Challenging the challenged

**AussieOzBorn** · 23rd April 2009, 06:55 PM

Have we all started to decide what we have to put in our piles yet?
Remember, if its not in your innitial "my pile of bit" pic, you cant use it.

Heres a list you may want to go over and tick off,,, per your design.

* Pre fab neck or neck blank
* Fret board
* Dot markers & tops side markers.
* Frets
* Truss rod
* Machine heads and string trees.
* Nut
* Neck bolts and plate or ferrules/bushes
* Body blank
* Binding and/or inlays - plastic, wood and/or pearl.
* Pickguard/cavity/cover materials
* Screws
* Vol/tone pots, toggle switches and general electronic components
* Jack and socket
* Bridge and/or tail pice
* Pickups or component materials
* Strap pins
* Your choice of finish.
* STRINGS <<<<< would be a real pisser to forget them.

Have I forgotten anything?
I hope that helps save anyone the stress of forgetting anything.
So, start getting your piles ready to get a pic done by the 1st of May,,, if possible.
Late starters get a beer restriction until the body blank is roughed out

Restriction being only 1 beer at a time

**Sebastiaan56** · 24th April 2009, 07:20 AM

Good one Aussie!

I assume we are starting 1st May? Do you want us to post our pile? Limited to guitars or are other stringed instruments or woodwinds or percussion part of the game?

**Dix_Fix** · 24th April 2009, 09:37 AM

1st of May wow I wont have finished my first. I'll have to see if Kevin stimulates me then it's a go'er LOL

**AussieOzBorn** · 24th April 2009, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by Sebastiaan56

Good one Aussie!

I assume we are starting 1st May? Do you want us to post our pile? Limited to guitars or are other stringed instruments or woodwinds or percussion part of the game?

Yes mate, the 1st of May is start day!
Yes again, get all your required bits into one big pile and snap a pic of it,, then post it as your starting pic. Just to show what you have to work with.
I was originally thinking this was puerly for solid body guitars, but hey, if you or anyone else can come up with something new and innovative with woodwind, percussion or a pile of well sculpted possum turds, why the hell not? Just be sure you can get a note out of it.
The whole idea is about getting peeps to try new angles on traditional designs, so i guess it really doesnt matter what sort of instrument it is, so long as its inventive.

**oz tradie** · 25th April 2009, 12:43 AM

This sounds like novel idea.

I can see alot of it is about taking away the complexities and using different thought patterns to come up with something I'd probably refer to as 'bush mechanics'.

I had thought about entering with one billet of timber (+ some hardware)
and everything coming from that one slab.
Alas it won't happen from my stable..........too busy with the paying jobs.

**dadovfor** · 25th April 2009, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by Dix_Fix

1st of May wow I wont have finished my first. I'll have to see if Kevin stimulates me then it's a go'er LOL

Much to my surprise, Kevin stimulated me. My two oldest (working) kids are disgusted 'cos they got nothin' !!

But ... I'm not sure if I can get all of my stuff together for May Day. I'll see what I have, and what I need.

**Andrew_B** · 27th April 2009, 11:13 PM

well i started on my pile

muhahahaha

will post some pics when i design the body and headstock

**AussieOzBorn** · 28th April 2009, 05:27 AM

Originally Posted by dadovfor

Much to my surprise, Kevin stimulated me. My two oldest (working) kids are disgusted 'cos they got nothin' !!

But ... I'm not sure if I can get all of my stuff together for May Day. I'll see what I have, and what I need.

Ya know, if you or I stimulated as many people as our own Kev has, we'd be locked up. The sick irony is that even for such a geek, he does it sooooo well.
Even after typing that im so disgusted with myself I feel I should gouge my own eyes out for having looked upon such words,, let alone to have been so disturbed as to think them in the first place. Sorry about that.

**Andrew_B** · 28th April 2009, 05:51 AM

LOL ewwwwwww

**Dix_Fix** · 28th April 2009, 07:24 AM

Hey AndrewB your pile looks short a couple of 'pots' or are you going to only have volume? Also it will be a bit hard to mount your hardware without any screws.

Is the 'booker rod' for the truss rod ?

**dadovfor** · 28th April 2009, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by AussieOzBorn

Ya know, if you or I stimulated as many people as our own Kev has, we'd be locked up. The sick irony is that even for such a geek, he does it sooooo well.
Even after typing that im so disgusted with myself I feel I should gouge my own eyes out for having looked upon such words,, let alone to have been so disturbed as to think them in the first place. Sorry about that.

Aussie ... that is just WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. I started the day with a coffee and Tim Tams (don't ask) and after reading your post I was in real danger of losing the Tim Tams all over my screen!!

Andy B ... one of these days you're going to have to hold a truss rod master class. I just don't get it!!! (Seriously ... I do have to slow down and pick your brains one of these days).

And yes, Andy B does have a few bits missing ... strings, cavity covers, wires, jack plate, neck plate or ferrules, finish ... even sandpaper, etc etc. How hard and fast is that rule going to be? Can you get 80 / 90% of your pile together ... can I just take a picture of my garage and say that the parts are in there somewhere??

**Dix_Fix** · 28th April 2009, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by dadovfor

... can I just take a picture of my garage and say that the parts are in there somewhere??

man i love that it is more inkeeping with my thinking as well LOL

**floody_85** · 28th April 2009, 06:06 PM

I like your thinking dad!!!
I think andy is short a nut too

**dadovfor** · 28th April 2009, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by floody_85

I like your thinking dad!!!
I think andy is short a nut too

I thought you were being funny and paying out Andy B. Then I realised you're right ... there is no nut there!!

**floody_85** · 28th April 2009, 10:00 PM

hahaha could be a double meaning there!

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