Jonathan Hodgson
@jonhodgson
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Joined: Aug 26, 2020
Last seen: Jun 27, 2025
Topics: 20 / Replies: 319
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RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

@booThese guys have 6mm, which is about normal for a dot

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RE: New Electric BUild

@darrenking in that diagram the ground wires are green and the hot wires are black.The black stranded is I assume a shield, so it goes to ground. It's...

4 years ago
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RE: New Electric BUild

@darrenking it sounds like you just want a bog standard 2 pickup 3 position wiring (you don't mention coil taps), do you really need a diagram for tha...

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RE: Fret Position Placement

@boo his thumb is a dead giveaway that he's really an alien, here to take over the world and snack on our brains

4 years ago
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RE: Fret Position Placement

@mattbeels for the most part (and I'll admit to limited exposure to it), it doesn't do it for me. But there's no denying that there are some monster p...

4 years ago
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RE: ROCKLITE

@russ @darrenkingTaylor's partner in the Cameroon sawmill project is Madinter, who you can buy from.I just recently found out about this because of an...

4 years ago
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RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

@boo I think the hundreds of thousands you have to pay to get a license to use Vanta Black (not to mention that it has some very special application m...

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RE: Fret Position Placement

@booThe multiscale side of things you wouldn't even notice after a few minutes of playing, they really feel that natural.As for the extra strings, tha...

4 years ago
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RE: Fret Position Placement

Then you have the Distortocaster, where they're used for a completely different reason, with a few extra visual cues they make the neck look like...

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RE: Fret Position Placement

@boo there are several reasons for fanned frets (also known as multiscale or compound scale).They vary between tonal and ergonomic.Tonally, scale leng...

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RE: Fret Position Placement

Having now watched the video I have to agree with @darrenking, in practice this would be an awful system to use, because errors will happen at every s...

4 years ago
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Answer to: Guitar build #2. Smaller size.

@darrenkingJacob of Canna guitars does something similar, but he actually puts a soundhole there. It's quite a clever workaround of the fact that the ...

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RE: Fret Position Placement

@darrenkingThere's no allowance to make in that case.draw out a rectangular representing a neck (from bridge to nut) with parallel frets. Now draw a ...

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Answer to: Guitar build #2. Smaller size.

@darrenking That's rather neat, is it one of yours?

4 years ago
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RE: ROCKLITE

@darrenkingYou're correct, Martin use Richlite

4 years ago
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RE: Fret Position Placement

I'm going to have to draw it out, but it seems to me that an issue with fan frets may be that you have to include the string angle into your calculati...

4 years ago
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RE: ROCKLITE

@darrenkingRichlite and Rocklite are different companies with different products.Rocklite is made from wood

4 years ago
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RE: Fret Position Placement

@darrenking You're correct that there is no standard for which is the right angle fret. Strandberg seem to make it the zero fret, but they don't have ...

4 years ago
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RE: BYOEG Black Stealth

Now you just need a license to paint it in Vantablack

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