Thanks man! 
Posts by nakedzen
-
-
Thanks! Never ice no, sometimes when I started playing ages ago I used to get wrist pains. But I think that was due to bad technique.
The wrist needs to be loose and relaxed all the time, never tense up.
-
Finally got around learning this song, it only took 16 years.
Took the guitar build #4 for a test drive. -
Oh, had not tried acetone for plastic bindings. Nice tip. Learned something new...again. At this rate I'll be pretty smart one of these years.
Just be warned not all plastic melts with acetone. But it's so much cleaner to use than glue.
-
That's a fabulous build, man! Nice work!
Thanks man! Not perfect, but getting better. This was my second build with binding and taught me better ways working those. Heatgun for spaghettifying, acetone for adhesion and card scrapers for cleanup worked so much better than using CA glue and a razor.
-
-
Man, I really like the look of body back.
Yeah ash has a nice open grain figure, I like how it looks with dye+oil finish. Went for a "logs from a pirate ship" or some other old worn piece of wood look with this one.
-
My fourth guitar build from scratch is done!
25.5" scale, ash body maple neck, flame maple top, ebony fretboard. EMG 85/60. Hand dyed, finished with oil.
Sound clip, had to do some 90's teenage nostalgia.
-
Atmospheric post-rock and black metal (in the same album)
-
My attempt at old school Sepultura'ish something.
https://soundcloud.com/nakedzen/lumiaalto-4/s-tXona5f19lg
50/50 mix of the Lasse Lammert secret profile from STL tones and my own D120 + Mesa 4x12 profile.
25.5" scale, ash body, flame maple top, ebony board, maple neck. Schaller locking tuners, Graphtech Tusq nut, luminlay dot inlays, EMG81, PA2 booster, Gotoh 510UB wraparound bridge.
-
I did some tone matched profiles ages ago. Basically your signal chain needs to go like this.
Record a DI of the song you want to match first. In Ozone create a match eq curve of the song (preferably isolated guitar part of course) and your amp-cab-mic setup.
Enable the match eq in DAW in Ozone.
Then Kemper profiling out to amp-cab-mic-DAW-Ozone eq-DAW out-Kemper.
-
Recorded some Abba CD for a tone test.
https://soundcloud.com/nakedze…k-tone-test/s-sSrl9eJdag9
Used the GB Mars Brit800 04 profile, three tracks panned L/C/R. Reaally liking the one this guitar is giving me.
Reverb is from DAW.
-
Well done and very nice color contrast choice. No knobs?
Thanks! Knobs are in the mail still.
-
Second guitar build done, really like the tone on this one. Ash body, maple neck, ebony fretboard. Graphtech nut, Schaller tuners, Duncan Vintage Tele neck, Hot Tele bridge, CTS pots. Nitro finish except back of neck is couple layers shellac only.
-
Pretty senseless, but very happy with the tone of the guitar. Sold my ESP Horizon after hearing it.
-
Blech, found the issue! One of the lugs on the output jack were touching the shielding paint on the cavity, made the pickups sound weak.
-
Agreed!
The wrong cut on the pickguard was bothering me so I fixed it. Also finally received the Schaller pickup ring for it, so the guitar now has its final form. Woo. -
So with the guitar I built/posted the thread about, from the start the EMG's somehow have much less output than my other guitars.
It has all solderless connections and a new battery, the pickups are close to the strings etc. usual suspects. I even tried going straight from pickups to the output but no difference.
The sound is completely normal after raising the gain, it's just low output. Compare here to my ESP:
Any wiring wizards here have any idea what's causing this? I've never ran across this issue before.
-
nice job and well documented. Something to be proud of
l’ve built quite a few neck through guitars, but never a bolt on.Thanks man! Neck through sounds scary, bolt-ons are easy since you can mess the neck but still have the body.
Here's a quick brainless metal clip:
-
Thanks for the great documentation of your project. Absolutely stunning and super impressive. What talent!
Personally I can do adjustments on my instruments, solder electronics and so on. But wood work and laquer, frets etc. are different kind of animal. Nothing for me. But looking at your project nakedzen is really super inspiring. Thanks for sharing this
Thanks guys! Not much talent needed to be honest! How I proceeded with the build was do maybe one or two things a day that I've studied before hand (youtube, build forums/fb groups) and have a good idea of what I'm going to do. And hide any mistakes with glue/sawdust mix!
Basically almost anything you can fix in some way, usually involves CA glue. :p
Dye+oil finishes are real easy, just rub them on with a old t-shirt and leave to dry. The router is the only thing that's scary to use!
