the fact that all the information inside is not blacked out.
The papers appear to be blank, but in fact are printed with invisible ink.
The ruffled suit indicates that he is always on the run from "The Man" and doesn't have time to "give a forget what people think about my appearances."
He wears a tinfoil hat that he purchased from a master craftsman for $333
Note the see through briefcase, this represents his ability to see both sides of everything he hears/reads, as well as the fact that all the information inside is not blacked out.
The papers appear to be blank, but in fact are printed with invisible ink.
The ruffled suit indicates that he is always on the run from "The Man" and doesn't have time to "give a forget what people think about my appearances."
He wears a tinfoil hat that he purchased from a master craftsman for $333
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Off Topic / Re: Anyone wanna in party skype with me and cassord?
« on: October 13, 2014, 10:58:59 PM »
Why do you imbeciles waste your lives in threads that you don't care about?
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Off Topic / Anyone wanna in party skype with me and cassord?
« on: October 13, 2014, 10:44:41 PM »
We're both chilling on his server, if anyone wants to chill let me know
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General Discussion / Re: Cassord's EPICc PLATFORMer
« on: October 13, 2014, 10:23:44 PM »
Server is up
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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: September 28, 2014, 05:27:30 PM »oh great he has ADHD
I think you mean a memory disorder
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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: September 28, 2014, 05:01:19 PM »>not remembering what me and Scorch did a year or so ago
What did we do?
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General Discussion / Re: Cassord's EPICc PLATFORMer
« on: September 26, 2014, 10:05:20 PM »
I know right, they could have won super admin by now
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General Discussion / Cassord's EPICc PLATFORMer
« on: September 26, 2014, 09:55:57 PM »
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO CASSORD'S EPICC PLATFORMER (server name 'Cassord's EPICc PLATFORMer')!!!
Come hang out with the two of us and compete to be the winner!
Come hang out with the two of us and compete to be the winner!
FIRST 5 PLAYERS TO WIN GET SUPER ADMIN!!!
While you were reading this, Cassord has
already completed the first level!
already completed the first level!
COME HANG OUT WITH US AND CHALLENGE YOUR SKILLS ON THIS EPICc PLATFORMer COURSE!!!
