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Console Steel/Slide Guitar Carve Area Design Ideas

#1 (Picture 1 Top) - Parallel carve, straight lines to the edge
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#2 (Picture 1 Middle) - Parallel carve, angled lines to the edge
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#3 (Picture 1 Bottom) - Parallel carve, curved lines to the edge
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#4 (Picture 2 Top) - Angled carve, straight lines to the edge
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#5 (Picture 2 Middle) - Angled carve, angled lines to the edge
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#6 (Picture 2 Bottom) - Angled carve, curved lines to the edge
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#7 - Your own idea!
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Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:27 am

sears wrote:What is too shallow about it? I guess it might as well be as deep as a guitar is wide?
I thought so too. I made it about 14" deep, which would be fine as I don't mind the body sticking out a bit, but it's not resting on both sides of the butt of the guitar evenly. To get it so that the guitar neck is angled in and resting securely in its little groove, the butt is pretty much resting on the strap hooks. Not a huge deal, but it doesn't feel as secure as I'd like it to, you know?
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Post by Deed_Poll » Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:36 pm

I'm looking forward to this! Ready to cut very soon. I'll update here :)

It'll be my first German Carve too so I'm excited to see how it goes!
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Post by rank » Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:43 pm

Looks great. Can't wait to see how it turns out!
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Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Fri Oct 28, 2016 1:34 pm

Deed_Poll wrote:I'm looking forward to this! Ready to cut very soon. I'll update here

It'll be my first German Carve too so I'm excited to see how it goes!
8) :-* :?
rank wrote:Looks great. Can't wait to see how it turns out!
Thanks! I've got some fun stuff going on and it's gonna be a good year next year (hopefully early!!) when everything starts getting finished and all that! I'm gonna have to wait for tax time to get a couple necks I think, but man, I can't wait!!
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Re: Shadoweclipse13's New Project Thread!

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Fri Dec 23, 2016 2:31 pm

Few updates: Dan/Deed_Poll is cutting and sanding the body Tele-JM hybrid humbucker guitar! The pickups are ordered, and I just got notification that they shipped this morning. I decided on a set of Mules from Bare Knuckle with a custom cover :ph34r: Still deciding on some of the smaller details (knobs, etc.). The neck is also ordered (Warmoth) which I'm almost positive everyone is gonna hate as it's a 3X3 tuner head, but not a Gibson-style :D

Also, just finished the wiring schematic I'll be using for it!
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Instead of a doing a 2 volume, 2 tone setup, I decided on a setup like Reverends and G&L have with a master volume, master tone, and bass contour, but I'm also adding a mini-varitone (2 specific capacitors instead of a spread of 6 like an actual Gibson Varitone) and a cocked wah switch too! Should be quite a variety of tones :)
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Post by Gordon » Fri Dec 23, 2016 5:05 pm

Shadoweclipse13 wrote:Also, just finished the wiring schematic I'll be using for it!
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Instead of a doing a 2 volume, 2 tone setup, I decided on a setup like Reverends and G&L have with a master volume, master tone, and bass contour, but I'm also adding a mini-varitone (2 specific capacitors instead of a spread of 6 like an actual Gibson Varitone) and a cocked wah switch too! Should be quite a variety of tones
What values will you use for the capacitors?
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Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:39 pm

Not sure yet! What I'm gonna do is mount the pickups with the wires hanging out and try out the pot and capacitor values with my breadboard. Seeing how's it's guitar, I have a couple ideas as a starting point for cap values, but we'll see what sounds good. What I'm curious about (and will probably ask for suggestions around here) is what cap values I'm gonna use for that circuit for the bass...
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Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:12 pm

Considering that the famous Motorik was my inspiration for color scheme ( :? :-* :-* :-* :-* ):
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...I wanted as much cream color in the pickups as I could. I did also want chrome too, but typical old-school chrome-covered PAF's would be too much chrome I thought. I ordered a matched set of The Mules from Bare Knuckle, and while looking around, I discovered their radiator covers :w00t:

Well...

...they arrived about 10 minutes ago! What do you guys think (it's kinda overcast here today and my indoor lighting doesn't show the color well at all)?
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Post by Fiddy » Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:17 pm

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This thing looks awesome. 8)

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Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:18 pm

Nicely balanced. They look great!
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Re: Shadoweclipse13's New Project Thread!

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:38 pm

tribi9 wrote:Image

This thing looks awesome.
PorkyPrimeCut wrote:Nicely balanced. They look great!
Thanks guys!! I'm so excited for ALL my projects, but I've never bonded with humbuckers before and I think the Mules are the ones to do it, so I'm REALLY excited for this one :-)
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Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Fri Feb 03, 2017 1:57 pm

Couple new updates!!

Around xmas, I ordered the neck for both the Offset Tele (humbucker guitar) and Jag Bass. Both arrived today. Both from Warmoth and feel amazing.

For the humbucker guitar, I ordered a mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard in the Warmoth Vortex head shape, painted black for the head face (Gibson-ish). Put the tuners on and they feel awesome!
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The bass neck, I ordered a roasted maple (first one for me!) with a rosewood fretboard. I've played a roasted maple before (lefty Suhr Strat down in Kentucky last year), but I am completely blown away by the smooth feeling and dark caramel-y color. This thing feels amazing. Like, ridiculously amazing. I might buy a roasted maple neck for every guitar project from here on. The grain pattern is gorgeous too, and the roasting really brings it out.
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Color comparison between my recently finished DVD shelves (stained in a dark brown)...

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Color comparison between my Warmoth Tele neck (vintage yellow) and the roasted maple... So good. The Tele neck isn't as yellow in person.

Also, I ordered both necks to have the glow-in-the-dark side dots for the hell of it. These things ROCK! I hit them with the flashlight from my phone for about 2 seconds each, and the whole side of the neck was easy to see in a pitch black room, from about 5 feet away!!
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Re: Shadoweclipse13's New Project Thread!

Post by Deed_Poll » Sat Feb 04, 2017 6:52 am

That neck is too cool! I know it sounds stupid to say so, but it LOOKS like it sounds great!!
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Re: Shadoweclipse13's New Project Thread!

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:54 am

Deed_Poll wrote:That neck is too cool! I know it sounds stupid to say so, but it LOOKS like it sounds great!!
Haha, I know what you mean! It feels super solid and dense. I bet it will sound amazing.
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Post by PluckPhuckNStrum » Mon Feb 27, 2017 7:06 pm

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The templates and bodies look excellent! Very interested in checking out your work. You're an animal.

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