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ZoSo65

ZoSo65

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aye everyone,
just found this site and think it's great, very friendly and helpful people here.

I've been messin' with the guitar for a few years now on an Ibanez X-series DT350.
Well recently I decided to get serious and built my first guitar, finished it 2 weeks ago, and it came out pretty good, personally I love it.
Here's a couple pics of it.

finished.jpg


finishedrear.jpg


finneckplate.jpg


fincon.jpg


And the specs:

Body is walnut with an Avonite deck. String through(body) design.
Neck is Hardrock Maple, Ebony fret board, 22 Jumbo frets(6100 wire) White pearloid dots. Graphtech nut.
Body and neck are finished with 15 coats of Black and Clear stringed instrument laquer(except for the Avonite deck which is polished)
Sperzel staggered locking tuners, with black pearloid tuner buttons.
TonePros System II Locking TOM bridge.
Bridge Pickup- EMG 89 with switchable single coil mode, controlled by push/pull volume pot.
Neck Pickup- EMG 81
EMG-SPC (Strat Presence Control) basically a small equalizer, controlled with lower knob on stacked pot(upper knob is tone).
EMG-Pi2 (active phase reversal circuit), controlled by mini toggle switch.
Ernie Ball Super Slinky RPS 9 strings.

Anyhoo, enough about me, I'm just glad I found this place *bigsmile*
 
Zo,

Welcome to thefret....you will like it here!

Beautiful guitar....a real work of art. How does that baby sound?

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Welcome!!

I dub that guitar the...

Betty Page

Or perhaps the

Black Betty

Building your own guitar is an incredible idea!
 
Thanks guys.
I found the site through Google, looking for information on Vox amps, believe it or not.
Guitar weight I'm guessing is around 7-8lbs. I haven't actually put it on a scale. It's heavier then a Strat and a little lighter then an LP, if that helps any.
It sounds awesome, but I've only played it through a Roland track studio(forgot the model), and a Fender Deluxe 900 DSP, that's why that's one of my picks of the amps I'm looking at. I have a thread in the Amp forums looking for info on them.

I like the "Black Betty". I didn't think of that one yet,,heh


Zõ§õ
 
SuperSwede said:
Zoso, please upload some recordings so we can hear how it sounds! :)
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I'm will, soon as I get a real amp for it, see my thread in the Amps forum. Also I won't be able to get to our jam room for a week and a half, the only guy with a key,,don't ask, LOL,,, went to Key West for his honeymoon.


Zõ§õ
 
ZoSo65 said:
I like the "Black Betty". I didn't think of that one yet,,heh
Zõ§õ
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But you did put the Betty Page image there didn't you? Either that or the little goth elves got into your workshop at night...
 
LOL,,yeah I put her there, I thought it would be a nice touch. It's photo-engraved in the neck plate using a "dot-matrix" type technology, I found it on ebay. It's actually pretty cool, different light gives it different characteristics, and at certain angles it looks like a negative.

Zõ§õ
 
ZoSo65 said:
LOL,,yeah I put her there, I thought it would be a nice touch. It's photo-engraved in the neck plate using a "dot-matrix" type technology, I found it on ebay. It's actually pretty cool, different light gives it different characteristics, and at certain angles it looks like a negative.

Zõ§õ
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So you admit that you are a goth elf!!!

jes as I thought

-Montana
 
tot_Ou_tard said:
So you admit that you are a goth elf!!!

jes as I thought

-Montana
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But what I really want to know is have you shaved and can you spit?

This'll rawk the comics world....a hard boiled western anti-hero comic with a guitar playing goth elf.

The only thing that I don't understand is whether zoSo there plays the bad guy or the sheriff.

alriiIIIiight sheriff draw

..............................................POP........

Ooowww! My shin, my shin!
 
ZoSo65 said:
LOL! You silly little man!
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Doooode! You're the elph not me!

I'm a tall rugged and muscular antihero!

You can tell by the way the moonlight glints off of my gold fillings when I spit.

..............spiiiit...........................

@@@****GLINT!!****@@@
 
Katastrophe said:
I can see the reviews now...

"With this elph I get no screaming solos.":D
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That

*sniff*
is the funniest thing

*BwaHahahHaa*

that I have heard in a long time!!!

....really makes me cry.

Avec cet elphe je trouve aucun solos hurlants!

In German & Swedish please! Pretty Puhleeeeze!

Chris & Robert & Super Swede, I'm counting on you....
 
Yo! Check this out, not to harp on the noobie thing here, there's this gentleman that makes guitars with Corian,,OK I've talked to him a little before I made mine, ya' know asking for a littla advice on using the solid surface material and bonding it to the wood. Well his replys where kind of mono tone and self absorbing, atleast that's what I thought, especially for the fact that whe I first emailed him, telling him my interest of using solid surface and that I was going to try it, asking him which glue he used. Keep in mind, I've been working with these solid surfaces for 20 years, I know about the glues used to fuse these materials. His reply was basically "can't tell you my secrets", Well that kinda blew me away, as he was acting like I was trying to "steal" business", but I replied politly, no biggy to me.
OK well, I checked out his site thouroley, and he seems to be very biased, "what he does is the bestest" you can't do it better then me, kinda feal. Granted he's got some really good things going, but,,,you'll catch what I mean if you check his site out.
I sent him some pics and info of the axe I built, and this was his reply:
Looks good. That stuff adds some nice range to the sound doesn't it? Avonite doesn't have as much bite as the corian but the Walnut I am sure helped with that. Also I am sure that the Avonite helped those EMG's since they kill a lot of tone.
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C'mon, you see what I see?!!!

Anyhoo, check his site out
CNTarasi
But please don't do anything offending,,I don't think anyone here would though,,,great group of people here.

That's it,,heh
 
ZoSo, sorry that it has taken me so long to get around to welcoming you to the forum. I'm one of those "old farts" and I suffer from CRS Disease (Can't Remember Squat!).

Hey, that is one of the most beautiful guitars I have ever seen. If it sounds anything like it looks, it is both a winner and a keeper!

I look forward to hearing more.
 
ZoSo65 said:
Yo! Check this out, not to harp on the noobie thing here, there's this gentleman that makes guitars with Corian,,OK I've talked to him a little before I made mine, ya' know asking for a littla advice on using the solid surface material and bonding it to the wood. Well his replys where kind of mono tone and self absorbing, atleast that's what I thought, especially for the fact that whe I first emailed him, telling him my interest of using solid surface and that I was going to try it, asking him which glue he used. Keep in mind, I've been working with these solid surfaces for 20 years, I know about the glues used to fuse these materials. His reply was basically "can't tell you my secrets", Well that kinda blew me away, as he was acting like I was trying to "steal" business", but I replied politly, no biggy to me.
OK well, I checked out his site thouroley, and he seems to be very biased, "what he does is the bestest" you can't do it better then me, kinda feal. Granted he's got some really good things going, but,,,you'll catch what I mean if you check his site out.
I sent him some pics and info of the axe I built, and this was his reply:


C'mon, you see what I see?!!!

Anyhoo, check his site out
CNTarasi
But please don't do anything offending,,I don't think anyone here would though,,,great group of people here.

That's it,,heh
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Yeah, that seems rude.

What is avonite? Is it another kitchen counter material? Why did you choose those materials & more importantly what is the tone like.
 
tot_Ou_tard said:
Yeah, that seems rude.

What is avonite? Is it another kitchen counter material? Why did you choose those materials & more importantly what is the tone like.
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It's a blend of polyesters, basically a fairly dense kind of plastic. Yep, it's used for kitchen counters and more actually.
I chose it, just because I like the way it looked,,hehe,,simple enough ;)
I figured if it didn't sound good, I would've made a new body of solid wood.
Actually I'm thinking of making another one with a through body neck.
Tone is terrific, I can't wait to put it through the ValveKing, that'll be the real test!
 
ZoSo65 said:
It's a blend of polyesters, basically a fairly dense kind of plastic. Yep, it's used for kitchen counters and more actually.
I chose it, just because I like the way it looked,,hehe,,simple enough ;)
I figured if it didn't sound good, I would've made a new body of solid wood.
Actually I'm thinking of making another one with a through body neck.
Tone is terrific, I can't wait to put it through the ValveKing, that'll be the real test!
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That's freakin' amazing ZoSo. I wonder what else you can make a guitar out of.

If this was 30 years ago you would have made it out of avacodo flormica with burnt orange shag trim!
 
r_a_smith3530 said:
ZoSo, sorry that it has taken me so long to get around to welcoming you to the forum. I'm one of those "old farts" and I suffer from CRS Disease (Can't Remember Squat!).

Hey, that is one of the most beautiful guitars I have ever seen. If it sounds anything like it looks, it is both a winner and a keeper!

I look forward to hearing more.
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Thanks smithy!
CRS, yeah I think I got a touch of that,,,I think?
 
Here's a pick of our jamroom/studio. I took it with a camera phone :p
This was pre-Black Betty,,,heh
I'll see if I can find some more ;)

jamroom.jpg
 

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