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Sensible Jones' Guide to Building your own Guitar!!

OK, ever felt like you want to 'build' your own Guitar, to your own Specs, but didn't think you had the skills?? Well, I'm here to tell you that ANYONE, with just a little bit of time and patience and a few basic Tools, is capable of producing their own 'Custom Creation'!! In this article I'll take you through the assembly of the Guitar pictured on the right.>>>>>>>

As you can see it's a Strat styled instrument and so we'll be using a Vintage style Tremolo Bridge and 3 pickups with 1 Volume and 2 Tone controls. The whole process is exactly the same, whether you are building a Tele, a V, a Les Paul etc! It doesn't matter what shape it is, it will still have the same basic geometry and parts!!!

So, what do you need to get started???
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Staffycaster!!

Staffays rebuild of a cheap Strat. The Staffaycaster!!!

The birth of the Staffaycaster

Clumsy as I am, Im stepping right into our masterbuilder Sensible Jones territory and sending some info on how to fix a bad axe.

Background:
Since Im totally upset over Fender's ridiculous prices on their NOS vintage masterbuilt signature custom guitar's pieces of crap, I will try to prove that You can get the same sound (or nearly) from a total piece'o'junk. Fender did not built quality instruments in the 50's/60's so who say's that they are now? So what I did was to pick up a "no name" guitar for 150€ at my local dealer and started to mess with it. (this is actually a good idea to get a good instrument at a very low price, they use to have "home-built" guitars laying around that they could not sell so easily and therefore is cheap) The headstock on the guitar said "Fender", but even Fender can't glue a name that bad on a headstock, so we had some theorys that it could have been a Squire or as I am bound to believe - a kit that someone built.
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Marc's amazing Guide to Ibanez RG and S Series Guitars!!!

Since Ibanez is one of the leading guitar companies used on this forum, I thought id dump my knowledge of the brand on to you, so you may buy yourself a real quality Ibanez guitar! This comes after I get countless PM’s on which to buy “is this any good” so on and so forth...

To learn about the history of Ibanez guitars check out the Ibanez GMC Wiki article here: CLICK In this guide I will teach you a little about Ibanez guitar quality, all the key terms you will need to know, and how to get the guitar of your dreams at good prices. Used or new. I will talk about mostly about RG series, and S series since those are the most popular, (and other models derived from these two) however, the same rules apply for all Ibanez models. (More....)

Want to know more about Amplification???

A guitar amplifier is an electronic machine to enforce the sound of a guitar or an eguitar. In case of an eguitar the amplifier is not wanted to simply make the eguitar louder but to give the sound a certain touch actively. A lot of guitarists see their amplifiers as a part of their instrument and use them, not to make the guitar sound louder, but to achieve a special expression with their amps. (More....)

Ever thought about a Scalloped Fretboard???

A fretboard is scalloped when the wood between the frets is scalloped out, creating a soft U shape between the frets. The result of this is that the finger only has to touch the string in order to fret the string. (More.....)

EL34

Tubes:

Vacuum tube, electron tube, or thermionic valve; it is the simple device which has driven modern music since the early 1900's. Tubes (short) saw mainstream use in radios and signal amplification as early as the 1920's. By the 1950's they were in every major juke box across America.(More...)

Jackson:

The History of Jackson is not a long one and begins in Glendor California in the mid 70's with two men; Grover Jackson and Wayne Charvel. They ran a small shop called Charvel Guitar Repair. Through this shop Grover and Wayne made custom guitars known as Charvel. (More....)