Open to suggestions for this:
P.S. It's made of Poplar, is that good tonewood?
Open to suggestions for this:
P.S. It's made of Poplar, is that good tonewood?
Reading Crazy From the Heat in four hours flat, in a cramped RV, on the return trip of a 3,000+ mile family outing to New Jersey is an enlightening experience you'll never forget.
This:
The 'Hot For Teacher V'
Schenker VOriginally Posted by VanHalenFan5150
Nice, nice, some good ideas
Yes. Good ideas. As I already have an Epi Korina V, I can say I already sort of have a "Hot For Teacher" V, though his is probably a 58-59 Gibson worth several hundred thousand bucks.
Would love to have a Schenker V. I dig the Dean signature model also. Prefer black and white axes. I call my Korina V and Explorer my 'furniture guitars', cause a) I don't play them a lot (pickups suck ass), and b) they sit around with their beautiful finish and collect dust, just like furniture, lol.
Anyway, whatever you want to do.
Well, as for how 'good' it is, wood is an unpredictable thing. Regardless of species, you could have an axe that sounds great, then the very next one off the assembly line, even cut from the same chunk of wood, can sound like shit.
Only way to really tell is to build it and see. You can compensate somewhat if the tone is not to your liking by the type of pickups you put in it also.
Last edited by Hardrock69; 08-08-2010 at 08:06 PM.
Some old Kramers were made of Poplar. From the looks of the woodgrain (is that a trick of the light in the photo, or does it have those green mineral-streaks in it?) , a natural finish might not look so hot "for teacher" on it, if ya know what I mean, but a schenker paintjob's always killer...
That "mineral" streak is a tannin-stain. When all wood gets wet, tannic acid is released which then starts breaking down the sugars in the wood as it carmelizes as the sugars are oxidized over time.
This means it's seen some moisture since it's been glued up and cut out, somewhere along the line
Thats not a problem, it can be sanded off. But this looks to be a home-version of a V and not any standard pattern.
I'd dust it lightly with a can of 99 cents Flat Black from Home Depot and list the thing on ebay.. let it be someone else's problem.
Thought I was on ignore, bitch?
Welcome to the club, young man...............to be on Clay's imaginary ignore list at such a young age is an accomplishment in and of itself!
Now stay in school, don't do drugs, use a condom and for fuck's sake never........and I mean never.........play those ghey ass seven string guitars
E- Jesus . Playing both sides because he didnt understand the argument in the first place
Like I said, keep up the good work...
Oh, SNAP!
Back a day and pwned by the kid already...hope you've got some salve for that wicked burn, GAR
Dear Gawd... I KNOW I'm going to hell for this, but...Now stay in school, don't do drugs, use a condom and for fuck's sake never........and I mean never.........play those ghey ass seven string guitars
Listen to the drummer, kid. Listen to the drummer. He's right.
Cheers! :bottle:
Emotrollip.
My Valley Arts strat was custom-ordered with Poplar on the treble half of the body, and alder on the bass half of the body.
Not that poplar isn't any good, but it is a very lite, spongey wood and resonates bass energy better than it does treble-range.
It would have been better if it was done the other way around with the alder-half on the treble side.
Another thing with poplar is the Randy Rhodes V's bodies are poplar, for weight purposes... however, they are maple neck-thru center sections and all the string mountings and pickups are mounted into the maple. Not the poplar. So being a poplar body section with that particular V neither enhances nor detracts much from tone or sustain at all. Poplar's just there for weight-savings. And becasuse it's cheaper than alder..
Your what? Another imaginary guitar? Gee, you must have an imaginary 30,000 square-foot warehouse for all your imaginary gear, loser.
Tee hee! How cute.
Another "me too, lookitme" after-GAR post.
I'm honored.
If you were smart, you wouldn't post anything, because all you do is present us a situation so we can own your or make you own yourself. STFU
.............................nuff said.
Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!
He is an S.O.C.
self ownin' critter
but regarding the topic:
Turn it into a schenker V, get a 50 watt Marshall and a wah wah and nail that tone.
Correct. Ignore the douche and get the V going!
Could you imagine how badly this kid will gouge up that packratted kitchen table with a halfinch plunge router bit, trying to secure the required orifices into the body?
Leave the kid alone. That's not a request.
Pretty sure he said his dad has an awesome set of tools..and there are places he can get routing templates...
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Sp...st=3&xsr=22093
Stew-Mac has all that shite, and guided router bits.
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Sp...st=3&xsr=31837
It could be set up like a Gibson with a stop tail-piece, or he can go nuts and put a recessed Floyd on the thing...
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Sp...st=3&xsr=95442
Chandler guitars has a website up these days called pickguard heaven...
http://pickguards.us/pgordinst.htm
You could burst it. Not as hard as you may think.
Last edited by indeedido; 08-11-2010 at 06:57 PM.
All cool ideas. I was kind of thinking putting a 24-fret maple neck with scallops from the 21st fret upward, painting the guitar flat black or leaving it natural, putting an Official Schaller Floyd Rose bigblock, and Duncan 59's... or the official EVH pickup mounted right to the body, would like to try it out.
Fuck that templated bullshit!
Kid, do this:
1. Outline your lines in pencil. Then masking tape along the lines from one piece of tape to the others.. first for trem, then for pickup, last the neck.
2. Throw a 3/8" diameter straight flute bit in any cheap router you can find for free loan use: if you have to pay $8 bucks for a new HSS bit at the store, that's fine. You'll only use it this one project..
3. Take a ruler to check the length of the bit as you slide it into the collet of the router, making sure you measure 11/16" to the tip of the bit up from the base. Then tighten the collet with the wrench.
4. Use a piece of scrap 2x4 cutoff from soemthing, anything. Junk wood at least 1" is okay - now turn the router on while holding the edges of the board with the sides of both palms, bring the router down slowly into the scrap wood and make a 2 inch diameter hole.
5. Turn it off, then check with the ruler the depth you cut. If it's a hair deeper than 11/16's its okay but not 3/4". You want your neck not to go too deep. If you plan on a Floyd, 5/8" is an okay depth too for both neck, and humbucker. But you'll have to go deeper for the trem spring cavity. That's why we use 11/16 depth, it works for front and back routings.
6. Okay, now that you're ready to go, fill the tub with water and sit down in it. While holding the router, switch it on, and then bring the thing down into the water. It's shockingly that easy!
7. If you follow thru steps 1 thru 6 the wrong way, you'll probably trip a circuit breaker but that's okay so long as nobody notices.
Enjoy!
I'm on the ignore list, was someone talking to me?
Before I forget, one more thing:
If you buy a 1/16th inch router bit instead of going three-eighths, you not only can rout wood with it, but it will double as a tattooing machine once youre done.
Tattoo's are BIG money down where youre at.. so it might take longer with a tiny bit, but it will serve a dual-purpose in the end and actually bring in money.
Win-win hands down.
Color me weird VH5150, but to me a V with a maple neck looks strange. I guess I just love the rosewood/ebony fingerboard look.
But then, it is your guitar, and you do as you see fit. Mounting the p/u direct to the body sounds like a cool deal. As long as you have the p/u height set where you want it.
I always preferred maple necks, and if I was to build a guitar to my own specs, well, what could go wrong with strolling down the creative path?
Whatever you're into...that's kinda the point.
I always preferred maple necks, and if I was to build a guitar to my own specs, well, what could go wrong with strolling down the creative path?
Not much.
I strongly suggest fittng a premade neck, not making one first time round.
I strongly suggest you SHUT THE FUCK UP.
VV
Exactly what he said. But I wasn't going to make a neck for it myself anyway. Don't have that kind of patience.
Garfuckle does not understand that other people do have intelligence. He automatically assumes everyone else knows nothing, and that HE is the sole repository of knowledge on whatever subject he happens to be pontificating.
He suffers from an acute over-active Superiority Complex complete with delusions of grandeur.
Carry on, VHF5150, the rest of us are sure you have it well in hand, and that will ask the rest of us if you need an opinion.
Usually that claim arrives packed in a medium-sized box of irony, not a large one.
I love the custom necks at Warmoth. I love the look too of the Ken Lawrence headstock they make. Put this guy on it...I always preferred maple necks, and if I was to build a guitar to my own specs, well, what could go wrong with strolling down the creative path?
http://www.warmoth.com/Pages/Classic...k,Misc,Kenneth
What 'claim', piss-face?
You're implicating yourself to posess disputable levels of intellgence.
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