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Topic: A build is on my bucket list |
Greg Johnson
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Greencastle, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 12:21 pm |
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I would love to build my own guitar. But an am no machinist so maybe assemble would be a better term to use. I have been fooling around. With other people's for a long time and never learned the mechanics as I should have. So the question is where wôuld I buy all the parts? I feel confident I can do this and at my pace and expense. So any leads?
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MSA CLassic SD-10
92 Emmons LII
79 Super Pro
Quilter TT
Evans FET 500
Fender Twin 65 RI
American Takimine |
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Stuart Tindall
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England, UK
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 2:04 pm
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I'd think about disassembling, restoring and reassembling an existing guitar. If you want it to LOOK new, maybe have Mark Giles build a replacement cabinet. And you can find clapped out Buds and MSAs cheaply, and you can find parts easy.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
From:
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 2:54 pm
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I think Bobbe Seymour still has a lot of Sho Bud parts.
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Steel crazy after all these years.
$100 reward for info leading to the purchase of a fender D8 white, yellow, or butterscotch. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 4:42 pm
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I think if I were restoring a Bud, I'd buy the new parts from Morehead or Yahl. No sand cast parts there....
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Richard Damron
From:
Gallatin, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 6:14 am
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Hey, Greg -
Stuart Tindall has steered you in the right direction before you get your feet wet. I,too, am a member of that forum - it's free to join - and I can tell you that there's a bunch of selfless folks who will bend over backward in an effort to help. My suggestion would be to join and then introduce yourself. Make your first post in the appropriate section and wait for the response. Remember, too, that there is no such thing as a dumb question - if you really do not know the answer.
Have at it, my friend.
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Greg Johnson
From:
Greencastle, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 10:38 am
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Richard
I tried to join but I can't figure out the trick question. Lol.
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MSA CLassic SD-10
92 Emmons LII
79 Super Pro
Quilter TT
Evans FET 500
Fender Twin 65 RI
American Takimine |
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Richard Damron
From:
Gallatin, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 18 Jul 2013 10:56 am
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Greg -
Keep trying. The questions tend to get simpler and more obvious. If I could do it then you can too!
Richard |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 18 Jul 2013 8:21 pm
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as to mark giles bodies...i've seen many on various brands of steels..they're beautiful.but are there any guitars that we know have super tone partly due to the body. isn't that a large factor in tone?
any specific recordings we can hear? |
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