Taking inventory

I recently went through my stuff and found I have almost enough inventory to build a guitar. Kalamazoo neck, SG junior bridge, Strat style tuners, Dream 180 pups. I also have pots, switch, p/g material, bone for a nut, everything but a body. I found a Duosonic style body on Ebay cheap. Unfortunately my camera is on loan for 2 more weeks. Stay tuned. This is gonna be either an cool Frankenstein or an Epic Watt. I may even use a para dimes on top of the vol & tone knobs. So Watt do y'all think?

Make sure you hollow out the body completely or it will sound like crap...

Make sure it's a NEW pair o' dimes or it won't work.

I suggest taking a bassball bat out into the woods and spacking trees until you get one that resonates properly then use that to build a guitar from. Tou just need to be sure you cut the chunk out leaving the tree standing so you dont screw up the great back yard views so you can do a video of you dragging your guitar through the flower bed and such.

Seriously though, Have you got a jigsaw and router to cut your own body?

I need to get a new Dremmel myself. I can kick start the sucker and it works but its pretty beat up from all the pickup jobs in the last year or so. I'm putting in for a new one from my wife for Christmas. I really need to do the Pawn shop tour to find a decent used router. If you want I'll keep my eyes open for two. They usually go for less than $50 used for something decent.

I think me battery op Hand drill is about to crap out too. Seems like I never win with hand tools but I cant complain. I got alot of jobs out of them over the years. I may get another black and decker then I'll have a backup battery which is still in great shape. I can use the carry case for a pedal project.

The plug in drill I bought 10 years ago used just keeps cranking. Its made of metal which lasts a long time but it doesnt have a reverse mode which sucks for unscrewing.

I may actually do this. The purpose of this build is to go as cheap as I can.

I'll call it the small change special. I haven't rubbed my wood yet. And I haven't used a pencil to beat it either.

I do have a jigsaw & router. But this body was so cheap I couldn't justify building my own. I even have some poplar stashed away. But I'm saving for my next tele build as this piece of wood resonates nicely when you whack it with a pillow.

Beating your wood with a pencil??? That just sounds wrong...

Watt about whacking it with a pillow? Trouble is, in my case, I'd need a very small pillow.

Are you sure your wacking the wood with a pencil or the pencil with the wood?

If you're short on any items Custometele let me know. I can send you some parts if i have them no charge.

Thanks WRG. But part of the reason I'm doing this is to use up parts I have on hand. Bridge came from a friend who wanted to upgrade. Tuners from another friend who also wanted to upgrade. Neck from a friend who thought I might put it to use. And so it goes. Bone for a nut came from, you guessed it. Leftover from replacing a plastic nut on the guitar with the bridge upgrade.

I've got about 40 bucks tied up including paint & body. If I don't do something with my PRS stash I'll have to start going to pack rat syndrome anonymous meetings. And I don't have a problem. I can stop any time I want to.

For a guy who usually is not necessarily all out serious, but doesn't BS around, that was one EPIC babblefest in jest!

This thread is HCAF-worthy!

Once again I laughed so hard I startled my dog! I gotta do it now. Aint that what super glue is for?

Just throwing it out there to anyone that has a couple boxes of goodies that they don't want, I am always looking for those such boxes of fun... I might not the have money that day but can usually scrounge it up pretty quick for something cool like that.

dit dit dit dit dit... this just in from the half-phased electrical reality of John Watt.

Wind damage on the over 300 year old trees on this property is extensive.

Some corn has been blown over, or I'd have been back sooner.

Canadian Tire is still having sales. You can get a "Job Mate" Dremel clone, in a plastic carrying case with over 100 pieces, for $19.95. Two year replacement warranty.

For those lumbering jacks who need a saws-all for interior guitar body work,

a portable one is on sale, with case and accessories, for $29.95.

two year replacement warranty.

I can't sell my '72 DiMarzio P.A.F. Humbucker for $20.

After two years, I can't find an old crybaby so I can exchange the Switchcraft inputs to make it left-handed. I'd trade my brand new Jimi Hendrix model for any old beat up case like that, but no-one has one.

I borrowed a drill press for the center block, back plate neck screws. I used $25 worth of local wood, $12 of Louisiana poplar, and look at it. A snap-off blade knife carved it with chainsaw files. I went through $20 in blades. I used white glue, two screws for the tremolo block, and four more screws for the neck, a total of eight for neck to body. Under $5. I used an old orange Black and Decker jigsaw, over 25 years old, having two for parts from yard sales, total $35, to cut the center body block.

All parts from a previous guitar, except for the new fingerboard. $80 for the ebony, and I was able to chose from a shelf full, nice and thick. I made Paul Saunders' sign. $240 for international luthier Paul Saunders (even I don't have his online address) to shape it and cut a two octave, slanted lefty fret fingerboard and replacing the rosewood on my '72 custom replica neck of my original '64 Fender Stratocaster. Fred Gabrsek, of Freddie's Frets, installed the frets and fret markers and side dots, $120. Screwing this on the first time worked so well, I kept it that way, with a blank build plate, not the 1964 Leo Fender Stratocaster plate I've been using from the start, with my name and find information etched into it.

No budget and lo-to-no tech is my style. That's making something from what's around you, what most people say is making something out of nothing. I get called Spiderman for climbing so I don't need to get a ladder, as a sign maker. I'm 58. I'm paying for two old Volkswagen vans I'll never drive again, a victim of criminal activity. One of them was driven up from Florida by a Thorold Music store owner, giving it to me for free, hearing about my first one and encouraging me that I can take all the shelves, my spare tire hiding false ceiling, tool box holders and decorative elements, using aviation perforated aluminum from a Fort Erie helicopter manufacturer and sign customer, and re-install them. I walk or ride a bicycle.

Being able to build my guitar, getting as precise with all the acoustic enhancements currently activated, and that includes tuning harmonics, is a big part of my concept. Having new product, defined by the new manufacturing term "semi-solid-body", enables new onshore manufacture, circumventing current Free Trade restrictions. It also means my new template can be put out for less than Fender or Gibson, and local medium hardwood works.

It takes new blues to create new music, and instruments. They weren't just a one-time donation.

The scan is of a communication about my first neck order.

The photo of the 1969 Ford Custom, sold as a used car to me by the son of local Pastors, for $1,500, recently safetied, was driven for over 8,000 miles as is, no plates or insurance, two years, just sold for $1,100 before I got arrested. No squeaks or rattles on paved roads.

Please look at www.kijiji.ca, Ontario, St. Catharines or Hamilton, my area, with a socio-logical intent, seeing what instruments are for sale at what prices to gauge society, as a thesis writing engineer friend did. Look at major American cities, www.kijiji.com, to make comparisons.

I hope my posting here, er, publishing here, is more than appropriate and leads to an open and honest dialogue about parts, mine included.

as always, John Watt departs, boss, departs! look, they're coming!

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where the {censored} does he come up with this {censored}.... And just so you knwo your busted ass ford is a POS... Restore the damn thing and then take pictures of it...

They're coming to

Take him away

Ho ho, hee hee

To the funny farm

Where life is beautiful

All the time........

Seriously Mr, Watt, I and many others have requested that you stay on topic & quit rambling. Nobody cares about your Canadian heritage, family geneology, what kind of car you own or the price of tea in China. Pay The {censored} Attention!

This guy has major issues tweaking other people with his oddball views.

His train of thought wanders around like a street person talking to themselves.

Heres the defination as per a medical site.

This disorder, at some point in the illness, involves a psychotic phase (with delusions, hallucinations, or grossly bizarre/disorganized speech and behavior). Schizophrenia also causes impairment in social or vocational functioning.

Individuals with this disorder may develop significant loss of interest or pleasure. Likewise, some may develop mood abnormalities (e.g., inappropriate smiling, laughing, or silly facial expressions; depression, anxiety or anger). Often there is day-night reversal (i.e., staying up late at night and then sleeping late into the day). The individual may show a lack of interest in eating or may refuse food as a consequence of delusional beliefs. Often movement is abnormal (e.g., pacing, rocking, or apathetic immobility). Frequently there are significant cognitive impairments (e.g., poor concentratiion, poor memory, and impaired problem-solving ability). The majority of individuals with Schizophrenia are unaware that they have a psychotic illness. This poor insight is neurologically caused by illness, rather than simply being a coping behavior. This is comparable to the lack of awareness of neurological deficits seen in stroke. This poor insight predisposes the individual to noncompliance with treatment and has been found to be predictive of higher relapse rates, increased number of involuntary hospitalizations, poorer functioning, and a poorer course of illness. Depersonalization, derealization, and somatic concerns may occur and sometimes reach delusional proportions. Motor abnormalities (e.g., grimacing, posturing, odd mannerisms, ritualistic or stereotyped behavior) are sometimes present.

Alcoholism and drug abuse worsen the course of this illness, and are frequently associated with it. From 80% to 90% of individuals with Schizophrenia are regular cigarette smokers. Anxiety and phobias are common in Schizophrenia, and there is an increased risk of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Panic Disorder. Schizotypal, Schizoid, or Paranoid Personality Disorder may sometimes precede the onset of Schizophrenia.

Antipsychotic medication shortens the duration of psychosis in Schizophrenia, and prevents recurrences (but psychotic relapses can still occur under stress). Usually it takes years before individuals can accept that they have Schizophrenia and need medication. When individuals stop their antipsychotic medication, it may take months (or even years) before they suffer a psychotic relapse. Most, however, relapse within weeks. After each psychotic relapse there is increased intellectual impairment.

Any real tech can obviously tell he's a complete amature. The question is when will the moderators will decide he's is doing more harm to the site by making everyone look bad sticking these oddball posts in an otherwise serious discussion. I realize they need good reason to do so, but we'll just have to do our best to ignore him.

It does come down to is how much dammage he can do in turning this particular forum into a loon site before it happens. We realise there isnt a huge ammount of traffic on this site, but most who hang here at least try to stay on topic and try to do their best to actually help others with the best experience and info they have accumulated.

I've never seen this behavior on either the guitar or amp forum. Sometimes you can actually find intelligent people there. Granted there are people who exhibit childish behavior. But not psychosis.

Don't get him started! He'll just keep rubbing the hood and babbling on about the polish and construction, but never take it for a drive.

My GF is an RN who has worked her whole life around mentally ill patients. I let her read some of Johnnie Boy's posts. She concurs. The guy is a couple of McNuggets shy of a Happy Meal.

hahah Yea I could see that one.... But at least if he is working on a car there are other forums for that....

Go bother someone else....

I went to Isaac & made a complaint. But there isn't anything that can be done at this point. Putting him on ignore is an option. But will his {censored} come up if quoted by another poster?

He is pulling your strings like a marionette master. No requirement to read what he posts. Ignore him.

Well if you throw out enough {censored}, you are bound to hit someone.

Do you understand how to use the scroll wheel?