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So I plugged it in to see what it sounds like in both E-mode and amplified acoustic mode. For E-mode I got nothing until I opened the access hole and bent the prong for the plug a lil tighter and then it came alive. I tested it with and with out pedal to spectacular results and sound. I was iffy on the pickup from my last try which resulted in sustain issues. But this time I changed things a bit. What I got was pure electric sound with no sustain problem or bleed through from the acoustics.

Acoustic mode with the preamp is just as clear as it should be no surprise there. Any way it all works and surprisingly the way I designed it to work.

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Right on! Enjoy

Congratulations, Jeremy. So glad it's all you hoped for!

Well done, Jezza! Onwards and upwards!

I love this guitar. I love it sooooooo much that I want to try to manufacture more and make a lil money for future projects, tools and more R and D. I'm gonna wait on the kit for now and build a couple more of these guitars. The formula works I just need to improve on some things which means better tools and some study materials. But I'm sure of my engineering and design enough I can reproduce it and do it better.

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I'm starting to run out of Walnut scrap wood needed to to make neck and corner blocks and I'm need of new supply. I know some make thier own like me but I know they can be bought too which isn't good for me since they are always custom sized. Would any of you know of good supplier for the wood stock to make my custom blocks? They need to be at least 2 1/4 thick with it being wide enough to make several. Any help would be appreciated.

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Jeremy, before going to law school I was a teacher for five years. Sometimes I like to answer questions in a way that helps the person asking find the answer themselves. This is why I pointed you to a resource a few weeks ago rather than giving you the direct link to copy and paste. Did you ever go find it? Just curious.

If your life depended on finding a neck block (something commonly used in making guitars) and you didn't a thread in this forum, what kind of business might you call?

Thank you for that. I did some investigating and found some easy to obtain alternatives to the walnut stock I was using. Also decided after buying some more top and back/side wood that I really need a bandsaw. With that I can pretty much become self sufficient. I can run my own brace stock and cut my sides so my cutout edges meet at the tips. Which to tell you the truth doesn't bother me but I know it's not professional to see the seem below the tip. And I can cut my corner blocks which is seriously important if I plan to make more of these guitars. Do you know how scary it is to watch someone use a chop saw to very carefully shave a corner block down to size???!!! And I can only imagine how my friend felt. Also I wouldn't have to wait and that means faster production time. Any way that's my plan for now.

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This might interest someone maybe we collaborate on this. Ok here it goes. On my first acoustic build originally I wanted to do something like a T5 but was turned away so I could learn about building acoustics first, which I have learned a lot. Enough that I feel comfortable trying to reproduce the Archangel. Any way so since I'm having to buy a bandsaw before starting mass production, that's gonna put me off a month on building another AA. I do on the other hand have a big piece of alder and a curly maple top with some mahogany back and sides. I also have an electric guitar neck that needs to feel useful.

So here's my plan. I was gonna build this guitar.



But instead I want to make a ring or clamshell guitar with it. Cut it to the desired shape and glue a back and top to it right. Well as it turns out a t5 looks like this.



As you can see the bracing is almost non-existent. I think it suffers a lil because of this. After listening to it at least. I think with a lil magic you could get a lil more acoustic action from it. Idk it's totally experimental of course but I'd like to hear some of your opinions and ideas on what would make this work.

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My drawing app makes my drawing suck but something like this.


I probably won't use Mr. Mosers complete design I'll have to change it around to make stuff fit better. Simplify it a lil or a lot. Any way as you can see the right hand cross brave will extend a lil longer and the LTB's would extend a lil further too but it should improve the action quite a bit.

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Hi Jeremy,
You might want to start a new thread when posting about a new idea. Maybe post about this in the Electric guitar forum to get the kind of help you're asking for. Good luck

NP.

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All right so I got my bandsaw and a neat one by the way. It came with a fence and a lil angle guide thingy that slides in the table to help with angled cuts. After a lil practice I'm going to come to my next crossroads which will be joining the sides to the cutaway properly. You know putting the joint at the tip of the peaks. I just want to ask and I know plenty will say practice but have any of you seen any type of jig you could make where you just slide the piece in and cut. It's not the side pieces I'm worried about mucking up but the cutaways themselves. That's a tight angle. Also any tips would be appreciated.

BTW I mucked up the other body I was working on but oh well it was cheap and I needed the scrap. I'm just gonna keep building these guitars. I like the bottom cutout. It's cool I can set it on my thigh and play just about any tight space. I also did a sound test with other people listening and I change my mind about my starcaster. The sound on my two home builts is on a "whole....notha....level". Lol. So I've got to be doing something right.

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Thought I'd let y'all see my lates guitar. I went with black blue and white binding. I'm kinda pissed though becuase I went ordered a router bit and bearing from stewmac that was supposed to give me a .100 binding channel and I believe they sent me a .80 because my .100 binding scheme was almost ruined because I didn't realize til I had already glued the black on top of blue. So now I have to paint the outer black on top of the blue middle layer. I was afraid of melting plastic else I would have re-routed it.

Ok so on to some good news. As you know I have been buying custom necks with the angle already cut into it at 2 degrees. Well this has been a problem since I'm building flat top guitars that need lil angle. How I discovered this is through the new Neck angle calculator. http://www.tundraman.com/Guitars/NeckAngle/

And I learned more about why we need it. Any way so unfortunately I had already ordered my neck before I ran across the site. But I fixed it and actually a lot better and easier than you are supposed to.
I just took a sanding block and started at the top of my neck joint and sanded a reverse angle until it just it just started becoming right. Took a lil while but I'm pleased with it and the joint. And now I can order my necks with the proper angle.

Any way so here's a couple pics. I asked for a fatter headstock and that's what I came up with.

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Looks good to me. Really like the design


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