LeviMan_2001

Alrighty folks, so way back when my brother had a poke at learning guitar he started to build one. He bought an Epoch neck off ebay (cheap bolt on les paul type neck) and started to make a body from the best tone wood ever.... TWO MDF SHELVES GLUED TOGETHER!!! Hell yeah, this baby will sustain for days, months, years! To say the least, Nigel Tunfel will be impressed. Trouble is he tried to do a neck pocket with an angle grinder.... no dice on that, so I'll fill it. So the plan on the finish is to do a material finish with an old plaid shirt as it should cover some of the imperfections in the surfaces

Anyhow, here's where we're at tonight. Tomorrow I should get the cavities cut. Maybe even glue the one piece toneplaid top on.


Oh yeah, and why four pickups? Because I had 'em! the break down is, two bc rich warlock pickups, one yamaha eg-112 bridge, and one washburn bridge (will need to flip magnets and polarity). Oh did I mention it will have a strat style trem for crazy dive bombs? Awww yeah.

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kurt_cobain9

in honesty, i'm not sure the trem will work properly if you have a gibson style angled head stock. Carvin uses angled headstocks, but they aren't angled as much. i remember reading something about this, so you might wanna google it.

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Carl6661

What you really need to do is disassemble those pickups and make some kind of Octobucker!

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MickAlmighty

^ Oh My God Yes!!!

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LeviMan_2001

Well it will essentially be an octobucker, they'll all be wired together and right next to eachother. All the pickups will get wired in series. I was thinking of having independent toggles for each pickup to add to the ridiculousness.

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whoomit

wat is this i dont even

metalhead352

oh my god...

Kinda excited to hear this thing... haha.

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slapsymcdougal

You should make all the switches and pot hats look like shirt buttons.

EDIT: stickied. Like a baws.

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This. Hard.

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Phoenix V

I can't wait to see all the phase switch, series and parallel combos you can get out of that. You'll need a 40 position rotary switch or something. This could become a complete animal!

Have you picked which nails you'll be using to put it all together?

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cemges

I saw an epiphone black beauty with 3 dimarzio multibuckers once, so 12 different coils... Killer. It had more switches then a firebird x, but it sonded great. One problem is that, you have to use the pickups far away from strings, or guitar won't have any sustain. And you should certainly use fixed bridge.

thebestjoe

If possible, it would be cool to use the Seymour Duncan Triple Shot mounting ring, then Individual on switches for each pickup. And the post above me is right with the pickups being far away, I have a pair of Duncan SH-6's and a hot rails in one of my guitars and it doesn't sustain well.

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Headstock angle has absolutely nothing to do with the kind of bridge...

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Please complete this

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this looks awesome!

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seems...


excessive...

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LeviMan_2001

Thought you guys might like this one . And yes Jason, tis the name of the game, we'll just say that this one should go to 11 at least.

Lets just say at this point we've gone to plaid


And here's before the plaid with the pickups routed in. They're fairly close, I'm a bit worried about the sustain laments as well, but we'll see. They're solid mounted, btw.


I think for wiring I've decided on eight mini toggles to select each coil. They will be in series (all of them). I was also thinking of having two outputs, but how could I switch that? Maybe a switch to make half of them go to one amp and half to the other (so bridge+less bridge to one amp and neck+less neck to one amp?).

Also in case you guys haven't caught on to the few Spinal Tap references, here's a guitar built by Ernie Ball for 'Nigel Tunfel' that inspired this beast.


Which also in todays eight coil guitar history lesson we have this bad baby:

The Ural V8, mmmmm pure Soviet Russian POWA

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inkandlead

You could do a ric-o-sound type output. Or use one main output and and use a normalizing jack for the second one. So you could get everything through jack one or use both and have them split. i.e. first two pickups/back two pickups.

Loki.Foxchild

AWESOME! not that it hasn't already been said.