Attn: Sara... Official Guitar Ransom Thread

[NoEffenPicks]

Hey folks, up for grabs is Sara's guitar!!!!!!!!!!! I'm holding it captive till my demands are met. Here she is... recently serviced by me... complete fret job. releveled the fret board. Detailed and oiled... Sexy as hell.

Sara, you know where to find me.


Bwahaahaaahaahaaaa....

 

[BichMaker]

Chris... put the guitar down slowly and step away!

And how come you didn't put diamonds in it while you had the frets out?

 

[Tap_Legion2]

Man , I'm still waiting for my 1st commision to paint something cool on a guitar body............

 

[RoboCaster]

Nice looking fret job, the action looks good too; now you got me thinking about doing it.

I know that with the Floyed Rose bridge you adjust one side then the other and all the strings are even across, but with the fender bidge each saddle is set, so I found that you must have at least enough action to perform artifical harmonics.

I found a pack of 9.5 pre-radiused frets, I want to re-fret Fender neck I got laying around, or maybe I could get SS frets and press them in with fret vice grips...

 

[RoboCaster]

Since some of you are into guitar work, ever tried one of the treble bypass filters? I’ve done it before with radio shack caps; the values were not exact, but it works well. I’m going to upgrade my three guitars with Orange Drop capacitors and resistors, that’s bleeder bypass and tone cap as well, the Orange Drops are said to be the best in tone, I found the Orange caps a resistors with the proper values at guitarpartsresource.com

 

[NoEffenPicks]

And how come you didn't put diamonds in it while you had the frets out?

Yea sure, and how about making them glow in the dark while we're at it...

uke:

 

[BichMaker]

Inlays are no problem... the g-i-t-d binding sucked!! :zombie:

 

[RoboCaster]

Wow that's a weird looking double neck! One of a kind; I notice it's even got a Judas Preist bridge, and two strait throughs... Good work.

 

[Rendclaw]

About how much does it cost in materials to make a guitar from scratch?

 

[BichMaker]

That's a Kahler Tremolo bridge... they're cool! And the guitar is one of a kind!

As for how much it costs... waaaaaayyyyy too many varables! I could build one for $50 if I wanted all crappy parts on it. Good parts for a guitar runs well over $100 plus pickups. The wood can be cheap if you are painting it solid. That doesn't include labor though, and it takes a while to do all the parts. I could build a body in less than a day if I was going to paint it a solid color.

It is fun to do though.

 

[MiniMurray]

yay! best ransom ever! poor thing has already spent two years without strings - the only company being the cypress hill tape jammed under the bridge. yeah, the paint job glows enough huh..... hahha save the diamonds for the daisy guitar hehehhe. looks great chris - like the day i got it - can't wait to wrap my hands around the neck again. a thousand thank you's for breathing some life into her again!!!!

bichin double neck how come no locking nut?

 

[Schmidt_Rubin]

Dave Gilmour never used a locking nut

 

[BichMaker]

Most parts aren't on it yet because I still have a lot to do... the nut will be a Kahler lock behind the nut. Easy!

 

[Rendclaw]

wow, Bich... I wish I could send you my guitars so you could work on them.... except my Yamaha SE250, I don;t want Satch's autograph marred or erased...

 

[NoEffenPicks]

Hey Sara, so how's it playing? You going to play out with it at all? Or stick to your Eddie guitar?

 

[spideyjg]

She was playing it at the Elmira show.

Jim

 

[NoEffenPicks]

Ha! Too cool... I'm glad my work was of some benefit!

 

[MiniMurray]

yeah thanks again chris you did a splendid job i'm so happy to be able to play it again on stage so big karma love is coming your way! plays great and still sounds great too - i recorded the iron maidens cd with it - hell most of my career hehhe i'm gonna put some emgz in the eddie ibanez to match the sound. plus that strat i just got which you seen and i played at nickstock last weekend. i'll tell you all about very soon once it's tweaked in right.

 

[Rendclaw]

If I had the money, I would commission you to first work on my guitars, then build one from scratch.... wow.

 

[BichMaker]

Awesome pics!! Glad it's back to it's former glory!