How difficult is it to build a guitar?

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Re: How difficult is it to build a guitar?

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It's easy and a shitton of fun.
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Re: How difficult is it to build a guitar?

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Super easy, just do your homework and dont guess, measure shit out to the end.

I made this-

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and this axces inspired lp

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It's finished now, just havn't taken a decent pic of it.
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Re: How difficult is it to build a guitar?

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if you can solder, putting a Fender-style guitar together is pretty simple. it's the setup that's really a pain. when you buy a pre=built Fender, they've decided what all the correct tolerances are; when you build one yourself, you have to figure out how to set everything up (the truss rod, the bridge, pickup heights, etc.). it took me about two days to assemble my parts-o-strat, but weeks to get the setup sorted. in the past i've said that one great thing about Fender guitars is that they can make any schmuck with a screwdriver and an Allen key feel like a luthier :yay:
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Re: How difficult is it to build a guitar?

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kosta wrote:One way to find out! :cool:

Seriously though, I've done a few Yuri Landman instrument workshops, and it's been no trouble at all when starting with good parts. Seems like as long as the neck and frets are good and the scale length and neck pocket matches up you should be good to go. (Grossly over-simplified, but yeah.)

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(Basically a regular neck, tuners and pickups and everything else from the hardware store per Yuri's design. Took about 4 hours to put together.)


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The ringing tail bridge situation is fuuuuuuuuun. Makes fuzzes sound awesome too.
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its like eating p**** the more you work at it, the better you get
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kosta wrote:
Mick / Phantasmagorovich did this workshop too, so he has one as well. As a matter of fact, here he is playing it in a police impound lot in Amsterdam. :lol:
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Missed this. I love that picture.
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Super funny. That was a fun night.
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pedalmania wrote:its like eating p**** the more you work at it, the better you get




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tuffteef wrote:
pedalmania wrote:its like eating p**** the more you work at it, the better you get




:lol:
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Somehow it intrigues me if that is supposed to mean pussy or penis.
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Eating paper? Eating peter? Eating panda? Eating polka?
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phantasmagorovich wrote:
tuffteef wrote:
pedalmania wrote:its like eating p**** the more you work at it, the better you get




:lol:
like everything in life



Somehow it intrigues me if that is supposed to mean pussy or penis.



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Oh, so, this is now the "How difficult is it to perform fellatio and/or cunnilingus?" thread?
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Chankgeez wrote:Oh, so, this is now the "How difficult is it to perform fellatio and/or cunnilingus?" thread?



its the " how difficult is it to build a guitar in comparison to eating pussy or sucking dick as we dont discriminate on www.ilovefuzz.com "
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tuffteef wrote:
Chankgeez wrote:Oh, so, this is now the "How difficult is it to perform fellatio and/or cunnilingus?" thread?



its the " how difficult is it to build a guitar in comparison to eating pussy or sucking dick as we dont discriminate on http://www.ilovefuzz.com "


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