Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Once again google has the answer. Just a matter of wading through all the crap to find it. of course what the right answer is is still debatable. From the start I said I suspected the strings are being magnetised by the magnets. Waving their own magnetic field past the coil induces a voltage. I stil...

Quote: now to pick-ups. The coil is stationary. The magnets are stationary. how the hell are any conductors moving relative to any magnetic fields? Are the strings some how magnetised by the pick-up magnets? Quote: This seems to provide a simple clear explanation of how a simple magnetic pickup work...

Thanks for all the help guys I guess I have a bit more research to do before shopping. I might draw a cad version of it up sometime and post it so that you can all see what the idea was because I think its a bit convoluted when I try an put it in words.

Liam

Thanks so much for the reply. Im sure Ill find something and I suppose it doest really mater if the wood is spectacular I was going to put in an aluminum fingerboard with no freta anyway so Im not sure what that will do for tone.

Liam

Thanks I'll wait for a while to see if he notices the thread and if not I will pm him. Ive got to say I have been looking into building a guitar for a while and all I ever found were american websites and forums which are helpful to an extent but its great to find people with local knowledge. Thanks...

Thanks for that Allen. The plan was neck-through so I will call around a few places in cairns and the tablelands to see if they have any of the woods you mentioned in suitable lengths.

Thanks
Liam

Hi all, I am completely new to instrument building but have decided to attempt to build a guitar. I was wondering if there were any opinions on woods available in the Cairns area for a solid body electric guitar neck, fingerboard and body. Thanks in advance to everyone as I am sure I will be back to...