NGD - Lion Content

[Sifu Ben]

I'm thinking about taking a third job to pay for one :(

[Johnny Mac]

More torture!! Looks very very nice Jonathon  :D

Practice the Buddhist skill of quiet patience...  One day you will play her... I know yours baby exists... I've seen her naked and she's lovely.  :( 

Yes Dave your right, ok back to the half lotus position  :lol:

[FELINEGUITARS]

More torture!! Looks very very nice Jonathon  :D

Practice the Buddhist skill of quiet patience...  One day you will play her... I know yours baby exists... I've seen her naked and she's lovely.  :( 

Yes Dave your right, ok back to the half lotus position  :lol:

Right - think I have resolved the problem that I was having with your midi equipped Lion Johnny
Problem was how to fit a flat plate that hold the midi 13 pin socket to a curved surface.
The answer was obviously to recess a flat surface onto the side of the body.
I had made a couple of templates to do that with a router and tested on scr@p but hadnt been pleased with the results - hence I hadn't risked cutting it on your guitar yet.
The trouble had been holding the template steady enough on the side of the guitar where the only surface to clamp it to had an arched front which kind of kept spitting the jig off the guitar at the slightest provocation, and no amount of double sided tape was holding fast.
I am having a better template carefully machined up on a CNC machine and it will involve a curved top plate bracket that will hopefully hug the rim of the guitar and not be displaced.
Sorry this has taken extra time but jig making is time consuming enough, and I have to be confident in it working ok before I attack your guitar with it as you only get one chance to get it right.

The midi stuff is the last thing holding this beast up from going off to paint and getting back to you.

Now - out of interest we have just had our logos done in stainless steel thin enough to go under the paint
Did you think that might look cool on the headstock- will kind of match the stainless frets

[JustBecos]

Now - out of interest we have just had our logos done in stainless steel thin enough to go under the paint
Did you think that might look cool on the headstock- will kind of match the stainless frets

That sounds very cool, Go for it

[Fikealox]

That will look awesome, imo :D

[FELINEGUITARS]

That will look awesome, imo :D

Yeah - we are waiting to get the catseye headstock logo done in mother of pearl as well

[GuiTony]

That is a thing of beauty - and I don't normally like the LP shape ...

I'm going to have to drop by the shop ... I'm in Kingswood (bottom of A217 just inside the M25) for another month or so ... and reckon a trip to Croydon is do-able in a lunchtime  ... a "long" lunchtime, obviously   :twisted:

[JamesHealey]

try PEC pots instead of those your using, quite a bit more expensive but they seem to open up the tone some how.
real good quality military pots.

[WezV]

yeah but no pot in the world will make you a better player, no pickup either i suppose

hmm, might make you sound better though and thats really what the search for tone is all about

i just read your response to the tortis pick thread;

NO GUITAR PICK ON THIS PLANET WILL MAKE YOU A BETTER PLAYER!

it can really be applied to any of these things we spend our money on

  :D

[FELINEGUITARS]

Here is another picture but next to one of my other main toys that I love - my 1986 Charvel Model 2
Most of you wont have seen Mr Charvel and I have had it 21 years now although it had a serious rebuild about 6 years ago
The neck is original - albeit refretted recently with Dunlop 6000 fretwire.
It has a newer alder body and the paint finish is one of those colour changing ones that goes from a sandy gold colour to the purple that you see in this photo
An original Floyd and an old EMG 58 (old model - discontinued about 1990) round out the hardware.
The EMG runs on 18v for a bit of extra headroom.

[Matt77]

mmmmmm guitar porn

[MrBump]

Johathan, at what point does that Charvel become like Triggers broom in Only Fools and Horses?

(15 new handles, 25 new heads, but still the same broom...)

[FELINEGUITARS]

Johathan, at what point does that Charvel become like Triggers broom in Only Fools and Horses?

(15 new handles, 25 new heads, but still the same broom...)

Pah - the neckplate is still original!

[FELINEGUITARS]

Right - think I have resolved the problem that I was having with your midi equipped Lion Johnny
Problem was how to fit a flat plate that hold the midi 13 pin socket to a curved surface.
The answer was obviously to recess a flat surface onto the side of the body.
I had made a couple of templates to do that with a router and tested on scr@p but hadnt been pleased with the results - hence I hadn't risked cutting it on your guitar yet.
The trouble had been holding the template steady enough on the side of the guitar where the only surface to clamp it to had an arched front which kind of kept spitting the jig off the guitar at the slightest provocation, and no amount of double sided tape was holding fast.
I am having a better template carefully machined up on a CNC machine and it will involve a curved top plate bracket that will hopefully hug the rim of the guitar and not be displaced.
Sorry this has taken extra time but jig making is time consuming enough, and I have to be confident in it working ok before I attack your guitar with it as you only get one chance to get it right.

Ok - have been working on a new template/jig  to cut for the plate
Here it is - you can see the platform that the router will sit on and cut the rectangular recess
Note - not shown on Johnny's guitar in these pix


In order to grip the sides of a curved side & arched front, the front piece is cut away to grip the edges of the Lion body without being in the way of the arch


The whole assembly will tighten up via bolts and recessed bushings in the perspex (that was tricky to get right but seems to have worked). We will use clamps and additional bolts to hold it all stable and in position so we can mount the router and cut the recess

[FernandoDuarte]

WOW! Prof Gyro Gearloose :D