Les Paul 12 string guitar mod project

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love this thread. how is the intonation on the 12 string? run into any problems?

Surprisingly good considering it was all bodged together with parts from completely different sources I was expecting quite sub par quality compared to what I've heard in songs and online, but, it sounds pretty god damn good as far as I'm concerned.

The first half an hour was painful though, a 12 string takes EXACTLY double as long as a 6 string to tune would you believe?

 

[63dot]

It's all 12 string I'll probably finish recording and mixing the instrumental side tomorrow and maybe lyrics if I have time.

From where I am sitting the intonation sounds great and the pickups take in all the colors of the 12-string.

How I wish I was over there to record with you but I am in the states and I often think about South Kensington. I used to jam with some London U. guys over there.

 

[Surely]

COME ON!



gobbluthlives

I saw him a few months ago:

They were filming his (crappy) new tv show. The Christmas episode, I think.


Back to the guitar.......my brother has a sweet Takamine 12 string acoustic, and when we were younger and still lived at home, I used to play it all the time. I loved its full sound.....it pretty much made anything you played sound good. Now it's in Australia with him......

 

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From where I am sitting the intonation sounds great and the pickups take in all the colors of the 12-string.

How I wish I was over there to record with you but I am in the states and I often think about South Kensington. I used to jam with some London U. guys over there.

I'm moving to California for 3 months in April, bringing the 12 string with me, can't be away from a guitar for that long

 

[63dot]

I'm moving to California for 3 months in April, bringing the 12 string with me, can't be away from a guitar for that long

Rad.

When I lived in London for 3 months in the 1980s, I took a Squier Strat with me. Being a bolt on neck, I was able to put it in my luggage. The great thing about bolt on necks are that you can easily do that and travel across the world. I wonder what is going on about rosewood fretboards crossing state or national lines since the India rosewood tariff issue.

Gibson got in trouble mostly because they were buying partially finished rosewood from India without employing enough work in the harvesting of rosewood from Indian workers. It appears Gibson wanted to cut corners, bring the wood semi-raw to the states, and then work on it. For some endangered woods which may include both Indian and Brazilian rosewood, much like Cuban cigars, it's very specific on transporting it and who gets paid what. Some out there have been scared not only to travel with Gibsons, but with any guitar with a rosewood neck or on some rosewood bridges.

Brazilian rosewood is more pricey, but both Brazilian and Indian rosewood are equally rare and mildly endangered.

The whole tariff thing will be resolved one day when India sees fit that other countries pay enough for the taxes, or employs sufficient Indian labor in partially finishing rosewood before it leaves the border.

In 2009 and last year, Gibson got raided and some rosewood was confiscated thus causing a shortage in Gibson rosewood fretboards. They switched to dyed or baked maple, which looks the same as rosewood, and have not returned as of yet to the Indian rosewood. I don't know what other makers like Fender, Ibanez, Yamaha, and Martin (and everybody else who uses rosewood) will do about the rosewood tariff issues. Anyway, find out before you travel with any rosewood as weird as these international laws appear to be.

Here's an article about that:

http://www.acousticmusic.org/CITES-and-ESA-sp-78.html

More on the subject re: Gibson:

http://guitarsquid.com/Latest/cnn-follows-up-on-the-gibson-situation.html

 

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Looking good, sounding good...cheers on a job well done!

 

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So here's the final export of the song, only used the 12 string for everything, which presented a fair share of problems, it has a much more twinkly sound than a 6 string, which I'm having a hard time adjusting with when dealing with 8 layers of it Overall I'm happy with the sound though and definitely recommend this mod to ANYONE with a 6 string lying around they don't use anymore, definitely adds a ton extra value!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/158723/If Love Is the drug then I want to OD 2 [BJM cover].mp3

 

[63dot]

So here's the final export of the song, only used the 12 string for everything, which presented a fair share of problems, it has a much more twinkly sound than a 6 string, which I'm having a hard time adjusting with when dealing with 8 layers of it Overall I'm happy with the sound though and definitely recommend this mod to ANYONE with a 6 string lying around they don't use anymore, definitely adds a ton extra value!

You did a brilliant job both with the guitar and recording. I don't know if you belong to any other blogs/sites, but many a guitar site would love to see your project as there are a lot of people into mods. I also belong to www.telecaster.com (aka www.tdpri.com) and it's amazing what some of the people like to do. While that site is dedicated mostly to Fender Telecasters, talk of other guitars and projects overall are very welcome.

 

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You did a brilliant job both with the guitar and recording. I don't know if you belong to any other blogs/sites, but many a guitar site would love to see your project as there are a lot of people into mods. I also belong to www.telecaster.com (aka www.tdpri.com) and it's amazing what some of the people like to do. While that site is dedicated mostly to Fender Telecasters, talk of other guitars and projects overall are very welcome.

Forgot to post the link! It's in there now. Sweet, I was thinking of documenting it all onto a set of tumblr posts for future modders to read up, I found there was no 1 set place that had done this kind of mod before, had to check a bunch of posts and hodge podge what I could hoping it would all be fine I was quite lucky I guess, things could've gone so wrong