'ello there!

**ZoSo65** · March 20th, 2006, 07:18 PM

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.

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*

Spudman*** · March 20th, 2006, 07:59 PM

Cool axe man. Welcome to the fret. Enjoy.

Robert**** · March 20th, 2006, 08:21 PM

Wow, cool! I love that picture on that face plate thing!

Enjoy the Fret - you are among good people here.

How did you discover our little corner of the Net?

**Guitar-Chris** · March 21st, 2006, 12:55 AM

Originally Posted by ZoSo65

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

Cool axe, and welcome to the frets ZoSo.

**SuperSwede** · March 21st, 2006, 02:26 AM

Supercool guitar!
Welcome the the best forum on the web

**warren0728** · March 21st, 2006, 06:00 AM

Zo,

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

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

ww

**tot_Ou_tard** · March 21st, 2006, 07:38 AM

Welcome!!

I dub that guitar the...

Betty Page

Or perhaps the

Black Betty

Building your own guitar is an incredible idea!

**Tone2TheBone** · March 21st, 2006, 09:37 AM

Ahola,

How much does that baby weigh? Sweet axe.

**ZoSo65** · March 21st, 2006, 10:04 AM

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** · March 21st, 2006, 02:17 PM

Zoso, please upload some recordings so we can hear how it sounds!

**ZoSo65** · March 21st, 2006, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by SuperSwede

Zoso, please upload some recordings so we can hear how it sounds!

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

**tot_Ou_tard** · March 23rd, 2006, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by ZoSo65

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

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...

**ZoSo65** · March 23rd, 2006, 04:15 PM

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

**tot_Ou_tard** · March 23rd, 2006, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by ZoSo65

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

So you admit that you are a goth elf!!!

jes as I thought

-Montana

**tot_Ou_tard** · March 23rd, 2006, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by tot_Ou_tard

So you admit that you are a goth elf!!!

jes as I thought

-Montana

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** · March 23rd, 2006, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by tot_Ou_tard

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

Ooowww! My shin, my shin!

LOL! You silly little man!

**tot_Ou_tard** · March 23rd, 2006, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by ZoSo65

LOL! You silly little man!

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!!****@@@

**Tim** · March 23rd, 2006, 07:50 PM

Hey ZoSo, nice avatar. I like the color blue. How did you make it?

**ZoSo65** · March 24th, 2006, 05:58 AM

Thanks Tim.
I used Photoshop, and created a neon effect for the text and just adjusted the colors till I got the one you see.

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