12 string strat from OSG

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12 string strat from OSG

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That's some serious workmanship. The bridge stuff is impressive.
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wow, thats some nice work.
looks great.
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Why is this in the Project Guitars section, it's not a project from a member on here.

It should be in All Other Guitars.
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Because it's a documentation of a guitar project.

If there wasn't the whole 'fuck offset' thing you wouldn't be bothered by it at all.
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No i don't care about that at all.

When somebody posts a guitar from ReRanch or Offset or any damn forum they post it in All Other guitars, like they've always done. This section was created for people to document their projects.

You're in the wrong sub-forum dude, but whatever. If nobody else cares, fuck it. Let's just start posting everything all over the fucking place.
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Post by Sublimedo »

its hardly anarchic.

I always took it as a forum to display craftsmanship or projects not completed by a robot. Its more of a an inspirational forum. and it just makes sense.
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Post by Johno »

I think it looks ace, the only thing that bugs me is the line of the vol/tone cotrols, the one nearest the pup looks as if it might get in the way of the trem arm.
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it sounds really nice.
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Post by Reece »

wow he really put alot into that. it sounds killer too.
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Post by Mike »

Wiring is a complete mess, but he said it's not his forte anyway.

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So much extraneous wire = spaghetti junction.

I will never understand people working with cloth wire if this is the result, just take some more time and do it right.
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I'm trying to work out if he has multiple routes to ground as well rather than one spot.
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Post by Mike »

Some of the offset guys wire their stuff exactly as Fender used to, down to colour of wire used and number of bits of tape to hold them together.

It's midly hilarious, I imagine them fretting and redoing it if they lay the wrong colour wire, even if the connection is sound.
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Post by Mike »

The two volume controls are grounded to each other and to the bridge pickup ground, but not to the tone control and therefore the jack groun. Assume he is using pot casing contact to make this connection for him, in which case why has he grounded the volume pots together?

It's all a bit of a mess really. Could have been made so much more streamlined with a little more thought.
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euan wrote:I'm trying to work out if he has multiple routes to ground as well rather than one spot.
Actually yeah. Between the two volume pots there is a black wire on the backs. Even though they are already connected through the shielding. Man. Go to the effort of using shielding then introduce extra wiring.
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Post by Mike »

The big loops on the short connections on the blade switch are my favourite.

Anyway, that bridge is a wonderful piece of work and he clearly has a lot of skill in getting it all together. That said I didn't really dig the sample at all, I guess I'm not a fan of 12 string guitars.
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Post by robert(original) »

that does look really nice.
its a shame to paint over that quilted maple tho.
the wiring is half and half for me. the connections look good, but like mike said, too much extra wire hanging about.
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Mike wrote:Some of the offset guys wire their stuff exactly as Fender used to, down to colour of wire used and number of bits of tape to hold them together.
The worst part of that is how they refer to it as 'correct', as though using different colours would somehow cheapen the guitar.
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Wow! That's ace :D Still prefer the Rickenbacker way of stringing 12 strings, it just seems to make more sense.
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Post by timhulio »

Who puts a trem on a 12-string?
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Post by Bacchus »

I like the idea of a tremmed twelve string.
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