getting things to scale

[CCR90]

Hey all. I've decided I'd like to try my own custom like purple_hazer. I'm going to use a carvin 7 string neck through though. I have a body shape I like and I need to get it to scale.

Right now on my piece of paper the neck pocket is 1 1/4 inches and the carvin's 24th fret is 2.6 inches. So basically I need to double the size. How will I do this correctly?

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o245/CCR90/lastscan.jpg

There's the rough design by the way.

I plan to take some 2 by 3's and glue them together to get an idea of how the body will be before I start buying stuff to make everything/

[Son of Magni]

Hey all. I've decided I'd like to try my own custom like purple_hazer. I'm going to use a carvin 7 string neck through though. I have a body shape I like and I need to get it to scale.

Right now on my piece of paper the neck pocket is 1 1/4 inches and the carvin's 24th fret is 2.6 inches. So basically I need to double the size. How will I do this correctly?

(image)

There's the rough design by the way.

I plan to take some 2 by 3's and glue them together to get an idea of how the body will be before I start buying stuff to make everything/

After an initial concept drawing, I always re-draw to scale (by hand). Most likely you will tweak the design a little and improve it in the process. Usually just enlarging doesn't work that well, take Barbie for example. A 5'6" Barbie would have a really fat a$$ believe it or not...

[HELLonWHEELS]

Get graph paper and make each square one inch. Its pretty simple for a 26 inch scale guitar you would make the head stock, then 13 squares down the twelth fret and then another 13 squares down with be the bridge. I dunno where the 24 frest is on a guitar but you can just compare to on of you other guitars. You can see the graph paper on this bass i drew.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b160/HELLonWHEELS7/Bass%20designs/design3.jpg

[CCR90]

After an initial concept drawing, I always re-draw to scale (by hand). Most likely you will tweak the design a little and improve it in the process. Usually just enlarging doesn't work that well, take Barbie for example. A 5'6" Barbie would have a really fat a$$ believe it or not...

I'll likely do it by then. The graph paper sounds good too. I'll try both ways.

Here's a better example of what I want.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o245/CCR90/lastscan-1.jpg

[CCR90]

NVM, I got it to scale, everything is fine.


I basically figured how wide the neck was, how long and how wide my strat is and basically went by that and free handed everything.

From there I put it to plywood. Now from there I plan to glue some 2 by 4s or something and make a mock guitar out of that so I can get the 3D shape.

[CCR90]

Is there anywhere I can find out where I should position the pups and the bridge ?

[Billie'sBouncer]

You can really put them in any position you want between neck and bridge depending on what sound you want. I find the middle of my neck and draw a straight line down to the bottom of the body and mount the pickups centered in the position i choose.

[CCR90]

Oh alright, that could work for me.

I'm just worried about the bridge for intonation issues.

[Jimbobntnr]

. A 5'6" Barbie would have a really fat a$$ believe it or not...

that made me chortle, imagining you being really lonely on a cold winter night, spending all that time to devise a way to make her life sized, only to find that she has a huge ***.

[purple_hazer]

i like big butts and i cannot lie

unless theyre unshapely